· On this day, 1974
Six members of the DeFeo family were murdered in their home (house pictured) in Amityville, New York, events that later inspired the book The Amityville Horror and a subsequent media franchise.
1974 52 years ago
On November 13, 1974, six members of the DeFeo family were murdered in their home in Amityville, New York, United States. , first claimed that his parents and four siblings were targeted in a contract killing by the American Mafia before confessing that he had committed the murders.
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