Amityville Horror ends
THE house at 112 Ocean Avenue had five bedrooms, three-and-a-half bathrooms, a swimming pool and a boathouse. In 1974, a family of seven lived in the three-storey Dutch colonial structure in the Long Island village of Amityville, New York. A sign out front read “High Hopes”.
In the decades since, it has been the most famous house in town and for all the wrong reasons. On November 13, 1974, Ronald DeFeo jnr, the oldest of five children in the DeFeo family, alerted police that his parents and four siblings had been killed in a bloody rampage.
DeFeo, then 23, was arrested within a day. He admitted to police that he committed the crimes, then hoped to escape punishment with an
