Sunday, November 8, 2009  Amityville: 35 Years SInce the DeFeo
Murders  This coming Friday the 13th will mark the 35th
anniversary of the infamous night that 23-year-old Ronald DeFeo
Jr. stumbled into a bar near his home asking for help and
stating that he thought his parents had been shot. He assembled
a small group of people and led them back to his family's house.
A horrific scene awaited them -- not only had his parents been
shot, Ronald's four young brothers and sisters (ranging in age
from 18 to 9) had been murdered as well. All of the family
members had been shot as they lay sleeping in their beds. Ron
DeFeo suggested that the murders were mob related, but confessed
to the murders the following day when details in his story
unraveled.  Oddly, all six members of the family were slain
while laying face down in their beds, with no signs of any of
them waking up from the sound of a rifle going off. Neighbors
also did not report hearing the sound of the rifle despite
evidence that a silencer wasn't used. To