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Welcome to Ric Osuna's The Amityville Murders™, which is dedicated to the DeFeos
and to exposing the false myths surrounding Amityville. Osuna is the author behind the
Amityville exposé The Night the DeFeos Died.

On November 13, 1974, police discovered six members of the DeFeo family -- father,
mother and four of their five children -- shot and killed execution style at 112 Ocean
Avenue in Amityville, New York. By 1977, the DeFeo home would be the center of a
haunted house story that experts labeled a hoax.
T H E M U R D E R S
On November 15, 1974, a headline in the New York Daily News read, “Son charged in
slaying of six.” For neighbors, the thought that a son killed his entire family was as
frightful as that of a mass murderer loose....read on...
T H E H A U N T I N G
On January 14, 1976, a family was forced to abandon 112 Ocean Avenue to an unnatural
evil, or so they claimed. A year later, author Jay Anson chronicled their 28-day account
in The Amityville Horror....read on...
S P E A K I N G O U T
The Catholic diocese that employed Father Pecoraro, the alleged priest who suffered a
number of afflictions in Jay Anson's horror novel, had this to say about the so-called
haunted house story....read on...
G E R A L D I N E D E F E O
One of the most controversial figures surrounding Amityville, Geraldine DeFeo has
publicly revealed that she was married to Ronald DeFeo, Jr. at the time he allegedly
murdered his family....read on...
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