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'Amityville Horror' Killer Dies; Ronald DeFeo Jr. Fatally Shot His Parents, Four Siblings
Ronald DeFeo Jr., the man who fatally shot his entire family on Long Island, a crime so horrible it was immortalized in a movie, has died while serving 25 years-to-life for the murders.
DeFeo, who shot and killed his mother, father, two sisters, and two brothers while they slept in their Suffolk County home in Amityville 1974, died on Friday, March 12, New York State officials confirmed.
The 69-year-old DeFeo was serving his life sentence in the Hudson Valley at Sullivan Correctional Facility after being convicted of six counts of murder in the second degree, state officials said,
The offi…
