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🗓️ 18 March 2022
⏱️ 28 minutes
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After Ron DeFeo Jr. finds his parents and younger siblings dead in their Amityville, New York, home, police begin to search for the killer. Host Donnie Wahlberg and local journalist Joel Martin revisit that horrific evening in 1974, the crime scene and the investigation — all in hopes of answering a question heavy on residents’ minds: “Who would murder an entire family in the dead of night?”
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0:00.0 | Just a heads up before we begin, this episode contains references to ghosts, demons, and |
0:05.9 | a grizzly mass murder, listen with care. |
0:10.0 | It's November, 1974, a dog is howling somewhere in the neighborhood. |
0:18.0 | A man makes a 911 call to the Suffolk County Police Department. |
0:23.0 | Something's gone horribly wrong in Amityville. |
0:25.8 | The man is panicked. |
0:27.9 | This sounds like he's seen a ghost. |
0:33.4 | Moments later, police arrive at a Dutch colonial house on 112 Ocean Avenue in the quiet suburb |
0:39.3 | of Amityville. |
0:41.2 | Amityville is a small, affluent town in Long Island, New York, and on this night, it's darker |
0:46.7 | than usual outside. |
0:49.0 | It's pitch black, some said. |
0:54.9 | It's still inside the house. |
0:58.2 | Six members of a suburban New York family have been found shocked to death in their beds. |
1:02.9 | It appears that all of them were murdered while asleep. |
1:05.8 | Police investigating the case say they have no suspect, no weapon, and no leads. |
1:10.4 | There's one major question about this crime which still hasn't been answered. |
1:13.8 | The question of motor. |
1:15.2 | Then we found out it was a defaio family. |
1:19.2 | The father, the mother, Don was 18. |
1:22.2 | Allison was 13. |
1:25.2 | Mark was 11. |
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