Episode 3: Mob Ties
Very Scary People
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4.6 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 25 March 2022
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
As police continue their search for the killer of the DeFeos in Amityville, they discover the family’s connections to organized crime. Host Donnie Wahlberg reveals how these mob ties came to light. It’s a turning point in the case which brings police one step closer to their top suspect.
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| 0:00.0 | Just a heads up before we begin. |
| 0:03.0 | This episode contains references to mass murder, abuse, and crime. |
| 0:08.2 | Listen with care. |
| 0:11.3 | Previously on very scary people, we got to know the members of the Defeo family. |
| 0:18.0 | As it turns out, this family that seemed picture perfect on the surface of things wasn't |
| 0:23.8 | so perfect after all. |
| 0:25.9 | There was a household twisted by abuse and sibling rivalry. |
| 0:30.3 | In on November 13th, 1974, all but one Defeo was killed in cold blood. |
| 0:37.8 | This bulletin from the W.O.R. Newsroom, six members of one family have been found shot to |
| 0:45.8 | death in their night clothes in their expensive home in Amityville, Long Island. |
| 0:50.8 | The owner survived with a family 23-year-old Ronald Wichita, the old junior, which had |
| 0:55.2 | to discover the bodies. |
| 0:58.3 | Were these unspeakable murders that end result of a dysfunctional family gone wrong, or could |
| 1:04.1 | something else have been at play? |
| 1:06.9 | It was interesting that all the bodies were found on their stomach and shans were raised, |
| 1:12.6 | but they were not awake. |
| 1:14.6 | And one of the strangest phenomena is that all these murders transpired over a 15-minute |
| 1:20.4 | period. |
| 1:23.8 | In Smarvin Scott, he reported on the murders for W.A.W. TV in New York, and later for WPIX. |
| 1:32.6 | What was the motive? |
| 1:34.4 | Why were six Defeo's shot and killed in their beds, back-to-back execution style? |
| 1:40.6 | And the why was the biggest piece of the puzzle that Amityville investigators were trying |
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