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Very Scary People

Episode 4: The Confession

Very Scary People

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History, Tv & Film, True Crime

4.63.1K Ratings

🗓️ 1 April 2022

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Amityville detectives shift all their attention to a single suspect in the murders of the DeFeo family: the oldest son, Ron DeFeo Jr. Following hours of intense interrogation, the sole surviving family member breaks. But Ron Jr.’s confession dredged up new details, complicated questions, and more secrets.

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0:00.0

Just a heads up before we begin, this episode contains graphic references to acts of violence,

0:07.2

listen with care.

0:09.2

Previously on very scary people, after six members of the defaul family were slain overnight

0:15.2

in their home, police investigated every lead.

0:19.1

After the only living member of the defaul family led police to believe that the defaul's

0:24.1

might have been connected to the mob, the police looked into it.

0:27.8

Folks in Amityville knew they were connected to the mob.

0:31.7

But the mob leads, fascinating as they were, felt like a dead end.

0:37.0

The police weren't any closer to solving the case.

0:40.0

In this, is when the focus of the investigation turned to Ron DeFaeo, Jr., the oldest and only

0:46.0

surviving member of the defaul family.

0:50.6

The night the defaul's were murdered, police conducted a thorough search of the ocean avenue

0:55.2

home.

0:56.2

They walked up those red carpeted stairs in search of a weapon or something, anything

1:01.5

that they could use as evidence.

1:03.8

But after an extensive search, there was no smoking gun.

1:08.0

Instead, they found Ron Jr.

1:11.0

He was sitting outside the house, crying, inconsolable.

1:16.2

He had just returned from Henry's bar, where he had driven and asked for help upon finding

1:21.2

his parents and four siblings dead.

1:23.7

Now, Ron Jr. was back home, while police combed through the house for evidence.

1:29.5

He was visibly upset, but he was, by his own recollection, nervous that night.

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