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Very Scary People

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History, Tv & Film, True Crime

4.6 • 3.1K Ratings

🗓️ 4 March 2022

⏱️ ? minutes

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In 1974, a mass murder shook the sleepy waterfront town of Amityville, New York. One November night, police found the DeFeo family shot dead, face down in their beds. Only one survived: Ron DeFeo Jr., the eldest son with a troubled past. In this six-part series, host Donnie Wahlberg untangles the dark and complicated story of what happened that night, and unearths how these grisly murders sparked an infamous haunted tale.

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0:00.0	For decades, the sleepy town of Amityville was a heavenly place.
0:05.0	When I was young, I used to spend my summers in the Amityville, Long Island.
0:09.0	Amitose and Latin meets happy. It's a happy place.
0:13.0	It was a quiet community where a well-to-do middle-class family could settle down.
0:18.0	It was safe until one night in November 1974.
0:23.0	And I found Mr. DeFail Senior and Mr. DeFail laying in bed with gunshot wounds to the back.
0:29.0	This was a multiple murder, six bodies, six victims.
0:34.0	The family had been shot at close range in their beds within a 15-minute time span approximately.
0:41.0	And it was with a very high-powered 35-calibre Marlin rifle.
0:46.0	I had never seen anything this gruesome. I couldn't sleep for months.
0:51.0	An entire family, the DeFails, dead.
0:56.0	Except for one.
0:59.0	The oldest sibling, Ronnie DeFail Junior, who told police he knew who committed the murders.
1:05.0	It was like a nightmare. I'm looking at my mother and father dead and my sister is my god.
1:09.0	I got scared. I ran out of the house.
1:11.0	But there's more. For some, the murders were only the beginning.
1:15.0	Some say the house is haunted.
1:18.0	There were two psychics there, Mary Pasca-Rella and Albert Arreilly.
1:22.0	I remember sitting there with a recorder rolling and suddenly I heard Mary Pasca-Rella.
1:28.0	She was going into this trance and she said, I saw this blackness.
1:33.0	From HLN, I'm Donnie Walberg.
1:36.0	And this is very scary people. The Amityville murders.
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