Introducing: Very Scary People

Down The Hill: The Delphi Murders

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Society & Culture, True Crime

3.8 • 10.8K Ratings

🗓️ 24 March 2022

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

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	Hey everybody, down the Hill host Drew Eiden here, I want to tell you about a new HLN podcast
0:05.9	that I think you're really going to love.
0:08.2	Very scary people, the Amityville murders, untangles the dark and complicated story of how
0:13.8	a grizzly mass murder shook a sleepy long island town and transformed it into part of horror
0:19.5	history.
0:20.8	In this first episode, host Donnie Walbert takes us back to that infamous November night in
0:25.6	1974, when six members of the Defeo family were found dead in their beds.
0:31.3	To listen to the rest of the series, just search for very scary people wherever you get
0:35.8	your podcasts.
0:37.4	Just a heads up before we begin, this episode contains references to ghosts, demons, and
0:42.4	a grizzly mass murder.
0:44.2	Listen with care.
0:46.6	It's November 1974.
0:49.6	A dog is howling somewhere in the neighborhood.
0:54.5	A man makes a 911 call to the Suffolk County Police Department.
0:59.3	Something's gone horribly wrong in Amityville.
1:02.3	The man is panicked.
1:04.4	He sounds like he's seen a ghost.
1:10.0	Moments later, police arrive at a Dutch colonial house on 112 Ocean Avenue in the quiet
1:15.3	suburb of Amityville.
1:17.8	Amityville is a small, affluent town in Long Island, New York, and on this night, it's
1:22.9	darker than usual outside.
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