Introducing: Very Scary People

Forensic Files

HLN

True Crime, Society & Culture

4.4 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 23 March 2022

⏱️ ? 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?” To learn more about how HLN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	It's November 1974, and for the quiet seaside community of Amityville Long Island, nothing
0:07.1	will ever be the same.
0:08.9	The scene was a grizzly one.
0:11.0	Six members of the DeFail family found dead in their beds inside their home at 112 Ocean
0:16.4	Avenue.
0:17.4	They were all shot execution style.
0:20.0	I'm Donnie Walberg, and what happened that night and what came next is what we're untangling
0:25.7	on the new HLN podcast, Very Scary People, The Amityville Murders.
0:30.7	We'll dive deep into the dark and complicated DeFail family history, the police investigation
0:36.2	of the murders, and even the supposed haunting of that infamous house on Ocean Avenue.
0:42.3	But in this first episode, we're going all the way back to that dark November evening.
0:47.7	Keep listening, if you'd like to come along for the journey, to listen to the rest of the
0:51.8	series, search for very scary people wherever you get your podcasts.
0:57.5	Just a heads up before we begin, this episode contains references to ghosts, demons, and
1:02.6	a grizzly mass murder.
1:04.3	Listen with care.
1:06.8	It's November 1974, a dog is howling somewhere in the neighborhood.
1:14.7	A man makes a 911 call to the Suffolk County Police Department.
1:19.4	Some things got horribly wrong in Amityville.
1:22.5	The man is panicked.
1:24.6	He sounds like he's seen a ghost.
1:30.2	Moments later, police arrive at a Dutch colonial house on 112 Ocean Avenue in the quiet
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