S3 Ep37: The Defeo Murders: Behind the Amityville Horror - Part 1

Crimes of the Centuries

Amber Hunt and Audioboom

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture, History

4.6 • 3.8K Ratings

🗓️ 8 January 2024

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

The word "Amityville" has practically become synonymous in popular culture with the eerie and supernatural. But behind the books and movies is a true story of the Defeo murders, and in today's episode, we're joined by fellow Obsessed Network podcaster Daisy Eagan to tell their story.

"Crimes of the Centuries" is a podcast from the Obsessed Network exploring forgotten crimes from times past that made a mark and helped change history.

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0:00.0	Hi all I can't believe it's finally happening but heads up that Crime to the Centries is a book as of January 16th
0:09.2	2024 just days away I think you can tell that I love delving into these cases so I not
0:15.4	only took a deeper look at a couple dozen of them but I also structured the book
0:19.6	thematically so you can more easily follow how society and the law changed from one crime to the next.
0:26.0	I even uncovered some new tidbits about cases that haven't been reported anywhere else.
0:31.0	Seriously, I got a tip and it panned out.
0:33.0	Sometimes things just happen as they should, you know.
0:36.0	Crimes of the SunTries, the cases that changed us, is available for pre-sale now at all major online retailers like Amazon and Barnes and Noble and such, or you
0:46.1	can ask your local bookseller to stock it or you can go to our website sentries pod.com
0:51.3	slash book. Lots of ways to order order it I'm very proud of it and I hope you like it too
1:02.4	Some crimes are so heartbreaking or shocking that they change laws, change society, or even
1:11.1	earn the label Crime of the Century.
1:14.0	But the stories that made headlines in decades past
1:18.0	aren't necessarily remembered today.
1:21.0	I'm Amber Hunt, a journalist and author, and in each episode of this show I'll examine a case that's maybe lesser known today, but was huge when it happened.
1:32.0	This is Crimes of the centuries. patrons looked up as the frantic man ran screaming into Henry's bar. It was
1:52.4	on Wednesday around 6. 630 p.m. and residents of the Long Island
1:56.3	town were enjoying a drink after work. The man burst through the door, his words sending chills through the bar.
2:04.0	You got to help me, I think my mother and father are shot, he screamed.
2:08.0	One patron, a friend of the young man, jumped off this bar stool and rushed over.
2:13.0	Are you sure they're not asleep?
2:14.4	He asked.
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