The Amityville DeFeo Family Murders

The mother and wife Louise DeFeo age 42

The father and husband Ronald DeFeo Sr. age 43

The infamous "High Hopes"  house on 112 Ocean Avenue

All 5 of the DeFeo children with Dawn and Ronald Jr up front

According to the show "Amityville: The Final Testament" the Amityville house in Amityville New York State is the most famous haunted house in the United States or even the world. Many people from all around the world come to Amityville and try to see the infamous murder house every year. After the Lutz family, after whom the movie  series "The Amityville Horror" is named moved out of the house, supposedly no more hauntings have happened. It was odd that George Lutz looked so much like Ronald DeFeo Jr, who was the oldest son of the 7 member DeFeo family,  of whom 6 were found murdered in their beds on November 13th, 1974.  When the Lutz family lived in the house they had many haunting experiences and the last day the family spent in the house was so terrifying that neither George nor Kathy Lutz ever talked about it publicly. The Amityville movie series is based on some of the experiences of the Lutz family while they lived in in the112 Ocean Avenue house in Amityville, which is now the most infamous haunted house in the United States of America and mabye even in the entire world.

The Amazing Psychic Jackie Barrett

After living in the house a short time, one night in 1977 the Lutz family fled the house after living there almost 1 month to move in with Kathy Lutz' mother and they gave the house back to the bank. They had had all kinds of horrifying demonic paranormal experiences in the house including the terrifying nightmare Kathy Lutz had about the order of the shootings and how the bullets entered and exited the bodies of the DeFeo family members. Also disembodied voices were heard by Lutz  family members while living in the house.  In addition, the Lutz family began arguing amongst each other from the first day they moved in, just like the DeFeo family had, and Mr. George Lutz was becoming more and more possessed by an evil spirit that was planning to kill his family and would have succeeded had they not been able to work themselves out of this horror and flee the house. Strangely,  the worse George Lutz' possession got, the more he resembled Ronald De Feo. Also,  the fact that the Lutz family had bought some of the furniture from the DeoFeo estate which included the bed frame that belonged to Dawn DeFeo and in which their daughter Melissa used for her own bed,  is disturbing according to the one of the guest speakers on the show. Also, another guest mentioned that objects can retain psychic energy either good or bad in itself, which can explain why what happened to the Lutz family was so horrifyingly intense.

The Lutz family later moved all across the country to San Diego to get away form any negative publicity that had plagued them after fleeing the house. Both Kathy and George Lutz adamently stuck to the the stories that they had told about the demonic occurrences in the 112 Ocean Avenue house.  Also, after the Lutz family left the house in 1977, there have been no other paranormal demonic occurrences like the ones the Lutz family experienced, supposedly, with subsequent owners.  Both Kathy and George Lutz are now deceased.

There also have been numerous seances and other psychic activities that have been conducted at the 112 Ocean Avenue house in Amityville New York after the paranormal occurrence were made publicly known. In 1977 Ethel Johnson Meyers and Hans Holzer held a seance and as Ethel was in a trance she communicated with the dead spirit of a native Amercian buried at  the 112 Ocean Avenue property, and this spirit conveyed to her that this property is a massive Indian burial ground.  Then the 19 year old news assistant Laura DeDio found documentation at the Amityville historical society that in fact that massive Indian tribes had been buried at the 112 Ocean Avenue property and this same information has now supposedly conveniently vanished. Anlother incident was when a camera that was mounted on a tripod on the second floor took a picture of a little boy and at that time the house was not occupied. The photo that was taken was shown on the show and it had a paranormal quality to it.

In front of the house is a sign that says "High Hopes" which must have attracted the Italian/American DeFeo family when they first bought the house in 1974. Ronald DeFeo Sr was a car sales man in the Amityville Long Island area. The house is located on Long Island in New York at 112 Ocean Avenue. It is tragic to realize that the hopefulness of the sign "High Hopes" in front of the DeFeo's new house brought nothing but murder and death for the DeFeo family.

Allison and Dawn DeFeo

Dawn DeFeo age 18

Allison DeFeo age 13

Marc DeFeo age 12

John Matthew DeFeo age 9

                                                

A spooky view of the 112 Ocean Avenue House

Recently in 2010 a psychic named Jackie Barrett has been having psychic experiences where she has had spiritual contact with Ronald (Butch) DeFeo Jr who has been imprisoned at the Green Haven Correctional Facility in New York state ever since he was arrested for the 6 murders of his family to which he had confessed in 1974.  After Ronald De Feo Jr had seen some of the psychic work Jackie did on TV and he knew that Jackie was the solution to bring back peace to his case and his family by showing that he was telling the truth. Jackie Barrett's experiences with Ronald DeFeo Jr (whom she calls Ronnie) were so scary to her and her family that she decided to contact Ronnie DeFeo to get this spiritual experience to leave her family alone. They have had closets opening and ghostly figures step out and all kinds of other unnerving experiences ever since Jackie has had this paranormal psychic spiritual connection with Ronald DeFeo Jr. Jackie  Barrett grew up in Louisiana and has been psychic ever since age 6 and her mother is also a psychic. She also has been helping Law Enforcement to solve murder cases for 25 years now and has helped to resolve over 300 homicide cases. Jackie went to see Mr. De Feo in prison and the discussion she had with him was not allowed to be videotaped but both Jackie and Ronald revealed what they had talked about.

Sketch of Dawn's  Murder Crime Scene

Ronald DeFeo Jr has been plagued with many bad health conditions ever since the murders in the house and he had been in  very bad health, possibly to demonic possession.  As Jackie entered his life she also would help Ronald to resolve the demonic possession and free his body of the demonic possession with which he had to live for over 36 years. Ronald says he blames the entire demonic experience on his father who was a very cruel parent. Mr. Ronald DeFeo Sr had held tight strings on keeping his family disciplined and Ronald, especially, was suffering the most under his father's strict kind of discipline and he also had been taking various drugs before the murders.

Ronald DeFeo Jr told Jackie to go look for an Indian head coin in South Shore in the woods and she can follow his directions to find it and this way she could see that he is telling her the truth about this case. She found the coin and she felt Ronald DeFeo Jr with her spiritually as she found it. This made Jackie feel closer to Ronald and to believe him and Ronald seemed to say to her "see I told you so and who knows what else we will find."

The coroner at 112 Ocean Avenue on 13th November,  1974

Ronald (Butch) DeFeo's room

Ronald DeFeo Jr, age 23,  is arrested on November 13th, 1974

The 112 Ocean Avenue House after the murders in 1974

According to Ronald Jr there had been a bad fight earlier in the evening and their father threatened Dawn "I will get you, I will get you" and then both he and Dawn knew that their father had to go. He and Dawn went to  their parents bedroom and Dawn opened the heavy 2 inch solid oak bedroom door and closed it behind them. Ronald stood in front of the bed with Dawn and pointed the gun at his father but couldn't muster up enough courage to shoot even though he also was heavily dope.

His father must have heard them and he woke up and in his stomach position looked in the large mirror above the bed and he saw them and Ronald realized that his father was awake and saw them and he knew that his father would next jump up and he thought his father would now wrap the shot gun around his neck.

Next he heard a shot and he says he didn't shoot and his father got up out of bed and that is when he, Ronald, shot his father with a second round and he remembers a "boom" from the noise of the shot. Then next thing Ronald knew was that Dawn took the gun and shot her mother who must have awoke when she heard the shot. He asked her "why did you shoot Mom?" and Dawn just laughed and thought this was funny according to Ron.

Then Ron said he shot his mother again and he knew his mother was dead now.  He said that now there was mass confusion in their parent's bedroom and Ron told Dawn that now they have big problems. He told her to go to her room and he would get help.

The DeFeo Family Memorial Photo

The DeFeo Family Grave site

According to news after the murders, Ron had gone to work as if nothing had happened the next day after the murders. Anyway, according to Ron's statement from prison, he heard a message on his car radio as he was driving in Brooklyn at 3:02 a.m. and he said that was the time that Dawn killed the siblings.  He found his siblings dead and asked Dawn who was on the third floor in her room what she had done. At this time he said he saw a figure in the door of a man that had some connection to Dawn and he threatened Ron. Ron thought that this man that he remembers as a shadowy figure had killed his siblings after Dawn called him when he had left.

Ronald DeFeo Jr is adament that he was nowhere near the house when his siblings were murdered. He said that he loved his siblings and would never have hurt them let alone murdered them. Next thing he knew was that Dawn put the shot gun into his face and she fought with  him holding the loud action rifle in her hand. Dawn called Ronald "Butch" and now the figure stood in the door threatening him and that Dawn and him had planned to kill him and his family.

The name of the man that Ronald saw is withheld by the TV show. Ronald don't like that he has been blamed for all the killings and that he has been called the "devil incarnate" when he was not responsble for these killings all by himself and that the majority of the murders, which are the murders of his siblings, was done by Dawn and the man he saw in his vision yet society wanted him die in prison to pay for the murders of his family and the truth had to be told because he knows he is not the devil incarnate who was solely responsible for these murders. He also mentioned that "people are evil and can be as evil as they want." He hopes that what has happened to his family will not happen to any other family ever again.

Ronald DeFeo Jr is very sorry about what has happened to his family and he knows it was very wrong and he is sorry for the part that he had in this horrible crime. He said "it was very wrong what I did!"  Ronald says that by the time he was 18 his life had been planned out for him by his father.

He says his father was a member of organized crime and had killed 9 people; he says his father had forced him to become an accomplice in the killings. Ronald DeFeo is sure that the evil spirit that had taken over his body when they moved into the 112 Ocean Avenue house,  is also still in the spirits of his dead family members who are buried at Cypress Hill Cemetery.

Jackie Barrett knows she has to go to the house first to find the truth as to what happened there and to see if Ronald has told the truth and then she would go to the cemetery to perform an exorcism or spiritual cleansing of the DeFeo family buried there. So Jackie Barrett went to the 112 Ocean Avenue house in Amityville to find out what had really happened the night the De Feo family was murdered.

Jackie has a psychic connection to Ronald DeFeo and what had happend on November 13th 1974 will be revealed to her in that house and she knew that. Ronald DeFeo Jr had called Jackie and left a message on Jackie's phone the night when Jackie went to the DeFeo house.

In this message Ronald's spirit was taken over by this terrifying entity that told Jackie in a demonic sounding voice wishing her luck and laughing  "He's mine; you can't help him; I'm taking him." Jackie knew that this was not Ronnie and something else was possessing his spirit as he said this.

As Jackie entered the house her goal was to resolve her psychic connection she had been having to Ronald DeFeo Jr and to go and fight this evil entity and  free Ronald and  his murdered  family from the horrible curse this evil demonic entity had brought to his family. Possibly the evil spirits entered Ronald's father because of the evil actions his father had entered with organized crime and murder. So Jackie was transferring  herself back in time to November 13th, 1974, the day the DeFeo murders occured in the 112 Ocean Avenue house. She felt a lot of panic and rage as she heard the shot gun go off  Ronnie was screaming  in the master bedroom.

She saw Ronald DeFeo Sr lie on his bed in the stomach position.  Ronnie was saying that Dawn shouldn't have awakened  their mother and that the bullets were for the father and not  mother and Ronnie was crying about all the blood and she heard Dawn laughing and mocking in the background. Then she also heard a lot of running, chasing, and fighting in the house. She could hear Ronald scream "what did you do Dawn?"

Jackie says she now knows exactly what has happned on November 13th, 1974 at the 112 Ocean Avenue address and the truth has been revealed about the DeFeo murders in her psychic revelation and she knows the truth and this truth is all true without a doubt. This demon was not just any demon, Jackie said, this was "the" demon Lucifer or Satan the devil.  Ronnie, who was high on drugs, was getting ready to kill his father didn't think his mother would wake up and he didn't want to kill his mother.

Dawn didn't stick to the agenda of only killing the father, and she shot her mother and siblings. Jackie said that there was no shadowy guy that Ronald saw in a vision and that Dawn was responsible for all the killings,  including the killings of her 3 siblings.  Ronald was so angry that Dawn had killed the siblings that he pushed Dawn onto her bed and killed her with a shot from the shot gun. Not everything Ronald told was the truth, Jackie said, because maybe the evil spirit called "the messenger" interfered and had Ronald tell falsenesses intertwined with truth and made sure that Ronald forgot the 100% truth of what had really happened to his family that night.

There was so much evil in the house, an evil which Jackie felt as she went through the house, and Ronald had told Jackie that he also had felt all that evil and that he even was going to burn that house down at one time because of what he had felt about the house.

Now Jackie went to the Cypress Hill Cemetery at night to battle the evil spirit to put the De Feo family's spirits to rest by perfoming this last exorcism. A true exorcism isn't like in the movies which shows fake exorcism of lavitating people who vomit pea mush but has people crying as the spiritual cleansing/renewal takes place.

As Jackie touched the DeFeo tombstones at Cypress Cemetery she felt so many different spirits enter in and out of her that it almost overwhelmed her and one very evil entity tried to come into her with a vengeance. As Jackie was listening to Ronald's voice that she could hear in their psychic connection, she was able to also see that 3 bodies were on top of one grave which were the murder victims which Ronald had described were murdered by his father with his help as an unwilling accomplice.

Ronald was told by his father that he would kill Ronald if Ronald did not do what his father said, and Jackie was able to feel the abuse thatRonald suffered by his father at that grave. The mafia victims had been murdered with a poisonous needle and Jackie could feel where Ronald had put the needle.

Jackie said that to be able to solve crimes like the DeFeo murders she gets drawn into a black hole that draws her in and she discovered the perfect combination to let the evil spirits in and out and she felt that Ronald DeFeo Jr had been chosen by Lucifer to be the one who would go down for the DeFeo murders but after visiting the house and the cemetery she knows what really happened to the DeFeo family on November 13th, 1974. 

For the first time in 36 years the DeFeo family was now at peace and Jackie had succeeded in her battle against Lucifer and the other demons that had inhabited the DeFeo property and the DeFeo family members, including Ronald DeFeo. In fact, when Ronald called Jackie he said "I feel better than ever and am free now of the evil spirit." Ronald DeFeo is very thankful to Jackie Barrett for performing the spiritual cleansing at the Cypress Hill Cemetery.

A newer photo of Ronald DeFeo and this biography site says his name is Robert DeFeo Jr  I don't know why. Here he is approximately 60 years of age.

Even though Jackie says that Ronald's  father was not the problem and that the demon Satan had taken over his father Ronald DeFeo Sr I still believe that because Ronald DeFeo Sr was dabbling in very evil things like organized crime or the mafia as it is called, the demons were drawn to him even more and I feel that Ronald's father did have something to do with that happened to his family. His actions drew the demons to the house.

In addition I feel that the Indian burial ground on which the 112 Ocean Avenue property sits is also a reason as to why the evil spirits were drawn to the family depending on what kind of spiritual practices the Indians that were buried there were drawn to or to the disrespect that the city of Amityville showed to the dead spirits of the Indians buried there by building a house on top of the Indian burial ground.

Ronald was an easy victim to become the vessel that did the evil deeds of Satan because he was so drugged with dope that he would be seen as not credible by authorities. In addition, I believe that Dawn was angry at her family for not letting her do what she wanted to do and she was also an easy target for Satan to enter her and have her commit these unpeakable horrifying murders on her siblings.

Thank God for Jackie Barrett who brought peace to all the DeFeo family members and especially the innocent DeFeo family members like Ronald's siblings and for Ronald De Feo who was the only survivor of this horrifying, tragic, and infamous family murder ghost story, who solely was blamed for 36 years for the family murders and  who even had been called "the devil incarnate" when in reality it was the devil who had taken over the bodies and minds of at least 3 DeFeo family members, which included Ronald DeFeo, but Ronald De Feo was not the origin of this evil, he was just the vessel or weapon that Satan and his demons used in addition to the father and Dawn DeFeo.

Ron's father Ronald DeFeo Sr and sister Dawn are more guilty in the DeFeo murders because they let their own selfish desires of wanting to be rich or indpendent of family rules take over and in this case they let the evil entities enter their home and destroy their families with murder.

Facebook profile of Ronald DeFeo
  http://www.facebook.com/pages/Ronald-DeFeo-Jr/127072574002451

Video of the Amityville Horror/Murders Part 1 (the other parts can be found on you tube)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXE9BlxAljQ

http://tvbythenumbers.com/2010/10/26/ae-presents-amityville-the-final-testamentoct-31/69666
http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/notorious_murders/family/amityville/1.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amityville_murders
http://www.amityvillemurders.com/
     http://www.amityvillemurders.com/murders.html
     http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amityville_horror
     http://truelegends.info/amityville/roberson.htm
     http://www.amityvillefiles.com/murders.htm
     http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/711783/the_real_amityville_horror_the_defeo.html?cat=7
     http://www.amityvillefaq.com/defeo.html
     http://www.amityvillemurders.com/crimescene.html
     http://www.infoplease.com/biography/var/amityvilleghosts.html
     http://www.ghostvillage.com/legends/2005/legends36_04122005.shtml
     http://www.amityvillehorror.com/
     http://www.ugo.com/therush/character/kathy-lutz/273/

Memorial for Louise DeFeo: (the other DeFeo family members can be found at the same site)
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=5066764
A Blog entry:
http://blogs.discovery.com/criminal_report/2009/06/amityville-horror.html

Biography of Ronald or Robert Butch DeFeo
http://www.biography.com/articles/Robert-DeFeo-580972

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1225370/bio
Coroner's Report
http://www.newcriminologist.com/news.asp?nid=1012

Crime Scene Photos:
http://vanessawest.tripod.com/crimescenephotos.html

Latest News on the House: it sold for 1.5 million recently in 2010

http://www.evri.com/media/article;jsessionid=z0daglsm8tlm?title=Get+out!+No,+really,+Amityville+Horror+house+sold&page=http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2010/08/06/2010-08-06_amityville_li_house_that_inspired_horror_movie_sold.html?r%3Dnews%26utm_source%3Dfeedburner%26utm_medium%3Dfeed%26utm_campaign%3DFeed%253A%2Bnydnrss%252Fnews%2B%2528News%2529&referring_uri=/person/ronald-defeo-jr.-0x88c09%3Bjsessionid%3Dz0daglsm8tlm&referring_title=Evri

Green Haven Correctional Facility where Ronald De Feo is incarcerated:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Haven_Correctional_Facility
http://nysdocslookup.docs.state.ny.us/GCA00P00/WIQ3/WINQ130
http://www.docs.state.ny.us/

The graves of George and Kathy Lutz
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=14331956
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=9341723