The DeFeo Murders and the Amityville Horror, Part 1 - 'I'm Preparing You'

The DeFeos bought 112 Ocean Avenue in Amityville, New York, in June 1965, with Louise's father's money. They put a sign in the yard that said High Hopes. Nine years later, on November 13, 1974, the eldest son fired eight rifle shots inside that house and killed everyone in it.

Ronald "Butch" DeFeo Jr. was twenty-three. His father was a big man who used his size on his wife. His mother wanted to put her head in the oven. She told the cleaning woman to prepare herself for something terrible, and she was right.

Before that night, Butch had put a loaded shotgun on his father and pulled the trigger. The gun didn't fire, and nobody called the police. His father's response was to keep giving him things — speedboats, cars, a job at the family dealership. In October 1974, the dealership sent Butch to the bank with twenty thousand dollars. He came back without it.

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