Ronald Defeo Family Murder Essay

As you can tell by the title, I’m writing about someone in who has murdered their entire family, all in one house. The murderer's name is Ronald Defeo. This interested me because of how many different stories were heard about this. Before I started doing research on this event, all I knew about this was that someone had murdered his entire family in one night. Others have talked to me about this topic before, but I didn’t think of it as a big case until I started research. As different things started coming up, the topic started getting more interesting. This all happened in 1974 when Defeo was just 23 when he committed this crime. While researching, I found many things that he had done during his childhood, and teen years. This got me think

A few different families have lived there, but some get “haunted” by, what many people think were the Defeo family. Many people believed this because of how the family was murdered. They may think of these hauntings as getting back at other families who wouldn’t have to go though dying because of their own son. Others may think it’s just a hoax and people aren’t really getting haunted for this. Many people have a different perspective on this, but they all have something in common who what had happened the night of the murder. Still after more families start to move in, many of them move out quickly because of all the suspicious activity that goes on in the

murdered his whole family, Mother, Father, two brothers, and two sister. It is still unclear why DeFeo committed these crimes, but there are many different things that people suspect happened. His childhood wasn’t the best either. Although his family did try to care for him, it was Ronalds decisions on life that made it so hard for him, also with some help with the teasing from other kids in his school. He got into many bad things and at first his parents did try to help be he ended up refusing and that lead to his parents “rewarding” him on his bad behavior. There are many things that people say that happened at this house after he had committed the crime, and everything was cleaned up. This is how the Amityville house had become so