Whether or not you believe George and Kathy's story is up to you. But what I'm about to tell you 100% happened.
On November 13, 1974 at 6:30 am, a 23 year old Ronald Defoe Jr ran into a local bar screaming that his parents had been shot. People from the bar followed Ronald to the 112 Ocean Avenue home and soon after the police did too.
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Police searched the home and found Ronald's parents, fatally shot. They continued their search and found 4 more bodies, Dawn DeFeo (18), Allison DeFeo (13), Marc DeFeo (12), and John Mathew DeFeo (9). Each one of them had been fatally shot in their beds on the second floor.
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(^ the murder weapon)
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First Ronald claimed it was a robbery gone bad, but when the police noticed there was no sign of a break in or struggle, Ronald's story changed. He started that the local mob boss killed his family and forced him to watch. Police knew this was a lie as he wasn't even in New York at the time.
After more and more questions it became apparent to them that Ronald had did this, and eventually he did confess.
The autopsy's from the family showed they had died around 3:15 that morning, 3 hours before Ronald went to get any help.
Ronald's only words about this were "Once I started, I couldn't stop. It went by so fast."
Ronald's lawyer claimed that Ronald hear voices, some of which were telling him to kill his family. Many people think he was either schizophrenic because the 70's wasn't really ahead of the game when it came to mental illnesses, or that he is in a drug induced state that caused him to lash out and murder his family.
But fans of the paranormal because if the land had in fact been cursed that an evil being forced Ronald to kill his family.
Ronald was found guilty of 6 counts of murder and had to serve 25 to life sentences for each count. A sentence he is still serving in 2019.
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