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20 episodes
jollybusyperch
At approximately 3:15 a.m. on the morning of Wednesday, 13 November 1974, six members of the DeFeo family were shot in their beds in the Dutch Colonial house they lived in at 112 Ocean Avenue, Amityville, Long Island. The eldest son, Ronald DeFeo Jr., aged 23, was subsequently convicted of all six killings. In the fifty years since the murders, the DeFeo family has been substantially erased from the public memory of the case — displaced by a fabricated haunting narrative sold to publishers in the years immediately following. This series is about the six people who lived at 112 Ocean Avenue, the son who killed them, the Suffolk County investigation that produced a conviction within eight days, and the specific way in which the fabricated story that followed was manufactured, marketed, and later admitted by its own creators. This is the case as it happened. Not the case as it was sold.
20 episodes
At approximately 3:15 a.m. on the morning of Wednesday, 13 November 1974, six members of the DeFeo family were shot in their beds in the Dutch Colonial house they lived in at 112 Ocean Avenue, Amityville, Long Island. The eldest son, Ronald DeFeo Jr., aged 23, was subsequently convicted of all six killings. In the fifty years since the murders, the DeFeo family has been substantially erased from the public memory of the case — displaced by a fabricated haunting narrative sold to publishers in the years immediately following. This series is about the six people who lived at 112 Ocean Avenue, the son who killed them, the Suffolk County investigation that produced a conviction within eight days, and the specific way in which the fabricated story that followed was manufactured, marketed, and later admitted by its own creators. This is the case as it happened. Not the case as it was sold.