Ronald DeFeo Jr., whose 1974 murders of his Long Island, N.Y., family inspired the horror movie franchise The Amityville Horror, has died in prison at age 69, state officials said Monday.
March 15 (UPI) — Ronald DeFeo Jr., whose 1974 murders of his Long Island, N.Y., family inspired the horror movie franchise The Amityville Horror, has died in prison at age 69, state officials said Monday. New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision records showed DeFeo died last week while serving a 25-to-life sentence at Sullivan Correctional Facility in Fallsburg, N.Y., Newsday initially reported. A department spokeswoman later confirmed that DeFeo was pronounced dead Friday at the Albany, N.
