The Dutch Colonial-style home was the site of one of New York’s most infamous, bloody crimes, when a young man with a gun ...

Inside, Ronald DeFeo Sr and his wife Louise slept in the master bedroom on the second floor. Down the hall were their younger sons, 12-year-old Marc and nine-year-old John. Marc had suffered a ...

It was a story that horrified Long Islanders and later inspired horror films. On Nov. 13, 1974 -- exactly 50 years ago -- Ronald DeFeo Jr. murdered his entire family inside their Amityville home.

The story began the evening of Nov. 13, 1974, when Ronald DeFeo Jr. blew into Henry’s Bar, on Merrick Road, and told a man sitting at the bar that someone had shot his mother and father.