The quiet Dutch Colonial on Ocean Avenue in Amityville held its breath before dawn on November 13, 1974, while the DeFeo family slept behind drawn shades. In an upstairs bedroom, Ronald Joseph DeFeo Sr., 43, a white man, lay face down in bed, the kind of posture that might have looked like ordinary sleep from the hallway, if not for the rifle fire that had already torn through the night.
Hours later, as daylight thinned into early evening, the calm broke in a neighborhood bar when the el
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