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Bar patrons worked on their drinks, discussing the routine happenings of their lives. A jukebox played the latest hits. It was your average evening at Henry’s Bar near the intersection of Merrick Road & Ocean Avenue in the sleepy Long Island community of Amityville, New York. But, the jovial atmosphere shattered when one of Henry’s regulars burst through the door on that November evening proclaiming that his mother and father had been shot in cold blood. That evening---November 13th, 1974 would become a day of infamy for Amityville. While the murders of the entire Ronald DeFeo family in their stately Dutch-Colonial home would garner short-term media attention, the subsequent release of a blockbuster book, "The Amityville Horror," would put the DeFeo family and the quiet waterfront village in the media spotlight for years to come. Amityville became synonomous with demonic possession as the house on Ocean Avenue became America’s most infamous haunted house. Now, three decades after the DeFeo murders, author Ric Osuna descends into the dark depths of the Amityville tragedy. His indepth investigation will shock even the most die-hard believer of the supernatural as it pertains to Amityville. • Osuna strips away the ploy of demonic possession at 112 Ocean Avenue. Left behind is an intimate portrait of the DeFeo family----a family so dysfunctional they would make MTV’s "The Osbournes" look like the Cleavers. • Descend into the DeFeos ties with organized crime, including their connection to the Colombo crime family and mob boss Carlo Gambino. • Learn of the far-reaching corruption of the Suffolk County Police and Superior Court system. Ric Osuna’s esposé of the DeFeo trial will make you wonder if this case really took place in America. So blinding is the evidence of brutality and corruption, you will be left with no doubt that Suffolk County authorities wanted only a conviction----not true justice. • Revealed between these two covers are the facts that resulted in the story behind "The Amityville Horror." Osuna’s hard-hitting exploration of the facts proves that the story behind George and Kathleen Lutzes so-called frightening 28-days of terror in the DeFeo house was nothing more than a failed legal strategy designed to mitigate Butch DeFeo’s prison sentence to manslaughter or a mental ward.
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