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partner in sexual criminality and homicide, Charles Ng. The
two former U.S. Marines found other common ground with their
antisocial and sadistic personalities and grew close. Not long
after, Lake invited Ng to move to the ranch, which he readily
accepted, as a prelude to the two men living their lives as
sexually-motivated serial killers.
     
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NOTES
    1. R. Barri Flowers and H. Loraine Flowers, Murders in the United States: Crimes, Killers and Victims of the
Twentieth Century (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2004), p. 174.
    2. Charlotte Greig, Evil Serial Killers:
In the Minds of Monsters (New York: Barnes & Noble, 2005),
p. 9.
    3. "Leonard Lake and Charles Ng," Criminal
Minds ,
http://criminalminds.wikia.com/wiki/Leonard_Lake_and_Charles_Ng.
    4. Cited in Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia, "Leonard Lake,"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Lake.
     
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    THE AMITYVILLE
MASSACRE
    The DeFeo Family's Nightmare
    By R. Barri Flowers
     
    In the wee hours of Wednesday morning on
November 13, 1974, shots rang out in the upscale home at 112 Ocean
Avenue in Amityville, New York, a village within the town of
Babylon. The house belonged to forty-three-year-old Ronald DeFeo,
Sr. and his forty-two-year-old wife, Louise, who lived there with
their five children, ranging in age from nine to twenty-three. The
DeFeos and four of their children—Dawn, eighteen years old;
Allison, age thirteen; Marc, age twelve; and John, nine years
old—were all shot to death. 1 The
surviving member of the family, Ronald "Butch" DeFeo, Jr.,
twenty-three, was suspected of being the shooter. The police
investigated the horrible crime, before it went to court, with
solid evidence pointing toward the killer. The case of the
Amityville massacre has left many wondering how it happened, and if
it could happen again. The chilling scenario, motive, mental state
of the accused, the trial, and the shocking
supernatural implications of the mass murder of the DeFeo family in
Amityville are recounted in this true crime short.
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    On September 26, 1951, Ronald "Butch" DeFeo,
Jr. was born in Brooklyn, New York at Adelphi
Hospital to parents Ronald DeFeo, Sr. and Louise DeFeo . He
was the first of four children for the couple. DeFeo, Sr. made a
good living for the family as a car salesman for a Buick dealership
owned by his father-in-law in Brooklyn. Apart from providing the
comforts of a home, where the family had lived since 1965, Ronald
DeFeo was described as a "domineering authority figure," who
"engaged in hot-tempered fights with his wife and
children." 2
    Ronald DeFeo, Jr. was often most victimized
by the parental abuse, which was compounded by the overweight, glum
youth being frequently taunted by classmates. When he grew older,
DeFeo got bigger and stronger and fought back when his father
victimized him. According to one authority, " Shouting matches often degenerated into boxing matches, as
father and son came to blows with little
provocation." 3 Others also became the target of Butch DeFeo's
belligerent behavior.
    Against his wishes, DeFeo's worried parents
forced him to get psychiatric care. Once the therapy ended with no
sign of his violent episodes going away, Ronald and Louise DeFeo
tried to use money and gifts to calm their troubled son. This
included a speedboat that cost $14,000.
    Unfortunately, things continued to go
downhill for Butch DeFeo, as by the time he reached seventeen years of age, he was using heroin and LSD and
engaging in petty theft. He got kicked out of school because of
violent conduct.
    These issues notwithstanding, the DeFeos
sought to pacify their oldest child any way they could. When he was
eighteen, Butch was given a job at the family Buick dealership,
along with a new car and an allowance weekly with no strings
attached. DeFeo took advantage of