Las Vegas, NV—March 15, 2002—Ric Osuna’s newly published book, The Night the DeFeos Died: Reinvestigating the Amityville Murders, finally puts to rest the false myths and misinformation surrounding events that shocked the world more than a quarter century ago. 
 
On November 13, 1974, police received a report of a homicide at 112 Ocean Avenue in the Village of Amityville, New York, a sleepy seaside community located on Long Island’s South Shore. Once there, the police discovered six members of the DeFeo family -- father, mother and four of their five children -- shot and killed execution style. The surviving son, Ronald "Butch" DeFeo Jr., was eventually charged and tried for the murder of his family and now is serving six concurrent life sentences.  
 
Over the years, many contrived myths and legends have endured about the DeFeo murders and the Dutch Colonial house in Amityville. Some theorized a strong supernatural force in the DeFeo home drove Butch DeFeo to kill his family, while others claimed Butch DeFeo killed to receive an inheritance. The Night the DeFeos Died offers incontrovertible proof of the true motives behind this terrible tragedy and reveals Butch DeFeo did not act alone in the commission of this crime. It also shows that the supernatural stories created about the famed Amityville house were nothing but a ruse concocted by Butch DeFeo’s defense attorney. 
 
"In his book, Osuna contradicts the legends surrounding the DeFeo murders and subsequent claims of demonic forces at 112 Ocean Avenue. In fact, Osuna’s exposé is one of Mob connections, police corruption and desperate measures taken by defense attorneys and judges," says Ryan Katzenbach, publisher and editor of the San Joaquin (Calif.) Observer. 
 
Osuna, a Las Vegas-based investigative journalist and founder of The Amityville Murders Web site at http://www.amityvillemurders.com, spent more than 18 months investigating the Amityville case and collected a vast amount of new information that he says tells a radically different story from the one the public is aware of. "Ghosts and demons never dwelled in the Amityville house," says Osuna, "only a dysfunctional family that found themselves on a road that eventually led to cold-blooded murder." 
 
For further information, visit http://www.thenightthedefeosdied.com. 
 
The Night the DeFeos Died: Reinvestigating the Amityville Murders 
By Ric Osuna 
Publication Date: March 2002 
Price: $19.54 (softcover); $29.69 (hardcover); Xlibris—a strategic partner of Random House. 
Pages: 389 
ISBN # 1-4010-4645-2 (softcover); 1-4010-4646-0 (hardcover) 
 


  

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