The killings were reported by the only surviving member of the family: the oldest son, Ronald J. DeFeo Jr., Newsday reported. He told police that he arrived shortly after 6 p.m. but found the front door locked. He claimed he then crawled into the house through a window and stumbled across the bloody scene.

ForR$11.99, a report shows that there have been seven deaths at The Amityville Horror  house. A man first died in the home in 1939 after an illness, according to the database. Thirty-five years later, six members of the DeFeo family were killed in the Long Island home.