Everyone wanted to know: was DeFeo’s “the devil made me do it” defense simply a ploy, or did something truly evil drive the 23-year-old to savagely shoot his parents and four siblings in cold blood inside their home nearly 50 years ago? And how was all of this connected to the ghostly hauntings that drove the new residents from the same house just one year later? The Tubi two-hour documentary special, FAMOUSLY HAUNTED: AMITYVILLE, navigates the web of true crime and paranormal that’s kept viewers tangled up in the Amityville tale for generations. When infamous Amityville killer Ronnie DeFeo died behind bars earlier this year, social media blew up with a new wave of armchair detectives obsessed with the real-life horror story.
