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    The Amityville Massacre: The DeFeo Family's Nightmare (A True Crime Short)
    The Amityville Massacre: The DeFeo Family's Nightmare (A True Crime Short)
    The Amityville Massacre: The DeFeo Family's Nightmare (A True Crime Short)
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    The Amityville Massacre: The DeFeo Family's Nightmare (A True Crime Short)

    By R. Barri Flowers

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    From award winning criminologist R. Barri Flowers and the bestselling author of Murder of the Banker’s Daughter and Murder at the Pencil Factory comes a riveting new historical true crime short, The Amityville Massacre: The DeFeo Family’s Nightmare.

    In the wee hours of the 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 were shot to death, execution style, while in bed.

    The lone survivor of the family, Ronald “Butch” DeFeo, Jr., twenty-three, was suspected of being the shooter. The police investigation of the mass murder, the bizarre story within the story, insanity, the trial of the accused, and the aftermath, are explored in this truth is far scarier than fiction tale of darkness and horror.
    The case inspired The Amityville Horror movies and books, in delving into psychic phenomenon and the supernatural.

    The Amityville Massacre includes a complete bonus story, Murder in Bellevue: The Killing of Alan and Diane Johnson, as well as excerpts from other bestselling truce crime shorts by R. Barri Flowers.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherR. Barri Flowers
    Release dateSep 21, 2014
    ISBN9781311292575
    The Amityville Massacre: The DeFeo Family's Nightmare (A True Crime Short)
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    R. Barri Flowers

    R. Barri Flowers is an award winning and Publishers Weekly bestselling author of romantic suspense, mystery, thriller and crime novels, with twenty Harlequin titles published to date, such as Honolulu Cold Homicide and Special Agent Witness. Chemistry and conflict between the hero and heroine, attention to detail, and incorporating the very latest advances in criminal investigations, are the cornerstones of his crime thriller fiction.

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      The Amityville Massacre - R. Barri Flowers

      THE AMITYVILLE MASSACRE

      The DeFeo Family's Nightmare

      A True Crime Short

      Copyright 2014 by R. Barri Flowers at Smashwords. All rights reserved.

      Cover Image Copyright S. Sokolov, 2014

      Used under license from Shutterstock.com

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      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you're reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      TRUE CRIME BOOKS BY R. BARRI FLOWERS

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      Masters of True Crime: Chilling Stories of Murder and the Macabre (editor)

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      The Sex Slave Murders: The True Story of Serial Killers Gerald & Charlene Gallego

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      Murder of a Star Quarterback: The Tragic Tale of Steve McNair & Sahel Kazemi

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