Some points from this documentary that I think are pertinent are:
1) Some things happened in Long Island dating back to 1895 involving an adolescent boy violating a skeleton from a native American grave and this coincides with what I understand about Long Island largely being forested for many years before quite suddenly becoming the suburbs in the mid-20th century, and some areas were still under-developed in the 1980s - a full decade after the DeFeo murders. The other Long Island famous murder of course was committed by Ricky Kasso, who performed a ritual at the Amityville house in the early 1980s.
2) A lot of people who are talking here believe what they're saying. I think two things can be true at the same time. People who are really hostile to religion because they're afraid of mystery and things that they can't know or control are going to insist that OBVIOUSLY this was either a mafia murder connected to the DeFeo grandparents or it's because young Ronnie/Butch was a mentally ill drug addict. I think it can be both natural corruption and supernatural influence. I think real evil exists every day in weak, selfish people who try to tap into something that will ultimately crush them in the end. Live by the sword die by the sword and all that.
3) More factually speaking, the Lutz family did in fact exaggerate their story for money, but some pretty banal everyday evil come from that too in the form of their son. Watch a related documentary called My Amityville Horror. The real darkness of the situation here is rooted in the DeFeo family and how the Lutz' exploited it, and harmed their own family in the process. It's very interesting to me that Chris Lutz here did not contradict his brother Daniel from the other documentary in regard to the strange occurrences.
4) There's a strong possibility someone did help Ronnie DeFeo because of the forensic evidence of the murder scene. That's also chilling whether or not you accept any of the parapsychology theories. It's definitely a story worth telling.
1) Some things happened in Long Island dating back to 1895 involving an adolescent boy violating a skeleton from a native American grave and this coincides with what I understand about Long Island largely being forested for many years before quite suddenly becoming the suburbs in the mid-20th century, and some areas were still under-developed in the 1980s - a full decade after the DeFeo murders. The other Long Island famous murder of course was committed by Ricky Kasso, who performed a ritual at the Amityville house in the early 1980s.
2) A lot of people who are talking here believe what they're saying. I think two things can be true at the same time. People who are really hostile to religion because they're afraid of mystery and things that they can't know or control are going to insist that OBVIOUSLY this was either a mafia murder connected to the DeFeo grandparents or it's because young Ronnie/Butch was a mentally ill drug addict. I think it can be both natural corruption and supernatural influence. I think real evil exists every day in weak, selfish people who try to tap into something that will ultimately crush them in the end. Live by the sword die by the sword and all that.
3) More factually speaking, the Lutz family did in fact exaggerate their story for money, but some pretty banal everyday evil come from that too in the form of their son. Watch a related documentary called My Amityville Horror. The real darkness of the situation here is rooted in the DeFeo family and how the Lutz' exploited it, and harmed their own family in the process. It's very interesting to me that Chris Lutz here did not contradict his brother Daniel from the other documentary in regard to the strange occurrences.
4) There's a strong possibility someone did help Ronnie DeFeo because of the forensic evidence of the murder scene. That's also chilling whether or not you accept any of the parapsychology theories. It's definitely a story worth telling.