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What happened to George and Kathy Lutz? After moving to the Amityville property in December 1975, George and Kathy Lutz thought they had been able to climb onto the property ladder for a steal of ...
Jan 18, 2024 · Christopher Lutz reveals in the docuseries that he believes George Lutz, who died in 2006, purposefully opened the door to dark supernatural forces by doing occult rituals in the house — and then twisted his story about what really happened there to make a profit.
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- How Many People Were Shot During The Defeo Murders in The Amityville Home?
- What Became of Ronald After The Defeo Murders?
- Did A Priest Really Bless The Lutz's Amityville Home?
- Did Flies Really Swarm The Priest?
- Was There A Girl Named Jodie Defeo Killed on The Night of The Defeo Murders?
- Is The Babysitter Based on A Real person?
- Was There Really A Hidden Room in The Amityville Home's Basement?
- Did Blood Really Run Down The walls?
- Did George Lutz Try to Kill His Family?
- Did The Lutzes Flee The House in Their Boat?
Six. On the night of November 13, 1974, eldest son Ronald "Butch" DeFeo, Jr., 23, murdered his parents, two brothers and two sisters using a .35 caliber Marlin rifle. He shot them while they slept and then showered and left the home. He wrapped his rifle and bloody clothing in a pillow case and disposed of it in a storm drain in the Brooklyn suburb...
Ronald DeFeo, Jr. was convicted of six counts of second degree murder on November 25, 1975 and was sentenced to twenty-five years to life on all six counts. He is serving his sentence at the Green Haven Correctional Facility in Beekman, New York.
Following the release of the original 1979 movie, the investigative television show In Search of aired an episode on October 4, 1979 that featured an interview with a man who they claim is the real Amityville Horror priest (Watch the Priest Interview Here). He says that the Lutzes informed him that the DeFeo murders took place in the home and asked...
No. The Lutz family has acknowledged on numerous occasions that although hundreds of flies did allegedly appear in the home, they did not swarm the priest. "They [the filmmakers] could have just as easily had done the flies the way they really happened," says the real George Lutz, who found the movie's take amusing (The Real Amityville Horror). In ...
No. There was no sister or other relative named Jodie DeFeo killed on the night of the DeFeo family murders. However, according to the real George Lutz, Missy did have an imaginary friend named Jodie, but it was not a ghost of one of the children slain during the DeFeo murders. It was an entity that presented itself to Missy in different forms, inc...
No. The Amityville Horror babysitter, Lisa (Rachel Nichols), is not based on a real-life individual, nor does she appear in the book. The idea for the babysitter character came from the mind of screenwriter Sandor Stern, who wrote the screenplay for the original 1979 Amityville Horror. Scott Kosar, the screenwriter for the 2005 remake, reinterprete...
Yes, but it was actually a small storage space under the stairs which the DeFeo family had used to store toys. The 2005 Amityville Horror remake greatly exaggerates this hidden room, showing it as a large torture area/dungeon where native Americans were mutilated and held captive. In the picture below on the left, Patty Commarato, who was a former ...
No. As the real George Lutz stated in The Real Amityville Horrordocumentary from 2005, blood never ran down the walls of the home.
No. The real George Lutz never tried to kill his family like the Ryan Reynolds character does during the climax of the film. This includes trying to kill his wife Kathy with the outboard motor of their boat and chasing the family with a shotgun. George also never built coffins for his family and they never had to tie him up with rope like they do i...
No. Although they did have a boat, they left in their van which correlates more with what is shown in the original 1979 movie. After leaving the house, they went and stayed with Kathy's mother, Joan Conners, before finally relocating to San Diego, California.
Mar 14, 2013 · In 1975, George and Kathy Lutz (along with Kathy’s three children from a previous marriage), moved into a huge house in Amityville, a tiny Long Island suburb. In less than a month, the family ...
Aug 21, 2023 · During the Lutz family's final night on Ocean Avenue, George falls prey to the home's evil influence, rampaging through his house with an axe and trying to murder his stepkids. Fortunately, he's ...
Mar 7, 2024 · In the documentary, Christopher Quaratino (Kathy Lutz’s son) says that George Lutz was an abusive stepfather and husband. This allegation is supported by a psych assessment conducted during the annulment of George’s first marriage, which reports that George was physically, verbally, and emotionally abusive to his first wife.
Oct 29, 2015 · Here's a blast from the past. In 2003, I met George Lutz at our annual conference, UNIV-CON. He is, of course, the man who lived in the Amityville house and fled after 28 days. It later inspired a book, "The Amityville Horror" and two films based off of it (on
