Amityville Horror: Conspiracy on Ocean
Avenue
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Episode
I: The Murders
Today, only a handful of people
know what the Amityville Horror Saga is really all about. The people who know
the real truth will do anything, including commit murder, to protect the
secret. Most people know of it as a mass murder and then a family haunting. But
what really is it all about? Can you handle the truth? The real horror in
Amityville will scare you more than the movie. The Amityville Horror Saga is
not a paranormal event. The truth is The Amityville Horror Saga is a war crime.
How far would a community or town
go to protect itself? Would they commit murder? Would they murder innocent
children? Would they destroy an innocent family? Would they create a cruel hoax
to cover up the murder? Would they deceive the country in order to continue the
cover-up? They
were told they would get away with it. They were told the conspiracy would never
be discovered.
In 1974, the government offered Amityville a deal they couldn’t
refuse. The deal was to free the town of the DeFeo family on Ocean Avenue for a
price. Amityville would later discover that the price was far greater than they
ever imagined. Amityville is hiding a terrible secret. Amity means friendship…unless
you’re a threat.
What happened on Ocean Avenue in the early morning hours of November 13th 1974? Six members of
the DeFeo family were murdered in their home while sleeping. All
members of the DeFeo family shot with the same rifle. All members of the
DeFeo family found in similar positions on their beds, lying on their stomachs
with their arms extended above their heads. All members of the DeFeo family died in
their sleep as if the rifle shots never awoke them. No sign of a struggle. The autopsies indicate
that no members of the DeFeo Family were drugged. None of the DeFeo family’s
neighbors heard the shots.
The oldest son in the DeFeo family, Ronald DeFeo Jr., a.k.a
Butch, was the only surviving member of the family. Butch was convicted of
murdering his entire family and sentenced to 25 years to life in prison.
No one can provide a rational explanation of how Butch DeFeo
went room to room in the middle of the night murdering his family with a
high-powered rifle and none of the DeFeo family awoke. What happened here on
Ocean Avenue? Why can’t anyone solve the mystery?
Rick Osuna – book author: “The standard story is basically that
Ronald DeFeo Jr., who was then 23 in 1974, woke up at approximately 3:15am and
for reasons unknown basically killed his entire family while they slept.”
William Weber - Butch DeFeo's Attorney: “He took the rifle and
shot both of his parents, who were sleeping in the master bedroom. Then he shot
his younger brothers, two of them. And then he went to an adjacent bedroom and
shot his sister. And then he walked up to the third floor bedroom and shot his
other sister, Dawn.”
Narrator: “All the bodies were found face down with no sign of a
struggle. An autopsy revealed the family had not been drugged.”
Dr. Howard Adelman - Deputy Chief Medical Examiner for Suffolk
County: “At the time we were amazed that all of the bodies were found face down
with their arms extended. We knew that they were in this position at the time
they were shot because the entrance and exit holes of the bullets where they
left the body and entered the mattress. It almost had the appearance that they
were being held at bay or told to be in a certain position at that time.”
Ken Greguski - Former Chief of Amityville Police: “To this day
as far as I know none of those people were drugged. So why someone wasn't able
to get out of that house is beyond belief.”
Dr. Howard Adelman - Deputy Chief Medical Examiner for Suffolk
County: “We did extensive toxicology not only on the blood and urine but on all
of the organs that we removed and it turned up zero that there wasn't anything
in their body. So they were cold sober at the time they were murdered.”
Ken Greguski - Former Chief of Amityville Police: “I would have
assumed that he did have an accomplice but that has never been proven and we
haven't found any evidence found to indicate that.”
William Weber, DeFeo's Attorney: “They were each shot with a 35
marlin rifle. We had an experiment conducted when we were preparing for trial
the noise level of a 35 marlin and that marlin could be heard four to five
blocks away from the house. With all the shots that took place, there were
approximately nine blasts from the marlin, there was no evidence that any of
the six victims had made any attempt to escape.”
Laura DiDio - Journalist: “What was so odd is how you manage to
shoot six people in the middle of the night in a quiet neighborhood without
awaking any of the people. A shotgun blast is pretty loud. That doesn't make
any sense.”
Detective Alfred DellaPenna - Ballistics for Suffolk County
Police: “Six people would be lying in bed - How is it that six people would
stay in bed?”
Peter Jordan – Parapsychologist: “I thought perhaps the bodies
had been moved from their original spots. The autopsy reports show that, no,
they were not moved, that they were in the original places that were when they
were shot. There were no drugs found in the blood streams and again the victims
were found lying face down in dead stretch.”
Dr. Howard Adelman - Deputy Chief Medical Examiner for Suffolk
County: “Even if they were sleeping the report of the weapon that was used is
supposed to be so loud that it would have, so to speak, awakened the dead.”
Ronald DeFeo Jr. states from prison that it was physically
impossible for him to have committed the murders: “How could one person go thru the
house and kill six people the way they think they were killed? The way they
said they were killed. You show me how right now! It's impossible.”
Butch DeFeo also states from prison
that he was in the basement doing drugs when the real killers entered his home
and murdered his family.
Gerard Sullivan, the prosecutor who
won Ronald DeFeo Jr.’s conviction of 25 years to life in prison for the murder
of his family stated years later in his book “High Hopes – The Amityville
Murders”: “I still think about the DeFeo case – especially about the children.
And I wonder about the questions that were never answered. Did any of the
victims wake up? If so, why didn’t any of them defend themselves? Why were all
six found face down in death? Why didn’t’ anyone hear the shots?”
To answer Gerard
Sullivan’s questions, we must go back to 1965 and tell the whole story from the
beginning.
Ocean Avenue, a quiet, peaceful, and friendly place to live for
the affluent in Amityville.
The Ireland family is a powerful and influential family in the
town of Amityville. The Ireland family is one of the founding members of
Amityville that has lived in Amityville for generations. Andy and Agnes Ireland
live in their luxurious home on Ocean Avenue in the affluent section of
Amityville.
The house directly neighboring the Ireland’s home has been
vacant for months. The vacant house is an odd looking house with two quarter
shaped moon windows that look like eyes. Because the vacant house was too big
for the property, the house was actually built sideways on the lot, with the
front door on the side of the house. Oddly enough, the property the vacant
house was built on actually once belonged to the Ireland family.
It is June 28, 1965, Andy and Agnes Ireland are sitting outside
their home enjoying the beautiful sunny day. A car suddenly pulls into the
driveway of the neighboring vacant house. A noticeably overweight man gets out
of the driver side of the car and begins looking around the property. A woman
then gets out of the passenger side of the car and opens the back door of the
car to let several children out. The overweight man begins to get into a loud
verbal argument with the woman that involves the use of foul language.
Andy and Agnes Ireland are in shock and offended by the language
these people are using in their neighborhood. Andy and Agnes look at each other
and ask: “Who are these people?” Agnes asks: “Maybe we should call the police?”
Andy says: “No, they’re probably here to do the maintenance of the property.”
“It’s hard to find good help these days.” Agnes says: “Yes, perhaps you’re
right.” “The grass is a bit long.”
About 20 minutes later, two additional cars pull into the vacant
neighboring house’s driveway. The two drivers get out of their cars, and Andy Ireland
immediately recognizes them. Andy Ireland’s jaw drops, and he goes into a state
of shock. Andy says to his wife: “That’s Mike Brigante Sr. and Rocco DeFeo!” “They’re
both big time mobsters!” “What are they doing here in this part of town?”
Reality sets in for Andy and Agnes Ireland, when a large moving truck pulls in
front of the now formerly vacant house next door. Andy asks his wife: “These
mobsters are our new neighbors?” Agnes says: “Oh my God!”
For the residents of Ocean Avenue, the Amityville Horror started
on June 28, 1965, the day the DeFeo family moved into their dream home on Ocean
Avenue.
Ronald DeFeo Sr. (a.k.a Big Ronnie) and his wife Louise DeFeo
move their family from a small Brooklyn apartment to Amityville. Big Ronnie and
Louise have five children John, Allison, Marc, Dawn, and Ronald Jr. (a.k.a)
Ronald Jr. Ronnie Jr. or Butch. In anticipation of a
prosperous future, Big Ronnie places a sign in front of his house which
reads…“High Hopes”. Over the coming years, the DeFeo family
would disrupt the tranquility of Ocean Avenue, causing the residents of Ocean
Avenue to wish the DeFeo family would just simply leave and move back to where
they came from.
Rick Osuna – book author:
“The village of Amityville residents did not really like the DeFeos. The
DeFeos were from Brooklyn, they didn't fit the south shore atmosphere, the
style. Mr. DeFeo was quite loud and vociferous. So they didn't fit that persona
that the village residents wanted to see in their neighborhood.”
As the residents of Ocean Avenue learned about the DeFeo family
and discovered who they really are, the residents became alarmed.
The father of Louise DeFeo is Mike Brigante Sr., a big time
mobster. Mike Brigante Sr. has ties to Carlo Gambino, a Sicilian mobster that
controls the Gambino crime family. Big Ronnie’s father is Rocco DeFeo, another
big time mobster. Rocco DeFeo’s brother is Peter DeFeo, a soldier in the
Genovese crime family. Peter DeFeo works closely with Vito Genovese, who is the
boss of the Genovese crime family. Big Ronnie and his oldest son Butch, work at
Brigante-Karl Buick, a car dealership co-owned by Louise’s father, Mike
Brigante Sr.
Residents on Ocean Avenue wonder how Big Ronnie, a simple
manager at the car dealership, could afford such an expensive house. The residents discover that the DeFeo house
was paid for in cash by Mike Brigante Sr., using Mob money. Mike Brigante Sr. loved his
daughter, son-in-law, and grandchildren and would do anything for them.
Money was no object for Mike
Brigante Sr. when it came to his daughter’s family. He would provide luxurious
furnishings for the DeFeo house. He would also provide shoes, jewelry, and the
latest gadgets. Mike Brigante Sr. would shower the DeFeo family with gifts.
He considered his daughter and his grandchildren his life. He often would buy
the DeFeos clothes, shoes, jewelry, and the latest gadgets. Anything they
needed. Money was no object when it came to his family.
The car dealership where Big Ronnie and Butch worked was not
just a simple dealership.
Rick Osuna – book author: “The way the dealership was a front
for the Mob was it consisted of money laundering, body disposal, evidence
disposal, where they would melt weapons down in the body shop's melting pot. It
was a front; it did the dirty business of organized crime.”
Andy and Agnes Ireland are horrified of the DeFeo family and
what they are doing to their community and town, but they are helpless to do
anything about it. The other residents of Ocean Avenue feel the same way but
are worried about the DeFeo family’s ties with the mafia.
Big Ronnie
and Butch would often carry handguns and not be afraid to pull the weapons on
people they were involved in arguments with. The DeFeo family used foul
language and they were constantly screaming and fighting with each other. Often
the DeFeo family would have loud arguments inside and outside their home using
vulgar language that offended their neighbors. The DeFeo family was showy and
threw money around. The community resented them and wished they would move
away.
Big Ronnie was supplementing his income by using his boat docked
right behind his home to run illegal drugs into Amityville. Big Ronnie would
rendezvous with drug runners in boats waiting along the river and bring the
drugs in and distribute the drugs thru the car dealership. Big Ronnie’s second
oldest son, Marc, would often brag to his school friends about his father’s
illegal drug running.
The DeFeo family was tarnishing the community by bringing in bad
elements involved in organized crime to the community. The Ocean Avenue
residents saw the DeFeo family as a threat and viewed them being as out of
control.
Big Ronnie would often urinate on his property in plain sight
for his neighbors to see to show his neighbors that this was his property and
he would do with it as he pleased. Agnes Ireland would often catch Big Ronnie
in this crude act and tell her husband that she can no longer live next-door to
this animal.
When disputes erupted with their neighbors, Big Ronnie and Butch
would often threaten their neighbors by telling them that they would bring in
the Mob to murder their neighbors’ families. A rumor being told around town of
Butch DeFeo’s involvement in the drowning death of a man in the nearby river
canal also deeply disturbs the community. The adverse relationship between the DeFeo family and their
community was increasing daily and soon the relationship would hit critical
mass.
Detective Rattery of the Amityville
Police Department arrests Butch for being in possession of a stolen outboard
boat motor. After learning of his son’s arrest, Big Ronnie goes down to the
police station to remind the police of the DeFeo family’s ties to organized
crime. Big Ronnie storms into the police station and gets into a loud verbal
confrontation with Detective Rattery.
Big Ronnie asks: Do you know who my father is? Do you know who my wife’s
father is? Detective Rattery replies: Yeah, I know who the DeFeos and Brigantes are! Big Ronnie warns: Don’t mess with the DeFeos and Brigantes or you will regret it! Big Ronnie then grabs his son’s arm
and storms out of the police station with his son.
Detective Rattery’s 12-year-old
daughter is a friend of Allison DeFeo. One day, both Allison and Detective
Rattery’s daughter are over the DeFeo house playing when Butch storms into the
house. Butch, still seething with anger over his arrest by Detective Rattery,
has just learned Detective Rattery has now arrested his best friend on drug
charges. Butch sees Detective Rattery’s daughter in the kitchen and starts
screaming at her: “If your father keeps messing with me, I’ll kill you and your
cop father!!!” The little girl horrified, drops her doll on the floor, and runs
out the back door crying. Butch then picks up the doll and throws it in the
trashcan, uttering little brat. Allison runs up to her bedroom, vowing never to
speak to her brother again.
Detective
Rattery’s daughter ran home and told her father of the threat made by Butch.
Word of Butch’s threat to murder
Detective Rattery and his 12-year-old daughter would spread and reach a
powerful organization known as the Government Mafia.
Butch DeFeo’s developing interest in
high powered rifles begins to disturb the residents of Ocean Avenue. Butch
purchased two rifles and began showing them off to his friends and expressed
interest in obtaining silencers. Butch would even test fire his rifles by
shooting them from his bedroom window at objects outside the house.
After Butch’s girlfriend was fired
from her job at a local bar, Butch went down to the bar and stood outside the
bar firing his handgun into the air and threatening the owner of the bar. One
night while at dinner with his girlfriend, Butch told his girlfriend that he
was eager to use his connections in organized crime to order a hit on someone.
Butch is rumored to have broken into a house in the neighborhood and stolen
property to fund his drug habit. Butch is known around town as a drug
addict, a thief, a heavy drinker, and all around troublemaker with a bad
temper.
One day, Big Ronnie is in the
swimming pool, floating on his raft and enjoying the beautiful summer day.
Butch approaches the pool and throws a cherry bomb into the pool. The explosion startles Big Ronnie, causing
him to fall off his raft into the water.
Big Ronnie gets out of the pool and gives chase. Butch jumps into his
car parked at the end of the driveway, quickly backs his car out, and then
tears away down Ocean Avenue. Big Ronnie jumps into his car but notices his
wife’s car behind his, blocking his exit. Big Ronnie, furious at his son,
decides he will drive over his neighbor’s property to get his car onto Ocean
Avenue. Big Ronnie puts his car in reverse, clears his wife’s car, and then floors
the gas pedal. Big Ronnie drives over the Ireland’s neighboring property,
spinning his wheels, leaving skid marks on the Ireland’s driveway, tearing up
the Ireland’s lawn, and damaging the Ireland’s shrubbery. Big Ronnie then puts
the car into drive and floors it again. Big Ronnie further damages the Ireland’s
lawn and creates additional skid marks on the Ireland’s driveway that lead out
to the street as he tears off the property and onto Ocean Avenue in pursuit of
his son. A high speed chase then proceeds throughout the streets of the
community.
Andy and Agnes Ireland, sitting
outside their home, witnessed the entire event and were forced to frantically
retreat inside their home for their own safety. The dust, car exhaust fumes,
and the odor of burnt rubber caused Andy and Agnes Ireland to choke as they
fled their front patio. Andy and Agnes Ireland are in shock and become furious
about the damage to their property and the fact that the DeFeos have again
ruined their day.
About 30 minutes later, Big Ronnie
failing to catch his son, returns home. As Andy Ireland is outside inspecting
the damage to his property, Big Ronnie again drives over the Ireland’s damaged
property and parks his car back in its original spot. Big Ronnie gets out of
his car completely ignoring Andy Ireland, who is standing outside his home
looking over at him trying to get his attention. Big Ronnie opens the front
door of his house and prepares to enter but he hears Andy Ireland calling his
name from behind.
Andy Ireland approaches Big Ronnie
and angrily confronts him about the damage to his property and asks: “Who is
going to pay for the damage?” Big Ronnie calmly tells Andy Ireland: “Send the
bill to my father.” “He will pay you everything you’re owed.” Big Ronnie then
snaps and puts his finger right in Andy Ireland’s face and tells him: “Still
better yet, you’re rich so pay for it yourself!” Big Ronnie then slams the door
in Andy Ireland’s face. Andy Ireland walks away, shaking his head, in total
disgust with the DeFeo family. Andy Ireland quietly utters to himself:
“Something has to be done about these psychos.”
Hours later, Andy Ireland is in
front of his house with a rake trying to repair the damage Big Ronnie caused
earlier to his property when he begins to hear music. Butch is racing down
Ocean Avenue in his blue 1970 Buick Electra 225 blaring his car radio and
driving like a madman as he makes a fast turn into his driveway, screeching his
car tires. Butch gets out of his car, looks over at Andy Ireland holding a
rake, and sees Andy Ireland staring directly at him. Butch visually inspects
all the damage to the Ireland’s property and begins to loudly laugh. Butch,
knowing full well what really happened to the Ireland’s property, yells over to
Andy Ireland: “Hey Ireland, you ought to take better care of your property!
You’re bringing down our property value!” Butch walks away towards his home,
continuing to loudly laugh. Butch opens the front door of his home and yells
into the house: “Hey Fatso I’m Home!” Butch slams the front door shut.
Andy Ireland, still standing in the
same spot on his front lawn with the rake in his hand, then hears a loud
argument ensue inside the DeFeo home. Andy Ireland becomes so angry that he
snaps the wooden handle of his rake in half and throws both parts across the
lawn. Andy Ireland abandons the repairs to his front lawn and goes inside his
home to update his wife on the DeFeo situation.
Butch knows his neighbors don’t want
his family living in the community so he takes every opportunity he gets to
annoy them. Butch blares his car stereo and screeches his tires at all times of
each day as he departs and arrives home, a lot of the time with his loud rowdy
friends who are drinking and always looking to party. Butch also knows his
neighbors are aware of his family’s ties to organized crime so he makes his
connections clear to the neighbors when he gets into arguments with them.
After Butch catches the son of John
and Brenda Cromarty throwing stones into the DeFeo’s swimming pool, Butch jumps
in his car and rushes over to confront the Cromartys. John and Brenda Cromarty
live the next street over to the DeFeos and are well respected in the town of
Amityville. Butch spots Brenda Cromarty standing outside her home. Butch slams
on his brakes and jumps out of his car to confront Brenda. Butch gets into
Brenda’s face and angrily informs her of her son’s malicious behavior near the
DeFeo residence. Butch tells Brenda that
he knows powerful people and she shouldn’t get on the DeFeo family’s bad side.
Brenda swiftly walks away from Butch after receiving the threat. As Brenda is
walking away, Butch yells, don’t mess with the DeFeos, lady, or you’ll regret
it. Butch then jumps back into his car and speeds away, screeching his tires.
Brenda returns home to inform her husband of Butch’s threat.
Fearing the DeFeo family’s ties to
organized crime, the neighbors never call the police to report the threats or
the disruptive behavior of the DeFeo family. The people who live on Ocean
Avenue consider Big Ronnie a Mafioso. The community feels they have been pushed
to the brink by the DeFeo family and it’s now time for them to act.
The Conspiracy Begins.
The residents of Ocean Avenue are
fed up with the DeFeo family but how can they fight back against a family with
such powerful connections to the mafia. Andy Ireland begins to secretly
organize the residents of Ocean Avenue against the DeFeo family. The residents
are fearful of the parents of Big Ronnie and Louise DeFeo. Both parents are big
time mobsters.
It
was common knowledge on Ocean Avenue that Louise DeFeo’s father, Mike Brigante
Sr., has ties to Carlo Gambino, a Sicilian mobster that controlled the Gambino
crime family. Also known on Ocean Avenue is that Big Ronnie’s father is Rocco
DeFeo. Rocco DeFeo’s brother is Peter DeFeo who is a Soldier in the Genovese
crime family and works closely with Vito Genovese, boss of the Genovese crime
family. The residents of Ocean Avenue are also aware of the DeFeo and Brigante
families’ involvement in bribes and payoffs of judges and certain high
positioned members of law enforcement.
Andy Ireland decides that he will
try to reason with Big Ronnie. Andy Ireland approaches Big Ronnie while outside
his home. Andy Ireland states his and the community’s concerns to Big Ronnie.
Big Ronnie snaps, pulling his handgun and putting the weapon right in Andy Ireland’s
face. In a sudden rage, Big Ronnie tells Andy Ireland that the Ireland family
is nothing in this town anymore and the DeFeo family is now in control. Big
Ronnie cocks the trigger of his weapon and asks Andy Ireland: “Do you want to
test me?” Andy Ireland doesn’t respond. Big Ronnie then tells Andy Ireland that
he and his Mob associates will murder the entire Ireland family if they
interfere with the DeFeo family. Andy Ireland, remaining silent, slowly steps
backwards with his hands in the air and then quickly walks back to his home.
Andy Ireland in his home picks up the phone and calls a powerful member of his
family and tells him that we have to do something about the DeFeo family. His
family member responds by saying I think I know of someone who can help us.
The residents of Ocean Avenue and
other powerful people in the town of Amityville, including members of law
enforcement, begin to meet secretly to discuss how to rid Amityville of the
DeFeo family. They meet secretly at a house blocks away from the DeFeo
residence. Andy Ireland has organized the people attending the secret
meeting. Detective Rattery is also
attending the meeting. Both Andy Ireland and Detective Rattery are in complete
agreement that action must be taken against the DeFeo family. The people
attending this meeting will ultimately become known as the “Ocean Avenue
Conspirators”.
After deciding that the DeFeo
problem cannot be solved within the confines of the law, the topic of the
meeting quickly turns to how do we kill the DeFeo family before they kill us?
The concern is that if a hit is made on the DeFeo family and Mike Brigante Sr. and
Rocco DeFeo discover the conspiracy then the mafia will retaliate against the
community by ordering hits against those involved. This
would put the residents of Ocean Avenue families and others involved in the
conspiracy at great risk. The question asked is how do we murder
the DeFeo family on Ocean Avenue without incurring the wrath of the mafia?
Andy Ireland tells the attendees of
the meeting that his family has lived in this town for generations and the land
the DeFeo house is built on once belonged to his family. Andy Ireland says he
can no longer stand by and watch the community and town be destroyed by scum
like the DeFeo family. Andy Ireland tells the attendees that we must wipe the
DeFeo family out to protect our families, community, and town.
Andy Ireland stands and then tells
the people in the room that there is a secret government organization that can
help us. This organization is a group of people that the government covertly
funds, trains, and equips to deal with people involved in organized crime. Andy
Ireland explains that if we bring in these people to deal with the DeFeo
family, we must all be united and agree to never disclose or reveal information
about who these people are, or what they will do to the DeFeo family.
After Andy Ireland answers questions
and addresses concerns from the Ocean Avenue Conspirators, they all finally
agree to keep their silence. Andy Ireland then warns that if any of them were
to betray these government people, they would have nowhere in the country to
hide. This government group is completely above the law. You can think of them as
America’s version of the KGB, a committee for state security. These people
protect America from internal domestic threats, such as those posed by
organized crime in this country. The political establishment and law
enforcement deny their existence and the general public is completely unaware
of their existence.
Andy Ireland concludes the secret
meeting by saying that murder is a messy business, especially the involvement
of children, and we must remain strong and united in order for this conspiracy
to work and remain secret. I will make contact with these government people in
the coming days to convey our decision. The meeting is then adjourned.
One week later the Ocean Avenue
Conspirators meet again and this time one more person is attending the meeting.
The additional person is a member of the Government Mafia. The man introduces
himself as Agent Simmonds of the Government Mafia. Agent Simmonds begins to
discuss ways the Government Mafia can offer solutions to the DeFeo menace in
their community.
Agent Simmonds explains that because
of the threat posed to Amityville by the DeFeo family’s ties to organized
crime, a decisive plan to murder the DeFeo family and then create a diversion
to distract the public’s attention away from the murders is the only plan that
will succeed. The diversion will prevent organized crime from discovering the
real truth. Agent Simmonds offers a plan to murder six members of the DeFeo
family on Ocean Avenue while they sleep and then set up the oldest son, Butch,
to become the patsy and take the fall for the murders.
Agent Simmonds explains that the
government has special classified military directed energy weapons that can
murder people thru walls without creating physical evidence. Agent Simmonds
further explains that after the six members of the DeFeo family are murdered, a
strike team will enter the DeFeo residence and reposition their lifeless bodies
on their beds and make it appear that Butch took his rifle and shot them all in
the middle of the night. It will be a perfect hit against the DeFeo family.
Butch will be incapacitated with special classified technology designed to
render a person helpless for up to an hour. Butch will be unable to explain his
actions during the murders and with his reputation around town he will be
pronounced guilty of the murders, even before his trial. No one will believe
Butch. Butch will make a perfect patsy. Butch is known as the town psycho and
is without doubt a sociopath.
Agent Simmonds then tells the
attendees that we will wipe out the DeFeo family on Ocean Avenue for you but
you must do something for us. Additional steps will be necessary. We must draw
the attention of the public away from the bizarre nature of the murders and
onto something completely different. Agent Simmonds explains that we will use
our connections in the real estate business to lure a crackpot family to the
former DeFeo residence and trick them into believing the house is haunted.
Classified sonic harassment technology will be used to trick this family into
believing the former DeFeo residence is haunted. Agent Simmonds goes on and
guarantees that no harm will come to this second family and they will abandon
the house within 30 days. The haunted house hoax will draw the public’s
attention away from the bizarre nature of the murders on onto the supernatural.
The government creates these haunted
houses and other bizarre events in areas of the country to distract the
public’s attention away from social issues and onto things that simply can’t be
proven. The average American citizen is distracted and entertained by these
events but the crackpots become obsessed. This gives the crackpots something to
latch onto and keeps their time occupied. It’s like a dog chasing its tail. The
crazies in society need meaningless things to occupy their time with so we
create these bizarre events for them. Some of these crazies in our society
could be dangerous so the hoaxes actually protect the American people as a
whole. If the crazies weren’t chasing after ghosts and UFOs, for example, they
could be engaged in activities that place us all in danger. We are the social
architects who manufacture tragedy and hoaxes in America. It’s known as social
engineering or government propaganda. America uses propaganda just like foreign
countries do to control and unite their citizens. The American government just
does it a little differently than other countries.
We are America’s Secret Police,
working covertly behind the scenes to create a utopian society. We can help
you, and you can help us. We are going to basically let the crazies create a
smokescreen to cover up the DeFeo murders. With the distraction of a haunted
house, no one would ever suspect the neighbors had any involvement in the DeFeo
murders. We have done this many times before and we know what we are doing. You
can trust the Government Mafia. The Government Mafia is very proud of what we
have done and continue to do. Government propaganda is our business.
The news media attention to the
murders and then the haunted house hoax will neutralize Mike Brigante Sr. and
Rocco DeFeo. The death of Mike Brigante Sr. and Rocco DeFeo’s daughter, son,
and grandchildren will personally devastate both men. The Government Mafia
wants to put a dagger right through the heart of both Mike Brigante Sr. and
Rocco DeFeo. As payback for hostile actions against the government, Agent
Simmonds explains, the Government Mafia wants to take away what Mike Brigante
Sr. and Rocco DeFeo care about the most, their family members, including their
grandchildren.
The
town of Amityville will benefit from the elimination of the DeFeo family on
Ocean Avenue and the subsequent neutralization of Mike Brigante Sr. and Rocco
DeFeo. The town of Amityville will also benefit from the notoriety and tourism
that is generated from the haunted house incident.
After
the second family abandons their home from what they believe is “supernatural
activity”, a third family will then move in and deny there is anything wrong
with the house. This third family will be a local family here in Amityville
with full knowledge of the conspiracy. The
third family will publicly state that the previous owners of the house are
liars and it was a money-making fraud by the second family. This will fuel the hoax and the controversy as the crackpots
battle each other over who is telling the truth. The
crackpots, battling each other on national television makes for great theater
to the average American citizen.
The government will also benefit
from the hoax and the ability to test classified lethal directed energy weapons
and non-lethal sonic harassment technology against human guinea pigs.
Agent Simmonds tells the Ocean
Avenue Conspirators that after the third family moves in and denies the house
is haunted there will be a short period of news media attention and curiosity
seekers. Agent Simmonds guarantees that interest will peak and slowly diminish
over a period of months. After that the community can return to normalcy.
Agent Simmonds also guarantees the
Ocean Avenue Conspirators that they will never get caught because the
technology is classified and no one other than secret elements of the
government know of it. You have absolutely nothing to worry about.
Agent Simonds tells the Ocean Avenue
Conspirators that he will personally oversee the elimination of the DeFeo
family. We will take care of everything. Agent Simmonds explains that the
Government Mafia is made up of law enforcement, military personnel, and
ordinary citizens. The Government Mafia has a score to settle with Butch DeFeo
for threatening to murder Detective Rattery and his daughter. We know how to
deal with punks like Butch DeFeo, Agent Simmonds states.
Agent Simmonds then sternly warns
the attendees of the meeting that if any of them betray the Government Mafia,
they will forfeit their lives. You must
take this to your graves and never disclose any of this information to the
public. You will not discuss this operation with anyone else other than the
people in this room. You will absolutely not tell your children. If you tell
anyone else about this operation, you will be placing yourself and the person
you tell in great jeopardy. Let me be clear about this: If you disclose this
operation it could be a fatal mistake for you and the person you tell. Never
discuss any part of this operation over the phone or in places where you could
be overheard. Play it safe and only discuss this operation when we meet as a
group or you are talking to me directly. The life you save could be your own.
If the public should discover that the government is covertly using the
military against the American people, it could spark a civil war in this
country.
The Ocean Avenue Conspirators agree
to never disclose the information, and a pact with the Government Mafia is
entered into. This is equivalent to a
pact with the devil. The Ocean Avenue Conspirators believe that this is their
only way to protect their community and town from the growing negative
influence of the DeFeo family. The direct neighbors of the DeFeo family are
told to not call the police if they see anything suspicious occurring around
the DeFeo house and also to ignore any strange or odd behavior by the DeFeo
family. Andy Ireland then stands suddenly and exclaims: “That fat pig and his
psycho son will no longer terrorize this community!” The rest of the Ocean
Avenue Conspirators stand and begin to applaud.
John and Brenda Cromarty are
standing in the front of the room near Agent Simmonds and Andy Ireland. Brenda Cromarty
is filled with anger from all the times when Butch DeFeo had threatened her and
her family. Brenda Cromarty in a sudden rage yells out: “Kill Them!” followed
immediately by her husband, John, yelling: “Wipe Them All Out!” Agent Simmonds
looks over at John and Brenda Cromarty and nods his head in approval. Agent
Simmonds likes what he sees in John and Brenda Cromarty and he thinks to
himself: “I have plans for these two.” Agent Simmonds senses that the Ocean
Avenue Conspirators want blood, and he is prepared to give it to them.
Andy Ireland then adjourns the
meeting.
Andy Ireland has offered Agent
Simmonds the use of his home to conduct electronic surveillance of the DeFeo
family. Days later, a white van arrives at the Ireland house and pulls into the
garage. Agent Simmonds and another agent get out of the van. Agent Simmonds closes
the garage door. Andy Ireland greets both agents and informs them they can use
any room of the house they require. Agent Simmonds and his colleague begin to
move container boxes from the back of the van into a room of the Ireland house
that will be used to conduct the surveillance of the neighboring DeFeo house.
The Ireland house directly neighbors
the DeFeo residence which makes complete surveillance of the entire DeFeo
family easily achievable. The Government Mafia has classified surveillance
technology that can electronically see and hear thru walls of a house. All
surveillance technology is operated from inside the Ireland house so no visual
evidence of the surveillance is possible from outside the Ireland house. To
anyone just passing by the Ireland house, nothing out of the ordinary will be
noticed.
The classified surveillance
technology generates detailed images of people thru walls. The classified
surveillance technology is also sensitive enough to hear a person breathing
thru walls. Agent Simmonds and his colleagues, from inside the Ireland house,
simply point a device at the DeFeo house and detailed images appear on a screen
of the DeFeo family inside their neighboring home and their conversations can
also be heard. The DeFeo family will never know they are under complete
electronic surveillance thru the walls of their home. There is no privacy for
the DeFeo family from this technology.
Everything will be learned about the
DeFeo family. What time they wake in the morning. All their conversations will
be monitored. What time they leave for work. Who they associate with. What time
they arrive home. What time they go to bed. All intimate details of the DeFeo
family life will be learned. Agent Simmonds and a team of professionals will
study and analyze the surveillance intelligence and make preparations for the
elimination of the DeFeo family. Agents will also move into a business suite
near the car dealership where Big Ronnie and Butch work and place the car
dealership under covert electronic surveillance. Both Mike Brigante Sr. and
Rocco DeFeo’s homes will also be placed under covert electronic surveillance.
The DeFeo family has now been under
surveillance for months and Agent Simmonds has learned everything about the
DeFeo family. Every aspect of the DeFeo family has been learned. Agent Simmonds
decides it is now time to advance to the next phase of the operation against
the DeFeo family.
Agent Simmonds and his colleagues will
use classified sonic harassment technology against the DeFeo family. The
Government Mafia has classified technology that can project audible sound thru
walls of a house and direct the audible sound towards one person in that house.
An Ultrasonic Laser is a beam of
sound that travels like a light laser. The Ultrasonic Laser can’t be seen or
heard. When two Ultrasonic Lasers are angled to combine at a point in the
distance, a lower frequency is created at that point. This lower frequency can
be audible sound. The Government Mafia has classified sound projection
technology that uses Ultrasonic Lasers to pass audible sound thru walls. The
Ultrasonic Lasers act as carrier waves to transport the audible sound thru
walls. These Ultrasonic Lasers pass thru walls without causing any damage to
the house. This sound projection device can project audible sound at one person
inside a neighboring house. No one other than the targeted person will hear the
audible sound.
The Government Mafia has
incorporated their classified surveillance technology that can electronically
see thru walls into targeting scopes that can identify and target people thru
walls. A person in a house can be identified and targeted thru the walls of his
house by an agent of the Government Mafia from inside a neighboring house. This
ability to target a person thru walls and project audible sound at that person
thru walls gives the agents of the Government Mafia an extraordinary method to
manipulate the targeted person. Any audible sound can be projected at any
member of the DeFeo family inside the DeFeo residence from inside the
neighboring Ireland residence. The ability to project audible sound through
walls is something the government has spent a large amount of money to develop.
Concealed inside the Ireland house, Agent Simmonds can project the audio of his
voice or any audio recording to any member of the DeFeo family inside the DeFeo
house.
Before the DeFeo family is murdered,
Agent Simmonds and his colleagues must create an appearance of serious mental
illness in the DeFeo household. Agent Simmonds and his colleagues will use the
classified sound projection technology to trick members of the DeFeo family
into believing they are experiencing extraordinary events in their lives. When
the targeted DeFeo family members describe these extraordinary events to family
and friends outside the DeFeo home, it will give the appearance that the DeFeo
family is crazy. This is a common tactic used against targeted people by the
Government Mafia: Make the targeted people appear crazy before eliminating
them. Fewer people ask questions or suspect foul play when tragic events occur
that involve seriously mentally ill people. The DeFeo family on Ocean Avenue
must be made to look like crackpots. Agent Simmonds and his colleagues will use
the DeFeo family’s fears, desires, and religious beliefs as a weapon against
them. Agent Simmonds and his colleagues begin the phase of the operation to
make the DeFeo family appear to be crackpots.
While Big Ronnie is lying in bed
alone, Agent Simmonds uses the classified sound projection technology to
project an audible message at Big Ronnie. The voice is projected thru the walls
of both houses at Big Ronnie from inside the neighboring Ireland house. Only
Big Ronnie hears the voice projected at him. Big Ronnie looks around his
bedroom but he discovers he is alone. The voice introduces himself to Big
Ronnie as the voice of God. Big Ronnie is told by the voice of God that he must
repent so he can be cleansed of his past sins and become a righteous man.
After hearing the voice, Big Ronnie
gets out of bed and falls to his knees and begins to pray. Big Ronnie believes
he has been chosen by God. Big Ronnie is totally convinced that he is now in
direct communication with God. Big Ronnie believes he could be the next Moses
from the bible. Big Ronnie now believes he is a prophet chosen by God to
deliver God’s message and guide the people. Big Ronnie believes he may have
been chosen by God to receive a new version of the Ten Commandments. Big Ronnie
eagerly awaits further communication with God.
Big Ronnie begins his path to
righteousness by immediately ending his illegal activities and turning to
religion. Big Ronnie ceases all involvement with drug running and other illegal
activities involving organized crime. Big Ronnie becomes obsessed with religion
and begins to seek out spiritual guidance from the church. Big Ronnie brings
the influence of religion into the DeFeo home.
Agent Simmonds, having successfully
tricked Big Ronnie into believing that God is speaking directly to him, now
begins to play with him. Big Ronnie is told by the voice of God that he should
use physical violence to discipline his family and enforce God’s teachings. Big
Ronnie begins to physically abuse his family by slapping them, throwing them
around, and punching them.
Big Ronnie is told by the voice of
God not to let his wife drive her car on certain days. Big Ronnie tells his
wife that God has forbidden her from driving her car on these days. Big Ronnie
believes he is having premonitions about future events and can predict the
future. Big Ronnie tells his family and friends the he is in direct
communication with God and he can predict the future. Big Ronnie’s family and
friends begin to worry about his sanity.
Butch DeFeo is also targeted by
Agent Simmonds. Agent Simmonds projects sounds of voices whispering at Butch
telling him to murder his family. Agent Simmonds projects strange noises of
banging sounds throughout the house at Butch. Butch also hears screaming, ghosts,
and people walking around at night. Butch gets out of bed and searches the
house but finds his family soundly asleep and no one else in the house. Butch
wonders where these voices and sounds are coming from and begins to wonder if
God is trying to communicate with him.
Agent Simmonds then projects audible
sounds of voices at Butch telling him that his family is conspiring to murder
him. Butch begins to become paranoid and begins to suspect his family is
conspiring against him.
Louise DeFeo is also targeted by
Agent Simmonds. Louise is in the basement doing laundry when Agent Simmonds
projects an audible message at her, telling her that the DeFeo family will soon
all die. Louise hears the message coming from behind her but when she turns
around to discover the source of the message she finds she is alone in the
basement. Louise begins to tell friends that a terrible tragedy will soon
happen to her family. Louise begins to believe that something is wrong with the
house.
The DeFeo family on Ocean Avenue
begins to unravel.
Agent Simmonds projects an audible
message at Big Ronnie commanding him to build religious shrines on his property
so he can worship his God. Big Ronnie sitting in the living room hers the
message from God and falls to his knees and begins to pray. Big Ronnie lifts
his head and says “I understand”. The next day Big Ronnie buys the materials
for the religious shrines and orders Butch to build one shrine in front of the
house and one shrine in back of the house. Butch reluctantly constructs the
shrines and places religious statues around the house but tells his father:
“Fatso, you have serious mental issues!”
Big Ronnie creates a shrine in his
bedroom so he can pray to his God each night before going to bed. Big Ronnie
begins carrying a bible wherever he may go. Big Ronnie is seen outside his home
several times a day by his neighbors on his knees praying at the shrines. Big
Ronnie tells his family and friends that the reason he built the religious
shrines is because God has commanded it.
The neighbors quietly laugh to
themselves as they notice the increasing odd behavior of Big Ronnie. The
neighbors look forward to the day when the community is free of the DeFeo
menace. Brenda Cromarty especially enjoys driving by the DeFeo residence and
laughing to herself as she sees Big Ronnie in front of his house praying on his
knees in front of the shrine. Brenda
quietly says to herself, “Revenge is a dish best served cold” as she slowly drives
away. Agent Simmonds also laughs hysterically each time as he looks out the
window of the Ireland house and sees Big Ronnie on his knees praying before his
shrines awaiting further communication with God. The Ocean Avenue Conspirators
feel empowered for the first time since the DeFeo family moved into their
community and town. They now feel that they will soon have their vengeance
after years of intimidation by the DeFeo family. Just as the DeFeo family used
their connections with organized crime to intimidate the community and town,
the community and town has now found a much more powerful ally that will soon
eliminate the DeFeo family on Ocean Avenue. They feel the DeFeos will soon get
their just deserts.
Agent Simmonds decides to test Big
Ronnie’s devotion to his God by sending him on a religious crusade. One morning
while praying at his shrine, Big Ronnie hears the voice of God commanding him
to journey to Saint Joseph’s Shrine in Canada and bring back a priest to recite
the prayers of exorcism in the DeFeo home. The voice of God tells Big Ronnie
that his oldest son, Butch, is possessed by the devil and the only way to save
his son and drive the evil forces out of his home is with “The Exorcism
Ritual.” Big Ronnie lifts his head and says “I understand, my lord”. Big Ronnie
rushes into the house to inform his wife of his new holy mission. Big Ronnie
calls his family and friends and tells them that he has been directly commanded
by God to begin a holy crusade.
Big Ronnie and Louise frantically
pack their bags. Big Ronnie loads his car with suitcases in preparation for the
long journey. Big Ronnie grabs his bible and both he and Louise jump into the
car and embark on their pilgrimage to Saint Joseph’s Shrine in Canada. Agent
Simmonds laughs and says “Gullible Christian Fools” as he watches Big Ronnie
and his wife speed away down Ocean Avenue.
At the Saint Joseph’s Shrine, Big
Ronnie explains to a priest named Father Marco that he is in direct
communication with God and he is on a holy mission commanded by God. Big Ronnie
further explains that God has commanded him to bring a priest back to
Amityville from Saint Joseph’s Shrine to battle evil forces within his home.
Big Ronnie warns the priest that his son may be possessed by the devil.
Big Ronnie is so convincing that
Father Marco himself volunteers to accompany Big Ronnie and his wife back to
Amityville and assist them in battling the evil forces in the DeFeo home.
Father Marco gathers his personal and religious belongings and they begin the
journey to Amityville in Big Ronnie’s car.
Big Ronnie, Louise, and Father Marco
arrive at the DeFeo residence in Amityville. Agent Simmonds, inside the
neighboring Ireland house, is closely monitoring the situation. Father Marco
looks around the property and notices the religious shrines and statues that
surround the home. Father Marco then enters the DeFeo home and makes an
inspection. Big Ronnie brings Father Marco to the master bedroom and explains
to the priest that this is where God first spoke to him. Father Marco notices
the religious shrine that has been constructed in the bedroom. Father Marco
believes that a battle between good and evil is being waged in this house.
A few hours later, Father Marco,
holding a large shiny silver metal crucifix, begins saying the prayers of
exorcism. Both Big Ronnie and Louise are present as Father Marco begins the
ritual. Agent Simmonds is monitoring the events as they unfold inside the DeFeo
home. Agent Simmonds decides that he will use classified sonic weapons to
create situations for the priest to react to.
Sonic weapons fire an invisible beam
of sound that can pass through walls of a house without damaging the house in
any way. If the beam of sound is passed through an object inside the home, a
small amount of force will be exerted on the object. This force is strong
enough to make an object on top of a table move, for example. An object on a
table can be knocked to the ground by targeting it and passing a sonic beam
through it. The beam of sound is above the human hearing range (ultrasonic) or
below the human hearing range (infrasonic). The beam of sound is invisible to
the human eye. The sonic weapons are targeted with the classified through wall
imaging technology that can target people and objects through walls.
Agent Simmonds can use a sonic
weapon to target objects on tables, such as statues or lit candles, to make
them jolt forward or knock them off the table to the ground. A sonic laser
passing through an open door will make the door move slowly in the direction
the sonic laser is traveling. To anyone in a room witnessing objects flying off
tables or doors slowly moving on their own, this would be a truly extraordinary
experience. But in reality these are tricks created with classified technology
that only a handful of Americans know of.
As soon as Father Marco begins
saying the prayers, Agent Simmonds fires sonic lasers into objects on tables to
knock the objects to the floor and he fires sonic lasers into open doors to
make the doors slowly move. Father Marco, Big Ronnie, and Louise are in
complete shock as they witness objects in the house moving on their own.
After finally witnessing doors in
the home moving on their own, Father Marco decides to end the prayers of
exorcism. Father Marco, in a state of shock after witnessing the extraordinary
events, decides he cannot exercise the demons in this house on his own and a
more experienced priest is needed. Father Marco warns Big Ronnie and Louise
that they may be in danger from the demons inhabiting their home and they
should contact the Catholic Church directly for assistance.
Moments later, Butch arrives home.
Agent Simmonds sees Butch arriving and say “Perfect timing”. Agent Simmonds
decides to target Father Marco’s stomach area with an infrasonic weapon. Big
Ronnie greets his son at the door and brings him into the living room to meet
Father Marco. At that moment, Agent Simmonds fires an infrasonic laser into
Father Marco’s stomach area causing Father Marco to become violently sick to
his stomach. Father Marco is the only one affected.
As Butch enters the living room and
walks towards Father Marco, Father Marco leans forward in excruciating pain as
Butch gets closer. As beads of sweat roll down Father Marco’s brow, Father
Marco looks up and sees what he believes is the antichrist approaching as Butch
continues to walk towards him. Father Marco, covering his mouth with one hand
and firmly gripping his large silver crucifix in the other, fights the urge to
vomit as Butch gets closer and closer. Father Marco suddenly backs away from
Butch and quickly makes his way towards the front door. As Big Ronnie and
Louise follow Father Marco to the front door, Butch asks: “Did I do something
wrong?”
At the front door, Father Marco
frantically tells Big Ronnie and Louise he can do no more for them. Father
Marco exits the DeFeo home, slamming the front door closed on his way out.
Father Marco leans over and vomits into the shrubbery at the side of the DeFeo
home. Father Marco runs down the DeFeo driveway towards Ocean Avenue and
accidently drops his large silver crucifix. Father Marco doesn’t stop to
recover the crucifix but just keeps running. Father Marco runs as fast as he
can down Ocean Avenue on foot trying to get as far away from the DeFeo
residence as possible.
After calming his wife down, Big Ronnie
runs out of his home and attempts to chase after Father Marco but quickly finds
that being overweight has impeded his ability to catch the slender agile
priest. After about 30 minutes, Big Ronnie returns home alone. Big Ronnie right
away notices the silver crucifix glimmering from the sunlight in the driveway.
Big Ronnie picks up the crucifix and then enters his home. Big Ronnie finds
Butch still in the living room. Big Ronnie grabs Butch by the collar of his
shirt with his free hand and thrusts him against the wall. Big Ronnie, gripping
the long end of the crucifix and waving the crucifix up around just an inch or
two from Butch’s eyeballs in a threatening manner, tells his son: You’re the
devil!” Butch replies to his father: “Yeah I know, and you’re nuts!”
Big Ronnie thrusts the crucifix into
his son’s chest knocking the wind out of Butch and causing Butch to grab the
crucifix with both his hands. Big Ronnie walks away screaming “My son is the
devil”. Butch suddenly throws the crucifix across the room and yells to his
father: “Screw you, Fatso!”
Several days later, Big Ronnie
discovers that Father Marco, after fleeing his home, sought refuge in a nearby
church. Farther Marco would not leave the church for days. Fellow priests from
Saint Joseph’s Shrine had to travel to Amityville to bring Father Marco back to
Canada. Big Ronnie never again hears from Father Marco.
Agent Simmonds projects the voice of
God at Big Ronnie: “Thou hast learned and witnessed the true identity of your
son.” “Butch is the antichrist!” Big Ronnie is now totally convinced that his
son is the devil and he begins telling his family and friends that he has “The
devil on his back”. Big Ronnie now sees his son in a whole new light.
Agent Simmonds continues to create
turmoil within the DeFeo household. Abuse and Physical violence escalates out
of control between the DeFeo family members. One night while the DeFeo family
is eating dinner, Butch drops his napkin on the floor. Butch pushes his chair back from the table
and leans over to pick up the napkin. Agent Simmonds in the neighboring Ireland
house has been carefully observing the DeFeo family at dinner. Agent Simmonds
projects an audible message at Big Ronnie that only he hears: “Butch is the
devil!” “God Commands you to beat the devil out of him!” Seconds later, Big
Ronnie gets up from his chair and grabs Butch and throws him against the wall
and proceeds to punch and slap him in the face repeatedly. Butch flees to the
bathroom with a bloodied face but Big Ronnie returns to his meal.
Another night, the DeFeo children
are screaming and out of control. Louise is in the basement doing laundry.
Louise begins to climb the basement stairs with a basket of laundry. Agent
Simmonds projects an audible message at Big Ronnie that only he hears: “Your
family is out of control!” “Discipline your wife!” “God Commands you to punch
your wife in the face!” Seconds later, Big Ronnie gets up from his chair and
walks over to the basement door and punches his wife in the face sending her
tumbling down the stairs. Big Ronnie then tells the rest of his family: “Now we
will have some peace around here!” Big
Ronnie slaps Butch in the head and then returns to his meal. Butch runs to
assist his mother lying at the bottom of the basement stairs.
Days later, Big Ronnie and Butch are
in the basement playing a game of pool and arguing about missing money at the
car dealership. Butch insists he is not a thief and he knows nothing about the
missing money. Agent Simmonds projects an audible message at Big Ronnie: “Don’t
trust the devil!” “Butch stole the money!” “God commands you to teach the devil
a lesson about stealing!” “Break your
pool stick over the devil’s head!” While Butch is preparing to take his shot in
the game, Big Ronnie walks up behind him. Big Ronnie exclaims: “Thou shalt not
steal!” and then takes his pool stick and breaks it over his son’s head. Butch
yells out in excruciating pain: “You crazy fat S.O.B.!” Butch throws his pool
stick on the table and says: “Game over,
Fatso!” While rubbing the top of his head to relieve the pain, Butch walks
away.
The next day, Agent Simmonds
projects another audible message at Big Ronnie while Big Ronnie is sitting in
the living room reading his bible: “Dawn and her boyfriend are both
sinners!” “God commands you to
discipline Dawn!” Big Ronnie puts his bible down, gets up from his chair, and
then proceeds to the kitchen to confront Dawn. Big Ronnie gets into a heated
argument with Dawn about her relationship with her boyfriend that quickly turns
violent. Big Ronnie screams at Dawn that she must turn away from sin and follow
Jesus and live a holy and righteous life. Butch is upstairs in his bedroom and
still seething over his father breaking a pool stick over his head. Butch hears
the commotion involving his father coming from downstairs. Butch grabs his
rifle and runs downstairs to confront his father. Butch enters the kitchen,
points the rifle at his father, and then pulls the trigger but the rifle fails
to fire. Agent Simmonds and his colleagues observing the DeFeo family with the
classified surveillance technology, sigh in disbelief as the rifle fails to
fire. Big Ronnie then grabs the rifle away from Butch and pushes Butch to the
floor. Big Ronnie tells Butch that God prevented the rifle from firing and says
it’s a sign from God. Big Ronnie picks up his bible and forces Butch and Dawn
to pray with him.
Agent Simmonds now wishes to drive
Big Ronnie and his wife further apart. Agent Simmonds projects an audible
message at Big Ronnie: “Your wife is unfaithful!” “God command you to watch her closely!” Big
Ronnie becomes suspicious that his wife is having an affair. Big Ronnie has a
special phone installed in the dining room of the DeFeo home. The phone number
is not written on the phone because Big Ronnie wants to be the only one to be
able to call the phone. Big Ronnie demands his wife be home while he is at work
to answer the phone. Big Ronnie calls his hotline in the dining room every hour
while he is at the car dealership to keep tabs on his wife. Louise quickly answers
the phone when she hears it ringing to avoid her husband rushing home to learn
of her whereabouts.
The Government Mafia’s operation
against the DeFeo family has been mostly successful so far. The DeFeo family is
at each other’s throats and their outside family and friends believe they are
all insane.
Butch decides he has had enough of
his crazy father. Butch packs his bags and tells his father he is leaving home
for good and vows never to return to Ocean Avenue. Butch tells his father on
the way out the door: “I’m out of here for good, Fatso”. Agent Simmonds needs
Butch living at the DeFeo residence on Ocean Avenue so Butch can become the
patsy when the time is right to wipeout the DeFeo family.
A week after Butch leaves home,
Agent Simmonds projects the voice of God at Big Ronnie: “God commands you to
bring your son back home at any cost!” The voice of God explains to Big Ronnie
that the world will soon end and only his family will survive the approaching
apocalypse, only if they all stay together in their home on Ocean Avenue. The
voice of God further explains that he has selected the DeFeo family to be
spared from the wrath of God only if the DeFeos are all true believers.
The voice of God informs Big Ronnie
that the Devil can be driven from Butch but Big Ronnie must act quickly to save
his son’s soul from eternal damnation. The voice of God tells Big Ronnie
exactly where Butch is now residing. Big Ronnie grabs his bible, runs out the
front door, jumps in his car, starts the car, floors the gas pedal, and then
tears out of his driveway down Ocean Avenue heading towards the address God has
provided. Big Ronnie recites verses from the bible as he races thru traffic,
running stop signs and red lights, on what he believes is a holy mission from
God. Big Ronnie storms into Butch’s new residence and begins screaming: “This
is God’s Will!” “God has Commanded!” Big Ronnie grabs Butch and uses physical
force to drag him outside to his car. Big Ronnie physically forces Butch into
his car. Big Ronnie starts the car, floors the gas pedal, and tears away and
they both return to Ocean Avenue.
Big Ronnie tells Butch that God has
commanded that he (Butch) live here on Ocean Avenue. Big Ronnie then threatens
to break both of Butch’s legs if he ever leaves home again. Big Ronnie informs
Butch of the approaching apocalypse and the only way to survive is for this
family to stay together in this house on Ocean Avenue. Big Ronnie tells Butch
that he has spoken directly with God and God told him he will soon destroy this
wicked world. Big Ronnie believes he initially made a mistake at first
interpreting God’s messages and believing he was the next Moses that would
receive a new version of The Ten Commandments. Big Ronnie now believes he has
been chosen by God to be the next Noah from the bible and he must prepare
himself and his family for the soon approaching apocalypse. Butch tells his
father: “Fatso, you are completely insane!”
Agent Simmonds projects the voice of
God at Big Ronnie giving him further specific details about the approaching
apocalypse. Big Ronnie is told by the voice of God that a tsunami will destroy
Amityville and he must prepare his family by keeping them all home at Ocean
Avenue. Big Ronnie begins to talk to his family and friends about building an
ark so he and his family can survive the tsunami. Big Ronnie envisions
constructing a seaworthy ark large enough for his family and animals so the
world can begin again. Big Ronnie tells his family and friends that God has told
him the world will end soon and only the true believers will be spared from the
wrath of God. Big Ronnie begins telling his family and friends of the
construction of a great ark on his property that will be known throughout
history as Big Ronnie’s Ark. After discovering Big Ronnie’s plans to build an
ark, Big Ronnie’s family and friends now believe that Big Ronnie is losing his
mind and may need to be institutionalized.
Agent Simmonds decides to create
more turmoil between Big Ronnie and Butch. As Butch is making a daily money
drop for the car dealership, Agent Simmonds arranges a robbery of Butch in his
car while Butch is waiting at a traffic light. Three men approach while Butch
is waiting at the red light. One man walks up to the car and puts a gun in
Butch’s face and tells him not to move. The man then grabs the money pouch from
inside Butch’s jacket. The man reaches over and turns the car ignition off and
removes the key and throws the key onto a nearby lawn. The men were told by
Agent Simmonds the approximate time Butch would be at the intersection and
where Butch hides the money pouch. The man removes the gun pointed at Butch’s
head and all three men quickly flee the scene. Butch frozen from fear doesn’t
pursue the robbers. Butch returns to the car dealership and informs Big Ronnie
of the robbery. After Big Ronnie learns the details of the robbery, Big Ronnie
accuses Butch of faking the robbery and stealing the money himself. After the
robbery is reported to the police, Detective Rattery tells Big Ronnie that
Butch’s story is suspicious and concludes that Butch likely faked the robbery.
Detective Rattery tells Big Ronnie that Butch’s story of the robbers knowing
exactly where Butch hid the money pouch is simply implausible and Butch likely
buried the money pouch somewhere so he could recover it at a later time.
Detective Rattery continues to sow the seeds of distrust between Big Ronnie and
Butch by revisiting Butch’s past criminal behavior.
Agent Simmonds then decides to make
it appear to Butch that Big Ronnie is trying to kill him. One night, Agent
Simmonds waits for all members of the DeFeo family to fall asleep. Agent
Simmonds exits the Ireland house and begins to tamper with Butch’s car parked
in the DeFeo’s driveway. Agent Simmonds loosens the brake lines on Butch’s car.
In the morning, Butch starts the car and tears away down Ocean Avenue. Agent
Simmonds starts his car parked on Ocean Avenue and follows Butch. At a fast
approaching stop sign, Butch applies the brakes but nothing happens. Butch repeatedly
stomps hard on the brakes but no breaking occurs. Butch pulls the emergency
brake but still no braking action. Butch acting out of desperation turns the
wheel to avoid traffic at the intersection. Butch’s car jumps the curb onto an
area of grass next to the Amityville River. Butch sees the river approaching
and turns the wheel to make the car do a 180 degree spin. Butch’s car stops 50
feet before going into the river. Butch frozen in fear with both hands on the
steering wheel begins shouting “That fat crazy father of mine is trying to kill
me”. Bystanders recognize the car driver as Butch DeFeo and say to each other
“It’s that crazy DeFeo kid”. Agent
Simmonds had pulled his car over to fully enjoy the sight of Butch losing
control of his car. Agent Simmonds begins to laugh as he pulls away as more
bystanders gather. Butch is now more convinced than ever that his father is
trying to murder him.
The Government Mafia uses a
technique of turning their domestic enemies against each other so they destroy
each other. With the classified surveillance technology that can electronically
see and hear through walls, the Government Mafia has a huge technological
advantage over their domestic enemies. The domestic enemies have no idea of the
capabilities of conducting surveillance that the government has. The ability to
point a device at a house and electronically see and hear through walls is
completely unimaginable to the people under surveillance. The Government Mafia
covertly studies their domestic enemies and learns everything about them. Agent
Simmonds basically wants the turn the DeFeo family against each other so they
kill each other to save Agent Simmonds the trouble of doing it. This is
standard procedure of the Government Mafia: Learn everything about their
domestic enemies and get their domestic enemies to eliminate each other. It is
much cleaner and simpler that way.
Dawn DeFeo’s boyfriend has just
moved to Florida. Dawn DeFeo wants to leave home and move to Florida to be with
her boyfriend but her father forbids it. Big Ronnie warns Dawn of the soon
approaching apocalypse. Big Ronnie tells Dawn that God has told him that the
only way for his family to survive the coming apocalypse is to stay together in
their home on Ocean Avenue. Dawn believes that her father is completely crazy
and wants to get as far away from him as possible. Dawn tells her boyfriend on
the phone that she wants to kill her wacko family and move to Florida to be
with him. This common adolescent threat made by most teenagers will be the
trigger for Agent Simmonds to order the murder of the DeFeo family. Agent
Simmonds believes that the verbal threat made by Dawn to murder her family and
heard by her boyfriend outside the DeFeo home is what he and his colleagues
have been waiting for. This threat by Dawn to murder her family will add an
aura of mystery to anyone investigating whether Dawn played a role in the
murders.
Agent Simmonds, having failed to get
the DeFeo family to kill each other, decides now is the time for the Government
Mafia to murder the DeFeo family. The word is given to the strike team to
assemble on the night of November 12, 1974.
Agent Simmonds proudly states: “November 12, 1974, will forever be known
as The Night The DeFeos Died!” All equipment and personnel must be in place and
ready. The staging ground for the assault against the DeFeo family will be the
neighboring Ireland house.
The plan will be to use a classified
military directed energy weapon to fire a beam of electricity into the chest
area of each of the six members of the DeFeo family while they are asleep in
their beds that will instantly put them into cardiac arrest. The directed
energy weapon will be fired from inside the Ireland home. The weapon will fire
a beam of electricity that will travel through the walls of the Ireland home
and then pass through the walls of the DeFeo home before passing through the
targeted member of the DeFeo family’s chest. The beam of electricity is
completely silent and invisible to the human eye. The beam of electricity passes
through walls and leaves no physical evidence. No physical evidence will be
left on the targeted members of the DeFeo family. This is the ultimate weapon
because it can be used to kill a person through walls without creating any
physical evidence.
Butch will be immobilized by a
directed energy weapon used to incapacitate a person thru walls for a short
period of time. The weapon will fire a burst of energy into Butch’s head that
will severely disorient him for up to an hour. This weapon will also be fired
from inside the Ireland house and pass through the walls of the Ireland house
and DeFeo house before striking Butch. This weapon also creates no physical
evidence of its use. No damage to either house or to Butch will result. Butch
will fully recover in about an hour and no physical evidence of what happed to
him will be created. This is also the perfect weapon because a single person in
a house can be targeted and incapacitated. Butch will be completely helpless
for a period of time after being attacked with this weapon.
Through wall targeting scopes will
be used to target the members of the DeFeo family through the walls of their
home. From inside the Ireland home, agents of the Government Mafia can find and
identify each member of the DeFeo family with this classified technology. There
is nowhere to hide in a house from this technology. Walls, ceilings, floors,
and furniture mean nothing to this technology. The technology detects the
energy of the human body, such as body heat and static charge on the human
body. This classified technology can detect this energy emitted by the human
body and target it through walls and other parts of a house. Once the member of
the DeFeo family is identified and targeted, the agent of the Government Mafia
presses a button on the directed energy weapon and a beam of energy is used to
incapacitate or kill the targeted person. This is the ultimate method to
incapacitate or murder a person through walls.
There is nowhere to hide or escape for the DeFeo family members. The DeFeo
family will never know they are being targeted. One second a member of the
DeFeo family is soundly asleep and the next second he or she is in cardiac
arrest and dying.
The entire operation has been carefully
planned for months. Six DeFeo family members will be murdered thru the walls of
their home and Butch will be incapacitated for a period of time. Agent Simmonds
will be the leader of a three member strike team that will exit the Ireland
house and then enter the DeFeo house. Two members of the strike team will
rearrange the lifeless bodies of the six members of the DeFeo family on their
beds. Their bodies will be repositioned so they are on their stomachs with
their arms extended above their heads. Agent Simmonds will be the strike team’s
designated shooter. Butch’s rifle will be taken from his room by Agent Simmonds
and placed in a specially built enclosure designed to deaden the blast from
firing the rifle. The enclosure is a big and bulky case that surrounds the
rifle but it allows the rifle to be fired. The enclosure deadens the blast from
the rifle without leaving evidence of a silencer. The enclosure will prevent
the rifle shots from being heard outside the DeFeo home. None of the neighbors
or anyone driving by in their cars will hear the shots or see the muzzle
flashes.
After the bodies of the DeFeo family
are repositioned on their beds, Agent Simmonds will shoot each of the six DeFeo
family members. Big Ronnie and Louise will each be shot twice in the back and
Marc and John will each be shot once in the back. Allison and Dawn will each be
shot in the head. The reason the young female members of the family will be
shot in the head is because it will repulse and anger the jury at Butch’s trial
for the murder of his family. Agent Simmonds is a professional assassin who
will have no trouble shooting the DeFeos, including the DeFeo children. In
fact, Agent Simmonds wants the personal honor of pumping two bullets into Big
Ronnie’s back. Butch will be left alive to become the patsy and take the fall
for the murders.
The directed energy weapons leave no
evidence of their use. No physical marks from the directed energy weapons will
be left on the DeFeos’ bodies. No damage will occur to the Ireland or DeFeo
house. The directed energy weapons are the ultimate weapons because their use
can’t be proven so the only evidence will point to Butch as the murderer. It
will appear as Butch woke up in the middle of the night and in a sudden rage
grabbed his rifle and started shooting his family. All the evidence will point
to Butch as the murderer.
From the surveillance of the DeFeo
family, it is known that Big Ronnie keeps a large sum of money in a cashbox
hidden in a secret compartment in the floor of the closet in the master
bedroom. Agent Simmonds will take the money from the cashbox and leave the
empty cashbox to indicate Butch had a motive to murder his family. Most people
in Amityville know Butch is a drug addict and it will appear that Butch needed
a large sum of money to fund his drug habit so he murdered his family for the
money.
When Butch purchased his two rifles,
each rifle was packaged in a cardboard box. Agent Simmonds will remove the two
cardboard boxes that once housed Butch’s rifles from the DeFeo home. These
cardboard boxes may be put back at a later time for the police to discover as
evidence. One of the cardboard boxes will indicate Butch owned a rifle that was
the same caliber used to murder his family.
The plan is foolproof and Butch will
not be able to explain his actions the night of the murders. Butch will fully
recover in about an hour and will not understand what happened. By the time
Butch recovers, the strike team will be long gone and Butch will be “Left
Holding the Bag”. Agent Simmonds has determined that Butch’s actions will be
unpredictable after he discovers the carnage so many contingency plans have
been developed. Butch is known as the town psycho and no one will believe Butch
is innocent. Butch will take the fall for the murders and the town of
Amityville will be free of the DeFeo menace on Ocean Avenue forever.
The DeFeo Murders.
It’s the evening of November 12,
1974. Two agents who will be part of the three member strike team have arrived
in a van. The van pulls into the garage in back of the Ireland house. Agent
Simmonds closes the garage door. Agent Simmonds assists his colleagues in
removing container boxes from the back of the van and moving them into the
house.
The agents set up the classified
military weapon on the first floor that will be used to puts six members of the
DeFeo family into cardiac arrest while they sleep. A classified military
directed energy weapon that will fire a burst of energy into Butch DeFeo’s head
to incapacitate him is also assembled and placed on the second floor. The DeFeo
family will be attacked right thru the walls of their home. The DeFeo family
will not be able to sense they are being targeted and there is no defense
against the directed energy weapon. One second the DeFeo family is sleeping peacefully
in their beds and the next second they are put into cardiac arrest and dying.
Six members of the DeFeo family will simply die in their sleep and Butch will
be rendered helpless.
It is a typical night for the DeFeo
family. As the DeFeo family finishes their dinner and readies themselves for
bed, it is unknown to them that for six of them, this night will be their last.
It is now 11pm and Big Ronnie, Louise, Allison, Dawn, Marc, and John are all
soundly asleep in their beds. Butch, as usual, has gone down to the basement to
watch TV so he doesn’t disturb his family. Butch is watching a war movie called
Castle Keep. Butch begins using illegal drugs.
In the Ireland home, Agent Simmonds
is on the first floor. Agent Simmonds activates the thru-wall targeting scope
and targets Big Ronnie’s chest area and notifies his colleagues that he is
ready to fire. Agent Simmonds’ colleagues acknowledge and state they are in
place and ready. Agent Simmonds notifies his colleagues that he is commencing
the operation.
Agent Simmonds presses a button on
the weapon and a beam of electricity is fired into Big Ronnie’s chest area. Big
Ronnie lets out a gasp for air and then immediately goes into cardiac arrest.
The beam of electricity is completely silent and invisible. The beam of
electricity creates no physical evidence as it passes thru the walls of both
houses and Big Ronnie’s chest area. No one else but Big Ronnie is affected.
Louise still asleep and unaffected is then targeted. Agent Simmonds fires and
Louise lets out a gasp for air and she also goes into cardiac arrest. Agent
Simmonds then targets Allison, Marc, John, and Dawn one by one and they are
each put into cardiac arrest. Within a minute all six members of the DeFeo
family lie in their beds in full cardiac arrest and dying.
Agent Simmonds gives the order to an
agent on the second floor of the Ireland house to take out Butch and the family
dog. The agent activates a directed energy weapon and then targets Butch’s
head. The agent fires the weapon. Butch is watching TV and then all of the
sudden the room starts spinning and he can’t get out of his chair. Butch
believes he is having a stroke as he goes in and out of consciousness. The
agent then targets the DeFeo family dog and fires the weapon at it. The dog immediately
collapses on the floor and is immobilized. The agent notifies Agent Simmonds
that Butch and the dog are immobilized.
Agent Simmonds joins the two other
members of the strike team. The three strike team members are inside the Ireland
house, near the door that faces the DeFeo house, waiting to advance on the
DeFeo house. The strike team is wearing all black clothing - hooded jackets,
and gloves. Agent Simmonds informs his colleagues that the strike team is
moving on the DeFeo house.
Agent Simmonds opens the side door
and the strike team exits the Ireland house and quickly makes their way to the
front door of the DeFeo house. In just seconds the strike team is at the front
door of the DeFeo house. Agent Simmonds picks the lock on the front door and
the three members of the strike team enter the DeFeo residence. The front door
is then closed and locked.
The strike team moves into the DeFeo
house. Agent Simmonds makes his way to the third floor and enters Butch’s
bedroom. Agent Simmonds grabs Butch’s rifle sitting upright on the floor next
to the closet. Agent Simmonds notices that the rifle is unloaded. Agent
Simmonds then reaches into the closet and grabs a box of bullets that contains
20 rounds. Agent Simmonds loads Butch’s rifle. While loading the rifle, Agent
Simmonds looks up momentary and stares at those two quarter shaped moon windows
that resemble eyes. After finishing loading the rifle, Agent Simmonds places
the rifle in a special sound deadening enclosure. Agent Simmonds takes the
rifle enclosure and the box with the remaining bullets and exits Butch’s
bedroom.
The two other strike team members
enter the master bedroom on the second floor and find the lifeless bodies of
Big Ronnie and Louise. The strike team members pull the blankets off Big Ronnie
and Louise. The strike team members then reposition Big Ronnie and Louise’s
bodies on their bed so they are on their stomachs with their arms extended
above their heads. Because of Big Ronnie’s excessive weight, the strike team
members encounter great difficulty repositioning his body.
Agent Simmonds enters the master
bedroom with the sound deadening enclosure containing Butch’s rifle inside.
Agent Simmonds tells the two other strike team members to stand clear. Agent
Simmonds then points Butch’s rifle at Big Ronnie’s back and fires two shots.
Agent Simmonds is moving across the room as he fires the two shots into Big
Ronnie’s back, thereby creating two different bullet trajectories of the shots
fired into Big Ronnie. After each shot, Agent Simmonds ejects the spent
cartridge from the rifle onto the floor. Agent Simmonds then pauses in a
position where he has a clear shot at Louise and then fires two shots into her
back. The blasts from the rifle are deadened by the enclosure around the rifle
enough to prevent the shots from being heard outside the DeFeo house.
Butch hears muffled blasts but he is
unable to get out of his chair. Butch looks around the room and everything
appears to be spinning around. Butch’s head falls forward and he passes out
again.
Since both Big Ronnie and Louise
died minutes earlier, they had no reflex when they were each shot. Agent
Simmonds grabs Big Ronnie by his hair and lifts his head and then asks him:
“Whose family are you going to kill now you fat piece of crap?” Agent Simmonds
then releases Big Ronnie’s hair and his head falls back into his pillow. Agent
Simmonds then tells the two other agents: “Let’s move on!”
The strike team then exits the
master bedroom and enters Allison’s bedroom across the hallway. A strike team
member then pulls Allison’s blanket away and repositions her lifeless body on
her bed so she is lying on her stomach with her arms extended above her head,
in the same position as her parents. Agent Simmonds then points the rifle at
Allison’s head and fires one shot.
The strike team then exits Allison’s
bedroom and makes their way to Marc and John’s bedroom. Agent Simmonds pauses
briefly in the hallway to reload Butch’s rifle while the other two members of
the strike team enter Marc and John’s bedroom. Butch’s rifle only holds a total
of six bullets so Agent Simmons loads two more bullets into the rifle. As
planned, eight bullets will be used in total. In the bedroom, Marc and John’s
blankets are pulled off their lifeless bodies and then their bodies are
repositioned on their beds on their stomachs with their arms extended above
their heads. Agent Simmonds enters the bedroom and points the rifle at Marc’s
back and fires one shot and then seconds later points the rifle at John’s back
and fires one shot.
The strike team then exits Marc and
John’s bedroom and makes their way to Dawn’s bedroom on the third floor. The
strike team climbs the stairs to the third floor and then enters Dawn’s
bedroom. Dawn’s blanket is pulled back and then her lifeless body is
repositioned on her bed so she is on her stomach with her arms extended above
her head. Agent Simmonds points the rifle at Dawn’s head and fires one shot.
Blood splatters on the headboard of the bed.
The strike team then exits Dawn’s
bedroom and enters Butch’s bedroom, across the hallway. Agent Simmonds opens
Butch’s closet and removes the two cardboard boxes that once housed both of
Butch’s rifles and places each box in a plastic bag. The cardboard boxes will
be removed from the house and possibly returned later. One of the cardboard
boxes once housed the murder weapon so it will likely be placed back into
Butch’s possession for the police to discover as evidence.
The strike team returns to the
master bedroom on the second floor and Agent Simmonds enters Big Ronnie’s
closet. Agent Simmonds locates and removes a metal cashbox hidden in the closet
floor. Agent Simmonds empties the
cashbox of a large sum of money and places the money in a plastic bag. Agent Simmonds
is taking the money to indicate that Butch had a motive to commit the murders.
Agent Simmonds wipes the cashbox clean of all fingerprints and places the empty
cashbox back into its hidden compartment in the closet floor.
The strike team then exits the
master bedroom and makes their way down to the first floor. Agent Simmonds
removes Butch’s rifle from the sound deadening enclosure and then proceeds
downstairs with the rifle to the basement and finds Butch immobilized in a
chair. Butch is fading in and out of consciousness and unable to get out of his
chair. Butch sees a hooded person
wearing all black clothing with black hands place a rifle on his lap. Butch
passes out again. Agent Simmonds opens the top of the box of bullets and
empties the box of the remaining 12 unused bullets on Butch’s lap and floor.
Agent Simmonds then throws the empty bullet box onto the floor next to Butch’s
chair and walks away. As Agent Simmonds is climbing the basement stairs he
pauses for a moment and says: “Good luck explaining this, Butch!”
Agent Simmonds returns to the first
floor. Agent Simmonds grabs the sound deadening rifle enclosure and Butch’s two
rile cardboard boxes and joins the two other members of the strike team at the
front door. The strike team exits the DeFeo residence and the door is locked. The
strike team makes their way back to the Ireland house. The strike team enters
the Ireland house. Agent Simmonds closes the door and exclaims: “Mission
Accomplished!” Agent Simmonds and the two other strike team members change back
into civilian clothing. To give Agent Simmonds and his colleagues enough time
to remove most of the classified equipment from the Ireland house, Butch will
be attacked repeatedly with the directed energy weapon to ensure he is
incapacitated until about 3am. The DeFeo family’s dog is also attacked in the
same manner to keep it quiet.
Agent Simmonds is unsure what Butch
will do when he discovers the carnage, so he wants to remove as much of the
classified equipment as possible. The agents pack up the classified military
directed energy weapons and other non-essential equipment. All the equipment is
placed back into their container boxes for transport. The agents place the
container boxes into the back of the van. All clothing worn by the strike team
during the assault on the DeFeo home is placed into bags and placed in back of
the van. The Ireland’s garage door is then opened and the van, with the two
members of the strike team and classified equipment inside, pulls out and
quietly drives away into the night.
It’s now 3:00am and Butch begins to
recover. The DeFeo family dog has recovered and is barking ferociously in the
kitchen. Agent Simmonds in the Ireland house targets Butch’s head and activates
the classified sound projection device. Agent Simmonds plays an audio recording
on a tape deck. The audio recording is that of eight rifle shots. Butch slumped
in his chair begins to regain consciousness and hears eight loud rifle shots as
clear as day. Agent Simmonds projected the audio of the eight shots at Butch to
make Butch’s story implausible should Butch decide to call the police after
discovering his family’s bodies. The medical examiner will determine that the
DeFeo family died at approximately 11pm that night and it will damage the
credibility of Butch who claims that he heard the shots at 3am in the morning.
This is known as psychological warfare.
After Butch hears the rifle shots,
he looks down and discovers his rifle on his lap and sees rounds of bullets on
his lap and on the floor. Butch grabs his rifle and brushes the bullets off his
lap and onto the floor. Butch attempts to get to his feet but he finds it
difficult to stand. After several minutes, Butch manages to get to his feet but
he is dizzy and begins to bump into walls and furniture as he makes his way to
the basement stairs. Butch still carrying his rifle climbs the basement stairs
and finds the dog in the kitchen barking. Butch yells at the dog, telling it to
shut up. Butch climbs the first floor stairs and makes his way to the master
bedroom on the second floor.
Butch enters the master bedroom and
finds his parents both lying on their stomachs with bullet holes in their
backs, both apparently dead. Butch looks at the rifle in his hands and then
looks on the floor and finds bullet casings that appear to be the caliper of
his rifle. Butch drops his rifle and says: “Holy Crap!” Butch then runs to his
siblings’ bedrooms and finds them all on their beds in the same position as
their parents and all dead from apparent bullet wounds. Butch inspects the bullet casings on the
floors of his siblings’ bedrooms and discovers they are also all the same
caliper as his rifle. Butch, crying, doesn’t understand what happened.
Butch searches the rest of the house
but finds no one else in the house and all the doors and windows are locked. No
sign of a forced entry or any evidence to indicate another person was in the
house. Butch asks himself: Did I do
this? Am I going crazy? Did I blackout and then murder my entire family? Butch
tells himself: I was watching TV at 11pm, blacked out, and then awoke at 3am
and heard rifle shots. I looked down and found my rifle on my lap and bullets
all over my lap and on the floor. I then discover my entire family has been
murdered. Butch screams: What the hell is going on here? But there is no one else alive in the house to
answer Butch. Butch collapses on the floor and curls up into a fetal position.
Butch needs time to think.
Reality sets in for Butch and he
quickly contemplates his options. Butch decides he cannot do anything more for
his family so he must act in self-preservation and take steps to protect
himself. Butch soon realizes that all the evidence points to him as the
murderer. Butch is a felon who is on probation and a drug addict. Butch quickly
determines that he can’t call the police because the police will immediately
suspect he murdered his family. Butch also fears what both his grandfathers
will do to him when they discover all the evidence points to him. Butch telling
his grandfathers that he slept through the murder of his entire family would
simply not be a plausible explanation. Butch fears that one or both of his
grandfathers, who are both big time mobsters, will order a hit on him when they
discover he is responsible for the murder of their family members.
Butch determines that his only
option is to first remove all the evidence that links him to the murders and
then go to work. Butch will dispose of the evidence on his way to work. Butch
will return home at night and pretend to have just discovered the carnage.
Butch’s plan is to return home at night, enter the house, wait several minutes,
and then quickly run out of the house. Butch will race in his car down Ocean
Avenue to a local bar where his friends gather after work. Butch will then
storm into the bar, approach his friends, and plead for help. When the police
finally arrive at the DeFeo residence, Butch will blame the murder of his
family on a mafia hit and provide the police a name of a mobster who he
suspects was responsible.
Butch having worked out the major
details of his plan gets up off the floor and begins to clean the crime scene
by collecting the spent bullet casings on the floor of each bedroom and placing
them in a pillowcase. Butch then goes to his bedroom and collects a box of
unused rifle bullets for the rifle and the plastic case for the rifle and
places them into the pillowcase. Butch looks for the cardboard box that his
rifle was sold to him in but he is unable to find it so he assumes it was
thrown in the trash. Butch quickly runs down to the basement and collects all
the bullets on the floor. Butch looks over and finds the empty bullet box and
carefully places the bullets back into the box. Butch counts 12 unused bullets
from the floor and 8 spent casings from the floor of his family’s bedrooms.
Butch looks at the printing on the box and it indicates a quantity of 20
rounds. Butch recovered 12 bullets and 8 spent casings. It’s a perfect match.
Butch grabs his head with both hands and begins pacing back and forth
screaming: “No! No! No! This can’t be happening!”
After several minutes of pacing,
Butch grabs the box of bullets off the floor and tosses the box into the
pillowcase. Butch’s plan is to dispose of the evidence that links him to the
crime on the way to work and then go to work and act normal. Butch must
convince his co-workers that everything is fine. Butch will explain his
father’s absence from the dealership as his father had to attend to personal
business today.
Butch knowing that crime scene
photographs will be taken decides to show the female members of his family
respect by covering their bodies with blankets. Butch being a clean freak
decides to clean the blood and brain matter from the headboard of Dawn’s bed.
Butch takes a shower and trims his beard to make himself look more presentable.
Butch picks up his rifle he dropped
on his parents’ bedroom floor and the pillowcase he left in the hallway and
makes his way downstairs. Butch quickly makes himself breakfast and leaves the
dirty pan in the sink to make it appear as it’s a normal morning. Butch
carrying his rifle and pillowcase exits his house, locks the door, gets in his
car, and then drives away.
Agent Simmonds in the neighboring Ireland
house has been observing Butch with the surveillance technology and is not
surprised Butch didn’t call the police. Agent Simmonds notifies his colleagues
that Butch has left his house and has taken the rifle and other evidence with
him.
Andy and Agnes Ireland have been
holed up in their bedroom since 10pm and simply ignored any commotion in the
house. Agent Simmonds knocks on the bedroom door of Andy and Agnes. Andy opens
the door and Agent Simmonds tells Andy that “The town is now free of the DeFeo
family”. Agent Simmonds tells Andy that when he and his wife are ready, I will
brief you in the living room. Andy tells Agent Simmonds he and his wife will be
down shortly. Andy closes the door. Andy consoles his wife, who is upset. Andy
tells his wife: “We couldn’t let those mobsters threaten our family and take
over our town. We did what was necessary to protect our family, community, and
town.”
Several minutes later, Andy and
Agnes enter the living room and are both updated by Agent Simmonds on the
current situation. Andy and Agnes are told that when the police are eventually
called, they should act surprised and offer any assistance to the police. Agent
Simmonds tells Andy and Agnes to tell the police that the DeFeo family was a
troubled family and Butch DeFeo is mentally ill, possibly dangerous.
Butch stops at a dock along the
river down the street from his house and gets out of his car. Butch grabs his
rifle from his car and quickly walks to the end of the dock. Butch throws the
rifle into the river as far as he can. Butch then walks back to his car, gets
in, and drives away. Unknown to Butch, an agent of the Government Mafia has
been following him. The agent’s car is parked a distance away where Butch
doesn’t notice him. The agent takes note of where Butch disposed of the
evidence.
Butch finds a storm drain on a street
on the way to work and tosses the pillowcase that contains the remaining
evidence into the storm drain. The agent following Butch then again notes the
intersection where Butch disposed of the additional evidence. Butch drives away
and heads to work. Butch arrives at his workplace, Brigante-Karl Buick car
dealership. Agents of the Government Mafia
located in a neighboring business office have the car dealership where Butch
works under complete electronic surveillance. One of the agents monitoring the dealership
calls Agent Simmonds to inform him that Butch has arrived at the car
dealership.
Minutes later, Agent Simmonds exits
the Ireland house carrying the two cardboard boxes that once housed Butch’s
rifles. Agent Simmonds makes his way back to the DeFeo house. Agent Simmonds
picks the lock and reenters the DeFeo residence. Agent Simmonds makes his way
upstairs to Butch’s bedroom. Agent Simmonds removes the plastic bag from each
rifle’s cardboard box and places both boxes in the corner of Butch’s bedroom.
The cardboard boxes were placed in an area of Butch’s room that will allow the
police to easily discover the evidence. Agent Simmonds returns to the first
floor and then exits the DeFeo house, locking the door behind him.
At work, Butch tries to act normal.
Butch attempts to call home several times using a phone in the main office
where the secretary can see and hear him. Butch hangs up the phone each time
and asks aloud: “Why doesn’t anyone answer?” Butch smiles at the secretary and
goes back to work after each attempt. Butch decides to leave work early, at
around 2pm.
Butch drives over to his
girlfriend’s home and spends a few hours with her to give the appearance that
nothing is wrong. Butch uses his girlfriend’s phone to make calls to his home
in attempts to contact his family but no one answers the phone. Butch expresses
concern to his girlfriend that his phone calls made to his home are unanswered.
Butch leaves his girlfriend’s home at around 5:30pm and drives home.
Butch arrives home at about 6pm.
Agent Simmonds has removed all classified equipment from the Ireland house,
except for the surveillance equipment being operated from inside a bedroom on
the second floor. The rest of the Ireland house is as it was before Agent
Simmonds moved in. Agent Simmonds will be closely monitoring events as they
unfold inside the neighboring DeFeo residence.
After entering his home, Butch waits
several minutes inside by the door. Butch says to himself: “OK, I got to do
this right or I’ll spend the rest of my life in prison.” Seconds later, Butch
runs out of his home and jumps into his car. Butch tears out of his driveway
and heads down Ocean Avenue to a local bar. Butch tears into the bar’s parking
lot, slams on the brakes, and then jumps out of his car. Butch storms into the
bar and approaches his friends. Butch tells his friends that his mother and
father are both dead and he needs their help.
Several of Butch’s friends quickly
pile into Butch’s car. Butch asks one of his friends to drive because he is too
distraught. Butch’s friend starts the car and races to the DeFeo residence.
Butch tells his friends he cannot go back into his home so he remains outside
while his friends enter the home. Butch’s friends are horrified after they
discover the carnage. The police are called and the DeFeo residence is turned
into a crime scene.
Detective Rattery arrives at the
scene. Butch is told by Detective Rattery that for his own safety, he will be
placed into protective custody. Detective Rattery gives Butch his word that he
will not rest until he finds whoever murdered Butch’s family. “I will bring
whoever did this to justice”, Detective Rattery exclaims.
The news of the DeFeo murders breaks
on the radio:
“First this bulletin from the WOR
newsroom: Six members of one family have been found shot to death in their
nightclothes in their expensive home in Amityville Long Island. The only
available information at this moment, according to the Amityville Village
Police, is that the victims have been identified as members of the DeFeo
family. They were found by a 23 year old son, Ronald DeFeo, who is believed to
be the only surviving member of the family. Six members of the family found
shot to death in their home in Amityville Long Island. We will have further
details on the 11 O’clock news.”
Crowds begin to assemble outside the
DeFeo residence. News reporters descend on Amityville and begin to case the
neighborhood looking for information on the DeFeo family. The Amityville locals
who knew Butch tell the reporters similar stories. The people who knew Butch
say: Butch was a punk. All he did was drink gamble and fight. If you ever spent
any time around him and you knew him, murdering his family is not something he
is incapable of doing. And when everyone in his home is dead and he's not, it
doesn't take much to figure out who murdered the DeFeo family.
Children on their bicycles across
the street from the DeFeo residence chant to the news reporters: “Ronnie did
it! Ronnie did it! Ronnie did it!” A news reporter walks across the street to
talk to the children and the children tell the reporter that the DeFeo family
was nuts and they were always arguing and fighting with each other.
Butch’s reputation around town as a
drug addict, a thief, a heavy drinker, and all around troublemaker with a bad
temper comes back to haunt him as rumors and gossip about him spread around
town. Agent Simmonds was correct in his prediction that the town of Amityville
would pronounce Butch guilty even before his trial. The consensus among the
Amityville residents was that “Ronnie did it!”
The Ocean Avenue Conspirators watch
the events unfold and they quietly celebrate amongst themselves the end of the
DeFeo family’s rein in Amityville. The Ocean Avenue Conspirators tell each
other: “It’s over!” The Ocean Avenue Conspirators liken the murder of Big
Ronnie to the murder of Mighty Caesar. The Ocean Avenue Conspirators keep their
bloody “daggers” well hidden in their closets, cautious never to expose the
conspiracy and let the public know the truth about what really happened on
Ocean Avenue. The public can never know the real truth about what really
happened to the DeFeo family.
Detective Rattery, keeping his vow
to Butch to find the person who murdered Butch’s family, begins to examine the
crime scene. Detective Rattery wastes no time and begins his investigation in
Butch’s bedroom. Detective Rattery makes the discovery of the two rifle
cardboard boxes that Agent Simmonds placed back in Butch’s bedroom. Detective
Rattery points the rifle boxes out to the other investigators in the house and
says: “Gee, look at what we have here.” “It looks like Butch is a rifle
fanatic.” It will soon be discovered that one of the boxes once housed the same
caliber weapon that was used to commit the murders.
An hour later, Detective Rattery
calls the other investigators into the master bedroom and shows them a metal
cashbox he discovered hidden in the floor of the closet. Detective Rattery
opens the cashbox and discovers it is empty. Detective Rattery says: “Well, it
looks like whoever murdered the DeFeo family knew about this cashbox and the
murders appear to be motivated by money.” Detective Rattery puts the cashbox in
a plastic bag and then hands it to an investigator and says: “Better check it
for fingerprints.”
Even Butch’s friends are convinced
Butch murdered his family. A friend of Butch informs the police that weeks
earlier Butch’s rifle was accidentally discharged in his home and the bullet
was still lodged into his floor. Detective Rattery rushes over to recover the
bullet from Butch’s friend’s floor. A ballistics report will soon indicate that
the recovered bullet was fired from the same rifle used to murder all six
members of Butch’s family.
Butch is interrogated at the police
station. Butch has no friends in law
enforcement. Butch is alone for the first time now that his father is dead and
can no longer come to his rescue. Both of Butch’s grandfathers believe Butch
murdered his family. Law enforcement believes they have the murderer in
custody. Butch is guilty is uttered by the officers on duty. One officer says
loudly enough for Butch to hear: How the mighty have fallen!” Butch is beaten
and tortured by two detectives during an intense interrogation. One method used
to torture Butch was to place a phone book on top of Butch’s head and use a
police baton to strike the top of the phone book, causing extreme pain in
Butch’s head.
Butch insists that a notorious mafia
hit man named “Louis Falini” murdered his family. Butch cannot provide a
rational explanation of what occurred the night of the murders so he invents
and creates scenarios for the police. Butch is without and attorney. The police
purposely send Butch’s attorney on a wild goose chase by giving the attorney
false information about what police station Butch is being held at. Butch’s
attorney franticly races from police station to police station only to discover
Butch is not being held there.
The detectives discover what they
already knew: Butch is mentally ill. As the detectives question Butch, he
begins to tell the detectives that his family was a bunch of slobs and his
mother’s cooking tasted like crap. Butch appears to show no remorse that his
family is dead but is only concerned about himself and his well-being. One
detective whispers into the other detective’s ear: “This guy is clearly a
sociopath”. The other detective responds: “No doubt.”
Butch doesn’t break under the brutal
interrogation by the two detectives so Detective Rattery is called in to take
over. Detective Rattery knows that a confession by Butch is needed before he
can arrest Butch. Detective Rattery enters the interrogation room and tells the
two detectives currently interrogating Butch to wait outside and don’t disturb
him until he emerges from the room. The two detectives quickly exit the room
and close the door behind them. Detective Rattery sits at the table opposite
Butch and says: “Well Butch it’s just you and me now…Let’s start over at the
beginning.” Detective Rattery takes out his notepad and places it on the table and
takes his pen from his pocket and holds it in his right hand preparing to take
notes.
Unknown to Butch is that Agent
Simmonds has secretly provided Detective Rattery with the exact locations of
where Butch disposed of the murder weapon and other evidence. Also unknown to
Butch is that Agent Simmonds is outside the police station in the parking lot.
A small truck is parked in the police station parking lot with Agent Simmonds
concealed in the back of the truck. Agent Simmonds has been listening to the entire
interrogation of Butch with the classified surveillance technology and he now
has a surprise for Butch. As Detective Rattery is interrogating Butch, Agent
Simmonds targets Butch’s head with a directed energy weapon and prepares to
fire the weapon. This is the same directed energy weapon that was used to
incapacitate Butch during the DeFeo murders.
Detective Rattery has now been
interrogating Butch for over two hours. Detective Rattery expressing complete
frustration to Butch says: “Butch I want to be perfectly honest with you. We
know it was you who murdered your family and we know it was you who cleaned the
crime scene and disposed of the evidence. What did you do with the evidence?”
Butch responds by telling Detective Rattery that he doesn’t know what he is
talking about. Detective Rattery forcefully replies: “Tell me where you
disposed of the evidence!”
Agent Simmonds listening hears
Detective Rattery say to Butch: “Tell me where you disposed of the evidence!”
At that moment Agent Simmonds presses the button on the directed energy weapon
and a burst of energy is fired into Butch’s head. Detective Rattery suddenly
notices Butch’s eyes roll back in his head and Butch head then falls onto the
table face first with a loud thump. Detective Rattery smiles and quietly says
to himself: “Good shot Agent Simmonds.” Detective Rattery is completely aware
that Agent Simmonds is outside in the parking lot and has incapacitated Butch
so Detective Rattery doesn’t even bother to call out to Butch or render
assistance. Detective Rattery begins to write down in his notebook the
information provided earlier by Agent Simmonds of where Butch disposed of the
rifle and other evidence. Detective Rattery writes down the location of the
water front dock of where Butch through the rifle into the river and the storm
drain where Butch disposed of the other evidence.
Fifteen minutes after Butch passed
out, Butch begins to recover. Butch manages to raise his head off the table and
look over to Detective Rattery. Detective Rattery is shaking his head back and
forth as he writes in his notebook. Detective Rattery noticing that Butch has
regained consciousness pushes his chair back and tells Butch: “This is all I
need for right now.” Detective Rattery stands and opens the door and tells the
two detectives waiting outside to enter. Detective Rattery then informs Butch
he is under arrest for the murder of his family and begins to read Butch his
Miranda Rights.
After Agent Simmonds hears Detective
Rattery reading Butch his Miranda Rights, Agent Simmonds tells the driver of
the truck: “Let’s get out of here.” The driver of the truck starts the engine
and slowly drives away into the night.
A large crowd of law enforcement has
gathered outside the interrogation room. After an apparently intense one on one
interrogation with Butch DeFeo, Detective Rattery emerges from the
interrogation room and tells his colleagues that Butch has just verbally
confessed to him. “That crazy psycho S.O.B. murdered his entire family”,
Detective Rattery exclaims. Detective Rattery points to the notes in his
notebook and says I got the information of where Butch disposed of the
evidence. Detective Rattery’s colleagues congratulate him on a job well done as
the whole room begins to applaud. Detective Rattery tells his colleagues: “We
got the killer!”
Dazed and confused, Butch is taken
by the two detectives away in handcuffs and foot chains as the entire police
force on duty watch Butch as he is escorted outside to a waiting police prison
transport wagon. Butch hears catcalls from members of law enforcement calling
him murderer, baby killer, and psycho as he is hurried away. The transport
wagon drives away with Butch in the back still unaware of what just happened.
Detective Rattery provides the teams
investigating the murders with the exact locations of the evidence. The police
recover Butch’s rifle from the Amityville River, and later recover the
pillowcase, with the remaining evidence, from the storm drain. Butch is held in a maximum security prison
for the murder of his family.
Funeral services were held for the
murdered members of the DeFeo family at St. Martin of Tours Roman Catholic
Church. Nearly 1000 people attended the services to pay their last respects to
the DeFeo family. Many asked the question: “Why them?” While the services were
being held, a grand jury handed down an indictment charging Butch with six
counts of murder in the second degree. As word of Butch’s indictment spread,
the mourners began calling Butch a monster. The six coffins were carried from
the church to waiting hearses and transported to Saint Charles Cemetery for
burial.
About 300 mourners attended the
burial. Both Mike Brigante Sr. and Rocco DeFeo were heavily armed just in case
there was any truth to Butch’s claim of a mob hit on his family. As the mourners stood with red carnations in
their hands, the parents broke down at the sight of the six coffins waiting to
be lowered into the ground. A shadowy figure a distance away from the news media
camera stood alone while the priest read from the scriptures. The shadowy
figure was Agent Simmonds who stood stoned-faced and just couldn’t resist
attending the burial. This day was not a day of mourning for Agent Simmonds but
the beginning of something truly epic.
A long time after mourners had gone
and the coffins lowered into the ground, a black limousine remained parked near
the DeFeo graves. It was Rocco DeFeo. Rocco DeFeo held a rosary in his hands
and just kept staring at the graves and asking “Why?”
Agent Simmonds and Detective Rattery
meet at a bar after the DeFeo funeral service. Both men order a beer to
celebrate the end of the DeFeo rein in Amityville. Detective Rattery tells
Agent Simmonds that no punk like Butch DeFeo is going to threaten to murder me
and my daughter and get away with it. Agent Simmonds tells Detective Rattery
that Butch DeFeo threatened to murder you and your daughter so we murdered his
family and set him up to take the fall for the murders. “What could be more
fitting”, Agent Simmonds asks? Now we will ensure the right people are in place
to see that Butch is convicted and gets life in prison. At that moment,
Detective Rattery looks over at the television above the bar and sees the DeFeo
funeral being reported on the late news. Detective Rattery quietly utters:
“Good Riddance!” Agent Simmonds looks over at the television and says: “I’ll
second that!” Detective Rattery says: “This is the beginning of a new day for
Amityville.” Agent Simmonds responds: “Yes it is!” Agent Simmonds and Detective
Rattery finish their beer, shake hands, and then leave the bar. Both men get
into their cars and drive away into the night.
As the town of Amityville watches
the DeFeo funeral coverage on television, most struggle to understand why Butch
murdered his family. Unknown to Amityville was the fact that it was physically
impossible for Butch to have committed the murders. The police initially stated
that Butch drugged his family at dinner and murdered them while unconscious but
the autopsies indicate no members of the DeFeo family were drugged. The
Amityville police kept the crime scene photos concealed from the public so the
public never knew the truly bizarre nature of the murders and the fact it was
physically impossible for Butch to have committed the murders.
Butch made the perfect patsy because
not even his own family believes he is innocent. Mike Brigante Sr. and Rocco
DeFeo both believe that Butch is mentally ill and capable of committing murder
but they ask: “How did he do it?”
Mike Brigante Sr. hires a private
investigator name Herman Race to investigate the DeFeo murders. Herman Race is
a retired New York City police detective who is a friend of the Brigante
family. After a thorough investigation, Herman Race concludes that the murders
were committed by multiple people and at least two weapons were used. Herman
Race also concludes that some of the victims may have been murdered in other
places in the home and placed in their beds after they were already dead.
Herman Race abruptly withdrew from the case after delivering his findings.
Judge Stark is assigned the DeFeo
case and will preside over the DeFeo trial. Butch DeFeo is financially unable
to afford an attorney to defend himself so a court appointed public defender is
assigned to his case. Attorney William Weber is given the role of defending
Butch at trial. Gerard Sullivan is the assigned prosecutor. Gerard Sullivan
fought to get the DeFeo case and intends to make a name for himself by securing
a guilty verdict of Butch DeFeo.
In court at pretrial, Butch denies
he confessed to the murder of his family and he tells Judge Stark he was beaten
up by the police and tortured. Detective Rattery testifies under oath that
Butch confessed to him that he murdered his family and provided the locations
of where he disposed of the evidence. William Weber questions Detective Rattery
and discovers no one else heard Butch confess to the murders and no recording
was made or signed confession obtained. It was simply Detective Rattery’s word
against Butch’s. Judge Stark reasons aloud that he doesn’t understand how
Detective Rattery could have obtained the exact locations of where the evidence
was found if the locations were not provided by Butch. Judge Stark then rules
that Detective Rattery is more credible than Butch and allows the confession
into evidence.
In
the courtroom Butch is shocked as one by one Judge Stark’s decisions seem to
favor the prosecutor rather than the defense. Mike Brigante Sr. asks Judge
Stark if he can approach his grandson and speak to him privately. Judge Stark
allows it. In a private moment between Butch and his grandfather, Mike Brigante
Sr. tells Butch to just tell the truth but Butch then tells his grandfather
that if he tells the truth he will get life in prison.
Butch
insists to his attorney William Weber that he is innocent but Weber tells Butch
that all the evidence indicates that he is guilty. Weber tells Butch that no
one will believe he slept thru the murder of his entire family. Butch being
completely frustrated with the legal system threatens to punch Weber in the
face. Weber tells Butch straight out that if he pleads not guilty he will be
found guilty by the jury and spend the rest of his life behind bars. Weber
tells Butch that if he pleads not guilty by reason of insanity he will get a
few years in a mental institution and be a wealthy man from a lucrative book
deal afterwards when he is a free man. Weber becomes so obsessed with the
potential financial gains for himself of the DeFeo case that when he looks at Butch
sometimes he sees Butch transform into a five foot pile of money.
Butch
having considered all his options reluctantly decides he has no choice but to
follow William Weber’s advice and admit to killing his family but use the
insanity defense. Weber again guarantees Butch that he will only get a few
years in a mental institution and he will be a free man afterwards. Butch
officially pleads not guilty by reason of insanity to the court.
A Jury is
selected for the DeFeo trial. During his trial, Butch puts forth his best
effort to convince the jury that he was insane at the time he murdered his
family. On the stand, Butch tells the jury that his family was conspiring
against him so he killed his family in self-defense. William Weber shows Butch
pictures of his family members and he tells the court that he has no idea who
these people are. At one point in front of the jury, Butch even threatens to
murder the prosecutor, Gerard Sullivan.
Closing
arguments are made and the case is given to the jury. The jury can return a
verdict of guilty, not guilty by reason of insanity, or not guilty. After a
lengthy deliberation the jury returns a verdict. The jury finds Butch guilty on
all six counts of second-degree murder.
William Weber’s strategy has failed. After hearing the verdict, William
Weber begins to slowly push he chair back away from Butch just in case Butch
decides to go after his attorney.
Judge
Stark imposes the maximum of six consecutive sentences of 25 years to life.
Judge Stark also recommends that Butch never be granted parole. Judge
Stark states: “I am of the belief Butch is a real danger to society in that he
may kill again, and the law provides for certain sentences to ensure the
community’s safety”.
Butch
vows to the judge that the verdict will be overturned during appeal. Detective Rattery
sitting with the courtroom audience has a distinct look of pleasure on his face
as Butch is handcuffed and taken away.
Now with
the DeFeo house on Ocean Avenue vacant and Butch is behind bars for what will
likely be the rest of his life, the Ocean Avenue Conspirators decide they must
go forward with the second phase of the conspiracy. With all the news media
coverage of the DeFeo murders, people are asking questions about the bizarre
nature of the murders. How did Butch carry out the murders? Why were all the
DeFeo bodies found in the same position on their stomachs with their arms
extended above their heads? Why did they all die in their sleep when the first
shot should have awoken them? Why no sign of a struggle? The DeFeo family was
not drugged so why didn’t they get out of bed? Why didn’t the neighbors hear
the shots?
Butch made
a perfect patsy because not even Butch’s grandparents believed he was innocent.
The grandparents were asking similar questions that the public was asking. The grandparents believed Butch was mentally
ill but they would often ask how could one man go room to room in the middle of
the night and commit the mass murder of his entire family with a high powered
rifle without awakening any of them. The grandparents knew Dawn was a big and
strong girl, so they would often ask: Why didn’t she fight for her life?
The Ocean
Avenue Conspirators are shocked by the amount of media attention and public interest
in the DeFeo murders and they fear the public could discover the truth and the
conspirators would be tried as war criminals. What frightens the Ocean Avenue
Conspirators even more is what the mafia would do to them if the conspiracy was
discovered. The mafia has a long reach, even inside prison.
Episode II: The Diversion.
As with
the elimination of the DeFeo family on Ocean Avenue, Agent Simmonds will
oversee the haunted house hoax to distract the public’s attention away from the
bizarre nature of the DeFeo murders. Agent Simmonds will use his and the
Government Mafia’s connections in the real estate business to find a candidate
family to be lured to the former DeFeo residence and tricked into believing the
house is haunted.
A family
with the last name of Lutz is selected. George and Kathy Lutz are selected out
of a handful of families looking for a home in the area. The Lutz family is
selected because of the strong physical resemblance between George Lutz and
Butch DeFeo. It is also determined that the mental state of George and Kathy
Lutz will easily allow them to be tricked into believing the former DeFeo
residence is haunted.
Agent
Simmonds basically considers George and Kathy Lutz crackpots that can be easily
manipulated into believing the former DeFeo residence is haunted. Agent
Simmonds also believes that when the haunting becomes public knowledge, George
and Kathy Lutz can be easily manipulated and exploited and used as a propaganda
tool. George and Kathy are the logical choice for Agent Simmonds. Agent
Simmonds uses the Government Mafia’s connections in the real estate business to
arrange for the real estate broker of George and Kathy Lutz to show the Lutz
family the former DeFeo home. The real estate broker is told by her boss to
sell the former DeFeo home to the Lutz family or else find a new job. Wishing
to keep her job, the real estate broker decides she will not tell George and
Kathy Lutz about the tragic history of the house until the last possible
moment.
One day
while showing George and Kathy Lutz a home in Amityville, the real estate
broker tells George and Kathy that she wants to show them what the other half
of Amityville lived like and brings them to the former DeFeo residence. Only
after George and Kathy Lutz fall in love with the house does the real estate
broker inform them of the house’s gruesome history. George and Kathy decide
that houses don’t have memories and decide the buy the house for a bargain
price of 80 thousand dollars.
The Ocean
Avenue Conspirators meet secretly to discuss the next phase of the conspiracy.
Andy Ireland calls the meeting to order. The attendees of the meeting are all
concerned about the excessive attention the news media is giving to the DeFeo
murders and they worry that a news reporter could uncover the truth about what
really happened to the DeFeo family. And if the mafia were to find out about
the conspiracy, the Ocean Avenue Conspirators would not even be safe in prison.
Agent
Simmonds announces to the attendees that he has found a perfect candidate family
and they have purchased the former DeFeo residence. The family’s last name is
Lutz, and we have had them under surveillance for some time now, Agent Simmonds
states. The Lutz family will soon be moving into the former DeFeo residence.
Agent Simmonds asks the residents of Ocean Avenue to make the Lutz family feel
they are welcome in the community. Smile at them, wave to them, and say: “Hello
neighbor” but don’t get into conversations with them. They won’t be staying
very long.
Agent
Simmonds explains that after the Lutz family moves into their new home on Ocean
Avenue, we will use classified technology against them over the following
several weeks to trick them into believing their new home is haunted. Agent
Simmonds guarantees that the Lutz family will abandon their new home within 30
days.
The
husband and wife’s names are George and Kathy and believe me they don’t have
all their marbles but they are exactly what we have been looking for. Agent
Simmonds insists the married couple is not dangerous but they are oddballs,
crazies or crackpots, as Agent Simmonds likes to say. Both practice something
hokey called transcendental meditation and the husband has an intense interest
in the occult, which will play nicely when the news media turns their attention
to the paranormal.
The Lutz
home with those two quarter shaped moon windows that look like eyes will play
nicely with the public’s perception that evil resides in the former DeFeo
residence. Agent Simmonds then informs the Ocean Avenue Conspirators that he has
personally done research at the Amityville Historical Society and discovered
that the former DeFeo home was built on an Indian burial ground. Agent Simmonds
also states that a devil worshipper named John Ketcham may have once owned the
property. John Ketcham fled Massachusetts around the time of the infamous Salem
Witch Trials, and relocated to Amityville, where he continued dabbling in
Satanism.
Agent
Simmonds states that we have an incredible opportunity here to create a haunted
house hoax that will completely distract the public’s attention away from the
DeFeo murders and onto the paranormal. Instead of looking for the people who
had the real motive to murder the DeFeo family, the news media and the
paranormal crazies will be chasing after ghosts and spirits. George Lutz is the
spitting image of Ronald DeFeo Jr. and this will add to the public perception
that paranormal forces are at work in Amityville. We will then entice the
crackpot paranormal experts to become involved in investigating the Lutz haunting
and soon the public will forget all about the DeFeo murders. The attention to
the haunting will also distract the mafia away from uncovering the truth about
the DeFeo murders.
A short
period of time after the Lutz family abandons their new home, we will move a
local family from Amityville into the former Lutz home and the new occupants of
the house will deny there is any paranormal activity occurring in the house.
This family that moves into the former Lutz home will have full knowledge of
the conspiracy but will play along and deny to the public that anything is
wrong with their new home. After a short period of news media attention to the
Lutz haunting, the community and town of Amityville will return to normalcy and
few people will even remember the DeFeo murders.
Agent
Simmonds tells the attendees that Andy Ireland has graciously offered us the
use of his home again and we will be moving back in soon, We will be in place
and waiting for the Lutz family when they arrive on moving day. Andy Ireland then
stands and tells the attendees that we are now free of the DeFeo menace and in
several months everything will return to normalcy and we will have our
community back to the way it was. Andy Ireland tells the attendees to stay
strong because we are nearing the finish line. As the attendees applaud, Andy Ireland
looks over at Agent Simmonds and sees Agent Simmonds staring directly at him
with a suspicious looking grin on his face. Andy Ireland begins to wonder what
Agent Simmonds is hiding behind that grin.
Andy Ireland
then adjourns the meeting.
Agent
Simmonds and his colleagues have moved classified surveillance technology and
classified sonic harassment technology back into the neighboring Ireland house
and they await the Lutz family’s arrival.
On December 18, 1975, George and Kathy Lutz move into their new home on Ocean
Avenue with their three children, Missy – age 5, Christopher – age 7, and
Daniel – age 10. Unknown to the Lutz family they are under complete electronic
surveillance thru the walls of their home by Agent Simmonds and other agents in
the neighboring Ireland home.
In order
to make the Lutz family feel they are welcome in the community, Agent Simmonds
gives a tray of cookies to Agnes Ireland and asks her to go over and welcome
the Lutz family to the neighborhood and offer the Lutz children treats. This is
a common tactic used by Agent Simmonds and the Government Mafia to ward off any
suspicion of the neighbors, when bizarre events begin to happen to the Lutz
family. The Lutz family will never suspect the neighbors are in on a conspiracy
to trick their family into believing their new home is haunted. Agent Simmonds
wants the Lutz family to feel they have warm and friendly neighbors when in
fact it’s the complete opposite.
Agnes Ireland
swings the door of her home open and quickly walks over to the Lutz family with
the tray of cookies and a huge smile on her face. Agnes Ireland warmly greets
the Lutz family by loudly repeating several times “Welcome Neighbor” as she
approaches the Lutz family. Agnes introduces herself and leans close to the
Lutz children and puts the tray of cookies in front of them and tells the
children: “These are for you”. After a short conversation with George and
Kathy, Agnes excuses herself and tells George and Kathy that she must get back
to her house cleaning.
A short
time later, George and Kathy Lutz begin to unload boxes from the moving van
parked in their driveway. George notices something strange about the Ireland
house, and mentions it to Kathy. George tells Kathy that the Ireland house has
all its window shades drawn on the side of the house that faces their home.
That’s strange Kathy replies. George asks, do you think it has something to do
with the murders? Kathy replies, I don’t know.
The window
shades were drawn to prevent the Lutz family from seeing the movement of the
agents inside the Ireland house. Agent Simmonds hears this conversation with
the classified surveillance technology. Agent Simmonds decides he will later
raise the window shades to ward off George’s suspicious mind.
About an
hour later, a car pulls into the Lutz’s driveway. George Lutz immediately
recognizes the driver as the family priest, Father Ray. Father Ray gets out of
his car and walks over to George and Kathy, who are still unloading boxes from
the moving van. Agent Simmonds has been expecting Father Ray and he has a very
special surprise for him. Because of the prior tragedy that occurred in the
Lutz’s new home, Father Ray insisted that he bless the house. After a short
warm and friendly conversation with George and Kathy, Father Ray proceeds into
the Lutz home, leaving George and Kathy outside to finish unloading the moving
van.
Father Ray
begins to bless the first floor of the home by reciting verses from the bible
and using a scepter to sprinkle holy water. A short time later, Father Ray
proceeds to the second floor of the home. Father Ray enters the sewing room and
begins to sprinkle holy water and recite verses from the bible. As Father Ray
is blessing the sewing room, Agent Simmonds uses the through wall targeting
scope to target the back of Father Ray’s head.
Agent Simmonds is going to use the classified sound projection
technology to project an audible message at Father Ray that only he will hear.
The message is a prerecorded message on a tape deck. The audio from the tape
deck is modulated onto ultrasonic lasers and passed through the walls of the Ireland
home and Lutz home before reaching Father Ray. The ultrasonic lasers merge
before reaching Father Ray’s head. The audible sound from the tape deck is
reproduced about 80 feet away right behind Father Ray’s head in the neighboring
home. Father Ray hears a voice coming from behind him telling him to “Get Out”.
Father Ray turns around to see who is behind him but he discovers he is alone in
the room.
Another
agent in the Ireland home then targets the side of Father Ray’s face and
prepares to fire an infrasonic bullet at him. An infrasonic bullet is similar
to an infrasonic laser but it is a short burst of acoustic energy that also
passes thru walls without causing any physical damage to a house. The amplitude
(height) of the infrasonic bullet is about 12 inches with a width of 3 inches.
The agent fires the weapon and father Ray receives a slap to the side of his
face by an unseen force. Father Ray’s heart is now racing and he begins to
perspire as beads of sweat roll down his face. Father Ray unsure of what just
happened is finding it difficult to breathe. Father Ray al of the sudden drops
his bible and scepter on the floor and franticly runs out the room and
downstairs to the stairs to the first floor. Father Ray thrusts the front door
open, startling George and Kathy outside who are still unloading boxes from the
moving van. Father Ray leaves the front door open and rushes over to speak to George
and Kathy. George asks: What’s wrong father?
Father Ray
still trying to catch his breath franticly tells George and Kathy not to use
that room on the second floor that faces the river on the other side of the
home as a bedroom. As Father Ray’s hands tremble, he points to the approximate
area of the house with his finger. As George begins to tell Father Ray that the
room he is referring to is our sewing room. Father Ray abruptly interrupts
George and screams: “I felt something in that room!” Father Ray then abruptly
ends the conversation and tells George and Kathy he can’t stay any longer.
Father Ray turns to his car and begins franticly running towards the car.
Father Ray opens the door of the car and jumps in. Father Ray starts the car,
floors the gas pedal and tears out of the Lutz’s driveway onto Ocean Avenue.
The racing engine noise and screeching of car tires can be heard as Father Ray
accelerates as fast as the car allows down Ocean Avenue. George and Kathy look
at each other with puzzled expressions and ask what’s wrong with Father Ray.
George and Kathy remain frozen in place for a moment as they stare at the
rubber tire tracks left on their driveway and out in the street from Father
Ray’s car peeling away.
Agent
Simmonds delighted at what just occurred utters to himself: “Christian Scum” as
the other agents begin to laugh and high five each other. The loud noise of
Father Ray’s car tearing away has faded but what Father Ray experienced this
day in the Lutz home would forever change his life. Father Ray would never
again return to the Lutz home on Ocean Avenue.
Father Ray speeds into the parking lot of his rectory.
Father Ray slams on the brakes of his car accidently sliding in two parking
spaces. Father Ray jumps out of his car and rushes into his living quarters
inside the rectory. Father Ray enters his room and immediately falls to his
knees in front of a crucifix and begins to pray. A small truck is parked in the
rectory’s parking lot. The truck conceals a Government Mafia agent in the back.
The agent targets Father Ray’s stomach area through the walls of the rectory
and presses a button on an infrasonic weapon. An infrasonic beam of sound
invisible to the human eye and out of the human hearing range passes through
the walls of the rectory and into Father Ray’s stomach area. A high intensity
infrasonic beam of sound causes havoc on the human digestive system. Father Ray
feels he just had an accident in his underwear and he looks to the floor and
sees liquid excrement run down under his pants and exit onto his shoes and onto
the floor. Father Ray collapses to the floor as he begins to violently vomit on
the floor. The odor from the human waste and vomit fills the room and other
areas of the rectory with a vile and foul smell. In the parking lot, the Government
Mafia agent starts the engine of the small truck and drives away. Agent
Simmonds is notified of the successful operation.
The complete evacuation of Father Ray’s digestive system causes
Father Ray to experience severe fever and weakness to the point where Father
Ray cannot get out of bed and stand for two days. Father Ray’s fellow priests
care for and nurse Father Ray back to good health. The story Father Ray tells
of his encounter with a demon in the former DeFeo residence alarms the other
priests to the point where they feel they must inform their superiors.
In the middle of the night a van parks next to Father Ray’s
car in the rectory parking lot. An agent of the Government Mafia exits the back
of the van and begins to tamper with Father Ray’s car. The hood latch of Father
Ray’s car is loosened and the lug nuts on both front tires are also loosened.
The agent quickly returns to the van and the van drives away.
Father Ray is now fully recovered and intends to return to
his duties after two days of bed rest. As Father Ray is preparing to leave the
rectory, Father Dane, the priest in charge of the rectory, stops Father Ray in
the hallway and asks Father Ray to accompany him to his office. Father Dane
enters his office and asks Father Ray to have a seat. Father Dane begins by
expressing his concerns about the rumors and gossip of him encountering a demon
in the former DeFeo residence. Father Dane expresses concern and tells Father
Ray that talk of encountering demons is not encouraged by the church. Father
Dane then suggests that Father Ray me be overworked and in need of additional
rest. Father Dane then begins to imply that Father Ray may be in need of care
by a psychiatrist. Father Dane firmly orders Father Ray not to return to the
Lutz home and not to have any further contact with the Lutz family. Father Ray
expresses concern for the safety of the Lutz family but is cut off in
midsentence by Father Dane. Father Dane abruptly stands and walks Father Ray to
the door and tells Father Ray that he will speak to the bishop regarding this
ordeal and handle any interaction with the Lutz family. Father Ray is shown the
door.
Father Ray confused about what just occurred with Father
Dane leaves the rectory and heads toward his car. Father Ray starts the car and
begins his daily drive to the church. As Father Ray accelerates onto the
highway he notices the front of his car wobbling and he fights to maintain
control of the car. All of the sudden the hood of the car flies up and prevents
Father Ray from seeing the road. Father Ray loses control of the car and the
car veers off the road and crashes into a ditch on the side of the road. As the
horn of the car blares, Father Ray discovers his head is bleeding. Father Ray
begins to repeat over and over: “This is the Devil’s work!” A passing car stops
to render assistance to Father Ray.
The Lutz family has now finished moving into their new home.
George Lutz takes the Lutz family dog named Harry outside to the dog’s fenced
in area near the boathouse. George attaches the chain to the dog’s collar and
he returns back to the house for some much needed rest. Agent Simmonds decides
to attack the Lutz family dog with an ultrasonic weapon to drive it out of
control and make it act erratic. Agent
Simmonds targets the dog by the boathouse and attacks it with an ultrasonic
laser. Harry immediately howls in pain and retreats. While retreating, Harry
jumps the fence but gets caught by its chain and nearly hangs itself. George,
resting on the sofa, hears the dog howling and runs to the window. George sees
the dog hanging on the fence by its neck and immediately rushes outside. George
is able to rescue the dog before it chokes to death. George shortens the dog’s
chain and returns back to the house.
Kathy has an aunt named Helena who is a nun. Aunt
Helena decides to take Kathy up on her offer for a tour of the Lutz’s new home
and a home-cooked meal. Aunt Helena pulls her car into the Lutz’s driveway and
is warmly greeted by George and Kathy. Aunt Helena is wearing the traditional
nun’s habit with a large crucifix necklace. Agent Simmonds has been aware of
Aunt Helena’s pending visit to the Lutz home and he has something special
planned for her. After a brief tour of the home given by George and Kathy, Aunt
Helena enters the dining room alone. Agent Simmonds has an utter disdain for
the Catholic Church so he decides to fire an infrasonic laser into Aunt
Helena’s stomach area to make her violently sick to the stomach. Minutes after
Aunt Helena enters the Lutz’s home, she experiences severe pains in her
stomach. Aunt Helena realizes she has just defecated into her underwear.
Another agent in the Ireland house targets the chandelier above Aunt Helena and
fires infrasonic bullets thru the chandelier to make it move. With both of her
hands on her stomach and leaning forward Aunt Helena looks up at the chandelier
above the dining room table. Aunt Helena sees the chandelier suddenly moving on
its own. Aunt Helena grabs her crucifix necklace and begins to pray. Agent
Simmonds then fires an ultrasonic laser at Aunt Helena’s head causing extreme
pain to her head. Aunt Helena holding the crucifix in one hand and her other
hand on her head cries out in pain. George and Kathy rush from the kitchen into
the dining room to find Aunt Helena in an awkward position. Kathy asks: What’s
wrong Aunt Helena? Aunt Helena screams: There is something wrong with this
house! I’ve got to get out of here! Aunt Helena rushes past George and Kathy
and franticly makes her way to the front door. Kathy yells to Aunt Helena: What
about dinner? Aunt Helena doesn’t respond but just keeps running. Kathy says to
George: Make her stay! Aunt Helena thrusts the front door open and races to her
car. George and Kathy stand outside by the door stunned as they observe Aunt
Helena’s erratic behavior. Aunt Helena jumps into her car, starts the car, puts
the car in gear, and then floors the accelerator. Aunt Helena tears out onto
Ocean Avenue and races away. George and Kathy remain frozen in place as they
stare at the empty driveway with another set of rubber skid marks leading out
to Ocean Avenue. Kathy asks George: What is going on here? George replies: I
don’t know.
A short time after Aunt Helena made her escape from
the Lutz’s home she is forced to pull over. Aunt Helena abruptly stops the car,
opens the door, leans out of the car and vomits on the road. Aunt Helena tells
herself I’m never going back to that house again.
Agent
Simmonds decides he must connect the established time of the DeFeo family
murders to the Lutz family. Agent Simmonds decides to wake George Lutz at
exactly 3:15am each morning. At exactly 3:15am in the morning, Agent Simmonds
targets George’s legs in his bed and fires an ultrasonic laser through his
legs. Ultrasound passing through George’s legs creates extreme discomfort in
George’s legs causing George to suddenly awaken from his sleep. The weapon is
fired at George from the first floor of the Ireland home while George is
sleeping on the second floor of the Lutz home. This approximate 45 degree angle
allows George to be targeted without affecting Kathy. George awakens suddenly
and looks over at his alarm clock and sees 3:15am on the face of the clock.
George looks over at his wife and discovers she is still soundly asleep. George
is confused and baffled at why he keeps waking at the same time each morning.
Later George will find the 3:15am was the established time of the DeFeo family
murders.
Agent
Simmonds decides to use against George the same type of classified sound
projection technology that was used against Father Ray in the sewing room.
Agent Simmonds can project any audible sound at George that only George will
hear. The sound will be directed at George. While George is lying in bed, he
hears the sound of the front door of his home slam shut. George looks over and
asks Kathy: Did you just hear the front door slam shut? Kathy responds: No, I
didn’t hear anything. George jumps out of bed and runs down stairs but finds
his dog soundly asleep in front of the closed and locked front door.
The next
night, Agent Simmonds projects the sound of a German marching band at George.
George hears what he believes is a German marching band tuning up on the first
floor of his house. George again jumps out of bed and runs down to the first
floor but he finds nothing. George asks himself: Am I going crazy? George
returns back to bed.
George
begins to also hear buzzing flies, screams, and footsteps. George becomes
extremely frustrated that he is unable to locate the source of the sounds.
Agent Simmonds particularly enjoys waking George in the middle of the night
with screams and slamming doors and watching George race throughout the house
trying to find the source of the sounds but discovering nothing out of the
ordinary.
Agent
Simmonds continues to wake George at 3:15am each morning causing George to
suffer sleep deprivation. George has difficulty getting to sleep because of the
sounds of door slamming, marching band, buzzing flies, screams, and footsteps
but when George does fall asleep he is abruptly awoken at exactly 3:15am each
morning. Kathy begins to also suffer from sleep deprivation as she is awoken by
George constantly getting out of bed and racing throughout the house looking
for noises she cannot hear. Kathy believes her husband is becoming unstable.
The children are also awoken by the commotion in the house.
George
gets into heated arguments with his wife and begins snapping at his children.
Fights breakout between George and Kathy as the family’s attitudes towards each
other begins to change. George and Kathy begin to quickly yell and scream at
the children and administer quick and stern punishment to the children when
they misbehave. One night George and Kathy beat their children with a wooden
spoon after discovering a broken window pane on one of the quarter moon windows
on the third floor that faces Ocean Avenue.
Slowly
each of the Lutz family’s personalities begins to change. George and Kathy
begin to become withdrawn from each other. George begins to miss work because
he is simply too tired. George begins to neglect his family owned
land-surveying business that once was owned by his father. Employees begin to
complain to George about not receiving their weekly paychecks. George’s hygiene
suffers as he fails to bathe and change his clothes and trim his beard. George
and Kathy become reclusive and only go out when they need essential supplies.
Kathy even fails to show up at her pottery class.
Agent
Simmonds decides to use classified technology against George and Kathy that
will cause them to experience nightmares and hallucinations. The technology
will cause the person targeted to wake suddenly from his sleep and see things
that simply aren’t there. The targeted person’s greatest fears and desires will
come to life for a short period of time after awakening. The targeted person
will be jolted out of his sleep and experience what could be considered a
waking dream. A waking dream is an involuntary dream occurring while a person
is awake. The person will be in a hallucinatory state for several minutes.
Agent Simmonds targets the upper left side of Kathy’s head while she is asleep
and passes ultrasound into the upper left portion of her brain triggering
Temporal Lobe Epilepsy. Kathy wakes from her sleep and begins to hallucinate.
Kathy gets out of bed and looks in the mirror on the wall and sees an old hag.
Kathy begins to cry and then she screams out, George jumps out of bed to find
his wife aimlessly staring into the mirror crying and saying: I’m old and ugly!
The children come running into the room after being awoken from Kathy’s
screams. Kathy’s hallucination lasts for several minutes but George and the
children see nothing in Kathy’s appearance that is out of the ordinary. George
tells his wife that it was just a nightmare.
The next
night George is also targeted in the same manner. George wakes and sees Butch
DeFeo standing right in front of his bed pointing a rifle straight at him.
Butch doesn’t fire the rifle but simply turns around and walks out the door of
the master bedroom. George is so convinced that Butch DeFeo is in his home he
calls out to his family and wakes them from their sleep as he runs from room to
room looking for Butch and yelling: He’s here! He’s here! After about 20
minutes George searches every area of the house but finds nobody in the house
other that his family. George shakes his head violently in front of his wife
and tells his wife he must be going insane.
Kathy is
again targeted by Agent Simmonds the following night. Kathy begins to have
nightmares of the DeFeo murders. Kathy witnesses Butch DeFeo pick up his rifle
in the middle of the night and shoot the six members of his family in cold
blood. The nightmare is Kathy’s interpretation of the sequence of the murders
based on what she was told of the murders. Kathy wakes suddenly and screams
out: Their all dead! George and the children are awoken again.
Another
night George falls asleep in a chair in front of the fireplace. Agent Simmonds
targets the left upper side of George’s head and triggers Temporal Lobe
Epilepsy. George wakes and looks at the fireplace and sees Butch DeFeo’s face
staring at him. On another night, George experiences Temporal Lobe Epilepsy
again but this time he sees the front door of the house blow out off its
hinges. After several minutes the hallucination ends. George later examines the
front door but he finds the door still intact and has no damage.
George and
Kathy’s greatest fears manifest and come to life when Temporal Lobe Epilepsy is
triggered. George fears Butch DeFeo will escape from prison and return to his
former home on Ocean Avenue and murder the entire Lutz family. Kathy fears old
age. Kathy becomes more frightened of the house as she discovers more about the
DeFeo murders. George feels that something is building in the house and the
house will be blown apart. The classified technology used to trigger Temporal
Lobe Epilepsy creates no physical evidence and the person targeted will fully
recover minutes after being attacked. The targeted person will be dazed and confused
and scared out of his mind.
While
Kathy is alone in the master bedroom making the bed, Agent Simmonds fires an
infrasonic laser into Kathy’s back causing her to sense someone is embracing
her from behind. An invisible beam of infrasound impacting Kathy’s body will
create a sensation of being touched in the area of the body struck by the beam
of sound. Kathy quickly turns around but finds nobody else in the room. Kathy
calls out to her husband but nobody answers because George is not home. Kathy
overwhelmed by what occurred faints, falling forward onto the bed. George
arrives home and finds his wife passed out on the bed. George manages to wake
his wife. Kathy, hysterical, begins to tell her husband about being touched
from behind by an unseen entity.
Later that
night Kathy is in the Kitchen alone. Agent Simmonds targets Kathy’s hand. While
drinking a cup of coffee, Kathy again feels someone touch her hand. Kathy looks
around the kitchen but sees no one else. Kathy screams out to George. George
comes running into the Kitchen seconds later only to discover his wife sitting
alone at the kitchen table crying. Kathy yells out: It touched me again!
Agent
Simmonds wants to freak George out by forcing his wife and children to sleep on
their stomachs in the same position in which the murdered DeFeo family members
were found in. Agent Simmonds begin to attack Kathy and the Lutz children with
an infrasonic weapon when they sleep in any other position than on their
stomachs. Low-level infrasound creates discomfort in the area of the body
targeted and easily prevents a person in bed from falling asleep due to the
discomfort. Since the infrasound is invisible and out of the human hearing
range, it is an optimal method to induce pain into a targeted person, through
walls, without creating any physical evidence. Agent Simmonds can tell the
position each of the DeFeo family members are sleeping in with the classified
through wall imaging technology. Kathy and the Lutz children find that the only
position they can fall asleep in is on their stomachs, so they are basically
trained to sleep in that position by this method of attack. When George sees
his wife and children begin to all sleep on their stomachs in similar positions
the DeFeo family was found murdered in, he becomes alarmed.
The next
morning Agent Simmonds wakes George again at 3:15am. George sits up in bed and
wonders why he keeps waking at the same time each morning. This morning Agent
Simmonds has a special surprise for George and Kathy. Agent Simmonds is preparing
to use a powerful weapon against Kathy. This weapon is a very large weapon that
took Agent Simmonds and his colleagues the entire night to move into the Ireland
home and setup. This weapon will be used to fire a powerful ultrasonic
shockwave into Kathy’s waist area while she is sleeping. The weapon will be
fired from the first floor of the Ireland home at Kathy while she is soundly
asleep in her bed on the second floor in the master bedroom. The weapon can
only maintain the shockwave for approximately 10 seconds. George has just
gotten out of bed and is walking towards the door. With the through wall
surveillance technology, Agent Simmonds sees that George has gotten out of bed.
Agent Simmons has already targeted Kathy’s waist area and has been waiting for
George to get out of bed, Agent Simmonds presses a button on the weapon and an
ultrasonic shockwave is fired into Kathy’s waist. Before George reaches the
bedroom door he suddenly hears his wife screaming. George quickly turns around
and sees his wife lifted off the bed by several inches and is being pushed
towards the end of the bed. George races over to Kathy and grabs her before she
falls off the end of the bed. Kathy hysterical starts screaming: It’s after me
again! George having just seen the movie “The Exorcist” tells Kathy that she
just levitated off the bed.
Later that
night, Agent Simmonds wants to continue to frighten George and Kathy. While
George and Kathy are in the living room, Agent Simmonds opens a window in the Ireland
home and points two red lasers at one of the windows in the Lutz’s living room.
Agent Simmonds turns on the lasers and two bright red glowing red dots appear
on the Lutz’s window in the living room. Kathy looks over and screams as she
sees the two bright red dots glowing at the window. George turns around and
sees the red dots and says: Oh my God, it’s a demon looking into our home!
George runs over to the window but as soon as Agent Simmonds sees George move
towards the window with the surveillance technology, he moves the lasers off
the window and turns the lasers off. George looks out the window and sees
nothing out of the ordinary.
George
grabs his jacket and exits the house and begins looking around the property to
see if he can spot the demon with the glowing red eyes. George looks around the
house but spots nothing. George then walks over to the boathouse and finds the
family dog asleep. George looks around the boathouse but finds nothing out of
the ordinary. Agent Simmonds anticipated George running outside after seeing
the two red dots on the living room window, so he assigned another agent to
wait inside the Ireland’s boathouse. The agent in the Ireland’s boathouse has
another set of red lasers and points the lasers at Missy’s bedroom facing the
river. The agent turns on the lasers and two red glowing dots appear on Missy’s
window. George looks up and sees the glowing dots and screams: The demon is
after my daughter! George runs as fast as he can back to the house, thrusts the
front door open, and rushes up the stairs as fast as he can to Missy’s bedroom.
George races into Missy’s bedroom but he finds no one else in the room but his
daughter who is soundly asleep. George walks over to the window where he saw
the two red glowing dots but he sees nothing on the window and nothing
suspicious outside. The agent in the boat house turned off the lasers as soon
as George entered the house.
Agent
Simmonds decides to trick George and Kathy’s 5-year old daughter into believing
she has an imaginary friend named Jodie. Agent Simmonds will use the sound
projection technology to speak to Missy through the walls of the Lutz home and
the surveillance technology to see and hear Missy’s response. Agent Simmonds
can establish a two-way conversation through walls with Missy completely without
George and Kathy’s knowledge. While Milly is alone in her room, Agent Simmonds
begins to introduce himself to Missy as Jodie. At the same time another agent
turns on the red lasers and creates tow red glowing dots on Missy’s bedroom
window. Missy looks up after hearing the voice and sees the two red dots on the
window. Agent Simmonds continues the introduction by telling Missy that Jodie
is a flying pig who wants to be friends with her. Missy responds by talking to
the window with the two red dots. Agent Simmonds tells Missy that the glowing
red dots are the eyes of Jodie. Agent Simmonds continues by telling Missy that
Jodie wants Missy to live in the house forever with Jodie. Agent Simmonds
begins to sing songs with Missy. Agent Simmonds tells Missy to never sing the
songs outside of her bedroom.
In the
morning, while George and Kathy are having breakfast with their children in the
kitchen, Missy tells her parents that she has a new friend named Jodie. Missy
continues by telling George and Kathy that the red dots looking into the house
are really Jodie’s eyes. Missy says: Jodie is a flying pig and he wants to live
here in this house with me forever! George and Kathy’s jaws drop as they hear
Missy describe her new friend. Missy tells her parents that Missy came to my
window last night and we talked and sang songs. Jodie promised he would return.
George looks at his wife and says: Jodie the Flying Pig?
In the
afternoon, Agent Simmonds decides to pass a sonic laser through Missy’s rocking
chair’s headrest to make the rocking chair move forward and when the sonic
laser is turned off, the rocking chair will swing back and forth to make it
appear that Jodie in sitting in the rocking chair. Agent Simmonds begins by
starting a conversation with Missy. George walking by Missy’s room hears his
daughter talking to someone named Jodie which causes George to stop and look
through the open door of Missy’s bedroom. George looks into the room and sees
Missy on her bed talking to an empty rocking chair on the other side of the
room that is moving back and forth on its own. George rushes into the room and
picks up Missy’s rocking chair with both hands and asks Missy: How is it doing
that? Missy yells out to her father: You scared Jodie away! George says: I’ve
got to tell Kathy about this.
Agent
Simmonds decides to use a more powerful version of the sound projection
technology that can project audible sound thru walls. The sound projected by
this device can fill a room with loud audible sound. The sound can be so loud
that it will cause a person to protect his hearing by covering his ears with
his hands. While George and Kathy are in the living room discussing Missy’s
rocking chair rocking on its own, Agent Simmonds projects an audio recording of
a woman screaming into the sewing room. George and Kathy hear the loud scream
in the living room and run up the stairs to investigate. George swings open the
sewing room and finds the room empty. George asks his wife: What did we just
hear? Kathy responds: I don’t know.
Agent
Simmonds continues to create loud sounds in areas of the Lutz’s home. George
and Kathy awake at night from loud noises that sound like the pipes inside the
walls banging. Loud creaking noises appear to George and Kathy to be coming from
inside the walls. Loud screams continue along with the sounds of rattling
chains emanate from the house. George looks over at his wife and asks: What is
wrong with this house?
Agent
Simmonds uses the powerful sound projection technology to project audible sound
outside the Lutz’s home. As George and Kathy are in bed they begin to hear loud
roaring wind storms, rain, and lightning coming from outside but when George
walks over and looks out the window, he sees no visual evidence of any storm
activity outside. George and Kathy also begin to hear low frequency rumbling
outside their house which sound like a Mack Truck is parked in their driveway
and idling but when George looks out the window, he sees no evidence of any
truck near their home. George and Kathy also hear sounds of electric arcs and
fireworks outside the home but George is mystified when he finds nothing. Agent
Simmonds is amused when George sticks his head out the window trying the find
the source of the sounds, and especially when George runs out of the house in
his pajamas in the middle of the night looking for the source of the bizarre
sounds.
Agent
Simmonds wants Jodie the Flying Pig to become more involved in the Lutz
family’s life. One night Kathy and Missy are alone in Missy’s bedroom. Kathy is
tucking in Missy for bed. Agent Simmonds points the two red lasers at Missy’s
bedroom window and turns them on. Another agent in the Ireland home is standing
by with the powerful sound projection equipment that will be used for very
special sound effects. Missy points to the window with two glowing red dots and
says: Look mom it’s Jodie, he’s come to visit me again! Kathy in a sudden rage
picks up Missy’s rocking chair and throws it at the window at Jodie and
screams: You leave my daughter alone! The rocking chair hits the window
shattering the window. The agent in the Ireland home plays a recording of a
loud squealing pig. After Kathy shatters the window, she hears a loud squealing
pig that appears to be coming from right outside the shattered window. Missy
tells her mother: You are making Jodie angry! George comes running into the
room and asks: What’s wrong? Kathy tells George: Jodie is after our daughter
again! George looks out the shattered window but sees nothing unusual outside.
George runs down stairs and out the front door to search outside but he still
finds nothing. George comes back inside and finds Kathy and Missy standing by
the front door, George tells Kathy there is nothing out there. Kathy says: But
we both saw and heard it at the window. George replies: I only thing I saw out
of the ordinary outside was Missy’s shattered window.
Kathy is
sitting in the living room on the sofa in front of a coffee table. The coffee
table has a ceramic lion statue sitting on top of it. Kathy is staring aimlessly
at the ceramic lion. Agent Simmonds decides to liven-things-up a little in the
Lutz home by targeting the ceramic lion and firing a powerful infrasonic bullet
at it. Kathy still staring at the ceramic lion, all of the sudden sees the lion
thrust forward by several inches. Kathy jumps up and screams as she runs to
find her husband. Kathy hysterically tells George that the lion statue just
moved forward on its own towards her. George picks the ceramic lion up off the
table and takes it up to the sewing room and places it in a cardboard box.
George returns downstairs and tells his wife that he put the ceramic lion in a
safe place out of sight.
With the
surveillance technology, Agent Simmonds can tell exactly when all members of
the Lutz family are in their beds and soundly asleep. Agent Simmonds and his
colleagues will exit the Ireland house and enter the Lutz home while the Lutz
family is soundly asleep. The Lutz family dog, if outside or in the house, can
be incapacitated by a directed energy weapon to keep the dog from waking the
family. In the middle of the night, Agent Simmonds and his colleagues advance
on the Lutz home. After entering the Lutz home, Agent Simmonds and his
colleagues move furniture, place droplets of green slime in the hallway, open
windows, put black dye in a toilet, and turn a crucifix upside down. Agent
Simmonds enters the sewing room and removes the ceramic lion from the cardboard
box it was placed in by George and takes it back down to the first floor. Agent
Simmonds places the ceramic lion back on the coffee table in the living room
where it originally scared Kathy by appearing to move on its own. Agent
Simmonds says to himself: Wait till Kathy sees this again. Should any member of
the Lutz family awake while Agent Simmonds and his colleagues are in the Lutz
home, the family member can be incapacitated by a directed energy weapon before
even having a chance to get out of bed. Agent Simmonds and his colleagues exit
the Lutz home, lock the door behind them, and return to the Ireland house.
When the
Lutz family wakes in the morning, they find certain things in their home are
not the same as when they went to sleep. In the morning, George finds green
slime in the hallway near the bedrooms and can’t discover where it came from.
One of the Lutz’s children flushes the toilet and the toilet fills with a black
substance. George and Kathy find windows open in the house, which were closed
before they went to sleep. George and Kathy find their furniture in the living
room rearranged. George and Kathy both go into shock when they discover a
crucifix upside down in their living room. George and Kathy look at each other
and ask: What is going on here? Kathy looks over closely at the coffee table
and spots the ceramic lion back on the coffee table. Agent Simmonds at that
instant fires another infrasonic bullet at the ceramic lion causing it again to
thrust forward by several inches. Kathy screams causing George looks over at
the coffee table. George sees the ceramic lion and says: I put that thing in
the sewing room. Why is it back down here? Kathy says: Get that thing out of
this house. George grabs the ceramic lion and runs outside with it to the river
edge and throws it as far as he can into the river. George says: Problem
solved! George returns back to the house.
The next
night while the Lutz family is soundly asleep, Agent Simmonds puts on a very
special pair of shoes and takes a walk around the snow covered Lutz property.
Agent Simmonds’ special shoes are shoes that don’t leave ordinary foot prints
but leave what appear to be animal tracks. Agent Simmonds walks from the Lutz
boathouse to the side of the Lutz home and back to the boathouse. In the
morning, George Lutz discovers the cloven hoof footprints in the snow and he
immediately jumps to the conclusion that “Jodie the Flying Pig” paid a visit
during the night. George follows the tracks back to the boathouse where they
suddenly end.
The same
night Agent Simmonds made the animal tracks, he also tampered with George’s
van. Agent Simmonds loosened the lug nuts on one tire and loosened the bolts on
one shock absorber at the rear of the van. George experiences unusual trouble
with his van on the way to work. While George is driving, his tire starts
wobbling and is forced to pull over to the side of the road. George tightens
the bolts and resumes his journey. A short time later George hears a loud thump
from the back of the van and begins hearing banging noises from the same area.
George pulls the van over again to look for the source of the noise. George
discovers the shock absorber in the back of the car hanging loose. George
begins to link the animal tracks and the troubles with his van and comes to the
conclusion that Jodie is behind this. George says: the one day I decide to go
to work, this is what happens. George cannot reattach the shock absorber so he
decides to slowly drive the van to the auto garage.
While the
Lutz family is away from their home, Agent Simmonds and his colleagues have
free rein of the Lutz home. Agent Simmonds puts flies in the sewing room and
chemicals in areas of the house to create nasty odors. Agent Simmonds and his
colleagues are quickly in and out of the Lutz home. George becomes baffled when
he finds hundreds of flies swarming in the sewing room. George says: Flies in
the middle of winter? George and Kathy
become sickened by foul odors emanating from areas of their home.
George and
Kathy discover a small hidden room in the basement, which they name the “Red
Room”. The Red Room is concealed behind a thin flimsy wood panel. After George
and Kathy open the entrance to the Red Room, Agent Simmonds fires an ultrasonic
laser at the Lutz family dog, Harry, who is several feet away from them. As
soon as George and Kathy open the entrance, Harry goes crazy and retreats from
the Red Room. George and Kathy are unaffected by the ultrasonic laser. George
and Kathy are baffled at Harry’s reaction as they watch their dog barking as it
retreats up the basement stairs.
George and
Kathy let the family dog, Harry, sleep in their bedroom one night. George ties
Harry’s leash to the doorknob of the bedroom entrance. Agent Simmonds decides
to attack Harry with an infrasonic weapon. The dog having no escape begins to
act erratic by walking in circles and barking. Agent Simmonds then targets the
dog’s stomach to make it vomit all over the floor. George gets out of bed to
quiet the dog but steps in the mess on the floor. George says: Yuck!
Agent
Simmonds has tapped the Lutz’s phone line. Agent Simmonds has complete control
over who can reach the Lutz family and he has special audio equipment to inject
special audible effects to the Lutz’s phone conversations. When George and
Kathy attempt to contact Father Ray by phone, Agent Simmonds interrupts the
phone call and makes the line go to static. When Father Ray attempts to call
George and Kathy, he is cut off by Agent Simmonds as soon as the call is
answered. George also hears moans and other disturbing sounds at times when he
makes contact with Father Ray and he mentions the sewing room. Seconds after
the line goes dead while speaking to George, Father Ray’s phone suddenly rings
again. Father Ray picks up the phone and hears a deep pitched demon like voice
say: If you return to the Lutz home you will die. The line then goes suddenly
dead. Father Ray tries to call George and Kathy back but when the phone is
answered the same demon voice tells Father Ray: The Lutz family is mine! The
line then goes suddenly dead again. Father Ray tries to call back again but the
line just goes to static after the first ring.
Agent
Simmonds further plays with Kathy. While Kathy is in the Kitchen, Agent
Simmonds gives his colleague a six pack of beer and sends him over to knock on
the Lutz’s kitchen door. The agent, holding the six pack of beer, knocks on the
door and then quickly Kathy answers. The agent tells Kathy: “Everyone wanted to
come over and welcome you to the neighborhood.” At that moment, Agent Simmonds
rings the Lutz’s kitchen phone. Kathy asks the stranger to wait while she goes
to answer the phone. Kathy goes to answer the phone. As soon as Kathy leaves
the door, the agent quickly walks away and returns to the Ireland house. Kathy
answers the phone but Agent Simmonds makes the line go to static. Kathy hangs
up the phone and returns to the door but finds the stranger gone. Kathy asks:
“What is going on around here?” Kathy never sees the stranger again.
George and
Kathy are unable to reach Father Ray by phone. George and Kathy want Father Ray
to come back and bless their home again. Desperate, George and Kathy decide to
attempt to bless their home on their own. George opens all the windows in the
home. George locates a large silver crucifix. George holding the crucifix goes
throughout his home with Kathy both reciting the “Lord’s Prayer.” Agent
Simmonds decides to use the powerful sound projection technology to fill a room
on the second floor of the Lutz’s home with audible sound. While blessing the
living room, George and Kathy hear a chorus of voices coming from upstairs
asking them: “Will you stop?” George and Kathy decide to continue with the
blessing, despite the voices asking them to stop. Agent Simmonds then targets
Kathy’s head and fires low level ultrasound. Kathy experiences severe head
pains and her ears start to ring. George is unaffected. George believes that
the demon in his home is attacking Kathy so he decides to discontinue the
blessing.
One night
while George is sleeping, Agent Simmonds attacks George Lutz with the same type
of directed energy weapon that was used to incapacitate Butch DeFeo during the
murder of his family. George wakes and he finds that he is unable to move and
the room is spinning and he is unable to fixate on objects. George believes he
is having a stroke. Seconds later, another agent uses the sound projection
technology to project audible sounds of banging noises at George while he is
lying helpless in his bed. George can’t get out of bed and he believes his
children are under attack in their room upstairs because of the banging noises.
Agent
Simmonds fires low level ultrasound into George’s back to make him experienced
temperature fluctuations in his home. George experiences sudden temperature
increases while he is standing, sitting, and lying in bed. George begins to
complain about cold spots in his home. George walks into certain areas of his
home and all of the sudden feels an uncomfortable rise in temperature. Only
George is affected.
Agent
Simmonds makes the Lutz’s home heating system malfunction. Agent Simmonds
targets the thermostat on the wall and passes energy thru it to make the
heating system shut down. George looks at the thermostat on the wall and it
reads 80 degrees but the house feels like it is 50 degrees. George calls the
serviceman but when the serviceman arrives, Agent Simmonds discontinues the
attack and the heating system returns to normal operation. The serviceman finds
no malfunction in the system and tells George everything is fine. George
becomes obsessed with keeping his home warm. Kathy sees her husband constantly
chopping wood in the backyard. At night, George covers himself with a blanket
and sits in a chair right in front of the fireplace trying to keep warm. George
looks again at the thermostat and it still ready 80 degrees but George is
freezing. In the middle of the night, while George is sitting in his chair in
front of the fireplace he puts his hands on both sides of his head and begins
violently rocking back and forth while screaming: “I’m coming apart!” Kathy is
awoken by George’s screams. Kathy runs downstairs and finds he husband still
screaming. George stands and grabs his wife by her shoulders and tells her:
We’ve got to get out of this house.
George and
Kathy are completely convinced that there is something seriously wrong with
their new home. George and Kathy decide that the escalating paranormal activity
in their new home has reached a level where it is no longer safe for their
family. On the night of January 14, 1976, George and Kathy frantically wake
their children and put them in the Lutz’s van. Kathy calls her mother on the
phone and tells her they are abandoning their new home. George grabs the family
dog and puts the dog in the back of the van. George gets in the van and tells
his family to keep watch to ensure "Jodie the Flying Pig" isn't
following them. George puts the van in gear and floors the accelerator,
screeching his tires, and tearing off the property onto Ocean Avenue. George
races down Ocean Avenue telling his family: "We're never coming back here
again!"
The Lutz’s
neighbors are awoken by all the commotion outside their homes as the Lutz
family makes their getaway. One neighbor looks out his window and sees the Lutz
van racing away and says: “It hasn’t even been 30 days yet - Agent Simmonds
kept his word.”
As George
is racing away he begins to hear thumps to the side of the van. Agent Simmonds
knowing that the Lutz family was about to abandon their new home arranged for a
going away present for the Lutz family. Agents of the Government Mafia
traveling in vehicles would follow the Lutz family in their van on their way to
Kathy’s mother’s house and fire powerful infrasonic bullets at the side of the
Lutz’s van. As the Lutz family heard the thumps on the side of the van, George
started screaming: “It’s Jodie” over and over again. Kathy and the children
look out the windows and scream: “I don’t see Jodie!” George yells: “Jodie must be on the roof of
the van!” George starts swerving the van back and forth trying to shake Jodie
off the van.
The
thumping on the side of the Lutz’s van lasted for several miles and completely
stopped before arriving at Kathy’s mother’s house. As the Lutz family exits the
van they are warmly greeted by Kathy’s mother. Agent Simmonds decides he is not
finished with the Lutz family yet. Knowing that Kathy’s mother’s house would be
the logical destination for the Lutz family when they finally fled their new
home, Agent Simmonds secured a house near Kathy’s mother’s house where
surveillance could be maintained on Kathy’s mother and George and Kathy when
the time came.
In the Ireland
home, Agent Simmonds pops the cork on a champagne bottle and begins pouring the
champagne. Agent Simmonds congratulates his colleagues on a job well done.
Agent Simmonds tells his colleagues that George and Kathy have just arrived at
Kathy’s mother’s house and I’ll be heading there shortly. Agent Simmonds tells
his colleagues that we have outdone ourselves here and the Lutz haunting has
the potential to become the greatest haunted house story ever. Andy and Agnes Ireland
sitting in another room overhear Agent Simmonds. Andy asks his wife: What does
he mean greatest haunted house ever? Agnes replies: I don’t know. Andy and
Agnes simply stare at each other with blank expressions on their faces.
In the
morning, George and Kathy begin to plan their next move. Agent Simmonds has
relocated to a neighboring house and he is carefully listening. One night as
George and Kathy are soundly asleep, Agent Simmonds targets George’s head and
passes ultrasound into the upper left portion of his brain triggering Temporal
Lobe Epilepsy. George wakes from his sleep and begins to hallucinate. George
sees himself and his wife levitating off their bed. George looks over at Kathy
and tries to speak to her. The hallucination lasts for several minutes. In the
morning George tells his family that he believes the influence of the house on
Ocean Avenue is still upon them. George looks out the window to see if he can
spot Jodie.
George and
Kathy begin to make audio cassette recordings of their ordeal in their home on
Ocean Avenue. As the news of the Lutz haunting spreads the news media begins to
seek out the Lutz family. A determined reporter by the name Laura DiDio makes
first contact with George and Kathy. Laura Didio suggests to George and Kathy
that they have the house investigated by paranormal experts. George and Kathy
agree and decide to attempt the have their home cleaned by paranormal experts.
The Investigation begins.
As news
media attention to the Lutz haunting intensifies, George Lutz decides to call in a
team of paranormal experts known as “The Psychic Posse” to
investigate his home. The Psychic Posse consists of a
demonologist, clairvoyant, several psychics, and paranormal researchers.
Agent Simmonds enjoys tricking what
he considers social misfits in society into believing they have supernatural
powers.
When the paranormal people claim to
feel the presence of spirits or vibrations, what they are actually experiencing
is the effects of being attacked with sound which they cannot see or hear but
only feel. Agent
Simmonds and his colleagues attack the paranormal people thru walls with sonic
weapons to trick them into believing they have extraordinary powers.
The paranormal people are carefully
selected and then manipulated. Agent Simmonds constantly jokes to his colleagues that if he
had his way, he would maroon all of the paranormal people on the “Island of
Misfit Toys” and be done with them forever. But since maroonment is not
possible, Agent Simmonds must deal with the paranormal people in other ways.
Agent Simmonds and his colleagues
have invested tremendous resources in The Psychic Posse over the years, so
their participation in the investigation of the Lutz home will be a real
pleasure.
On February 24, 1976, Ed and Lorraine Warren, two members of The
Psychic Posse, arrive at the Lutz home to begin the initial investigation.
Agent Simmonds and his colleagues are set up in the neighboring Ireland house
and consider it a great honor to have what the paranormal field considers the
top ghost hunters involved in the investigation. Ed and Lorraine Warren enter
the Lutz home. As Ed Warren is inspecting the basement, Agent Simmonds targets
him as he is walking down the basement stairs and attacks him with a sonic
weapon. As Ed Warren is walking down the basement stairs, he suddenly feels
some invisible force coming down on him like a waterfall, dragging him to the
floor, and he also sees distortions in his eyes. Unknown to Ed Warren is that
he is being attacked with sound that he cannot hear or see and the distortions
that he sees is the sound entering his eyes causing pressure on his optic
nerves. Seconds after being attacked, Ed Warren turns around and runs up the
basement stairs and finds Lorraine in the living room. Ed Warren frantically
tells Lorraine he has just encountered a terrifying inhuman presence in the
basement. Ed Warren grabs Lorraine’s hand and pulls her towards the front door
and tells her: “Come on Lorraine we are in danger. We will need the rest of The
Psychic Posse to battle this demon!” Ed and Lorraine Warren exit the Lutz home
and jump back into their car. Ed Warren starts the car and floors the
accelerator. Ed Warren then tears out of the Lutz’s driveway and down Ocean
Avenue. Agent Simmonds and the other agents break out in laughter as the sound
of screeching tires is clearly heard inside the Ireland house.
The entire Psychic Posse assembles at the Lutz home on the night
of March 6, 1976 with two news reporters. Laura Didio is one of the reporters and the other is famed
TV news reporter Marvin Scott. Agent Simmonds and his colleagues have
again set up in the neighboring Ireland house and they are all excited that
they will have the opportunity to manipulate the entire Psychic Posse and have
it all recorded by the news media. It’s a dream come true for Agent Simmonds. George
Lutz arrives but because he is so terrified of the house, he will not set foot
on the property so he gives the house key to Laura Didio at the edge of the property and
quickly jumps back in his car and speeds away down Ocean Avenue.
The investigation begins with a psychic named
Alberta
Riley conducting a séance in the dining room. Agent Simmonds
targets Alberta Riley’s chest and fires an infrasonic laser into her chest
causing her to experience tightness of the chest and an irregular heartbeat.
Alberta Riley states that she feels the force coming at her and its making her
heart speed up. Agent Simmonds then
targets Alberta Riley’s stomach area and fires the infrasonic laser into her
stomach so she becomes sick to the stomach and eventually forces her to leave
the table and exit the room. After Alberta Riley flees the dining room,
Lorraine Warren is asked to take charge and continue the séance but Lorraine
knows her limitations and firmly refuses, stating that she didn’t want to put
herself at risk.
Later in the evening, the investigation moves to the second
floor. As a cameraman is climbing the stairs to the second floor, Agent
Simmonds fires an infrasonic laser into the cameraman’s chest, causing the
cameraman to experience severe chest pains. As the cameraman reached the
landing on the second floor, all of the sudden he bent over complaining of
stabbing chest pains. The cameraman tells Laura Didio that he is perfectly healthy and has never
experienced anything like this before. The cameraman says: I need a moment to
recover.
Lorraine Warren and Marvin Scott enter the sewing room. Agent
Simmonds targets Lorraine and fires low level infrasound at her body. Lorraine
pauses and then abruptly asks Marvin: Do you feel it? Lorraine then tells
Marvin that this is as close to hell as I hope I ever get. Marvin Scott shrugs
his shoulders and with a puzzled look tells Lorraine he feels nothing out of
the ordinary. Marvin asks: Where are all the flies?
Ed and Lorraine Warren enter the master bedroom. Ed and Lorraine
lay in the bed in the same positions as George and Kathy Lutz. Ed and Lorraine
were told by George and Kathy that Kathy levitated off the bed. Lorraine
desperately wants to levitate off the bed for the cameras but after 30 minutes,
the effort is abandoned and the investigation moves to the third floor.
On the third floor, the investigation continues. Agent Simmonds
targets Lorraine Warren’s
chest area and fires an infrasonic laser into her chest. Lorraine Warren is standing in the hallway of the third
floor, between the two bedrooms, feels what she describes as water rushing into
her chest. Lorraine says: It comes at you so powerfully and it’s overwhelming.
Agent Simmonds uses
sound projection technology to project sizzling sounds at a psychic who is
sprinkling holy water throughout Butch’s former bedroom. Since the sizzling
sounds are only directed at the psychic, only she hears the sounds as she
continues to sprinkle the holy water. The psychic describes the sounds as similar
to water being dropped on a hot skillet pan. When the psychic asks the camera
crew if they hear it, the crew responds: We don’t hear anything unusual. The
only thing recorded is the unusual reactions the psychic has to something
unseen or heard by the crew and equipment.
With the
investigation complete of the third floor, everyone on the third floor begins
to walk down the staircase heading to the first floor.
Agent Simmonds fires an infrasonic bullet at Ed Warren while he is walking down
the stairs, causing him to lunge backwards. Ed Warren abruptly halts on the
staircase and turns and tells Laura
Didio that
he was just struck by a demon. It was like being “Assailed by a legion of
demons”. Laura
Didio several feet behind Ed says: I didn’t feel a thing.
After investigating
the Lutz home for several hours, The Psychic Posse is now completely convinced
the Lutz home is haunted. But Laura
Didio and Marvin Scott
are not convinced at all. At the end of the night, both of the reporters state
that they personally experienced nothing out of the ordinary, other than the
reactions of the members of The Psychic Posse. Marvin Scott turns to Laura
Didio and says: I don’t think we have it. Marvin Scott tells Laura Didio that
the only voices he heard were that of his crew asking if they could eat the
sandwiches they brought. Jodie the Flying Pig was a complete no-show tonight.
As the
investigation draws to an end, the crews pack up their equipment and load it
into the vehicles. Laura Didio is the last one out of the home, she locks the
door. As the reporters, Psychic Posse, and crew gather outside to make final
observations and say good night, their attention is drawn to the house next
door.
Andy and Agnes Ireland
put on a show for the reporters outside their home. At Agent Simmonds request,
Andy and Agnes go out for the night and wait at a local bar until summoned to
return home. After the investigation was finished and The Psychic Posse and
reporters agreed to call it a night, Agent Simmonds made a call to a colleague
to notify Andy and Agnes Ireland to return home.
As the reporters,
Psychic Posse, and crews stand outside the Lutz home, Andy and Agnes Ireland
arrive home. Andy Ireland is forced to park his car in the street because the
news van is blocking the Ireland’s driveway entrance. Andy Ireland immediately
gets out of his car and starts screaming at the reporters about their van
blocking his driveway. Agnes Ireland then jumps out of the car and begins to
loudly scream in the direction of the Lutz home: “Butch!!! Butch!!! Butch!!!
Why don’t you come out and play with your rifles!!!” Andy Ireland then
immediately turns to his wife and makes it appear he is trying to silence her
by forcing her into their home. After Andy and Agnes enter their home, Andy
closes the front door and both then begin to laugh. Agent Simmonds approaches
Andy and Agnes and congratulates them on their performance and tells Andy to
immediately call the police.
The reporters,
Psychic Posse, and crews are still startled by the Ireland’s behavior minutes
earlier when they are then further rattled by the arrival of the Amityville
Police. The Amityville Police begin to aggressively interrogate The Psychic
Posse, reporters, and crews by asking each of them for their identification and
a full explanation of why they are at the Lutz’s home. After a thorough
interrogation by the Amityville police, the reporters, Psychic Posse, and crews
are given a warning and allowed to leave.
The Psychic Posse presents their paranormal findings to George
and Kathy Lutz. The Psychic Posse delivers the bad news to George and Kathy
that the paranormal forces inhabiting their home are too powerful to be driven
out even by The Psychic Posse. Ed and Lorraine Warren hold a press conference
and announce to the world that the Lutz’s home is haunted. Ed Warren tells the
reporters that the Amityville house is a perfect 10 on the paranormal scale of
1 to 10.
After carefully considering all their options, George and Kathy
decide to heed the advice of The Psychic Posse and abandon their new home.
George and Kathy, having no other choice, return their new home back to the
bank. George and Kathy decide they will flee the state and move as far away
from Amityville as possible, to the opposite coast. George and Kathy will leave
all their worldly possessions behind and get on an airplane to California and
start a new life, never again to return to Amityville. George theorizes that
because of the distance, Jodie the Flying Pig simply will not be able to follow
them to California. George is mistaken!
Episode
III: The Denial
The Denial Begins.
The Ocean Avenue Conspirators meet secretly to discuss the next
phase of the conspiracy. The DeFeo family that once lived on Ocean Avenue is
now dead and buried in the cemetery. Butch DeFeo is in prison for what will
most certainly be the rest of his life.
Mike Brigante Sr. and Rocco DeFeo are both personally devastated by the
murder of their daughter, son, and grandchildren. Mike Brigante Sr. and Rocco
DeFeo have both found it impossible to conduct their illegal activities
involving organized crime with all the news media attention surrounding the
DeFeo murders and now the Lutz haunting. Both men have been put out of
business. In fact, Mike Brigante Sr. was forced to close Brigante-Karl Buick
car dealership. The public’s attention is now focused on the Lutz haunting and
away from the bizarre nature of the DeFeo murders. The mafia was never able to
connect the dots and discover who had the real motive to murder the DeFeo
family. The Lutz family has fled Amityville and their former home on Ocean
Avenue is now vacant.
Agent Simmonds briefs the Ocean Avenue Conspirators with the
details of the next phase of the conspiracy. The next phase of the conspiracy
will involve moving a local family into the former Lutz home so the community
can begin to return to normalcy. The married couple will deny there is anything
wrong with their new home and publicly allege George and Kathy Lutz are liars
and their haunted house story was a money-making fraud. The public controversy
over whether the Lutz haunting was real or a hoax will further distract the
public’s attention away from the bizarre nature of the DeFeo murders and onto
the supernatural. At Agent Simmonds urging, John and Brenda Cromarty volunteers
to buy the home and move in with their children. Agent Simmons is confident
that John and Brenda Cromarty have the “right stuff” to pull off this next
phase of the conspiracy.
John and Brenda Cromarty have been in on the conspiracy from the
very beginning and have full knowledge of the conspiracy to murder the DeFeo
family on Ocean Avenue and then trick the Lutz family into believing their home
is haunted. The children of John and Brenda Cromarty are completely unaware of
their parents’ involvement in the conspiracy. Like the Irelands, John and
Brenda Cromarty are powerful and influential people in the town of Amityville.
The Cromarty family has also lived in Amityville for generations. As a young
child, John Cromarty actually once played in the house, many years before the
DeFeo family moved in.
Agent Simmonds again uses his connections in the real estate
business to arrange for the former Lutz home to be sold to John and Brenda Cromarty
for the incredible bargain price of 60 thousand dollars. John and Brenda Cromarty
move into the former Lutz home in April of 1977. Both John and Brenda Cromarty
are completely aware that classified military technology was used to murder the
DeFeo family thru the walls of their home while they slept. And John and Brenda
Cromarty are completely aware classified sonic harassment technology was used
to trick the Lutz family into believing the former DeFeo residence was haunted.
But now John and Brenda Cromarty’s mission is to convince the news media, the
general public, and curiosity seekers into believing that George and Kathy Lutz
were nothing but liars and con artists and there is nothing wrong with the
house.
John and Brenda Cromarty change the address of their new home
and repaint it, but even after nearly two years since the Lutz family fled
Amityville, the attention to the DeFeo murders and Lutz haunting doesn’t fade
away as they previously anticipated. John and Brenda Cromarty thought that
everything would simply return to normalcy and the community would go back to
the way it was before the DeFeo family moved in, but they were wrong. Agent
Simmonds had guaranteed the Ocean Avenue Conspirators that several months after
the Lutz family abandoned their new home, everything would be as it was before
the DeFeo family arrived in Amityville, but this has simply not been the case.
As the public’s fascination with the DeFeo murders and Lutz haunting
intensifies, John and Brenda Cromarty’s new home is becoming known to the
public as the “Horror House”. Unknown to the Ocean Avenue Conspirators, Agent
Simmonds had no intention of letting an enormously successful hoax like the
Amityville Horror simply fade away. Agent Simmonds has his own agenda.
Agent Simmonds had ordered continued surveillance of the Lutz
family when they first arrived in California. Agents of the Government Mafia
secured a house neighboring the new Lutz home in California and constant covert
surveillance is being maintained of the Lutz family. Agent Simmonds has also
moved to California and he has big plans for George and Kathy Lutz. The news
media doesn’t let up on covering the Lutz haunting. Countless TV news reports
and newspaper and magazine articles appear across the country and in other
countries around the world. The Lutz haunting seems to have touched a nerve.
Agent Simmonds uses the Government Mafia’s connections in the
publishing business to get George and Kathy a book deal which will allow them
to tell their story to the world. Jay Anson, a well-known writer will write
George and Kathy’s haunted house story. Jay Anson’s book will be titled “The
Amityville Horror”.
“The Amityville Horror” book is released and it becomes a
runaway success and all hell breaks loose on Ocean Avenue. John and Brenda Cromarty
are besieged by curiosity seekers arriving at their home each day. Instead of
the public’s curiosity diminishing, it has exploded in intensity. The Cromarty
family experiences unwelcome strangers constantly knocking on their doors,
looking in their windows, taking pictures, screaming outside their home,
damaging their property, and removing pieces of the house and property for
souvenirs. Brenda Cromarty tells her husband: “It wasn’t supposed to be like
this. It was just supposed to fade away and be forgotten.”
Andy and Agnes Ireland and their now neighbors John and Brenda Cromarty
feel their community has been turned into a circus by Agent Simmonds. The Ocean
Avenue Conspirators begin to worry that the public could soon discover the
truth and the conspiracy could be exposed. The Ocean Avenue Conspirators feel
betrayed by Agent Simmonds and they wonder what else he has up his sleeve. The
relationship between the Ocean Avenue Conspirators and Agent Simmonds that was
once of mutual trust has now been turned into a feeling of betrayal by the
Ocean Avenue Conspirators.
After the incredible success of the Amityville Horror book,
Agent Simmonds now uses the Government Mafia’s connections in Hollywood to get
George and Kathy a movie deal based on the enormously successful book.
Andy Ireland is home watching TV when all of the sudden a movie trailer
for the upcoming release of the movie “The Amityville Horror” comes on the TV
as a commercial. Andy Ireland, in a sudden rage, immediately gets up from his
chair and uses the bottom of his foot to knock his TV off the stand to the
floor. The TV crashes to the floor and shatters. As the shattered TV begins to
arc and smoke, Andy Ireland grabs his copy of the Amityville Horror book off
the table and throws it into the burning fireplace and screams: “Simmonds!”
“You double-crossing S.O.B.!”
Brenda Cromarty is outside her home using a garden hose to clean
her front door after two drunks, earlier in the day, urinated on the entrance
to her home. The drunks were loudly screaming that the urine will ward off the
evil spirits. After Brenda Cromarty hears Andy Ireland screaming inside his
home, she drops the garden hose and runs over to the Ireland residence only to
discover the news about the imminent release of the Amityville Horror movie.
Andy and Agnes Ireland and John and Brenda Cromarty are all infuriated with
Agent Simmonds and ask each other: “What is Agent Simmonds doing to us?” The Irelands
and Cromartys are trapped in a never ending storm of news media attention and a
curious public that is destroying their lives. Andy Ireland relays to his
contacts with the Government Mafia that he demands a face-to-face meeting with
Agent Simmonds.
A week later, Agent Simmonds flies in from California to
personally meet with Andy Ireland at the Ireland residence. Agent Simmonds
arrives at the Ireland residence and immediately notices the crowds of people
in front of the Horror House. Agent Simmonds parks his car and pauses briefly
to visually inspect the crowds. A priest hauling a 12-foot wooden crucifix in
front of the Horror House immediately catches Agent Simmonds’ eye. Agent
Simmonds smirks, shakes his head, and quietly utters to himself: “These crazy
Christian kooks are so gullible.”
Agent Simmonds gets out of his car and slowly walks towards the Ireland
residence. Andy Ireland has been waiting all day for Agent Simmonds to arrive.
Andy Ireland, sitting by the window, sees Agent Simmonds approaching and
immediately jumps to his feet and races to the front door. Before Agent
Simmonds can even knock on the door, Andy Ireland quickly swings the door open
and asks Agent Simmonds to enter. After Agent Simmonds enters, Andy Ireland
slams the front door closed.
The two men don’t shake hands. The first question Andy Ireland
asks Agent Simmonds is: “What the hell are you doing to us?” Agent Simmonds
remains silent as he slowly walks into the living room. Agent Simmonds sits in
Andy Ireland’s personal chair in front of an empty TV stand and asks: “Is your
TV broken?” Andy Ireland seething with anger fights to hold back. Agent
Simmonds calmly asks: “So how can I help you?”
Andy Ireland snaps and says: “We traded several psychos living
next door for a new army of psychos descending on our community each day!” Andy
Ireland points to the window facing the Horror House and says: “Look what is
going on out there!” Outside the house, the priest hauling a 12-foot wooden
crucifix on his back is loudly reciting verses from a bible in his hand. A Native American that is dressed in
ceremonial clothing is doing a tribal dance on the front lawn of the Horror House.
A man with a goat is on the front lawn of the Horror House allowing it to graze
on the lawn. Other people are on their knees praying in front of the Horror
House, some are pulling up the grass on the front lawn. Several nuns and other
bystanders are gathered across the street watching the mayhem unfold. Andy Ireland
tells Agent Simmonds that people have stopped their cars in the middle of the
street, gotten out of their cars and pulled shingles off the Horror House, and
then quickly driven away. People are
coming from all over the world to see the Horror House. Traffic is stop-and-go
out there as people stop to get a glance of the Horror House, Andy Ireland
continues. A person in a car a few days ago drove up onto the Cromarty’s front
lawn and started spinning his wheels and tearing up the lawn. A week ago, in
broad daylight, two drunken degenerates got out of a car and proceeded to
urinate on the Cromarty’s front door, screaming this will keep away the evil
spirits.
It’s a complete circus atmosphere out there. At least with the
DeFeos, it was safe for our children to play outside but now we don’t even let
them go outside alone anymore. We hear cars blowing their horns throughout the
day and into the night as the curiosity seekers drive by. Andy Ireland turns to
Agent Simmonds and asks: “What are you doing to us?”
You guaranteed us that there would be a short period of press
and a few curiosity seekers but we are now under siege. A book and now a movie,
when does it all end? The book and the movie were not part of the deal, Andy Ireland
screams at Agent Simmonds. If I have one more person knocking on my door asking
if I’ve seen Jodie the Flying Pig, I’ll go crazy. Andy Ireland snaps at Agent
Simmonds and says: “You got us into this mess, now get us out!” We are in way
over our heads here.
Agent Simmonds calmly responds: “You wanted the DeFeos gone and
now they are all gone for good.” We have fulfilled our part of the deal now
live up to your part. Agent Simmonds tells Andy Ireland that the deal is
dynamic, not static. Agent Simmonds states that he personally alters the deal
when necessary to ensure the interests of the Government Mafia are satisfied.
Andy Ireland, becoming increasingly irrational, hints of
exposing the Lutz haunting as a government hoax to the public. After hearing
the threat, Agent Simmonds immediately jumps out of his chair and grabs Andy Ireland
by the throat and violently thrusts him against the wall. The impact of Andy Ireland
hitting the wall knocks several pictures off the wall. Agent Simmonds puts his
finger right in Andy Ireland’s face and tells him that if he betrays the
Government Mafia, he will go to sleep one night and never awake, just like the
DeFeo family. I’ve killed many and I would have no problem killing you, Agent
Simmonds warns. Agent Simmonds firmly tells Andy Ireland: “Either way, you will
take the secret to your grave but it simply all depends on when you go to your
grave!“
Andy Ireland pinned to the wall finds it difficult to breathe
and has a look of pure terror on his face. Agent Simmonds releases Andy Ireland
from his grip and Andy begins to gasp for air. Andy Ireland’s attitude quickly
changes and he decides to remain silent. Agent Simmonds straightens his tie and
asks Andy Ireland if he wants him to inform his associates that you feel you
are being cheated. Andy Ireland pauses briefly and then says: “No.” Agent
Simmonds says: “You made the right choice.”
Agent Simmonds warns Andy Ireland that the Government Mafia will
not tolerate people who do not fulfill their commitments. After both men calm
down, Andy Ireland tells Agent Simmonds: “We can’t go on the way things are.”
We never expected this. I know, Agent Simmonds says. Agent Simmonds tells Andy Ireland
to play along for a while and we will move the neighbors out slowly and
relocate them. You and the rest of the
neighbors will be made whole and will profit handsomely if you play the game.
If any of you don’t want to play the game, then you’ll be
neighbors again with the DeFeo family at the cemetery. I will not allow you or
the others to place this operation in jeopardy, Agent Simmonds warns. “If I
have to, I will personally kill every one of you to protect this operation!”
“Do you understand?” Agent Simmonds
asks. Andy Ireland looks to the floor
shaking his head and says: “Yes I understand.”
Agent Simmonds pats Andy Ireland on his shoulder and tells him
to start acting like a man. I’ll do my best to forget this conversation ever
occurred, Agent Simmonds says. Before leaving, Agent Simmonds gives Andy Ireland
a very stern warning to deliver to the rest of the Ocean Avenue Conspirators.
Agent Simmonds, while walking towards the front door, tells Andy Ireland: “I’ll
contact you and the Cromartys in a few days to discuss your future
participation in the Horror House hoax.” Agent Simmonds exits the Ireland house
and walks towards his car. Agent Simmonds gets in his car and slowly drives by
the Horror House waving to the priest hauling the 12-foot crucifix on his back.
Agent Simmonds smiles at the priest and quietly utters under his breath,
“Christian Scum”.
Days later, Andy Ireland delivers Agent Simmonds’ message to the
rest of the Ocean Avenue Conspirators with homes near the Horror House. Andy Ireland
informs his coconspirators that they have no choice but to play along until
Agent Simmonds can relocate them. Andy Ireland also informs the rest of the
coconspirators of Agent Simmonds’ stern warning. Agent Simmonds’ warning is
clear and directly to the point: “If
they are not happy living on Ocean Avenue and want a quick exit, there are
plenty of plots available at the cemetery near the DeFeos for them. Unknown to
the Ocean Avenue Conspirators, Agent Simmonds has ordered covert surveillance
of them, to ensure their loyalty. If any of the conspirators were to even hint
of betraying the Government Mafia, they would meet the same fate as the DeFeo
family on Ocean Avenue.
A few days later, Agent Simmonds meets privately with Andy and
Agnes Ireland and John and Brenda Cromarty at the Ireland residence to discuss
their future participation in the Amityville Horror hoax. Agent Simmonds
assures the Irelands and Cromartys that this is what the public needs and
wants, so we give it to them. It’s called social engineering. The American
people are like children and we are the adults, Agent Simmonds explains.
Our government once discriminated against minorities but it is
now discriminating against the majority white population to remedy past
injustice against the minority. White Christians became the majority in this
country unfairly and we must correct this by taking covert actions against
those that stand in the way of desegregation. As the white man defeated the
Native Americans to conquer the New World, we must now take covert action to
correct this past injustice. We must defeat those members of the white
population who stand in the way of creating a multicultural society.
Agent Simmonds continues: This is a stealth civil war being
fought in America. This is America’s second civil war. This war is not being
fought with conventional bullets, bombs, or war planes but rather with classified
technology that the people we are fighting against have no idea even exists.
Classified technology that can’t be proven to be in use or even exist. We are
America’s secret police force. The Untouchables, if you wish...
The American Government put man on the moon, a quarter million
miles away from Earth, and now the government is turning inward to change
America into a multicultural society. The passage of civil rights laws and
affirmative action will simply not be enough to overcome the white population’s
resistance to desegregation. This will require much more than the passage of
laws. A secret police force was created for this purpose.
Covert action against the white population by a secret police
force is necessary. This secret police force must covertly target and bring
down those who stand in the way of desegregation and at the same time create
distractions for the general population. These distractions are manufactured
hoaxes created by the secret police force. Some examples of these distractions
are haunted houses and UFOs.
Agent Simmonds explains that The Government Mafia is this secret
police force. We are completely above the law and we have a license to kill if
necessary. We have been equipped with classified surveillance technology and
directed energy weapon that the public has no idea exists. The ability to see
and hear through walls is fantasy in the public’s mind. The directed energy
weapons have been in development since the end of World War 2. The ability to
electronically see and hear through walls and target people through walls and
the ability to harass, torture, and even murder people through walls without
creating physical evidence will forever change America. The Government Mafia
can stop the rise of a person or group that could threaten our government.
Imagine if Adolf Hitler could be stopped before his rise to power. The
government’s development of this technology can covertly stop the rise of the
next Hitler or Nazi Party. This technology, as demonstrated on the DeFeo family
can kill people while they sleep and it will appear as they died of natural
causes. The Government Mafia can also give these people a slow death by using
directed energy weapons designed to give them a disease such as cancer. This
type of directed energy weapon fires a beam of low level radiation. A single
person in a household can be targeted and dowsed regularly with low level
radiation over days or months until a disease appears. Only the targeted person
will be affected. A single person in a household developing cancer will not
alarm medical professionals. A person who is a threat to the government can now
be given cancer that will end his life in months or years. The Government Mafia
considers a slow and painful death fitting for these people.
The American people must be distracted away from social issues
so we can work behind the scenes implementing the government secret domestic
agenda. Agent Simmonds points at the Irelands and Cromartys and says firmly:
“This is where you are needed!” “Uncle Sam needs you!” “You have been drafted!”
Agent Simmonds continues: The American people need and want
things like haunted houses and UFOs to be real so we give it to them. We have
created a domestic covert operation known as the “Paranormal Games”. Candidates
for the games are secretly screened in areas across the country to take part in
the games. The candidates that are chosen to participate in the games are
usually gullible people who can be easily manipulated into believing they are
experiencing extraordinary events in their lives. These candidates want to
believe in the paranormal so badly they will forgo using common sense and
immediately conclude they are experiencing something involving the paranormal.
The candidates are usually loners or lonely people who need the paranormal in
their lives to give their lives meaning. Most of the candidates have some form
of mental illness.
The participants in the games are completely unaware they are
being used as propaganda tools by the government. We covertly move into
neighboring houses to the candidates and place them under covert electronic
surveillance thru the walls of their homes. We study and analyze them and
carefully create a strategy to manipulate them.
Once the candidates are chosen to participate in the Paranormal
Games, we attack them thru the walls of their homes using classified technology
to trick them into believing they are experiencing paranormal events. The
unknowing participants in the games are completely convinced that they are
experiencing extraordinary events and have no idea that it’s all a manufactured
hoax by the government. We then ensure that the right people are in place to
make contact with the game participants and fill their heads with all the
paranormal mumbo-jumbo. It is very important that the game participants get
their extraordinary experiences reported in the news media so the propaganda is
disseminated.
We have sympathizers to our agenda in the news media,
entertainment business, colleges, and other areas in society who knowingly
disseminate the paranormal propaganda. The crazy paranormal people will catch
wind of the events and move in to investigate. Haunted house stories and even
UFO stories are created from this. It is critical that we keep the paranormal
crazies’ time occupied with meaningless things. This protects us all.
Ed and Lorraine Warren, for example, have been unknowing
participants in the Paranormal Games now for years, Agent Simmonds continues.
We have invested significant resources into tricking the Warrens into believing
they have experienced paranormal events. The Warrens unknowingly do our bidding
by traveling the country and spreading the paranormal propaganda. The Warrens
are simply gullible fools, who are just propaganda tools to us, explains Agent
Simmons. We chose the Warrens because they are charismatic kooks who would
spread our propaganda very effectively. It’s hard to come by kooks like Ed and
Lorraine Warren. The Warrens do our bidding and we don’t even have to pay them.
They work for free. The vibrations and other paranormal sensations the Warrens
claim to have experienced are nothing more than the effects of being attacked
thru walls by classified sonic harassment technology. The Warrens have devoted
their lives to their cause of convincing the public that the paranormal is
real. If only the Warrens knew the truth that we are using them to smear
Christianity and make white Christians look like crackpots, Agent Simmonds
accidently lets part of his agenda slip out.
The Cromartys and Irelands have a look of puzzlement on their
faces after Agent Simmonds last statement about smearing Christianity so Agent
Simmonds clears his throat and abruptly moves on. The public needs to be
distracted away from social issues and onto manufactured hoaxes so the
Paranormal Games must continue. We will use the fears, desires, and religious
beliefs of the American people as a means of achieving our objective. If we so
desire we could create a whole new religion for the American people to follow.
We are turning America into a utopian society and we must rid the country of
scum like the DeFeo family.
You have your revenge.
The DeFeo family on Ocean Avenue is gone forever and Butch is behind
bars for life. Mike Brigante Sr. and Rocco DeFeo are both personally devastated
and now visit their daughter, son, and grandchildren at the cemetery rather
than on Ocean Avenue and they all blame Butch for the murders. Mike Brigante
Sr. and Rocco DeFeo are both broken men who are no longer a threat to the
government. The DeFeo and Brigante family names are disgraced forever. This is
what happens to people who are a threat to our government. The government must
act covertly to defend itself from these threats. Organized crime wanted a war
with the government and now they have it.
Butch DeFeo has been transformed into a figure of pure evil and
feared by every child in America, more than the boogeyman. Amityville is now a household name known by
every American and around the world. We must now get the paranormal crazies in
society to argue amongst each other over whether the Lutz haunting was a hoax
or real. Agent Simmonds stands and proudly exclaims: “The Amityville Horror
Saga will be my finest moment!” “The Paranormal Games must continue!”
Agent Simmonds tells the Irelands and Cromartys that it’s their
responsibility to live up to their part of the bargain and play along. What I have told you the public can never
discover. If I had to, I would kill each one of you to protect the secret. The
Government Mafia is now the ultimate power inside this country. The Government
Mafia can electronically see and hear our domestic enemies through walls but
they can’t see or hear us. The Government Mafia can kill people thru walls and
it will simply appear the assassinated people died of massive heart attacks.
The Government Mafia can determine who lives and dies in this country. If I
suspect that you will become an enemy of the Government Mafia, I can order your
high-tech assassination. Just like the DeFeo family, you will never see it
coming. Agent Simmonds warns the Irelands and Cromartys: “Don’t get on the
wrong side of The Government Mafia!”
You now have two choices: Join the DeFeos at the cemetery or
continue the play the game. Agent Simmonds points his finger at the Irelands
and Cromartys and then says: “Choose wisely, there will be no second chances!”
If you choose the wrong side, your family, including your children, could be at
risk, Agent Simmonds warns. Remember what happened to the DeFeo children. Once
you are considered a threat by the Government Mafia, there is nothing I can do
to protect you. It would be out of my hands. Agent Simmonds sits back in his
chair and says: “Choose now!”
Having no other choice, the Irelands and Cromartys agree to
continue the hoax and further participate in the Paranormal Games. Agent
Simmonds ends the meeting completely confident that the Irelands and Cromartys
are going to cooperate fully. Andy Ireland escorts Agent Simmonds to his car
and the men shake hands outside. Agent Simmonds gets in his car and drives away
into the night.
Andy Ireland returns to his home and asks the others: “My God,
what mess have we gotten ourselves into?” Andy Ireland continues: “Agent
Simmonds is the devil.” “We made a pact with the devil.” Agent Simmonds heads
to the airport to fly back to California to continue his work on his pet
project, George and Kathy Lutz.
The Amityville Horror movie is released and the movie becomes a
blockbuster. The mayhem on Ocean Avenue
intensifies. The haunted house story strikes a nerve and the public is completely
hooked. Adults and children read the book and see the movie and become obsessed
with the story.
As the hoax plays out, John and Brenda Cromarty comply with
Agent Simmonds demands and appear on popular television shows denying there is
anything wrong with their new home. John and Brenda Cromarty call George and
Kathy Lutz liars on national television and allege the whole Lutz haunting was
a money-making fraud. The public views John and Brenda Cromarty as victims and
never at any time suspect they were involved in a conspiracy. John and Brenda Cromarty
also publicly accuse George and Kathy Lutz of exploiting the DeFeo murders for
profit.
At Agent Simmonds instruction, John and Brenda Cromarty invite
the news media into their home. In their living room, John and Brenda Cromarty
ask the news media if they feel any vibrations. John and Brenda Cromarty ask:
“Where are the vibrations?” The news reporters respond by looking at each
other, shaking their heads, and saying: “I don’t feel a thing.” John and Brenda
Cromarty tell the reporters that there is nothing wrong with this house and
George and Kathy Lutz are simply liars. Brenda Cromarty, in way over her head,
has a look of terror on her face as she appears ready to have a nervous
breakdown. Brenda Cromarty feeling extreme guilt and remorse over the death of
the DeFeo children, at times cannot even look at the camera, so she stares
aimlessly at the floor. John puts his arm around his wife at these moments to
keep her from having a total breakdown on national television. Brenda Cromarty
never expected this. Brenda Cromarty tells the reporters: “Once we moved into
the house, we changed the street number, we repainted the outside of the house,
and we made the house a beautiful part of the community again. John and I
really thought everything would just go away and we never dreamt what would
take place here.”
John and Brenda Cromarty then give the reporters a tour of their
home inspecting areas of their home that were shown damaged or completely
destroyed in the movie. Brenda Cromarty shows the reporters the two quarter
shaped moon windows in Butch DeFeo’s former bedroom, the staircase banister,
and the front door, which are all in original
condition and undamaged. This charade put on by John and Brenda Cromarty,
at Agent Simmonds’ request, further adds fuel to the public debate over whether
the Lutz haunting was a hoax. No suspicion ever at any time falls on John and
Brenda Cromarty, as to their involvement in the conspiracy to murder the DeFeo
family and then use the Lutz family to cover up the murders. John and Brenda Cromarty
have managed to successfully increase the density of the smokescreen and
protect themselves and the rest of the Ocean Avenue Conspirators.
Agent Simmonds urges Andy and Agnes Ireland to talk to the news
media. Andy Ireland talks to the news media in his home and says that Ronald
DeFeo Jr. was a troubled teenager and also says DeFeo would have had to have
been crazy to have murdered his own family. Andy Ireland says: Butch is not
dealing with a full deck. Agnes Ireland is haunted by the murder of the DeFeo
children and decides to keep a low profile and not do any interviews.
Agent Simmonds again uses the Government Mafia’s connections in
the publishing business to get book deals for book authors with bizarre and
implausible theories on the DeFeo murders and Lutz haunting. Shady people with
connections to the Government Mafia feed the book authors carefully selected
information obtained from the surveillance of the DeFeo family and Lutz family.
Agent Simmonds catches some big fish as popular book authors begin to devote
what will become years of their lives to uncover what they believe is the real
truth. Book authors who claim their book is the real truth begin to emerge and
further fan the flames of the public debate surrounding the Amityville Horror
Saga.
At Agent Simmonds request, the former DeFeo neighbors talk to
the news media, book authors, investigators, and anyone else who comes to their
doors and the neighbors dish out the dirt on the DeFeo family. To further
disgrace the DeFeo family name, former neighbors of the DeFeo family put out
rumors of incest within the DeFeo home as the motive for the murders.
In order to create the illusion that Andy Ireland is simply a
concerned resident of Amityville, he begins to take the lead in organizing the
community and town to deal with the ramifications of the Amityville Horror book
and movie. Members of the Ocean Avenue Conspirators attend Andy Ireland’s town
meetings and act as any ordinary concerned citizen would, even though they are
fully aware they caused all the mayhem in the first place.
Agent Simmonds kicks his campaign of propaganda into high gear
by luring the paranormal crazies into the Amityville Horror debate. Agent
Simmonds uses a technique of turning the domestic enemies of the Government
Mafia against each other and then have them destroy each other. The objective
of Agent Simmonds is to get the paranormal crackpots arguing over whether the
Amityville Horror incident is a hoax or a true paranormal event.
Dr. Stephen Kaplan is a noted paranormal investigator and
vampirologist. Fun Fact: A vampirologist
is a person that researches, studies, and discusses vampires in both the
fictional and real world and the trends that follow them. Vampirologist is
known as a vampire hunter.
Dr. Stephen Kaplan claims: “Vampires live among us. Los Angeles
was home to 36 vampires; the highest concentration of vampires in the world.
Kaplan claimed that vampires thrived in Los Angeles because of L.A.’s
“acceptance of the unusual.” Vampires are not be feared because they are
pleasant people who require only a very small amount of blood. Vampires can
come out in the daytime; they just need to wear a sun block of 15 or higher.”
Before George Lutz asked The Psychic Posse to investigate his
home in Amityville, George initially asked Dr. Stephen Kaplan to investigate
his home. When George discovered Dr. Stephen Kaplan was a vampirologist, George
abruptly withdrew his offer. George Lutz is clearly Anti-Vampire.
When Dr. Stephen Kaplan called to confirm the date of his
investigation, George Lutz said “some other time” and hung up the phone. George
never called back Dr. Stephen Kaplan to reschedule the investigation. After Dr.
Stephen Kaplan discovered George was bringing in The Psychic Posse to investigate
the Lutz home, Dr. Stephen Kaplan became furious. Dr. Stephen Kaplan seething
with anger over the disrespect shown to him by George decides to become
George’s nemesis and vows to expose the Lutz haunting as a hoax. Dr. Stephen
Kaplan exclaims: If it’s the last thing I do on this Earth, I’ll expose George
and Kathy Lutz as liars and frauds! From this point on it will become Dr.
Stephen Kaplan’s lifelong obsession to expose George and Kathy Lutz as liars
and the Amityville Horror as a hoax. Agent Simmonds basically considers Dr.
Stephen Kaplan a loony with credibility in the paranormal field.
Dr. Stephen Kaplan begins his campaign against George and Kathy
Lutz by appearing on a local television show and informing the audience that in
his opinion the Lutz haunting was a hoax. At Agent Simmonds request, John and
Brenda Cromarty entice Dr. Stephen Kaplan into getting further involved in the
public debate of whether the whole Lutz haunting was real or a hoax. After
watching Dr. Stephen Kaplan on television, Brenda Cromarty makes a phone call
to Dr. Stephen Kaplan to express her and her husband’s appreciation for his
efforts to expose George and Kathy Lutz as frauds.
John and Brenda Cromarty then invite Stephen Kaplan over to the
Horror House to spend the evening to prove there is nothing wrong with the
house. Dr. Stephen Kaplan accepts the
invitation. Dr. Stephen Kaplan spends the night in the Horror House with the Cromartys
and experiences nothing out of the ordinary except for a few drunks on the lawn
looking for Jodie the Flying Pig.
John and Brenda Cromarty have a Halloween party at the Horror
House and invite Dr. Stephen Kaplan. Dr. Stephen Kaplan quickly accepts the
invitation and arrives dressed in a batman costume on Halloween night. That
night John and Brenda Cromarty whet Dr. Stephen Kaplan’s appetite by allowing
him to enter the infamous Red Room in the basement.
Weeks later, Brenda Cromarty makes another phone call to Dr.
Stephen Kaplan to express her frustration that the public still thinks her home
is haunted. Brenda Cromarty drops a bombshell on Dr. Stephen Kaplan by telling
him she wants to sell the Horror House to him so her family can move and escape
the madness surrounding the Amityville Horror. As predicted by Agent Simmonds,
Dr. Stephen Kaplan declines the offer citing the fact he is only a college
professor who doesn’t have that kind of money.
Dr. Stephen Kaplan is now completely convinced the Lutz haunting
was a hoax and is now eager to prove it to the world. Dr. Stephen Kaplan
becomes the point-man for arguing the Lutz Haunting as a hoax. Lines are drawn
and sides are chosen as the battle to prove whether the Amityville Horror was
real or a hoax ignites raging debate across the country.
Agent Simmonds sitting in the living room of the house in
California neighboring the Lutz family is watching the news media coverage of
the Amityville Horror Saga. Agent Simmonds begins laughing at the television
promotion for the upcoming debate between Ed and Lorraine Warren and Dr.
Stephen Kaplan. Agent Simmonds turns to his colleagues and says: “Let the
Paranormal Games Begin!” A colleague of Agent Simmonds responds and says:
“These Christian loonies should be institutionalized!” Agent Simmonds responds:
“Yes, someday they will be!”
Dr. Stephen Kaplan publicly declares war and heads off to battle
Ed and Lorraine Warren on national television. The television debate between Ed
and Lorraine Warren and Dr. Stephen Kaplan gets downright nasty. Ed and Lorraine Warren publicly argue that George
and Kathy Lutz are telling the truth while Stephen Kaplan argues the entire
Lutz haunting was a hoax. Ed and Lorraine Warren tell the audience that The
Psychic Posse has certified the former Lutz home in Amityville as haunted. Dr.
Stephen Kaplan begins to mock The Psychic Posse. Ed Warren becomes so
infuriated with Dr. Stephen Kaplan’s demeanor that he snaps and tells Kaplan
that he personally witnessed a refrigerator levitate off the floor. Dr. Stephen
Kaplan tells the amused audience he couldn’t possibly top a floating
refrigerator. Lorraine Warren tells the host of the debate that she is so
sickened by Dr. Stephen Kaplan that she can no longer look at him.
Dr. Stephen Kaplan decides to move on and announces to the world
that George Lutz initially asked him to investigate the Lutz home in
Amityville. Dr. Stephen Kaplan reveals that George Lutz abruptly canceled his
investigation of the Lutz home because George Lutz knew he would uncover the
real truth that the haunting was a hoax. The debate between Ed and Lorraine
Warren and Dr. Stephen Kaplan deteriorates to the point where the two parties
begin to question each other’s paranormal credentials. The debate ends with no
clear winner but other debates between the Warrens and Kaplan take place
resulting in increased bad blood between the two parties as they continue to
duke it out over who is telling the truth.
A real treat for Agent Simmonds occurs when Dr. Hans Holzer, an
American pioneering paranormal researcher and author, enters the Amityville
Horror debate by releasing the findings of his own paranormal investigation
into the Amityville Horror case. Dr. Hans Holzer entered the Horror House with
a spiritual medium to conduct his investigation after the Lutz family fled
Amityville and before the Cromarty family moved in. Dr. Hans Holzer contends
that the Horror House had been built over an ancient Native American burial
ground. Holzer also contends that an angry Indian chief’s spirit who was buried
on the property took possession of Butch DeFeo and made him murder his family.
Holzer claims that the spirit froze sound which prevented the DeFeo family from
hearing the shots. Holzer claims that it was the dead Indian chief’s spirit
that drove the Lutz family out of their new home in Amityville. As evidence to
support his theory, Holzer presents a photograph which he took inside the
Horror House with a very special camera. Holzer claims that the photograph
“clearly shows” the dead Indian chief riding his horse inside the Horror House.
When Dr. Hans Holzer makes his paranormal findings public on national
television, Agent Simmonds falls to his knees and begins to laugh
uncontrollably.
Now that the paranormal people are arguing amongst each other
and jockeying for top authority figure in the Amityville Horror case, Agent
Simmonds has gotten what he wanted. Agent Simmonds has created a masterful
piece of social engineering. The paranormal people are arguing over something
that can’t be proven and has no final outcome and the general public is amused
and distracted away from the DeFeo murders and social issues. Agent Simmonds
tells his colleagues that The Paranormal Games are a complete success so far.
Agent Simmonds also tells his colleagues that he has successfully reinforced
the perception of the average American citizen that there are crazies living among
them.
The endless public debate over the Amityville Horror Saga
continues. George and Kathy Lutz are accused by Dr. Stephen Kaplan and John and
Brenda Cromarty of knowingly creating a hoax, so George and Kathy decide to
take a polygraph test to prove they are telling the truth. Both George and
Kathy pass a credible polygraph test. The results of the Lutz’s polygraph test
don’t deter Dr. Stephen Kaplan as he begins to write a book which he promises
will expose George and Kathy Lutz as frauds.
Agent Simmonds considers the Lutz family a propaganda gold mine
so he wants George and Kathy to continue in The Paranormal Games. George and
Kathy have just signed a deal with the movie studio for an Amityville Horror
promotional tour. George and Kathy hold a press conference and display for the
world their vast collection of evidence he and his wife have amassed over the
years. But George and Kathy have no tangible evidence to prove their claims of
a haunting.
Agent Simmonds wants to give George Lutz something special to
show the world to prove the haunting in Amityville was real. One day while the
Lutz family is away from their home, Agent Simmonds secretly enters the Lutz’s
home and places a professionally doctored photograph in George’s files for him
to find. The doctored photograph is placed in with other photographs taken the
night The Psychic Posse investigated the Lutz home in Amityville.
Days later, George Lutz is going thru his files and he finds the
special photograph and is shocked at what he sees. After careful examination of
the photograph, George screams: “Eureka!” George grabs the photograph and runs
to show his wife. George has discovered
an image of a little boy on the stairs inside the Horror House in Amityville
the night of the investigation. George names the little boy in his picture
“Ghost Boy”.
George is completely convinced that he now has photographic
evidence that his former home in Amityville was haunted. George tells himself:
“This is it.” “This is what I need to prove to the world that our story is
real.” “This will finally silence Kaplan.” George, with his photographic
evidence in hand, along with his wife, hit the road on a one year Amityville
Horror promotional tour.
George takes the photograph on a national television program and
presents it to the world as evidence that his former home in Amityville was
haunted. George tells the audience that there were no children in the house
that night and you can clearly see for yourself what the photograph shows.
After seeing the photograph, the show audience is wowed but the show host is
skeptical. Agent Simmonds, watching the show on television, tells his
colleagues that he was right about George and Kathy Lutz being a propaganda
gold mine. Agent Simmonds asks: “Can I pick them, or what?” Agent Simmonds
colleague responds: “You sure know your kooks.”
After years of intense interest in the Amityville Horror Saga,
the public’s interest begins to fade. Agent Simmonds decides that something is
needed to ramp up the Amityville Horror Saga again. Agent Simmonds decides that
an “Amityville Horror Curse” is needed to ignite the public’s interest again.
Agent Simmonds sets the wheels in motion so that strange things begin to occur
to those who were directly involved in some way with the Amityville Horror
Saga. House fires and other bizarre tragedies begin to befall people involved
with the Amityville Horror Saga. The strange and untimely deaths and tragic
accidents begin to capture news headlines as talk of a curse emerges.
Agent Simmonds decides that something really big is now needed.
Jay Anson is home in his writing room writing his new book which will be titled
666. A small truck parks in front of Jay Anson’s home in midday. The driver
gets out and begins to inspect a tire on the truck. Agent Simmonds is in back
of the truck in the cargo area, hidden from sight. Agent Simmonds targets Jay
Anson’s chest area. Agent Simmonds says: “Nice job on the Amityville Horror
book, Jay.” Agent Simmonds then presses a button on a directed energy weapon. A
beam of electricity is fired into Jay Anson’s chest. Jay Anson collapses
forward and his head falls into his typewriter. Jay Anson dies of a sudden
heart attack while writing his next book. The driver gets back in his truck and
drives away. The news of Jay Anson’s death is picked up by the news media and
the “Amityville Horror Curse” is born.
Dr. Stephen Kaplan has finished writing his book titled “The
Amityville Horror Conspiracy” which he promises will discredit George and Kathy
Lutz and finally expose the Amityville Horror as a hoax. Dr. Stephen Kaplan is
excited about the upcoming release of his book and the chance to finally expose
George and Kathy Lutz as frauds. Agent Simmonds is aware of Dr. Stephen
Kaplan’s upcoming book release date in a few weeks. Agent Simmonds says to
himself: “This is something I can use.”
Days later, a small truck parks in front of Dr. Stephen Kaplan’s
home, at late-night. The driver gets out of the truck and lifts the hood and
begins to inspect the engine. Agent Simmonds is hidden from sight in the cargo
area of the truck. Dr. Stephen Kaplan is taking a quick after work nap in his
bed alone. Agent Simmonds targets Dr. Stephen Kaplan’s chest area while he is
sleeping in bed. Agent Simmonds says: “Thanks for your help, Doc.” Agent Simmonds
then presses a button on a directed energy weapon. A beam of electricity is
fired into Dr. Stephen Kaplan’s chest. Dr. Stephen Kaplan dies of a massive
heart attack in his sleep. Dr. Stephen Kaplan went to sleep and never awoke,
just like the DeFeo family. The driver of the truck closes the hood and gets
inside the truck and then drives away. Dr. Stephen Kaplan is found hours later
by his wife. The newspaper headlines read: “Amityville Horror Curse claims Dr.
Stephen Kaplan” Newspaper: “Dr. Stephen Kaplan unexpectedly dies of a sudden
heart attack in his sleep two weeks before the publication of his book which he
claimed would expose the Amityville Horror as a hoax.”
Agent Simmonds kept his word and slowly relocated
members of the Ocean Avenue Conspirators that lived near the Horror House.
Agent Simmonds found people with connections to the Government Mafia to buy the
vacated homes on Ocean Avenue. The new occupants of the homes were chosen
because they are better psychologically suited to handle the situation on Ocean
Avenue. Agent Simmonds considers the new occupants of the homes on Ocean Avenue
the guardians of Amityville’s terrible secret. A secret so terrible, it must be
kept hidden from the public, at any cost. Agent Simmonds personally reminded each
of the fleeing Ocean Avenue residents to maintain their silence of the
conspiracy or else forfeit their lives. Andy and Agnes Ireland sold their home
and moved off the property that their family has owned for generations. Agent
Simmonds requested that John and Brenda Cromarty hold a one day
moving sale and sell some of the DeFeo and Lutz furniture and other items that
still remained in the Horror House. Hundreds
of devoted fans lined up the day of the moving sale for the once in a lifetime
opportunity to enter the Horror House.
For years after the murders, Mike Brigante Sr., Rocco DeFeo, and
other family members all pleaded with Butch to just tell them the truth about
what really happened the night of the murders. In letters to his family, Butch
taunted his grieving family members by writing stories about the chaos and fear
in the house the night of the murders as he took his rifle chased down and shot
his family members one by one. Butch would tell his family: “Yes I did it! I
shot them all one by one!” Knowing his family had strong religious beliefs,
Butch would also include stories in the letters of his romantic relationships
with other male prisoners.
Dr. Stephen Kaplan’s wife took the reins after her
husband’s untimely death and continued the verbal war against Ed
and Lorraine Warren and George and Kathy Lutz. Dr. Stephen Kaplan’s wife
appeared on many Amityville Horror documentaries denouncing Ed and Lorraine
Warren and George and Kathy Lutz as the worst kind of liars and frauds.
George and Kathy Lutz would spend the rest of their lives
attempting to convince the public that what they experienced in Amityville was
real. George would appear on many Amityville Horror documentaries warning the
public that “It’s out there!”
The Ocean Avenue Conspirators continued to live
their lives in their luxurious homes over the decades while Butch DeFeo wasted
away in prison. The powerful and influential in Amityville were protected while
the weak took the fall and suffered. None of the Ocean Avenue Conspirators were
ever considered suspects or asked to take polygraph tests, even though the
direct neighbors to the DeFeo family had a motive to murder the DeFeo family.
The Ocean Avenue Conspirators would gather occasionally to toast their
champagne glasses and remember the time when they took decisive action to
protect their families, community, and town from the DeFeo menace. The Ocean
Avenue Conspirators are always cautious never to express any regret about being
part of the conspiracy because they never know when Agent Simmonds could be
listening.
Butch DeFeo applied for parole many times but all
requests were denied. Butch sits before the parole board and makes up stories
of the night of his family’s murder because he simply doesn’t know what
happened and he can’t provide a rational explanation for his actions that
fateful night. Butch continues to state from prison that he was drunk and on
drugs in the basement of his house when his family was murdered and he has no
idea what happened but nobody believes him.
For crimes against the government, Agent Simmonds acting as
executioner carried out sentencing by using lethal directed energy weapons
against both Rocco DeFeo and Mike Brigante Sr. Rocco DeFeo died in 1983 and
Mike Brigante died in 1985. Both men died unexpectedly in their sleep. They
simply went to sleep and never woke up. Their family members blame the family
tragedy that began on November 13th of 1974 for the untimely deaths
of both men.
The mafia never discovered the real truth about the DeFeo
murders. The Lutz haunting dominated the headlines and the public simply forgot
about the DeFeo murders. Ghosts and flying pigs make for a great diversion. The
Ocean Avenue Conspirators escaped the wrath of the mafia. In fact, the sympathy
of the public went to the neighbors who lived near the Horror House. The
Amityville Horror was a masterful piece of propaganda carried out by the
government.
Many decades have passed since the DeFeo Murders and
Lutz haunting. Agent Simmonds is now an old man retired from the Government
Mafia. Agent Simmonds devoted his life to the Government Mafia so he lives
alone and has no family. Agent Simmonds is an eccentric old man who the
Government Mafia now considers a liability. Agent Simmonds wishing to relive
his past glory begins to reminisce about his crown jewel achievement of
creating the Amityville Horror Saga. Agent Simmonds decides to revisit the
place where it all began.
One morning Agent Simmonds decides this will be the
day he will begin his journey back to Amityville. Agent Simmonds gets in his
car and begins the long trek. Agent Simmonds arrives in Amityville. Agent
Simmonds turns his car onto Ocean Avenue. Agent Simmonds slowly drives down
Ocean Avenue and parks in front of the Horror House and turns the car ignition
off. Agent Simmonds begins to reminisce about the time when he was able to
mislead the country and world to create one of the greatest mysteries ever.
Agent Simmonds says to himself: This was my personal battle in our long war to
destroy Christianity. Agent Simmonds continues: We must smear Christianity and
turn the Christians’ religion into a joke. We must then destroy the Christian
family structure. We must drive people away from Christianity. Today we
persecute Christians but soon we will exterminate them all. Agent Simmonds now
begins to think of all the movies that were made based on his achievement here
in Amityville. Agent Simmonds then thinks of all the books that were written of
the Amityville Horror Saga. Agent Simmonds quietly laughs and says to himself
with a smile on his face: “Still to this day the kooks still argue amongst each
other about the DeFeo murders and Lutz Haunting.” What I’ve done here will live
forever, Agent Simmonds proudly says to himself.
Agent Simmonds looks in his rear view mirror and
notices a white van pull onto Ocean Avenue. The van slowly drives by Agent
Simmonds and then abruptly pulls over fifty feet in front of Agent Simmonds’
car. Agent Simmonds recognizes the maneuver and tries the start his car but
it’s too late. An agent of the Government Mafia in back of the van targets
Agent Simmonds chest area and presses a button on a directed energy weapon. A
beam of electricity is fired into Agent Simmonds’ chest. The beam of
electricity passes thru Agent Simmonds’ chest causing sudden cardiac arrest.
Agent Simmonds collapses forward and his head falls into the steering wheel,
causing the car horn to begin to blare. Life ends for Agent Simmonds.
The driver of the van slowly drives away. The agent
who made the kill shot joins the driver in the front of the van. As the sound
of the car horn slowly diminishes, the agent says to the driver: “Agent
Simmonds was a good man but he must take his secrets to his grave.” The driver
responds: “That’s the nature of our business.” “Agent Simmonds would have understood.”
As the car horn blares throughout the neighborhood, cars passing by begin to
stop to render assistance. The next day’s newspaper headline reads: “Amityville
Horror Curse Claims Another – Old man dies of massive heart attack in front of
Horror House.”
Agent Simmonds’ body is cremated and his colleagues
scatter his ashes in the Amityville River directly behind the Horror House. The
agent, after finishing scattering the ashes, says: “Agent Simmonds has now
returned home forever.” “The Paranormal Games will continue, even without Agent
Simmonds.”
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