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Amityville Murders
Police Report & Information

Introduction

The following are police reports, images and information they have obtained (and we
were able to find) about the DeFoe family murders in Amityville.
Timeline/Account of Crime
(military time)

Wednesday, November 13, 1974

0200 -- Ronnie falls asleep watching "Castle Keep" on TV

0300 -- Shaggy, the dog, is howling like mad, according to neighbors

0340 -- Barmaid drives past DeFeo home, notices all lights on

0440 -- Ronnie leaves home for work

0605 -- Ronnie arrives at work, goes to nearby luncheonette

0715 -- Dawn's clock radio goes off, keeps ringing all day long

1000-- Kelske drives past DeFeo house, notices 2 cars still in driveway

1100 -- Ronnie phones girlfriend

1200 -- Ronnie leaves work

1330 -- Ronnie shows up at his girlfriend's house (Mindy Weiss)

1400 -- Ronnie and Mindy go shopping at the mall

1500 -- Ronnie visits Bobby Kelske's house

1530 -- Ronnie visits Henry's bar, stays 90 minutes

1700 -- Ronnie visits Geiger's house to buy herion

1800 -- Ronnie returns to Henry's bar

1820 -- Ronnie leaves for home, telling friends he'll have to break in

1830 -- Ronnie returns to bar, shouting his family has been killed; a group of people race
down the street with Ronnie to the house and "discover" the bodies

1835 -- 911 phone call by Joey Yeswit from the DeFeo house

1840 -- officer Kenneth Greguski is first cop on the scene

1900 -- Suffolk county detective Gaspar Randazzo interviews Ronnie in kitchen

1920 -- house cleared of all but homicide personnel

2000 -- Ronnie taken to be interviewed at "first squad" ​


(told reasoning was that if this was a mob hit,
he'd be in danger)

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2010 -- Detective Sergeant Alfred Della Penna (of the Suffolk County firearms section)
arrives at the DeFeo house

2020 -- Deputy Chief ME, Dr Howard Adelman, arrives at the DeFeo house; over at the
First Squad, Homicide detective Gerard Gozaloff takes Ronnie's written statement; Ronnie
blames murders on 70-year old Louis Falini

2115 -- Ronnie's grandpa (Michael Brigante Sr) arrives at the DeFeo house, from
Brooklyn; attempts to crash the police line; Michael Sr and Michael Jr answer questions
for a while (as do Rocco DeFeo and Ronnie's uncle Vincent Procita) until Rocco stops the
interviews

2225 -- Ronnie signs his 8-page statement, blaming Falini

2245 -- Ronnie leaves First Squad, driven to the Fourth Precinct; Gozaloff returns to the
crime scene and interviews family members

2315 -- Ronnie arrives at Fourth Precinct; is interviewed by homicide detectives George


Harrison, Joe Napolitano and others

2345 -- Gozaloff phones Harrison and tells him to keep Ronnie away from Rocco DeFeo,
out of fear that Ronnie would stop cooperating

..||Thursday, November 14, 1974||..

2430 -- the DeFeo bodies are removed from the house

0230 -- The questioning session ends with Ronnie still blaming Falini; they take Ronnie
over to the Homicide building next door; back at the DeFeo house, Det John Shirvell finds
boxes for a Marlin .22 rifle and a Marlin .35 rifle; he takes them back to Homicide

0300 -- Ronnie falls asleep in a cot in a small back room used for file storage in the
Homicide building

0400 -- Della Penna releases a report saying that a .35 Marlin rifle was the likely murder
weapon

0500 -- Gozaloff interviews Kelske while Shirvell and Della Penna investigate the bullet
hole in the floor of Steve Hicks' house

0845 -- Detectives awaken Ronnie, the new prime suspect, and begin questioning again
(lasting until 5pm); detectives return to DeFeo house and find the metal box hidden in the
floor of the master bedroom closet

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1215 -- Bullet from a .35 Marlin rifle is recovered from under Steve Hick's house;
sometime in the afternoon the evidence is found in the Brooklyn sewer, but there is no
rifle

1600-- Ronnie confesses he was the sole killer, clearing Falini's name

1700 -- Ronnie's questioning ends

1930 -- Ronnie is asked about the murder weapon and says he threw it into the canal
behind the neighbor's vacant house

2000 -- Ronnie calls his uncle via phone

..||Friday, November 15, 1974||..


(times unknown)

-- police scuba divers dive into canal behind the vacant house next door to the DeFeo's;
they find broken bottles, cans and a toy machine gun; after an hour the divers move their
search to the mouth of the canal and find the rifle

--Ronnie is arraigned for killing Marc DeFeo in First District Court in Hauppauge; Ronnie
said he had spoken to a lawyer

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Caution: Images may be disturbing

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