What is going on True Crime Fans? I'm your host Tee. And I'm your host Daphne. And you're listening to Going West.

Thank you everybody for tuning into this episode of Going West and thank you to Justin for recommending this infamous case.

Justin didn't just recommend this case but he also suggested a fabulous idea and that idea was to cover the Amnivill murders on Going West

and then cover the hauntings that came after them on our other show The Dark Parts.

So tune in this Thursday for the hauntings that came after these killings that, like the murders, helped inspire the film The Amnivill Horror,

the original 1979 version and the 2005 remake featuring every man's man crush Ryan Reynolds.

That's right. And all those sequels as well and of course the book which came before the movies.

That will be on episode 24 of The Dark Parts hosted by Heathen Ey.

Yes, please tune in to that episode and also I just have to say Ryan Reynolds is such a babe. I gotta put that out there on the airwaves.

I know you love him. Yeah, he's amazing. So please tune in to that one and also thank you again for

listening to this episode. Let's get right into it. This is episode 251 of Going West. So let's get into it.

In November of 1974, a 23 year old man ran into a bar on Long Island and explained to the patrons that his mother and father had been murdered.

Only for them to find that his entire family had been massacred in their picturesque colonial style house.

With motives ranging from a mob hit to demonic possession, this investigation took the small coastal village of Amnivill for a terrifying ride.

This is the story of the defail massacre also known as the Amnivill murders.

Ronald Joseph DeFail Jr. was born on September 26, 1951 in Brooklyn, New York. And he frequently went by the nicknames Butch or Ronnie.

So we're going to call him Ronnie mostly because his father was also named Ronald so we're not trying to confuse you guys.

Yeah, I also heard that his dad was called Big Ronnie. So I don't know. That's even more confusing.

It's more confusing I guess. We'll just call his father Ronald and him.

Yeah, we're calling his dad Ronald senior and then we're calling him Ronnie. We could have called him Butch too.

But I feel like Butch is too far from his original name for this to make sense. So anyway, it's not trying to confuse you guys.

But speaking of his dad, so his dad was Ronald DeFail Sr. and then his mom was Louise DeFail.

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