Hey everybody welcome back to cold case murder mysteries. I'm your host Ryan Kraus behind

the mic once again as we transition from the 1974 murders of the Defeo family to the frightening paranormal haunting of the Lutz family over 28 days from December 1975 to January 1976. Of course, the happenings inside the

residents at 112 Ocean Avenue in Amityville, New York during that latter

period are not exactly the type you'd categorize under true crime,

which is what my show is intended to cover, but I find it really fascinating

how the psychology of Butch DeFeo's impulse to commit murder is absent from his understanding.

Yet he said he couldn't stop himself from committing the crime.

So as we discussed the rationale behind a lot of this in the past episode, let's now look at how we need to proceed in analyzing the haunting,

specifically Jay Anson's best-selling novel, the Amityville Horror.

So again, I want to look for a parallel and right away what I see is that a

specific symbolism embedded in Butch to Feo's brain enabled the same pattern

to develop in George Lutz's mind the following year,

each leading to a physical manifestation of terror.

But here's the difference.

The evil that manifested in Butch's mind finally spilled out of him into the house, leading to the murders,

while the evil that then existed in the house tried to get inside the Lutz family leading to them fleeing.

There is an undeniable connection of events regardless of your position of the existence of the

paranormal.

And we proved that through symbolism. So moving forward in this story, I'll be referring to the symbolic transference that takes place between the moment Butch Snaps and the moment the Lutz family starts to do the same.

So to delve deeply into and the moment the Lutz family starts to do the same.

So to delve deeply into that situation,

we're going to create the first parallel between Butch-de-Feo and the Lutzes

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