The children began to fight with each other. After the disturbances worsened, the Lutzes decided to leave the house temporarily. But the night in which they were to depart turned out to be their last night there. The parole board did not believe him. The only people, in fact, involved with Amityville who insisted that it was real were the Lutzes themselves. Their relationship to the story always seemed to swing between absolute faith in its truthfulness and ambivalence about telling it to anyone.
They gave the press conference, then promptly fled Long Island for California. They only agreed to cooperate with Anson, and gave a few press interviews pegged to the book. For an interview with the Los Angeles Times , for example, they demanded that the reporter not reveal precisely where they live, take photographs of the inside of their house, or take photographs of the children. The experience he still seemed somewhat reluctant to articulate in detail.
We value materialistic things less. But over the years, George in particular would give a few more interviews, slowly opening up the frame.
Still he was this strange, enigmatic figure on the truth of it all. He insisted the family had experienced a horror. But he also came to admit that certain elements of the story—that green slime, in particular—were embellished, never accurate. But his children have complicated that. Because at least two of them clearly believes that there was a haunting.
Danny Lutz and Christopher Quaratino, the two older Lutz children, say they remember the events, shadowy figures and being thrown up a staircase by malevolent spirits. And when Danny Lutz told his story in a recent bizarre documentary called My Amityville Horror , he was in evident turmoil about it. Actually, Danny Lutz claimed, the disturbances in the Amityville house had nothing to do with the DeFeos.
He said it was actually George who had summoned the bad spirits with his dabblings in the occult. A vain, domineering stepfather, he had terrorized his stepchildren.
He sometimes beat them with a wooden spoon as punishment. Christopher Quaratino, the middle Lutz child, has told similar stories and also blames George for the haunting.
The third Lutz child, Missy, has never spoken publicly about her experience. Still, Danny Lutz insists there was a force larger than George Lutz at work in the house too.
This article was originally published as part of our Off Topic newsletter, where you get an original story delivered to your inbox each and every week. The notorious killer died behind bars on March 12 at The day they moved, the couple had a priest bless the house. Soon after, the couple said they began noticing odd things around the house, such as doors being ripped from hinges, cabinets slamming shut and slime oozing from the ceilings.
The front door would slam shut in the middle of the night…. He claimed that he would mysteriously wake up at a. At times, his wife was physically transformed into an old woman and once levitated, George said. Still, the Lutzes stuck to their story, and reaped tens of thousands of dollars from the book and film rights.
Eventually Butch DeFeo's lawyer admitted that he, along with the Lutzes, "created this horror story over many bottles of wine. Live Science. Benjamin Radford.
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