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The area was first visited by people from Huntington around 1653, who came for the salt hay used as animal fodder.
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FILE 101 / 10 January 2019 / 153 MIN / full
We're going all the way to Amityville, New York ... this is in Suffolk County. about 0:07:46
The area was first visited by people from Huntington around 1653, who came for the salt hay used as animal fodder.
about 0:11:19Chief Wyandanch granted the first deed to land in Amityville in 1658.
about 0:12:22The area was originally called Huntington West Neck South.
about 0:12:31The name was changed in 1846 when residents wanted their own post office.
about 0:12:47The area was first visited by people from Huntington around 1653, who came for the salt hay used as animal fodder.
about 0:11:19Chief Wyandanch granted the first deed to land in Amityville in 1658.
about 0:12:22The area was originally called Huntington West Neck South.
about 0:12:31The name was changed in 1846 when residents wanted their own post office.
about 0:12:47According to village lore, someone at the meeting said 'what this meeting needs is some Amity'; another version says a boat was named the Amity.
about 0:13:47In the early 1900s tourists came for the hotels, canals, boating and fishing.
about 0:14:15Will Rogers had a home in the village, and Al Capone had a house because his wife was from there.
about 0:14:49Amityville has been twinned with Le Bourget in France since 1979.
about 0:15:15In November 1974 Ronald DeFeo Jr shot his whole family in the house.
about 0:15:49In December 1975 George and Kathy Lutz bought the house at Ocean Avenue and within a month claimed to be haunted.
about 0:17:11The house was built in 1927 and its address has since been changed because of the tourist traffic.
about 0:19:08The house sold for $1.15 million in May 2010 and for $950,000 in September 2018.
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Biggest faith: Catholic, 60%
about 0:27:00White 67.29% · Black 9.4% · Asian 1.83% · Hispanic almost 19%
Ethnicity can overlap race.Property crime
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One-bedroom condo
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about 0:30:41Four-bedroom house
about 0:31:01"about 10% below"
Comparison: "national average". Direction: below.
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"about 10% above"
Comparison: "national average". Direction: above.
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"9,486"
Comparison: "up 2% since 1990". Direction: above.
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"46.2"
Comparison: "national average 37.4". No direction stated.
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"54.5%"
Comparison: "high". Direction: above.
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"almost 55%"
Comparison: "above average". Direction: above.
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"67.29%"
Comparison: "national average 62.77%". No direction stated.
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"9.4%"
Comparison: "national average 12%". No direction stated.
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"1.83%"
Comparison: "not a lot". No direction stated.
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"almost 19%"
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"44%"
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"51%"
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"72.6%"
Comparison: "50-50 is the normal". Direction: above.
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"60%"
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"1.4%"
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"1.3%"
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"3.9%"
Comparison: "5.2% is normal". No direction stated.
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"$81,135"
Comparison: "national average $54,000". No direction stated.
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"131"
Comparison: "100 is average". Direction: above.
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"175 out of 100"
Comparison: "100 is average". Direction: above.
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"$326,600"
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"between $300,000 and $600,000"
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"$2,250"
Comparison: "a thousand dollars more than the national average". Direction: above.
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"$185,000"
Comparison: "1,100 square feet, not yet built". No direction stated.
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"$439,000"
Comparison: "1,567 square feet". No direction stated.
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"$699,990"
Comparison: "3,500 square feet". No direction stated.
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"$1.15 million"
Comparison: "sold May 2010". No direction stated.
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"$950,000"
Comparison: "sold September 2018". No direction stated.
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She married young, was divorced by nineteen and had a son, Christopher, whom she raised alone while working to pay the bills. By the account her father gave, she put her son first and was a good mother.
After his release he went into business, opening the Dolphin Fitness Club in Amityville, a 24-hour weightlifting gym, with his best friend Alex Algieri. Their son Nicholas was born and Algieri was made his godfather.
In July 2000, while Paul was out, she took Christopher, Nicholas, the furniture and $140,000 in cash and moved to her mother's house in Florida. Paul called and asked for his son and his money back. On 25 August 2000 he filed for divorce in New York to force a custody hearing. In December 2000 she returned to the house in Babylon with the children and the money that was left, and Paul cancelled the divorce. The family believed he had got over his drug use.
What Paul did not know was that his wife had begun an affair.
In December 2000 he asked Michael Paglianti to help him get a gun and to rent a van on Paglianti's credit card, offering $3,000 to drive him to New York to kill Paul. Paglianti refused. Deodato passed him two employees, one of whom, Lucas Schuck, rented a white minivan. Jimmy Dazzler, the other, refused.
Alex Algieri was at the gym running an aerobics class and went out of the back door to his car to fetch CDs. The back parking lot was dark and the two men drove similar black GMC Yukons with Dolphin Fitness Club emblems, parked in the same spot, and looked alike. Algieri walked back into the gym, leaving a trail of blood, and collapsed. He died before the ambulance reached the hospital.
The killing made no sense to anyone at first. Algieri had no enemies and no money trouble, and nothing was taken. A year passed without a lead, and police began to wonder whether the intended target had been his partner, with his drug history and his cash. He said he had killed the wrong man.
The gun, a Smith & Wesson .38 revolver, was recovered from a creek along the Montauk Highway.
The judge asked when the charade would end, and the prosecutor called her the most self-absorbed defendant she had ever prosecuted.
January 17, 2001 / the back parking lot of Dolphin Fitness Club, Amityville, New York
As told in the episode, on 10 January 2019.
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