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'Amityville Horror' theory leads to search

Published: January 20, 2012 7:39 PM
By JOHN VALENTI  john.valenti@newsday.com

Ryan Katzenbach, producer of a docu-drama about the

Photo credit: Handout | Ryan Katzenbach, producer of a docu-drama about the notorious “Amityville Horror” murders, provided this photo he says is a Nov. 14, 1974 evidence photo of a waste can at Coles Bulkhead in Amityville provided to him by the Suffolk County police department.

A decades-old photo of a metal trash can along a canal and ballistics reports in old case files from the notorious "Amityville Horror" murders got Ryan Katzenbach thinking.

The producer of a three-part docu-drama about the infamous 1974 case, Katzenbach decided to dispatch a dive team to look for a pistol that he theorized may have been used in the slayings of the DeFeo family and then thrown...

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