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Mother Kills her Two Kids in Scalding Water

Children Put into Scalding Hot Water: Says Demon Drove Her

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Mother Kills Her Kids

 There were other killings in the area than just the DeFeo killings. There was a woman who began to act wacko, started talking about demons, then stuck her children in boiling water and strangled them. The Amityville area has a history of murder and bizarre behavior where people claim contact with demons.

There are those that claim the killing of Melvin and Delvin is an urban legend are quite erroneous. Listed are several sources proving that this occurred in Amityville, just a short walk from the Amityville Cemetery.  SOURCES:
From the December 1998 issue of Fortean Times: "Amityville Horror Encore?":
Debra Robertson, a 31-year-old crackhead from the village of Amityville in Long Island, was found by police making the sign of the cross over the bodies of her six-year-old daughter Delvin King and five-year-old son Melvin King, who lay dead on a couch. Her infant son slept unharmed in a bedroom. Robertson had scalded the children by immersing them in boiling water. They could have been asphyxiated or drowned, but the cause of death was to be determined by autopsy. She said she had snapped because the apartment was possessed by demons.
The horror in the white-frame house at 505 Broadway bore eerie echoes of the 1974 slaughter, less than a mile away, of an Amityville family by a 23-year-old son who claimed phantoms ordered him to kill them. The murders became grist for a fictionalised bestseller called The Amityville Horror--A True Story, which was later turned into a film.

From www.mayhem.net/Crime/morg9806.html
June 25, 1998 - Debra Robertson - An Amityville, N.Y., mother was accused of killing two of her young children by immersing them in scalding hot water. The tots, Melvin King, 6, and his five-year-old sister Delvin, were found dead on a couch in a room by police after their grandmother called authorities. The grandmother called the police because her daughter, Debra Roberson, telephoned her screaming "God save my children." Debra, 31, was arrested in the apartment when police arrived.
 
`All We Can Do Is Pray' / Grief and bewilderment at funeral of slain siblings
By Samson Mulugeta. Newsday Jul 2, 1998. pg. A.06

Abstract
QUOTE OF THE DAY. `I love them, I miss them and I wish they would never die.' - Ermma King, 7, half-sister of Delvin and Melvin King, killed allegedly by their mother, Debra Roberson, last week in their Amityville home. (p. A02 NS)

UNPUBLISHED CORRECTION: Debra Roberson was never charged with first-degree murder by the Suffolk District Attorney's office for the alleged killings of her two ...
--------------------------------------------------------- Mental-Defect Plea Accepted / Mom can't recall killing 2 children
Michael Luo Newsday Oct 20, 1999. pg. A.03

Abstract
A Suffolk judge yesterday accepted a plea of not guilty by reason of mental defect from Debra Roberson, a 32-year-old Amityville mother who was charged with murdering her two young children, whom she immersed in scalding water.

Acting State Supreme Court Justice Michael Mullen, who accepted Roberson's plea in Riverhead, ordered her held for psychiatric examinations by Nov. 30, when he will decide whether to commit ...--------------------------------------------------------

Judge: Killer Must Stay in Hospital
Andrew Smith. Newsday.  Mar 31, 2000. pg. A.34

Abstract
Despite recent good behavior in a psychiatric hospital, Debra Roberson is still dangerously mentally ill, a Suffolk judge ruled yesterday.

At a hearing that concluded earlier this month, the Suffolk district attorney's office argued that Roberson should still be considered dangerous and belongs in a secure psychiatric hospital. Defense attorney John Ray argued her condition had improved enough to permit her to be held in a ...
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Mom Who Killed Kids Still 'Dangerous'
Andrew Smith. Newsday  Mar 17, 2000. pg. A.39

Abstract
Twenty-one months after she strangled and scalded two of her children to death, Debra Roberson has become a reasonable, rational woman, a psychiatrist testified yesterday in a Riverhead courtroom.

But that's only because she is in the strictly controlled environment of a maximum-security psychiatric hospital, said Dr. Glodys St.-Phard, a forensic psychiatrist at Mid-Hudson Psychiatric Center. Roberson's 14-year history of cocaine abuse and mental hospitalization makes ... 

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`All We Can Do Is Pray' / Grief and bewilderment at funeral of slain siblings
By Samson Mulugeta. Newsday Jul 2, 1998. pg. A.06

Abstract (Document Summary)
QUOTE OF THE DAY. `I love them, I miss them and I wish they would never die.' - Ermma King, 7, half-sister of Delvin and Melvin King, killed allegedly by their mother, Debra Roberson, last week in their Amityville home. (p. A02 NS)

UNPUBLISHED CORRECTION: Debra Roberson was never charged with first-degree murder by the Suffolk District Attorney's office for the alleged killings of her two ...
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Judge: Killer Must Stay in Hospital
Andrew Smith.Newsday.  Mar 31, 2000. pg. A.34

Abstract (Document Summary)
Despite recent good behavior in a psychiatric hospital, Debra Roberson is still dangerously mentally ill, a Suffolk judge ruled yesterday.

At a hearing that concluded earlier this month, the Suffolk district attorney's office argued that Roberson should still be considered dangerous and belongs in a secure psychiatric hospital. Defense attorney John Ray argued her condition had improved enough to permit her to be held in a ...
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Mom Who Killed Kids Still 'Dangerous'
Andrew Smith. Newsday  Mar 17, 2000. pg. A.39

Abstract (Document Summary)
Twenty-one months after she strangled and scalded two of her children to death, Debra Roberson has become a reasonable, rational woman, a psychiatrist testified yesterday in a Riverhead courtroom.

But that's only because she is in the strictly controlled environment of a maximum-security psychiatric hospital, said Dr. Glodys St.-Phard, a forensic psychiatrist at Mid-Hudson Psychiatric Center. Roberson's 14-year history of cocaine abuse and mental hospitalization makes ...
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Mental-Defect Plea Accepted / Mom can't recall killing 2 children
Michael LuoSTAFF WRITER. NewsdayOct 20, 1999. pg. A.03

Abstract (Document Summary)
A Suffolk judge yesterday accepted a plea of not guilty by reason of mental defect from Debra Roberson, a 32-year-old Amityville mother who was charged with murdering her two young children, whom she immersed in scalding water.

Acting State Supreme Court Justice Michael Mullen, who accepted Roberson's plea in Riverhead, ordered her held for psychiatric examinations by Nov. 30, when he will decide whether to commit ...



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Joshua and 6-year-old Luke lying in the front yard in their underwear, skulls smashed and stones the size of dinner


  Picture: From deadbaby.com 1930

Amityville Horror murders worse than anything by Ronald DeFeo or what George Lutz described.
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Monday, March 29, 2004
6:43:00 PM EST
Feeling Sad
Homeschool mother kills kids

TYLER, Texas (March 29) - A woman was overcome by delusions of what she believed was God's voice telling her to kill her children the night she bludgeoned her three sons with rocks, her attorney said Monday during opening statements in her murder trial."Does she follow what she believes to be God's will or does she turn her back on her God," defense attorney F.R. Files Jr. asked the jury.Deanna Laney faces two counts of murder for killing two of the boys and one count of serious injury to a child for severely harming the third.Her lawyers will try to prove she is innocent by reason of insanity. Prosecutors will try to prove she knew right from wrong and is guilty. The state is not seeking the death penalty.Laney, 39, a deeply religious woman who home-schooled her children in the tiny town of New Chapel Hill, 100 miles southeast of Dallas, called 911 just after midnight on May 10 and told a dispatcher: "I've just killed my boys."