Setting off for school after slaughtering his parents, grandmother and great aunt, the 13-year-old Brazilian boy who had 'become obsessed with The Amityville Horror'

 

• .Marcelo Pesseghini reportedly told his best friend he wanted to be a hitman
• .Believed to have shot all his victims in the head with .40 pistol as they slept
• .He later caught a lift into school with a friend in Sao Paulo, Brazil
• .Appears to have been inspired by the Amityville murders in New York in 1974 

By DANIEL MILLER

A 13-year-old boy killed his police officer parents as well as his grandmother and great-aunt before spending a full day at school and then taking his own life.

Police believe Marcelo Pesseghini shot each victim in the head with a .40 caliber pistol early Monday morning at the home in Sao Paulo, Brazil, before catching a lift into school with a friend.

The father, Luiz Pesseghini, 40, a police sergeant with 19 years service was found in bed. The mother, Andreia Pesseghini, 30, who had served in the military police for 16 years was found on her knees in the bedroom.

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MUrdered: 13-year-old Marcelo Pesseghini with his police officer parents Luiz and Andreia, who he shot dead in the early hours of Monday morning before setting off to school

CCTV footage from a security camera shows Marcelo Pesseghini casually walking to school in the early hours of Monday morning 

The grandmother, Benedita de Oliveira Bovo, 65, and great-aunt Bernadete Oliveira da Silva, 55, who lived in a different section of the house were both killed in bed.

The teenager was found dead from a gunshot to the left temple and his father's police-issue service revolver was found nearby.

 

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A second gun, a .32 caliber revolver, was found inside the backpack the teenager took to school.

The teenager appears to have been inspired by the infamous Amityville killings of 1974 when a man killed his parents, two bothers and two sisters at their home in Amityville, Long Island, New York.  All were found dead in their beds.

On December, 9, 2012, Pesseghini posted a famous picture linked to the Amityville case on his Facebook page.

CCTV footage taken from a security camera close to the property in the Brasilândia district in the northern part of São Paulo appears to show him casually walking to school.

'Everything seems to indicate that Marcelo (Pesseghini) killed his parents and relatives,' Itagiba Franco, of the Sao Paulo Civilian Police's homicide department, told a press conference.

Franco said Pesseghini had told a friend he wanted to kill his parents and become a hitman.

'He always told me he wanted to become a hired killer. He had a plan to kill his parents during the night, so that no one would notice and escape in the parents' car and live in an abandoned place,' police quoted the unidentified friend as saying.

Sao Paulo police commander Benedito Roberto Meira said there was no sign that someone had broken into the house and ruled out 'an act of revenge by a criminal group' against the teenager's father and mother.

Killer: Marcelo Pesseghini poses with his police officer father in a Facebook photograph

Victims: Luiz Pesseghini, 40, a police sergeant with 19 years service was found dead in his bed. Andreia Pesseghini, 30, who had served in the military police for 16 years was found on her knees in the bedroom

Marcelo Pesseghini poses with his mother Andreia Pesseghini who was found dead in the bedroom. The youngster was killed by a gunshot to the left temple. His father's service revolver was found nearby

Worryingly the teenager appears to have been inspired by the infamous Amityville killings with the crimes bearing chilling similarities to the 1974 murders.  

In the early hours of November 13, 1974, Ronald DeFeo Jr killed his parents-Ronald and Louise and four siblings. All were found dead in their beds.

The Amityville killings later sparked rumours of the supernatural after it was claimed that the house where they took place was haunted.

A famous picture known as the Amityville Ghost Boy which emerged in 1976 purports to show the ghost of the youngest victim of the massacre.

In December last year Marcelo Pesseghini posted the Ghost Boy picture, on his Facebook page.

WAS TEEN KILLER INSPIRED BY INFAMOUS AMITYVILLE MURDERS?

On December 21st last year Marcelo Pesseghini posted a picture connected with the Amityville murders in New York onto his Facebook page.

The chilling similarities between the Sao Paulo killings and the Amityville murders suggest the teenager was directly inspired by the infamous 1974 case.

'Ghost Boy': In December last year Marcelo Pesseghini posted this famous picture connected with the 1974 Amityville killings onto his Facebook page

On November 13, 1974, 23-year-old Ronald DeFeo Jr used a Marlin 336c rifle to shoot dead his parents Ronald and Louise as well as his brothers Marc, 12, and John Matthew, 9, and sisters Dawn, 18, and  Allison 13. 

All were shot in bed. DeFeo was found guilty on six counts of second-degree murder, and is currently imprisoned at Green Haven Correctional Facility in Beekman.

In Sao Paulo all the victims were close family members living in the same home and all were shot in bed with the exception of the mother Andreia Pesseghini who was found on her knees in the bedroom.

Following the Amityville killings stories circulated that the house was haunted. The family who moved into the property reported 'paranormal activities' and fled - their experience inspired books and a 1979 movie.

In December last year, Marcelo Pesseghini posted a famous picture known as the Amityville 'Ghost Boy' which emerged in 1976 and purports to show the ghost of the youngest of the DeFeo children.