Nearby Amityville a hot He was on dust. The killing attracted international attention, in large part because the police incorrectly charged that a group of chanting cultists had witnessed what was called a Satanic murder. He got there, and she wouldnt go out with him again, and he was just freaking out, and he beat the shit out of the box, on the ground right there. And they grabbed him by the legs and dragged him in the woods, Ricky and Jimmy, dragged him in the woods. SOFTHEARTED GIRL: The first night I found out, I had a dream, a dream that Gary talked to me. I apologized to him for something. Im like, Rick, what the hell did you kill, a fucking cat? And all of a sudden hes like, There it is. And theres like a pile of leaves, and Im like, Holy shit, man. I see all these maggots on him, a thick pile of them on top of the leaves. The crowds of teen-agers who used to gather in the evenings in Cow Neck Park - ''to smoke dope, to drink,'' as Linda put it to giggles from Valerie - thinned out quickly after the murder. Rikki Kasso of Northport. Kassos worried parents attempted to have him institutionalized at Long Island Jewish Hospital. She says, See what your friends do, youve had murderers sleeping over at our house. I was just cold as shit, I never heard a thing about it. >>. But not kill me kill ''I don't think there was really, like, a satanic cult,'' said Valerie, 16, who was wearing high heels, black baggy chinos and a black jacket. It bugs me out. fifteen and perhaps thirty teenagers and young adults were told of the What they did say was 'Satan will come Mr. Troiano watched the murder but did not participate, Mr. Quinones said. And I said, "Can we hang out again?" When he was seven, he took the hook on a swing set you know how the chain hooks onto the seat he took it into his mouth on top of the A-frame and jumped off. Troiano was in But the reality behind Kassos actions revealed a far more sinister motive, one more real-world than it was supernatural. King. I tried killing myself. Theres nothing better to do than take drugs. Avionics Maintenance Supervisor For United Airlines New Castle, Delaware Alex Quinones - @Alexquinones22 Baseball is life Superior, WI Alex Quinones - @aquinonest Major? http://www.anthropoetics.ucla.edu/ap0902/sacrifice.htm). Kasso and Troiano were arrested the next day. And he was Do-de-do, do-de-do. I was in love with the guy, you know. Rickey Kasso is . Theyd say, Lets go up there and watch him rot. A teen-ager has gone on trial in a murder case that brought worldwide publicity to Northport last summer when the community was erroneously depicted as the home of a killer cult of chanting satanists. He called this girl a slut, and she freaked out and stabbed him. I imagined him the last time I saw him: in his denim jacket, a Billy Idol T-shirt (I always called him Billy Idol, cause he looks just like him), his jeans, his Led Zeppelin pin you know, where the thing is blowing up and his Beatles pin. incident was it "lowered property values. into the dark woods, up in Aztakea, and he would talk to the devil. Thats just the way it works with drugs. The idea was to pretend you werent involved, to hang out and hope it went away. See the article in its original context from. A few were taken to the site, a ten-minute Ricky Kasso: The 17-Year-Old Satanist Killer That Shook His Suburban Town To Its Core, A documentary on Ricky Kasso and the murder of Gary Lauwers entitled. The lost kids of Northport, Long Island, tell a grisly tale of drugs, devil worship, and murder. On June 17, Gary Lauwers was in the woods with Kasso, Troiano, and another Ricky wasnt there. Suicide Club in Fifty? PEACENIK GIRL: Jimmy told my boyfriend a week after they did it, laughing, Hey, you know Gary Lauwers? Troiano then described how he helped Kasso move Gay Lauwers body further into the woods. http://www.rumourmachine.com/Reviews/Mysweetsatan.htm Kasso stabbed him over and Northport is like the perfect village,'' he said. Teenage Killer RickyKasso of Northport High School. He probably just stabbed his eyes in. It was just his way of coming to my house, saying, Hey, man, look at this shit.. Kasso continued his assault on Lauwers, and Quinones later claimed that Troiano helped Kasso and held Lauwers during the attack. Sometimes last summer he stole money from his parents. Richard Kasso, 17, on July 6, 1984 at an arraignment in the murder of Northport, New York resident Gary Lauwers who was killed in an argument over drugs. BOY AT WAKE: Gary was the type of guy that everybody liked, because he wasnt selfish. I mean, Ricky and Gary were both talking a lot, shit like that. Newsday By Joseph C. Koenenn Apr 16, 1987. I was committed to Gary. have him involuntarily committed. And Albert Quinones made Ricky take off his ring, cause he didnt want him to really fuck Gary up. And then we tried to get out of the woods, but we couldnt. girlfriends after me, and saying he was gonna kill me. ", Satanic teen killer Ricky Kasso was a long time patient at the Theres only so much you can do before things wear out. According to classmates, Kasso would go to cemeteries and hang out, smoke ten bags of angel dust and try to get in touch with the devil. Acid King and Teen Satanism. His black eye. Demonic `Kids in the Dark,' a new play based on the murder; The Killing Of A Suburban I wear the peace signs no ones gonna tell me about a murder. He put up a little bit of a bad front so he could hang in there with his peers. Richard Kasso, 17, on July 6, 1984 at an arraignment in the murder of Northport, New York resident . According to a and glowed." He always talked to me about it. He was calm, and hes like, See, I told you. I said, I think youre crazy, man. ''There is, ladies and gentlemen, a devil in this case, and the devil is LSD,'' Mr. Naiburg said in his summation. Philip Quinn, a former abuser of hallucinogenic drugs and director of Topic House, a drug-rehabilitation center in Plainview, testified that abusers were often unable to recall their actions under the influence of hallucinogens. Lauwers was so well known for running away from home that his parents hadnt even bothered to call the police when he went missing. Mr. Lauwers was killed in a drug-induced frenzy because he had stolen a powerful illegal drug from one of his attackers, the prosecutor and defense attorney agreed. His father said no. What they did say was Satan will come forth in the form of fire. And all of a sudden the cup in the middle, after a couple of minutes, started going in flames because there was a piece of paper in there. At the sound of crow-call I mean, it happens everyplace, you know?''. I tried to avoid them, and all they did was tag. I always felt they had to prove something, cause everyone looked up to them. He tended to consume all of his drugs, but had on occasion dealt drugs in Northport as well. You sit down, totally numbed out, and you start sinking into it. So Im putting around GARY LIVES IN OUR HEARTS. I said, Fuck that, man. In regard to Kasso's time in Amityville And they tried to find out, and Albert wouldnt tell them anything, so thats why when Albert came home, his lip was all cut, he had bruised ribs and a big bump on his head. I came back, and they had left. and they let him go. He said the devil came in the form of a tree, which sprouted out of the ground and glowed. And all of a sudden the cup in the middle, http://acidking.com/press/. They told me that he started stabbing Gary in the face and shit . Mr. Kasso, he added, ''did the right thing'' by hanging himself. Albert Quinones appears to be the only person who saw what happened, and will be the governments star witness. called the ". the following weeks one of those remaining teens -- young Ricky Kasso -- would He said I sold my tape recorder; I was about to sell my Walkman. After this look at Ricky Kasso, read about the LSD-fueled murders of two self-professed Satanists in an empty Georgia woods. premiere in Chicago. Some persons were interviewed individually, others in groups. forth in the form of fire." Prosecutors later said the teens were engaged in a The parents of Ricky Kasso declined to be interviewed. I was in love with the guy, you know. Kasso even brought several disbelieving teens to view Lauwers' body before he and Troiano returned to the woods to bury the decomposing remains in a shallow grave. Thinking he saw Lauwers head move, Kasso began stabbing him multiple times in the face. A trim youth carrying a round object climbed from the truck and entered the park. What else can you do? transfigured themselves into flies and flew off. During this time, most heavy metal groups dismissed the hysterical accusations, with Ozzy Osbourne of Black Sabbath once jokingly stating, When we came out of seeing The Exorcist we had to all stay in one room together, thats how black magic we were.. Mr. Lauwers, she said, had a way of disappearing for days at a time. Just put it down that it was the dust. At one point Mr. Naiburg asked Mr. Quinones whether seeing Mr. Kasso stab the victim had been ''real or a trip.''. That was when the body of 17-year-old Gary Lauwers was found in a shallow grave in the Aztakea Woods, just outside of the sleepy harbor village of Northport. They said, Garys dead. I ran into my grandmothers kitchen, grabbed the biggest knife I could find and booked out into the backyard. His hose was here. Gary was scared of him, cause every time theyd get together, Ricky would chew him out or beat the shit out of him. sacrifice to kill. Buried in a shallow grave Kasso believed a black crow possessed by Satan told him to kill. To preserve these articles as they originally appeared, The Times does not alter, edit or update them. And so we go up there, it smelled like shit. After this interview, his mother sent him out of state to be with a priest. Do-de-do, do-de-do. I was massively depressed. They had to keep doing things so people would think they were great. Then another friend got hit by a truck, riding his We hung out. They asked me at the grand jury: Why didnt you tell the police? Its like, now if he gets caught, Im going to get involved. PEACENIK GIRL, 16: Ricky sang me this song that he wrote on guitar. Some went downtown to scrape off the satanic graffiti and sing Stairway to Heaven. Some went to praise Ricky Kasso or to bury Gary Lauwers. Some went into the woods to get a look at the black spot. To me, Gary was being cool and shit. He was always like that, since he was a little kid. BAKER: Ricky wanted to be the devils second hand. the next room with his girlfriend. [1] Two other teens, Jimmy Troiano and Albert Quinones, were present at the murder, which took place in the Aztakea Woods of Northport while all four were under the influence of what they believed to be mescaline, but was most likely LSD. Under cross-examination by the defense attorney, Eric Naiburg, the witness, 17-year-old Albert Quinones, had trouble recalling details and the sequence of events on the night of the murder. The history of Satanic Ritual Killing and, Murder. Wrong. In a confession to the police, Mr. Troiano said he had held Mr. Lauwers during the stabbing. Amityville Asylum Cell After His Arrest in Ritual Killing" by Robert D. Mcfadden (July 8, 1984), "Teenager Indicted on L.I. He was more into peace than fighting. He then invited Lauwers to get high with him, Troiano and Quinones. Initial police reports that Mr. Lauwers had been stabbed to death in a bizarre satanic ritual spurred exaggerated news coverage about events on the night of the killing. SOFTHEARTED GIRL: The first night I found out, I had a dream, a dream Taking the name Rolling Stone magazine (11/22/84) said, "They told the Go out and have a party. I was peaking out, tripping out. In the four-page statement, Mr. Troiano also admitted that he had welcomed Mr. Lauwers's death and that he handed the friend, Richard Kasso, the murder weapon, a four-inch pocketknife. And some of his tapes were here. Lauwers face was destroyed beyond recognition. A substitute for Ricky, a substitute for Jimmy. Forsake your homosexuality After that, he comes up to a group of my friends who . The book about Kasso called, "Say You Love Satan. But not Ricky, Jimmy, Gary or Albert. TERRIE ALTO: This is the first time somebody I know died, other than people who send me checks on Christmas. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Analytics". They said Mr. Lauwers was stabbed about 40 times and beaten by 17-year-old Richard Kasso of Northport while James Troiano, now 19, of East Northport held the victim and Albert Quinones, now 17, of Northport watched. He was also arrested for digging into a colonial-era grave to steal bones. You can experience yourself sinking into a cinder-block wall. and Cults: Legends We Live by Bill Ellis, The Conspiracy Reader: From the Deaths of JFK and John Lennon to . But now Gary is dead; Ricky, too. What they did say was "Satan will come He gave one guy $500, just, Have fun tonight. He went to Laces Roller Rink, and he took a thousand dollars, a thousand dollars, and just chucked it in the air, man. Select this result to view Albert Quinones's phone number, address, and more. Faced with contradictions between his testimony and earlier statements, he said that what he had told a grand jury investigating the murder was ''pretty much'' the truth. And All of a sudden Gary goes, I have funny vibes that youre going to kill me. And Ricky was saying, Im not going to kill you. He was at that age. All three of them chugged it down. He called this girl a slut, and she freaked out and stabbed him. They were happy. It was shut and locked tight, and it slammed open and banged against the wall. digging, daily use of hallucinogens and other drugs, suicide attempts and jokes, make this weird smile about it. MICHELLE DeVEAU: My biggest problem in life is my friends dying. .On the night before he had to In his often contradictory testimony, he acknowledged that he had repeatedly abused hallucinogenic drugs. After that, he comes up to a group of my friends who are sitting, talking, and I guess because now that he broke through his faggot, and hes into his little dirt-bag group that hes so proud of, he calls me a faggot! . Mr. Quinones has been granted immunity in return for his testimony. To preserve these articles as they originally appeared, The Times does not alter, edit or update them. the motive: "My son didn't use drugs," she said recently. . Weve talked to Jim Morrison through a table. My dream is to get the hell out of here. People think Im nuts.. Amityville - Mass suicide and Murder, Bram Stoker who wrote "Dracula": His link to Amityville. Hes the kid that climbed up the tree very high . that Gary talked to me. ''Yeah,'' Mr. Smith interjected. Mr. Byrom said he did not believe that devil worship had anything to do with what happened that night. Goody Garlick in 1657. COLLUM CLARK: There was a total spur of the moment thing where Gary and some other kids decided to gang up on this guy. In May, his parents had taken him to Long Island Jewish Hospital: he had pneumonia. At the end of the He would take three; ten minutes later hed take another three; and two hours later hed take four more. TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. You feel like you could rip your gut open and not even know it. MIKE LION MENTON, 17: Everybody was fucked up that night. Troiano vividly recalled Ricky Kasso laughing as they left the woods. Howling and sniffing, he found enough flesh for a fingerprint and a pile of bones wearing denim vest, running pants, white undershorts, Nikes. Facebook gives people the power. himself we will never know for sure. However, it wasn't until two weeks went by, on July 1, that the murder was reported to the police via an anonymous tip. Knights of the black circle the Amityville Asylum). SOFTHEARTED GIRL, 14: I was the closest person to Ricky. go court for digging up the grave, he TEEN DUSTHEAD 2: You dont feel anything. after a couple of minutes, started going of paper in there. First time Ricky got in trouble was eighth grade. DAN PETTY, 17: Fuzzy Legs would do things for the moment. I said, Whats going on? And he goes, No way are they gonna lock me up. All Rights reserved. He'd stay in Theyd wreck fences, rip down signs, beat people up. Quinones said that Kasso . Sometime after midnight, a Mazda pickup stopped near the park, cruised away, then returned and pulled to the curb. He always had a joke about something, even something that scared him. It was like, every time it would hit after twelve, Id start bugging out. MARK FISHER: When he moved back home for a while, he started scaring his parents, because he wrote some songs about Satan. Kassos father, who also coached the local football team, once described his son as a model child and a young athlete. One night he came back to my house. It's He didnt feel good. murder, some in great detail. Poltergeist Movie Man, this fucking dude, thanks a lot, man, wherever you are. Hed write 666 on steam mirrors when hed take a bath, and hed leave at 12:30 in the afternoon, before my mom came home. There was no face to speak of. Easily, it answers. As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. ''It's stupid. In this area kids follow "The Code" whereby they do not tell. The next day they said they were gonna let me go, cause Jimmy was coming in. A summer ago, Gary and his pals got stoned in his forest of white hand prints, and they made a tape to document the event. In acquitting Mr. Troiano, 19 years old, of East Northport, the jury apparently discounted a confession in which he said he had held Mr. Lauwers, 17, while a friend repeatedly stabbed him. reading LaVey's Satanic Bible) and after the murder was openly boasting of his (Gary Lauvers was among those who watched.) And you feel pressure start building in your skull. Troiano was in This is a digitized version of an article from The Timess print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996. Push yourself as far as you can go. He didnt care. My heads screwed up ever since that night and its still screwed up, man. He said, I love thee, Satan [originally by Wiseblood] Find Instagram, Twitter, Facebook and TikTok profiles, images and more on IDCrawl - free people search website. RICH BARTON: We were hanging out in Aztakea, getting wasted. ALBERT QUINONES, 16: Gary already paid him his money back. He ran and dealt and dusted with Ricky. Anyone can read what you share. He eventually left the body in the woods covered with leaves. I said, What was that? And Ricky said, Aw, nothing it was a rock, man. I didnt think anything about it. And he was sorta worried that a person would go on a wood hunt and grab a stick, but it would be a hand or a bone. Thinking it was a sign being dramatized on a Chicago stage. He needed help. But the trial, in Suffolk County Court in Riverhead, is still likely to bring more unwelcome publicity to Northport, where the four teen-agers are remembered. I remember he got twenty-five hits of acid, and he just gave them out. They were really happy and everything. the clubhouse all the time. It was cute, though, the way he did it. They were good, calls me a faggot! And I said, Oh, yeah, youre so cool you can pull a gun on someone. And he got all mad, and started chasing me, and getting his girlfriends after me, and saying he was gonna kill me. "presently psychotic," and let him go. many scars on his face. I dont think they carved his eyes out. Gary put on her leather jacket, the biker jacket and shit, and I was wearing one of the black-leather belts with the studs. If I die tomorrow, I can always say that I lived my life to the fullest. TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. the "Wacky World of Murder," "In 1984, Ricky Kasso led his merry men on a Mr. Quinones is the chief prosecution witness against James Troiano, who is on trial for the slaying last June in the woods of Northport. Because Kasso killed Ricky was a patient at a nut house once But he admitted that he had lied to the police about his knowledge of Mr. Lauwers's death because he had feared he would be ''framed.''. close friend was killed at a New Year's Eve party two years ago. TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. He'd put on these weird eyes and An outsider. That was one of the many times Gary told me he loved me. - Family & House it is based on located near Amityville! When he was high, hed always sit there and laugh at you, like he was trying to pretend to be crazy. '', Like everyone else in town, they had opinions about the killing. It was Gary, and his face was all mangled and stuff. The park, bathed in the glow of high-pressure sodium lights, appeared deserted. ''It's something to do - it relaxes me,'' said the youth, Eric Byrom, 19, who said he lived across the harbor in Centerport and attended Suffolk Community College. Mutilation murder It was probably He was teased. By night's end, a dispute over stolen drugs would result in Kasso stabbing Lauwers several times before gouging out his eyes. At one point, Gary stopped the proceedings and enthused: We contribute this to the society of the man who invented acid, fucking drugs. So they were just rolling on the ground and shit, and Gary got up to his feet after Jimmy had ran up to him and kicked him in the ribs and shit, and Gary had gotten up to his feet, and Ricky just bit him in the neck, bit him in the ear and then he just stabbed him. Ceremonies of the Luciferian.. History of Satanism and Devil worship. bands and musicians that sing it. ''We all had a job to do and we did it well,'' David Alubowicz, a juror from Deer Park, said. View the profiles of professionals named "Albert Quinones" on LinkedIn. ''We told them, yeah, we believe in Christ.''. Kasso, reportedly accompanied by chants of Hang up, hang up from his cell mates, did so. A moment later he was shooting baskets on its well-illuminated cement court. to view the corpse, a dissolving trophy. I got them the biggest orange juice I could find, and they were so happy. RANDY GUETHLER: Before the murder, I was known as a gravedigger. Stab! LSD-fueled murders of two self-professed Satanists in an empty Georgia woods, Anton Lavey, the man who made Satanism trendy. They wanted to know the truth. But not kill me kill me, just kill me. He was very insecure. ''You could always hit him but he would do nothing back,'' said Bruce Smith, 16, who wore a striped tie and a red St. Louis Cardinals sweatshirt. Go roller-skating. another friend shot himself. again. In the morning, he went home, and his father wouldnt let him take a shower or eat, wouldnt let him in the house. And he got all mad, and started chasing me, and getting his YouTubeGary Lauwers ran away from home so often that his body lay undiscovered for weeks before anyone realized he was missing. I talked to him for hours and hours during the night. He was a sweet guy, and very funny. And he said it was okay. Very severe, and they hurt. In 1984, Northport, New York, was considered an idyllic suburb. We want your mother to be the leader of it. See, my mother has these powers. skeleton, at least was Drac because Friend Mark Fisher said "Ricky was of the devil. PEACENIK GIRL: Ricky asked me if he could have a ride up to Saratoga to see the Dead. Amityville Insane Welcome!". Two other teens, Jimmy Troiano and Albert Quinones, were present at the murder, which took place in the Aztakea Woods of Northport while all . He was One day, at the train station, I saw him. Slaying Meets for 7 Hours" (April 25, 1985), "L.I. They told the doctors of his grave Two months later, after the murder arrests, Jimmy Troiano was placed in a special observation cell. He was always wasted. - Woman accused of witchcraft in Amityville area! motorcycle. I was gonna go get beers, and I gave them my box, had my tape in it, Black Sabbath, We Sold Our Soul for Rock n Roll. Mr. Quinones is expected to appear as the key prosecution witness against Mr. Troiano, who has been charged with second-degree murder. Ut enim ad minim veniam laboris. of his fangs. The play asks how such a thing Richard Allan "Ricky" Kasso Jr. (March 29, 1967 July 7, 1984), also known as The Acid King, was an American killer who murdered his 17-year-old friend Gary Lauwers in Northport, New York on June 19, 1984. Main Street, Cow Neck Park and the park gazebo - on which graffiti referring to Satan had been scrawled - are all part of the story of four teen-agers who came together in nearby Aztakea Woods one Saturday night last June. coat of arms of netherlands. BOY AT WAKE: I was there when they threw the knife in the harbor. for the insane (Renamed South Oaks). A-frame and jumped off. They. Hed stay in clubhouses that he knew, or in the lumberyard up the road, or in doorways. To preserve these articles as they originally appeared, The Times does not alter, edit or update them.
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