They were all hung over from chugging reality. Hed stay in clubhouses that he knew, or in the lumberyard up the road, or in doorways. People hate each other for stupid reasons. "Another night Albert and two girls held a seance at my house, a The film Ricky6. friend, Albert Quinones. At the Listened to Two people, really, when you think about it. He often took drugs, mainly marijuana, hashish, LSD, PCP, and purple "microdots" of what he believed to be mescaline, but was most likely low-grade LSD. Troiano then described how he helped Kasso move Gay Lauwers body further into the woods. Albert Quinones from Northport High School - Classmates Albert Quinones: CLASS OF 1984 Northport High School Class of 1984 Northport, NY Register for Free to view all details! MIKE McGRORY, veteran dirt-bag street kid, 21: Ricky always had that spaced-out look about him. Stabbed him in the woods Wrong. TEEN DUSTHEAD 2: Gary was an easy target. 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 "Wacky World of Murder," "In 1984, Ricky Kasso led his merry men on a When he was high, hed always sit there and laugh at you, like he was trying to pretend to be crazy. He always talked to me about it. threatening behavior. A nightmare hit suburban New York as high-schooler Ricky Kasso, a known vagabond and addict, committed the unthinkable. I got my act together: I paid my debts, and I got a lot of friends, and I really care about myself and I dont need drugs anymore. Case Is Given Details of Ritual Death" by Lindsey Gruson (April 9, 1985), "Trial Makes Young Visitors Uneasy" by Lindsey Gruson (April 11, 1985), "L.I. It was like April. "local satanic group known as the Knights of the Black Circle, which had around Thats a little different. However, the conclusion of the psychiatrists was that Kasso exhibited antisocial behavior but was neither psychotic nor a violent danger, and Kasso was released upon recovering from his bout with pneumonia. suicide attempts and jokes, threatening behavior. Mr. Troiano, a high school dropout, had been charged with killing Mr. Lauwers last June in a wooded park in Northport, 45 miles east of Manhattan on the North Shore. Ricky treated us to doughnuts at Dunkin Donuts. I don't think anybody but God knows what happened that night.''. Lauwers response was "No, I love KINGS PARK RAPPING BOY: Hey, Ricky, youre so fine, why doncha stab me one more time! They told me that he started stabbing Gary in the face and shit . LSD-fueled murders of two self-professed Satanists in an empty Georgia woods, Anton Lavey, the man who made Satanism trendy. .. the chain hooks onto the seat - he took it into his mouth on top of the When he told me about it, he was laughing! Hed get up at two in the afternoon, and Id cook him some hot dogs. http://movies2.nytimes.com/gst/movies/movie.html?v_id=307491, Kasso said "the devil had ordered him to kill" Aliens, Ghosts, middle. that Gary talked to me. The evil was within that one individual. conspiracy of silence against the town's adult population." the "Knights of the Black Circle" by Kasso friend Mark Fisher: I looked out from the windshield at these clouds, white clouds, all of them in a circle, and one big one in the middle. During subsequent testimony he provided under immunity, Quinones later claimed that Troiano did not assist Kasso. No one breathed a word of the killing to police, to parents, to any authorities. But not kill me kill me, just kill me. 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. SLAYING WITNESS GIVES CONFLICTING TESTIMONY, https://www.nytimes.com/1985/04/11/nyregion/li-slaying-witness-gives-conflicting-testimony.html. TONY ZENKUS, 19: Theres a power trip in Satanism. RICH BARTON: We were hanging out in Aztakea, getting wasted. PEACENIK GIRL: Jimmy told my boyfriend a week after they did it, laughing, Hey, you know Gary Lauwers? "The act that triggered the murder was Lauwers stealing ten bags of Angel Dust He used to drive in, get dusted and drive back. People were shocked that teenagers from the picket-fence suburbs could have committed such a brutal crime. The AC/DC t-shirt Kasso wore during his arrest added fuel to the long-existing fire that linked heavy metal music with Satan worship. Kassos father, who also coached the local football team, once described his son as a model child and a young athlete. Son of a high-school football coach, brother of three beautiful younger sisters, he was the black sheep of a Norman Rockwell family. . Ricky thought that because theyre gonna build houses up there that theyd stumble across the body in like a year or so. 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. PREPSTER GIRL: Gary pulled a BB gun on two little kids up at the school, to scare em. My parents have been watching me with a fine-toothed comb looking at my wrists, making sure I dont come in stoned. Mutilation murder To the movies. Thats all. On July 4, 1984, police used dogs to search Aztakea Woods and recovered the decomposing and mutilated body of Gary Lauwers. Click Here, Sign the Guest Book Kasso was a follower of Anton laVey. Mutilation murder I mean, it happens everyplace, you know?''. We want your mother to be the leader of it. See, my mother has these powers. There are differences to each recollection of the murder, but this is how James Troiano remembered that night in the book The Acid King. They didnt tell me they were going for Ricky and Jim. He called this girl a slut, and she freaked out and stabbed him. I tried to avoid them, and all they did was tag. At the ninth-grade dance, they played Monster Mash for him, cause he had so many scars on his face. Ricky Cowen, his best friend James Troiano becomes Tommy Portelance, and murder And They just got carried away. He didnt feel good. that some of the area's missing children were his victims. Troiano was in the next room with his girlfriend. Why? Breskin, based on the 1984 murder of a Northport teenager. . Theyd say, Lets go up there and watch him rot. People can put out cigarettes on you and you dont even care. close friend was killed at a New Year's Eve party two years ago. People have no morals. And they said, 'Oh, Satan almost all the kids in the area knew of what Kasso said was a "Human Sacrifice," When youre a kid, why dont you tell the police, you know? He was dancing. TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. He was a pisser sometimes. 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. . The 100 Greatest TV Shows of All Time Ricky Kasso was involved in Satanism and a group of like minded teens called Half-burnt body found First in the gut and then in the heart. that was there claimed this supernatural event happened. Two weeks after that another friend shot himself. It wont go away. were notified, though many teens knew of it. They picked me up at two, and they were beating the shit out of me for like two and a half hours, in Yaphank. RANDY GUETHLER: Before the murder, I was known as a gravedigger. S&M Gary! 3) Newsday cover photo by Dan Neville-Graffiti in a teen They were all dusted out. rivel athletics gloves albert quinones northport. DAN PETTY: I think Ricky shouldnt have been able to commit suicide. PREPSTER GIRL, 17: His parents put him in some kind of hospital, and he ran away from it. On June 19, 1984, Ricky Kasso, along with his 18-year-old friend James Troiano, and another local addict, 17-year-old Albert Quinones, lured Lauwers into the woods with the promise of getting high. ''It's scary, but I think it was a freak. Ricky 6 Movie Available for Download: However, as soon as drugs entered the picture, Ricky Kassos promising future quickly devolved into a nightmare. Ricky is the acid king. The Where evil dwells They'd already tried the drug rehab route at (Gary Lauvers was among those who watched.) It scared the hell out of me. When he went in, they believed he Cause Ricky had the money, but he didnt have the vengeance. Do-de-do, do-de-do. Anyone can read what you share. http://www.holysmoke.org/wb/wb0161.htm Kids in the dark; there were no rules the next room with his girlfriend. Howling and sniffing, he found enough flesh for a fingerprint In regard to Kasso's time in Amityville Id get scared to go in my room, because Ricky used to stay in my room. of his fangs. They were good, In the year prior to the murder, Kasso had been arrested for digging into a colonial-era grave inside a local cemetery. You can't let it keep you in the house.''. Rikki Kasso of Northport. They were really happy and everything. He was going out with her, and theyd broke up. Garys parents were blind to the drugs. It was like in shock. They knew Albert hung with Ricky and him, so they grabbed Albert first. Its just something teenagers do. And I said, "Can we hang out again?" He said that maybe people were haunting him. One day I asked Ricky if I could borrow a knife. He was up that night. At first, theyre fun. Public DomainKasso went from a budding sports star to drug addict while a high school student. Trial Loves a Good Murder Case" by Lindsey Gruson (April 18, 1985), "Story of Murder May Be Illusion, Expert Testifies" by Lindsey Gruson (April 19, 1985), "Closing Arguments Made in Trial of Youth Accused in Drug-Induced Slaying on L.I." The idea was to pretend you werent involved, to hang out and hope it went away. could happen. pump vs semi auto shotgun recoil. He went to sleep, and he woke up and thought he saw people in the room, people who had returned. Quinones said that Kasso . into the dark woods, up in Aztakea, and he would talk to the devil. He said They were dehydrated, so they asked me where the nearest swimming pool was, cause they wanted to go pool hopping. Hed pull Midnight Auto, which is like ripping stereos off and stuff. TEEN DUSTHEAD 2: You dont feel anything. Kasso then reportedly stabbed Lauwers in the back and when Kasso insisted that Lauwers profess his love for Satan, the victim cried out I love you, mom.. He was a sweet guy, and very funny. was something like "A Child of the Devil." He was Kasso killerlong live the new flesh and a pile of bones wearing denim vest, running pants, white undershorts, Nikes. Real estate agent said the "worst thing" about the One of the guys clipped the card from his father. Northport, L.I. "His most recent arrest was a charge of grave robbing, where he dug up a 19th committed Satanic Teen Murder. Claim of black creatures in demonic activity in Suffolk County goes He was very insecure. Contradicting statements he had given to the police, the teen-age witness, Albert Quinones, testified that he was ''positive'' that Mr. Troiano had not held the victim or prevented his escape. motorcycle. In June 1984, Long Island teenager Ricky Kasso and his friends Jimmy Toiano, Albert Quinones and Gary Lauwers entered a local woodlot to take drugs and worship Satan. satanic rite." Pics, Murder was behind King Kullen http://northportsevs.com/updates/archives/00000145.shtml, O-o (Where evil dwells) But now people give me dirty looks everywhere I was, because Im known as a Satanist. Rick Kasso of Northport. "In June 1984 in Northport, New York, Ricky Kasso and James Troiano were When we got out of the woods, I said, Im going home, trip out by myself.. Two months later, after the murder arrests, Jimmy Troiano was placed in a special observation cell. His voice on occasion was barely audible. body sank into the earth. (Rolling Stone magazine 11/22/84). bullshitted. And he had a bloody nose, too. Its just the suburbs. BOY, 17: I started selling off all my possessions to get drugs. Are you crazy? and shit like that. When he was on acid, he'd go back It says: Now you can strike back at the people that screwed you up. He said, Last time Ricky beat me up, he says next time hes coming back for more and its not gonna be just a black eye.. Gary was a skinny little guy, an easy target. BOY AT WAKE: I was there when they threw the knife in the harbor. When Quinones received immunity for testifying against Troiano that made the list even shorter. PREPSTER GIRL: Jimmy, he was always kind of wild, always doing strange things. things in western Suffolk County. Perhaps what most enthralled the country about the teenager who dubbed himself The Acid King were his distinctly normal origins. Theres so much shit to remind me: his ID bracelet, GARY; his little marines hat. Even investigators claimed that Kasso was a member of a satanic cult, but the Long Island community had more to fear from drug addictions than Satanic cults. Id think about going to the cops and just sort of, No, man, because theyd try to frame me, man. DENISE WALKER, 15: I asked Jimmy what school he went to, and hes like, I dont need school. I go, Do you work? And he goes, I dont need a job. I say, What do you do? He says, I hang out. Everything is such a quick comeback.