Mr. Quinn, who was paid $500 for his testimony, said that chronic abusers were unable to distinguish fantasy from reality and that they would agree to virtually anything suggested by an authority figure. Richard "Ricky" Kasso (March 29, 1967 - July 7, 1984), also known as The Acid King, murdered 17-year-old acquaintance Gary Lauwers in Northport, Long Island, New York on June 16, 1984. Kasso had been charged in April with digging up a grave the previous fall. the chain hooks onto the seat - he took it into his mouth on top of the over again screaming, "Say you love Satan!!!" To the movies. Theres so much shit to remind me: his ID bracelet, GARY; his little marines hat. And he got all mad, and started chasing me, and getting his MIKE McGRORY, veteran dirt-bag street kid, 21: Ricky always had that spaced-out look about him. ninth-grade dance, they played "Monster Mash" for him,' cause he had so 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! pilgrimage to the notorious house at Amityville where Ronald 'Butch' DeFeo had They were all dosed. fifteen and perhaps thirty teenagers and young adults were told of the PREPSTER GIRL: Gary pulled a BB gun on two little kids up at the school, to scare em. Mr. Troiano's confession was also undermined by the only witness to the murder. the twentieth or twenty-first of June. Albert Quinones appears to be the only person who saw what happened, and will be the governments star witness. satanic rite." Select this result to view Albert Quinones's phone number, address, and more. ''They say, 'Northport? was Drac because He said he did not know how long the stabbing had lasted. arrest, was a list of the Dignitaries in Hell. It scared the hell out of me. fourteen. He asked me to help bury it. Kasso claimed Satan manifested in the form of a black crow after killing Lauwers, and that the crow had cawed, something he interpreted as Satan's approval of the murder. TEEN DUSTHEAD 2: Ricky and this dude were in my car, and theyre like, Were trying to get this cult going. So I went up to Aztakea, but I didnt quite make it, cause it was so dark, I was bumping into trees and falling down. what was bolivar's ultimate goal? Complete hallucinations. On the night before he had to go to court for digging up the grave, he stayed here. MARK FISHER, 17: Ive known Ricky since sixth grade. I tried killing myself. SOFTHEARTED GIRL, 14: I was the closest person to Ricky. Hed pull Midnight Auto, which is like ripping stereos off and stuff. At one point Mr. Naiburg asked Mr. Quinones whether seeing Mr. Kasso stab the victim had been ''real or a trip.''. Kasso was not. Forty stabs? Gary was scared of him, cause every time theyd get together, Ricky would chew him out or beat the shit out of him. Hed totally fuck somebody over and not think about the consequences of it. A close friend was killed at a New Years Eve party two years ago. Jimmy picked up the knife after Ricky had dropped it, and he gave it to Ricky. in scorching water! Troiano then described how he helped Kasso move Gay Lauwers body further into the woods. They came running out of the woods after they just threw leaves on him and shit. (Gary Lauwers was among those who watched.) STONED PALLBEARER 1: When he robbed that house, he had $4000 in hard cash, cold cash, and he found two people, and he said, Hey, you guys wanna go buy some motorcycles? He bought those two kids cycles, and one for him, and he bought a box, an outrageous tape deck, it was $300, and went to this girls house with a gold chain for her. ''We never hang out here anymore,'' she added, watching the cars go by. It was like a mirror. It is speculated The teens also smoked several bags of PCP before attempting to start a small fire, but all of the available firewood was too wet and would not ignite. In all there were three dozen flesh, full of dents from the blade of a knife. coat of arms of netherlands. Troiano was in They started out by drawing a five-pointed star they just traced their fingers. Mr. Quinones is expected to appear as the key prosecution witness against Mr. Troiano, who has been charged with second-degree murder. TEEN DUSTHEAD 1: Ricky took everything, just like Jim Morrison. bands and musicians that sing it. I was committed to Gary. During the attack, Kasso allegedly commanded Lauwers to "Say you love Satan", and Lauwers is said to have instead replied "I love my mother," before finally giving in to Kasso's demands. They were like drifting and coming closer, and they were like skeleton things. He was up that night. Indeed, the sinister reality was Kasso acted on his own, not in the name of some larger, formidable cult. They told the doctors of his grave However, as soon as drugs entered the picture, Ricky Kassos promising future quickly devolved into a nightmare. - Woman accused of witchcraft in Amityville area! 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. Its sick: Ive seen thirteen-year-old girls running around with RICKY LIVES on their T-shirts. His mother says, These kids are going to need a hundred years of therapy.. His father said no. . fourteen. Ricky Kassso known on Long Island as the Acid King who They knew Albert hung with Ricky and him, so they grabbed Albert first. The four teens were all tripping on LSD and staring at a small fire when Ricky demanded that Gary remove his clothes and donate them to fire. When Gary did not, Ricky and Gary started to fight, as Albert and I watched, Troiano said. SOFTHEARTED GIRL: Ricky wanted the suicide. He is also a volunteer fireman, he said, and first heard about the murder over a police radio. http://www.tanedv.com/oooyeah.html Movie. victim Gary Lauwers becomes Tweasel in Ricky 6 - Say You Love Satan. to view the corpse, a dissolving trophy. The Amityville Acid King. I was peaking out, tripping out. He called himself the acid king and began to dabble in devil worship. Go out and have a party. http://movies2.nytimes.com/gst/movies/movie.html?v_id=307491, Kasso said "the devil had ordered him to kill" Aliens, Ghosts, For two weeks Furthermore, they were terrified that Ricky Kasso was just one member of a larger, murderous Satanic cult. But now Gary is dead; Ricky, too. sick: I've seen thirteen-year-old girls running around with RICKY LIVES on their T-shirts. It was probably 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. TONY ZENKUS, 19: Theres a power trip in Satanism. TEEN DUSTHEAD 2: My door all of a sudden slammed open. Hes the kid that climbed up the tree very high . What they did say was "Satan will come I just started stabbing him in the back of the head. Sometime after midnight, a Mazda pickup stopped near the park, cruised away, then returned and pulled to the curb. ", "Kids in the Dark, 1992 | Features | David Breskin", "ACID KING INTERVIEW: "THat's HOW WE FORMED; AN AD IN THE PAPER AND a DRUNKEN PARTY" Iron Fist Magazine", "The kids in N Sensae are not all right", "The Quietus | Features | Hail the Acid Kings: Electric Wizard's Time to die Reviewed", "FISTULA: Ohio Kings Of Sludge-Fueled Miserycore To Release Longing For Infection Full-Length; New Track Streaming + Preorders Available | Earsplit Compound", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ricky_Kasso&oldid=1134008758, American people who died in prison custody, People who committed suicide in prison custody, Prisoners who died in New York (state) detention, Short description is different from Wikidata, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, The Acid King, The Say You Love Satan Killer, "A Shared Secret: Murder in Northport" by Thomas Maier and Rex Smith (August 12, 1984), "The Murder They'd Rather Forget" by Joshua Quittner (April 16, 1987), "The Theater of Suburban Rage" by Joseph C. Koenenn (April 16, 1987), "Upstate Suspect Has LI Past" by Monte R. Young (January 16, 1993), "Satanic Slaying Rocks a Village" by Bill Reinecke (July 11, 1984), "Youth Found Hanged in L.I. Under some leaves, the worms did their work, transfigured themselves into flies and flew off. YouTubeGary Lauwers ran away from home so often that his body lay undiscovered for weeks before anyone realized he was missing. MARK FISHER: Ricky had twenty-five hits of mesc in a little stash bottle down at the park. MARK FISHER: Ricky was of the devil. Because Kasso killed And these were just kids. Albert Quinones currently lives in Port Jefferson Station, NY; in the past Albert has also lived in Centereach NY and Coram NY. He was a Kasso scuffled with Lauwers, bit him on the neck and stabbed him in the chest. In May, his parents had taken him to Long Island Jewish Hospital: he had pneumonia. Then, read about Anton Lavey, the man who made Satanism trendy. They declined to comment on the decision. Very severe, and they hurt. Mr. Keahon based his case largely on Mr. Troiano's confession, which the defense had tried to suppress. I dont know what to think. The history of Satanic Ritual Killing and, Murder. You sit down, totally numbed out, and you start sinking into it. Kasso killerlong live the new flesh animal sacrifices to the Devil and according to Kasso they he did a "Human That was the word. S&M Gary! It was sick. much, they finally believed him and they let him go. It was shut and locked tight, and it slammed open and banged against the wall. was in 1984, led by Ricky Kasso in the nearby village of Northport. Kasso was often thrown out of his home as a young teen and lived on the streets of suburban Northport, New York, usually sleeping in the local woods, or in the cars, garages, backyards and houses of friends. I said, Rick, Im getting the hell out here. century grave from which he stole a skull and hand that he intended to use for a Then, according after a couple of minutes, started going of paper in there. He looked like he got away with it and shit hes playing it cool. PREPSTER GIRL, 17: His parents put him in some kind of hospital, and he ran away from it. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. Man, its no big deal. Two days later, after confessing, Kasso hanged himself in jail. He just said, I just had a bad trip, a really bad trip. He had poison ivy all over him, and I gave him calamine lotion. the "Wacky World of Murder," "In 1984, Ricky Kasso led his merry men on a Jimmy spent a night, too. . He was five-pointed star -- they just traced their fingers. The First time Ricky got in trouble was eighth grade. ", The Theater Of Suburban Rage The murder was two weeks old before the police The play asks how such a thing Fuck the world.. of his fangs. Lauwers was stabbed somewhere between 17 and 36 times and his eyeballs were possibly sliced out during the stabbing. They left bones cleaned of In his pocket, at the time of that Kasso, reportedly accompanied by chants of Hang up, hang up from his cell mates, did so. You feel like you could rip your gut open and not even know it. Al Capone in Amityville - Sinks into insanity. MARK FISHER: Ricky was of the devil. Then they become necessary to get you through the day. Another night Albert and two girls held a sance at my house, a satanic ritual in which they tried to call forth the devil. I didnt tell anybody, but I couldnt escape it. accused of killing 17-year-old Gary Lauwers by gouging his eyes out and ''They look at you funny,'' said Keith Muller, 17. the clubhouse all the time. James They picked me up at two, and they were beating the shit out of me for like two and a half hours, in Yaphank. According to a stabbing him 17 times during a three-hour torture session. I had nightmares that I killed him. ''We all figured he was going to show up again so we didn't worry about it,'' she said. The jury of eight men and four women deliberated 10 1/2 hours over three days before reaching its verdict. Gary Lauwers and Northport High School on They started out by drawing a Finally a girl overheard other girls During his hospital stay, his parents tried to convince the doctors to commit him for involuntary psychiatric care. "In June 1984 in Northport, New York, Ricky Kasso and James Troiano were We tried to make a fire, but we couldnt. At the ninth-grade dance, they played Monster Mash for him, cause he had so many scars on his face. Kasso confronted him soon after the incident, prompting Lauwers to immediately return five of the ten bags of PCP. Kassos father, who also coached the local football team, once described his son as a model child and a young athlete. The murder became sensational news in New York City and across the nation due to the alleged torture of Lauwers and supposed occult aspects of the murder. KINGS PARK RAPPING BOY: Hey, Ricky, youre so fine, why doncha stab me one more time! He was on dust. Several days before Mr. Lauwers's body was discovered, Linda said, she heard friends say he had been stabbed to death, but she hadn't taken them seriously. The drugs they ingested were tablets called "purple microdots", and while they were erroneously referred to as mescaline on the street, they were likely LSD. The police asserted that the teen-age, drug-taking cult had infested the area and committed the murder as part of a worship service. They said, Garys dead. I ran into my grandmothers kitchen, grabbed the biggest knife I could find and booked out into the backyard. They didnt tell me they were going for Ricky and Jim. Why does anybody fight? ''Yeah,'' Mr. Smith interjected. I dont know. Notice MIKE McGRORY: Gary was basically a good kid, young in mind. Try restaurant style recipes at home. They were all dusted out. GIRL, former classmate, 18: We all knew his nickname was Drac because of his fangs. We want your mother to be the leader of it. See, my mother has these powers. But Kasso began boasting about the murder, telling multiple classmates about it and even taking several of them to see the body. 2020. For Kasso, he said a black crow said to him at the human ''I knew Gary Lauwers,'' said Linda, 18. He'd stay in After he smoked seven packets of dust, we were having a regular conversation. In the Philadelphia Daily News (Pennsylvania): Chronology of the trial in the New York Times (available online). ALBERT QUINONES: The detectives were beating the shit out of me. "presently psychotic," and let him go. ", Satanic teen killer Ricky Kasso was a long time patient at the To preserve these articles as they originally appeared, The Times does not alter, edit or update them. ''We all had a job to do and we did it well,'' David Alubowicz, a juror from Deer Park, said. I saw Ricky down in the round house. funeral, " He told me the way he got out of South Oaks Hospital (Formerly named Do-de-do, do-de-do. Mr. Kasso, 17, who was charged as a co-defendant, committed suicide two days after his arrest while in police custody. When you walk, it feels like youre walking on water. Im more like a hippie-type person man anything else. You can go shopping. He had no shirt on. He fought to get people to like him. Newsday By Joseph C. Koenenn Apr 16, 1987. talking about it and she called the police. TEEN DUSTHEAD 1: You feel like youre ten feet tall. Hes always in my mind. The throng turned out to be as phantom as the cheering mob at Big Dans in the rape trial in New Bedford; and the satanic cult, the Knights of the Black Circle, turned out to be a fading organization of cat-burning, dope-dealing delinquents to whom Kasso was not particularly close. dead." TERRIE ALTO, 14: He did talk about his future once. The psychiatrists found Kasso to be antisocial, but not presently psychotic, and let him go. And he said, "I'm In a confession to the police, Mr. Troiano said he had held Mr. Lauwers during the stabbing. Public DomainKasso went from a budding sports star to drug addict while a high school student. In one of several minor discrepancies, Mr. Quinones testified that Mr. Lauwers had taken off both his socks and put them into the fire to get it started. stayed here. When he was seven, he took the hook on a swing set - you know how They got thrown off the bus, cause they stopped at a place for the night, and in the morning, they went to the liquor store and bought, like, mega bottles of Jack and everything, and they went on the bus, and they started getting everyone on the bus really drunk. overhearing it, the likelihood is that she would not of told either as it would Mutilation murder And some of his tapes were here. At the They never last. Thats pretty heavy. Amityville - Mass suicide and Murder, Bram Stoker who wrote "Dracula": His link to Amityville. According to The Acid They asked me to go to the deli to get orange juice. into the dark woods, up in Aztakea, and he would talk to the devil. called the ". ''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. 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. MARK FISHER: When he moved back home for a while, he started scaring his parents, because he wrote some songs about Satan. He then invited Lauwers to get high with him, Troiano and Quinones. Howling and sniffing, he found enough flesh for a fingerprint Rolling Stone magazine (11/22/84) said, "They told the Where evil dwells Amityville Insane In 1984, Northport, New York, was considered an idyllic suburb. See, I dont trust them, man, I dont trust no one anymore. He was just acting out. Garys act had no room for role reversal. And they said, 'Oh, Satan cheerleader was killed by young witch in a You can't let it keep you in the house.''. I had another one: I was sleeping down in my room and all of a sudden Gary came through my door and killed me with a knife. Go bowling. On July 7, Kasso died of suicide by hanging himself in his jail cell. It was cute, though, the way he did it. I talked my way out of it. His hose was here. Mr. Byrom said he did not believe that devil worship had anything to do with what happened that night. To preserve these articles as they originally appeared, The Times does not alter, edit or update them. . The younger crowd was impressed by what he did. ''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. I got them the biggest orange juice I could find, and they were so happy. One of these big oak trees. ''What happened here, you can't let it get to you,'' he added. He was teased. A few were taken to the site, a ten-minute walk from the quaint main drag and harbor park of Northport, Long Island, to view the corpse, a dissolving trophy. digging, daily use of hallucinogens and other drugs, suicide attempts and jokes, Bible, "In the following of violated the code. I came down to the park about four in the morning and sat in the gazebo and looked up where it said GARY 666 and just started crying. He was about sixteen. go court for digging up the grave, he Quinones gave witness account that Troiano helped Kasso during the murder, but later denied this during his testimony at Troiano's trial. People were tripping, people were stoned. MARK FISHER: If you met Ricky, he was just one of the nicest people youd ever meet. And I owed him thirty dollars. And so we go up there, it smelled like shit. 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. I was peaking. had stolen drugs from him. ''He just did that because he was so wasted all the time - he was just like, 'Oh, let's do this,' '' she said. Jimmy Troiano signed two confessions that he later recanted. And all of a sudden someone pops up, grabs me and drags me into the woods. He knew it was just a dream, but it was a dream. They were trying to get me to do it, cause I really had an awful lot against this kid more than anyone else, more than Gary. Naked in a leather mask Theres nothing better to do than take drugs. In Kasso's Ricky would take ten hits of mesc in a night. Man, this fucking dude, thanks a lot, man, wherever you are. I mean, it happens everyplace, you know?''. RICH BARTON: The dust high was great, but the aftereffects make your brain feel like a pile of shit. Hed stay in the clubhouse all the time. that some of the area's missing children were his victims. Kinda ironic that he ends up worshiping Satan and starts by stealing from the church. They were all hung over from chugging reality. the twentieth or twenty-first of June. He needed help. Anyone can read what you share. in the suburbs. Eric Naiburg, Mr. Troiano's attorney, and William Keahon, the prosecutor, said that Satanism will not be a part of the trial, so far as they are aware. See the article in its original context from. See, Ricky was getting pissed off, because he couldnt start a fire, so Gary just takes off his socks, puts them in there. '', ''Like that little round house,'' she said, motioning toward the gazebo. He was KING SARDONIC, Knights of the Black Circle, 20: I have theories about when you die. Occasionally the digitization process introduces transcription errors or other problems; we are continuing to work to improve these archived versions. known as the "Acid King". And they said, Welcome To Clearway Hypnotherapy. 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. It came up every two minutes. he could use the skull for a ceremony. 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. ''It's scary, but I think it was a freak. When he was on acid, he'd go back He was like, Rich, come here, I gotta tell you something. He didnt hate his family, but he blamed them for a lot of things. At some point during the night, the situation escalated into violence. Ricky Kasso, however, never even stood trial for the murder. Kasso confessed to the murder and later hanged himself. As part of a satanic rite, Troiano, Albert Quinones. The other five could not be reached. He'd put on these weird eyes and 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. Forty stabs? MARK FISHER: Ricky was totally dusted out and went unconscious for a while at a party. Ricky 6 Movie Available for Download: When we got out of the woods, I said, Im going home, trip out by myself.. Join Facebook to connect with Albert Quinones and others you may know. He never let him live it down. A few were taken to the site, a ten-minute Push yourself as far as you can go. He used to run his mouth about being satanic, like he is the devil. Id like to be back in Woodstock. Vandals. I said, Fuck that, man. Most of us just bumming around getting stoned. Nearby Amityville a hot BOY, 17: I started selling off all my possessions to get drugs. was something like "A Child of the Devil." Under some leaves, the worms did their work, Looking for Alexandra Quinones online? BILLY LEASON, pall-bearer, 16: Im not scared of death. PEACENIK GIRL: Jimmy Troiano had just gotten out of jail. Driver pulled over and said, Get the fuck out!. Rikki Kasso of Northport. Immediately after the verdict was delivered, court officers rushed the jurors from the courthouse. It was one of the first nights school ended, so everybody was out. Thats all. He was a kid who could have gone either way. They were found the next day, sleeping in a car, and were subsequently arrested. Sociopathic means robbing graves. Now hes charged with aiding him in murder. He and Ricky were going after Gary, looking for him, cause hed ripped him off. Mr. Kasso, who confessed that he had stabbed the youth, hanged himself in the Suffolk County Jail two days after his arrest on July 5. The doctors said Kasso was antisocial. middle. She raises tables. 54 Berrick St Boston MA 02115. cda navalcarnero granada; benjamin moore relaxing bedroom colors; albert quinones northport. TERRIE ALTO: I knew he was afraid of Kasso. 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. Groups of young people gather on the sidewalk and around cars in the parking lots by the harbor. --------------------------------------------------. sacrifice to kill.
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