Screwing his eyes shut, he straightened up, pushed his head back and apparently gave thanks. human sacrifice. After the attack, Kasso and Troiano covered Lauwers' body with leaves and small branches and left it in the woods. me, just kill me. After Ricky stabbed him, Gary took off, ran, and Ricky got him, just like that. Ricky Kasso was involved in Satanism and a group of like minded teens called The version later presented by authorities in Suffolk County was not nearly so widely disseminated. He never wanted to see him again. And I said, Can we hang out again? And he was like, Theres only one problem. And Im like, What? And he said, Im dead. I woke up with tears on my face. And you feel pressure start building in your skull. and they let him go. ''Whoever, whatever, and as you are, we welcome you,'' invites the sign in front of the church. the devil came into the form of a tree, which sprouted out of the ground Theyd already tried the drug rehab route at South Oaks Hospital, to no avail. It's It was sick. Two weeks after that Cause we talked to his mother, and she hasnt seen him in a while. He was just like, No. Later that night we hung out for a while. 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. Id be sitting down in my room, and hed just come through the back door. Ricky asked for a quarter. No one breathed a word of the A friend of Kasso's said at his BOY AT WAKE: Gary was the type of guy that everybody liked, because he wasnt selfish. " What is interesting is that several people love you, mom." could happen. My parents have been watching me with a fine-toothed comb looking at my wrists, making sure I dont come in stoned. 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. 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. And they were just fighting, punching each other and shit, and I didnt think anything was going to happen. >>. faggot, and he's into his little dirt-bag group that he's so proud of, he camden chronicle obituaries camden tn Navigation. 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. When youre on it, its like youre drunk, stoned, tripping. 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. Like most parents. Only Richard Kasso, she said, had pretended one existed. Over the course of two weeks, as the body became a GIRL, former classmate, 18: We all knew his nickname But, I mean, he had no right to stab the kid in the head. Welcome!". massacred his family ten years earlier. I still got one of his hickeys. 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. They never last. Thats pretty heavy. 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.''. At the - Church. ninth-grade dance, they played "Monster Mash" for him,' cause he had so Kassos father, who also coached the local football team, once described his son as a model child and a young athlete. He was up that night. He called this girl a slut, and she freaked out and stabbed him. He then invited Lauwers to get high with him, Troiano and Quinones. Yeah, we were lovers thats what takes a lot out of me. In his often contradictory testimony, he acknowledged that he had repeatedly abused hallucinogenic drugs. Lauwers used his socks, as well as the sleeves from his denim jacket, as kindling to start the fire. People are paying for him to go to trial and you know he's guilty.'' Where evil dwells My whole body, all of a sudden, it just wouldnt move, it wouldnt function. Mr. Troiano said in a statement to the police that Mr. Lauwers was forced to say ''I love you, Satan'' before he died. KING SARDONIC, Knights of the Black Circle, 20: I have theories about when you die. I dont know. from Kasso.". MARK FISHER: Another night Albert and two girls held a seance at my house, a animal sacrifices to the Devil and according to Kasso they he did a "Human The parents of Ricky Kasso declined to be interviewed. '', See the article in its original context from. http://www.tanedv.com/oooyeah.html Movie. But he denied that his perceptions were distorted because he was ''tripping'' on mescaline when Mr. Lauwers was killed. http://www.vamppire.com/eric/gallerybcb.html Lots of Black Circle Boys happened wherever there are teenagers and drugs. Wrong. Pics, Murder was behind King Kullen http://northportsevs.com/updates/archives/00000145.shtml, O-o (Where evil dwells) And I had a dream that I killed another guy. Troiano was in He used to sleep in my garage sometimes, in my 69 Fairlane. But he didnt really understand it. Albert Quinones Strategic Service Sales at Cisco Miami-Fort Lauderdale Area. When Ricky confronted him with it, he gave him back five and went and worked and paid him back for the rest. stabbing him 17 times during a three-hour torture session. DAN PETTY: Hed be into Hendrix, Joplin, the Woodstock stuff, then rap for a while. Jimmy and Ricky always carried knives in their jacket pocket.And he said, I dont carry a knife. I said, I dont carry one either. He said, Thats good, youll just end up stabbing somebody. He said he was tired of living on the streets and was gonna get himself into a rehab program. ''It's real,'' Mr. Quinones replied. .On the night before he had to The second best result is Albert Quinones age 60s in El Paso, TX in the Pueblo Viejo neighborhood. However, it wasn't until two weeks went by, on July 1, that the murder was reported to the police via an anonymous tip. He fought to get people to like him. No one else was in the woods that night, the police said, although as many as a dozen teen-agers may have heard rumors about the killing before Mr. Lauwers's body was discovered. Acid King and Teen Satanism. 'antisocial,' but not 'presently psychotic,' and let him go. Newsday By Joseph C. Koenenn Apr 16, 1987. Its the story of antisocial behavior become social, of the rules of the game in the game of growing up. Ill meet you back downtown. I just fucking booked out of there. Satanists?' 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. GLEN WOLF, veteran dirt-bag street kid, 21: Gary was helping me fix my car. Rikki Kasso of Northport. Kasso was not. the "Knights of the Black Circle." After two months, they finally crashed my friends car. Amityville Asylum Sociopathic means robbing graves. 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. teeth filed down. make this weird smile about it. I had a crush on him in the fifth grade. Mr. Quinones is the chief prosecution witness against James Troiano, who is on trial for the slaying last June in the woods of Northport. He There was no moon and theres a lot of paths up there, and we had the tunes cranking Sabbath, Ozzy, Judas Priest. KINGS PARK RAPPING BOY: Hey, Ricky, youre so fine, why doncha stab me one more time! 2. SOFTHEARTED GIRL: Ricky wanted the suicide. MARK FISHER: I was walking up Main Street, just applied for a job at the ice-cream parlor, and I saw Ricky making faces at a window. `Kids in the Dark,' a new play based on the murder; The Killing Of A Suburban He said he did not know how long the stabbing had lasted. I heard they went up to Aztakea and any girls who wanted to get fucked should go up there. And they said, Oh, Satan has arrived! Richard Kasso, 17, on July 6, 1984 at an arraignment in the murder of Northport, New York resident . Lauwers was stabbed somewhere between 17 and 36 times and his eyeballs were possibly sliced out during the stabbing. He was also arrested for digging into a colonial-era grave to steal bones. I didnt tell anybody, but I couldnt escape it. I told Ricky, Do too many drugs, youll be dead soon. He said, Yeah, thats exactly what I want. I said, Boy, its your choice. Ever since then I stopped hanging out with him, cause he would go to cemeteries and hang out, smoke ten bags of angel dust and try to get in touch with the devil, chant Satan, Satan, Satan. He was a drug friend, thats all he was. He took me into the woods, and I woke up. much, they finally believed him and they let him go." 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 . animals to the Devil. Welcome!' Occasionally the digitization process introduces transcription errors or other problems; we are continuing to work to improve these archived versions. I think Ricky deserved much worse than that. ''We never hang out here anymore,'' she added, watching the cars go by. Stabbed him in the throat He is also a volunteer fireman, he said, and first heard about the murder over a police radio. Theyd set me up. Rolling Stone magazine (11/22/84) said, "They told the He knew it was just a dream, but it was a dream. and glowed." TEEN DUSTHEAD 2: Ricky and this dude were in my car, and theyre like, Were trying to get this cult going. I apologized to him for something. SLAYING WITNESS GIVES CONFLICTING TESTIMONY, https://www.nytimes.com/1985/04/11/nyregion/li-slaying-witness-gives-conflicting-testimony.html. Occasionally the digitization process introduces transcription errors or other problems; we are continuing to work to improve these archived versions. 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. DENISE WALKER: It wasnt shocking. about sixteen. So they wanted to find out who knew about it. They declined to give their real names, calling themselves only Linda and Valerie. Id like to be back in Woodstock. When he was on acid, he'd go back A steady flow of vehicles cruise Main Street. PREPSTER GIRL, 17: His parents put him in some kind of hospital, and he ran away from it. middle. The psychiatrists found Kasso to be I talked my way out of it. The group walked to Aztakea Woods, set up camp and ingested several doses, or "hits", of what they believed to be mescaline. Teenage Killer RickyKasso of Northport High School. forth in the form of fire." He didnt care. . The idea was to pretend you werent involved, to hang out and hope it went away. Perhaps what most enthralled the country about the teenager who dubbed himself The Acid King were his distinctly normal origins. A police dog went mad on the 4th of July, deep in the woods behind Main Street. They put a cup in the sacrifice to kill. ''I knew Gary Lauwers,'' said Linda, 18. Two days after his arrest, he hanged himself with a bedsheet in his jail cell on July 7, 1984. He would take three; ten minutes later hed take another three; and two hours later hed take four more.