It During the course of subsequent reveries they renewed the dispute over the allegedly pilfered drugs. The book about Kasso called, "Say You Love Satan. But not Ricky, Jimmy, Gary or Albert. Maybe Jimmy was probably thinking that I wasnt gonna rat him out. Now hes charged with aiding him in murder. One day I asked Ricky if I could borrow a knife. I said, Fuck that, man. over again screaming, "Say you love Satan!!!" They told the doctors of his grave digging, daily use of hallucinogens and other drugs, suicide attempts and jokes, threatening behavior. When he was on acid, he'd go back I looked out from the windshield at these clouds, white clouds, all of them in a circle, and one big one in the middle. Click Here, Sign the Guest Book by Al Hidell "Satan Rules" and 666 written at the crime scene. but the police did not know for two weeks. He was a sweet guy, and very funny. He drove to the Amityville Horror House to celebrate Walpurgisnacht, an early German pagan feast night when evil spirits supposedly gather. Maybe his lip was bleeding. At that point, Kasso heard a crow caw. Join Facebook to connect with Albert Quinones and others you may know. He was a On July 7, Kasso died of suicide by hanging himself in his jail cell. First in the gut and then in the heart. STONED PALLBEARER 2: Thats the way he was. Mutilation murder Therell be different dealers. It can happen anywhere, that's the thing. Breskin, based on the 1984 murder of a Northport teenager. 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. Mr. Kasso, 17, who was charged as a co-defendant, committed suicide two days after his arrest while in police custody. 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.. On the night of the murder, Kasso visited the small gazebo in the new Cow Harbor park and borrowed a radio from a friend. He bullshitted. But you could see the eyes, the nose and the mouth, like a regular skeleton. On June 17, Gary Lauwers was in the woods with Kasso, Troiano, and another He said he was never gonna trip again. Whyd you do this, man? He said, For kicks, something like that. to view the corpse, a dissolving trophy. Troiano I was going crazy, man. And I just started hacking away at a tree, started freaking on a tree. Wed joke about him having to go to the dentist to have his teeth filed down. About six months ago, he started going to the South Bronx with a friend of mine. He was a nice kid. LSD-fueled murders of two self-professed Satanists in an empty Georgia woods, Anton Lavey, the man who made Satanism trendy. And he said it was okay. TEEN DUSTHEAD 2: Ricky and this dude were in my car, and theyre like, Were trying to get this cult going. confession, he said he heard the screech of a crow, which, in his mind, was Then Sabbath . 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. He wouldnt think about the next day, what was gonna happen to him. pilgrimage to the notorious house at Amityville where Ronald 'Butch' DeFeo had again. Witch Trials And so we go up there, it smelled like shit. I apologized to him for something. He said that me and him were gonna get married, and he was gonna start dealing coke. >>. Its the story of antisocial behavior become social, of the rules of the game in the game of growing up. ''I wasn't worried about the time,'' he said. Kassos worried parents attempted to have him institutionalized at Long Island Jewish Hospital. BOY AT WAKE: I was there when they threw the knife in the harbor. - Woman accused of witchcraft in Amityville area! 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. MICHELLE DeVEAU: I fixed his wounds up for him once. . He dug up a 19th century grave so that Albert Quinones currently lives in Port Jefferson Station, NY; in the past Albert has also lived in Centereach NY and Coram NY. But today Mr. Quinones said Mr. Kasso had acted alone in catching Mr. Lauwers and dragging him back to a campfire that the four teen-agers had built in the woods in the Village of Northport. GIRL, former classmate, 18: We all knew his nickname I think, Why Gary? One day, at the train station, I saw him. Hes always in my mind. I saw Albert and Ricky talking, and Ricky said, What should I do with it? and Albert said, Throw it in the water. And then they went over and they threw it in the water. See, Ricky was getting pissed off, because he couldnt start a fire, so Gary just takes off his socks, puts them in there. Rick found other ways to get into the city. stayed here. Im all paid off, Im in good, its safe. Then he said goodbye: Im going to get some beers and get fucked up., DOROTHY AT WAKE: That night, Gary said, Mom he calls me Mom Im going back to school. To preserve these articles as they originally appeared, The Times does not alter, edit or update them. Troiano said Lauwers tried to run, but Kasso caught him and continued to plunge the knife into his back. sacrifice to kill. 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. 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. He went to sleep, and he woke up and thought he saw people in the room, people who had returned. And now Gary. The evil was within that one individual. Neither his parents nor his friends notified the police he had vanished. LaVey's real name was somewhere there are no sickos and you don't get hurt by people. (http://movies2.nytimes.com/gst/movies/movie.html?v_id=307491) and glowed." The eye sockets were whittled. Yeah, we were lovers thats what takes a lot out of me. I was committed to Gary. 3) Newsday cover photo by Dan Neville-Graffiti in a teen Complete hallucinations. Rolling Stone magazine (11/22/84) said, "They told the he could use the skull for a ceremony. One of the last things he said to me, Well, I guess its safe for me to come down here now. He is also a volunteer fireman, he said, and first heard about the murder over a police radio. It is speculated '', ''Like that little round house,'' she said, motioning toward the gazebo. 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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. It was just his way of coming to my house, saying, Hey, man, look at this shit.. Mr. Quinones has been granted immunity in return for his testimony. known as the "Acid King". I was afraid I didnt know what to think, cause no ones normal enough to do that. They put around graffiti, RICKY LIVES, DEAD OR ALIVE. Ulf Kjell Gr The younger crowd was impressed by what he did. Mr. Quinones, who has been granted immunity from prosecution in exchange for his testimony in Suffolk County Court, said Tuesday that Mr. Troiano, 19, had joined a second teen- ager, Richard Kasso, in chasing Mr. Lauwers when he tried to escape during the knife assault that led to his death. Ill be back for dinner. His parents got fed up with it. They. They said, Garys dead. I ran into my grandmothers kitchen, grabbed the biggest knife I could find and booked out into the backyard. Im gonna start over., RICH BARTON, 15: I was down at the park that night. He didnt feel good. They thought the devil possessed the tape, and there were all these, you know, different voices. I went up to Aztakea three hours earlier, with Rick and Jim. Avionics Maintenance Supervisor For United Airlines New Castle, Delaware Alex Quinones - @Alexquinones22 Baseball is life Superior, WI Alex Quinones - @aquinonest Major? On at least one occasion, Ricky's parents admitted him to the South Oaks Psychiatric Hospital (formerly known as the Amityville Asylum) in Amityville, New York for drug rehabilitation and psychiatric care. Amityville Mother Kills: Says demons drove her to put Melvin and Delvin 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. 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. KING SARDONIC, Knights of the Black Circle, 20: I have theories about when you die. Wrong. Hey, Ricky, youre so swell, why you hanging in your cell? Public DomainRicky Kasso at the time of his arrest for the murder of Gary Lauwers. It was like April. Theyd wreck fences, rip down signs, beat people up. The doctors said Kasso was antisocial. Occasionally the digitization process introduces transcription errors or other problems; we are continuing to work to improve these archived versions. ''You really can't. 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. Sometime after midnight, a Mazda pickup stopped near the park, cruised away, then returned and pulled to the curb. Northport, L.I. I feel like I have a disease.. camden chronicle obituaries camden tn Navigation. He ran and dealt and dusted with Ricky. BOY AT WAKE: Gary was the type of guy that everybody liked, because he wasnt selfish. ''They were asking us, you know, if we believe in Christ,'' he said. Are you crazy? and shit like that. They declined to give their real names, calling themselves only Linda and Valerie. of his fangs. He contradicted a portion of his testimony from Tuesday by saying that Mr. Kasso had not forced Mr. Lauwers to pledge his allegiance to Satan during the stabbing. It was 30 April, the witches' feast of animal sacrifices to the Devil and according to Kasso they he did a "Human At the ninth-grade dance, they played Monster Mash for him, cause he had so many scars on his face. Two weeks after that ''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. After Kasso's murder of Lauwers, several newspapers and television journalists incorrectly reported the Knights as being a "satanic cult. And Albert Quinones made Ricky take off his ring, cause he didnt want him to really fuck Gary up. It was just like Gary to take off without warning. YouTubeGary Lauwers ran away from home so often that his body lay undiscovered for weeks before anyone realized he was missing. Troiano was in the next room with his girlfriend. '', Mr. Smith recalled that after the slaying ''religious people'' had passed through town asking everyone how they spent their weekends. I want to go .On the night before he had to They were all tripping. Vandals. Brush fires. premiere in Chicago. Ricky Kasso would not forget the incident. The jury of eight men and four women deliberated 10 1/2 hours over three days before reaching its verdict. I sold my tape recorder; I was about to sell my Walkman. Half-burnt body found Jury Acquits Defendant in Killing of Youth in Woods" (April 26, 1985), This page was last edited on 16 January 2023, at 15:33. At the trial it was said Youre gonna get caught. Mr. Quinones is expected to appear as the key prosecution witness against Mr. Troiano, who has been charged with second-degree murder. To me, Gary was being cool and shit. ''I think that it was just like they did so many drugs and one night it just caught up with all of them.''. My mom and dad came in. Then another friend got hit by a truck, riding his motorcyle. He never let him live it down. I tried killing myself. 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 psychiatrists found Kasso to be The Amityville Acid King. Jimmy Troiano was adopted out of an orphanage at age four, a failure at school to a degree you wouldnt believe, says a friend, and arrested repeatedly for burglary. View the profiles of people named Albert Quinones. Once word of his involvement was leaked by Troianos attorney, his name was mud on the street: Ricky and Jimmys friends hated him for ratting; Garys friends hated him for watching and suspected hed helped. After finding a spot to leave him, Kasso bent over the body and began chanting something about Satan. James I want to go somewhere there are no sickos and you dont get hurt by people. The Churchofsatan. This story was originally published in the November 22, 1984 issue of Rolling Stone. The history of Satanic Ritual Killing and, Murder. He accidentally cut out the eyes while he stabbed him over and over Real estate agent said the "worst thing" about the Mr. Kasso hanged himself in the Suffolk County Jail two days after his arrest in July. This is a digitized version of an article from The Timess print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996. When he went in, they believed he Welcome!' PEACENIK GIRL: Rick just went sick with the knife. MARK FISHER: When he moved back home for a while, he started scaring his parents, because he wrote some songs about Satan. Slaying Meets for 7 Hours" (April 25, 1985), "L.I. But this week, the talk among some of the young people in this affluent village of 7,200 on the North Shore includes Satan and death as well as the usual topics of cars and the opposite sex. 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. On 16 June Kasso, Troiano, Lauwers, and a youth named Albert Quinones, hid themselves away in Newport's Aztakea Woods to partake of some mescaline. Welcome!. First time Ricky got in trouble was eighth grade. MARK FISHER: Ricky had twenty-five hits of mesc in a little stash bottle down at the park. That was the word. Some went into the woods to get a look at the black spot. His voice on occasion was barely audible. But he didnt really understand it. It was sick, it was torture. He was teased. When you walk, it feels like youre walking on water. - Family & House it is based on located near Amityville! Under some leaves, the worms did their work, transfigured themselves into flies and flew off. COLLUM CLARK: There was a total spur of the moment thing where Gary and some other kids decided to gang up on this guy. TERRIE ALTO, 14: He did talk about his future once. The 17-year-old victim, Gary Lauwers, was another local teen with a bad drug habit. So Ricky kicked the door of his fathers red Corvette, dented it. Long live the new flesh! another friend shot himself. A key prosecution witness in the murder trial of James Troiano gave conflicting accounts today of events surrounding the stabbing death of 17-year-old Gary Lauwers last June. ALBERT QUINONES: For those three weeks when I didnt know what to do, I was going crazy. Kasso killerlong live the new flesh close friend was killed at a New Year's Eve party two years ago. They left bones cleaned of I mean, Ricky and Gary were both talking a lot, shit like that. many scars on his face. ''He just did that because he was so wasted all the time - he was just like, 'Oh, let's do this,' '' she said. She raises tables. On July 4, 1984, police used dogs to search Aztakea Woods and recovered the decomposing and mutilated body of Gary Lauwers. digging, daily use of hallucinogens and other drugs, suicide attempts and jokes, bullshitted. The other five could not be reached. The idea was to pretend you werent involved, to hang out and hope it went away. They were really happy and everything. I tried to question him about it, but he said, I dont like to talk about 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. You can experience yourself sinking into a cinder-block wall. Ricky Kassso known on Long Island as the Acid King who In a confession to the police, Mr. Troiano said he had held Mr. Lauwers during the stabbing. TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. 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. Quinones said that Kasso . [6] Kasso also expressed to friends his interest in Anton LaVey's book The Satanic Bible. a teenager was stabbed to death by a friend; -----------------------------------------------------------. 'antisocial,' but not 'presently psychotic,' and let him go. TRIAL RECALLS NIGHT OF DEATH THAT ROCKED NORTHPORT, https://www.nytimes.com/1985/04/07/nyregion/trial-recalls-night-of-death-that-rocked-northport.html. I had a crush on him in the fifth grade. hangout in the Village of Northport before and after a teenager was stabbed to I always felt they had to prove something, cause everyone looked up to them. It wasnt just the ketchup on his wrists. The police said the cult had sacrificed kidnapped pets and, inspired by rock music, had painted graffiti with references to Satan on the walls of buildings. To preserve these articles as they originally appeared, The Times does not alter, edit or update them. The victim that some of the area's missing children were his victims. They'd already tried the drug rehab route at It was cute, though, the way he did it. They put a cup in the He was on dust. Mr. Troiano, who acknowledged taking several doses of a powerful hallucinogen a few hours before the killing, confessed at the prompting of his police interrogators, Mr. Naiburg contended. Nearby Amityville a hot weeks one of those remaining teens -- young Ricky Kasso -- would lead a series
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