No one breathed a word of the What they did say was 'Satan will come 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. And all of a sudden someone pops up, grabs me and drags me into the woods. Looking for Gilbert Quinones online? At the end of the ''It's stupid. On Tuesday he testified that Mr. Lauwers had taken off only one sock. The quotations in this article were drawn from interviews conducted at various times and locations over several weeks, then arranged by the author to describe the chronology of events. Twenty-five hits of cid. Hes another rug rat at someones house; another one on the floor, eking out an existence; another wolf in a house full of wolves. Meanwhile, this other guy whod smoked with him was in a complete psychosis making animal movements, karate movements. He is also a volunteer fireman, he said, and first heard about the murder over a police radio. Due to Quinones' drugged state at the time of the killing, his testimony was brought into question and Troiano was acquitted of second-degree murder in a trial by jury in April 1985. PEACENIK GIRL, 16: Ricky sang me this song that he wrote on guitar. He was always wasted. An outsider. 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 . ''They were asking us, you know, if we believe in Christ,'' he said. Kassos father, who also coached the local football team, once described his son as a model child and a young athlete. Where evil dwells He said that maybe people were haunting him. ''Whoever, whatever, and as you are, we welcome you,'' invites the sign in front of the church. The psychiatrists found Kasso to be in Ritual Slaying of Youth" by Michael Norman (July 12, 1984), "'Satanic Ritual' Is Now Ruled Out in June Slaying of Youth in L.I. When he was on acid, he'd go back ", Ricky Kasso a resident of Amityville. Mr. Quinones said today that he was ''just standing there'' as Mr. Kasso stabbed Mr. Lauwers repeatedly. Avionics Maintenance Supervisor For United Airlines New Castle, Delaware Alex Quinones - @Alexquinones22 Baseball is life Superior, WI Alex Quinones - @aquinonest Major? They have also lived in Colorado Springs, CO and . I think Ricky deserved much worse than that. We'd joke about him having to go to the dentist to have his Buried in a shallow grave ''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. He was also arrested for digging into a colonial-era grave to steal bones. Garys parents were blind to the drugs. I said, Whats going on? And he goes, No way are they gonna lock me up. 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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. 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. weeks one of those remaining teens -- young Ricky Kasso -- would lead a series 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. Kasso was wearing an AC/DC T-shirt at the time of his arrest and was a fan of groups such as Black Sabbath, Judas Priest and Ozzy Osbourne. . He called himself the acid king and began to dabble in devil worship. To preserve these articles as they originally appeared, The Times does not alter, edit or update them. I still got one of his hickeys. And they grabbed him by the legs and dragged him in the woods, Ricky and Jimmy, dragged him in the woods. Kasso was acquainted with the members of a loosely organized group of friends who sold marijuana and referred to themselves as the "Knights of the Black Circle". 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He called this girl a slut, and she freaked out and stabbed him. I wasnt going to rat them out, because whats, like, another body? I heard noises as I was getting closer, but I couldnt tell which way to go, and so I finally gave up. A few were taken to the site, a ten-minute I tried to question him about it, but he said, I dont like to talk about it. Welcome!' "Another night Albert and two girls held a seance at my house, a There was no face to speak of. I think he hadnt paid him back the money yet. I was peaking. Northport, Long Island And they said, Oh, Satan has arrived! Pics, Murder was behind King Kullen http://northportsevs.com/updates/archives/00000145.shtml, O-o (Where evil dwells) If this was last year, there would be like a gang of people in there.''. animals to the Devil. was something like "A Child of the Devil." 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. At one point Mr. Naiburg asked Mr. Quinones whether seeing Mr. Kasso stab the victim had been ''real or a trip.''. I feel like I have a disease.. Then, according 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. Theres only so much you can do before things wear out. At one point, Gary stopped the proceedings and enthused: We contribute this to the society of the man who invented acid, fucking drugs. After Gary made a fire with his socks, he didnt want to make it bigger. Man, I dedicate this tape to the man who invented cid and mesc. I heard they went up to Aztakea and any girls who wanted to get fucked should go up there. incident was it "lowered property values. Finally, a girl whod overheard some other girls talking about it made an anonymous call to the police. On the night before he had to go to court for digging up the grave, he stayed here. MARK FISHER: When he moved back home for a while, he started scaring his parents, because he wrote some songs about Satan. Mutilation murder They remembered the victim, Mr. Lauwers, as someone who was easy to push around. MARK FLORIMONTE, 17: The really gross part was smelling it like four blocks away. RICH BARTON: We were hanging out in Aztakea, getting wasted. SOFTHEARTED GIRL: The first night I found out, I had a dream, a dream that Gary talked to me. Go bowling. Kasso was a follower of Anton laVey. sacrifice to kill. pilgrimage to the notorious house at Amityville where Ronald 'Butch' DeFeo had 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. He had no shirt on. They knew Albert hung with Ricky and him, so they grabbed Albert first. SOFTHEARTED GIRL, 14: I was the closest person to Ricky. However, as soon as drugs entered the picture, Ricky Kassos promising future quickly devolved into a nightmare. He didnt give a flying fuck. The other five could not be reached. He always said how much better his life would be if he was dead. Knights of the Black Circle. 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. I sold my tape recorder; I was about to sell my Walkman. were notified, though many teens knew of 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. MICHELLE DeVEAU: My dream is to get the hell out of here. 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. are sitting, talking, and I guess because now that he broke through his The killing and all the talk about Satanism has given Northport a bad reputation in neighboring towns, they agreed. Forty stabs? PREPSTER GIRL: Gary pulled a BB gun on two little kids up at the school, to scare em. And then again sometimes he was a dick. We tried to make a fire, but we couldnt. It came up every two minutes. And so we go up there, it smelled like shit. 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. And they said, (http://movies2.nytimes.com/gst/movies/movie.html?v_id=307491) Mr. Troiano said in a statement to the police that Mr. Lauwers was forced to say ''I love you, Satan'' before he died. Ricky Kasso would not forget the incident. Forty stabs? ''It was like a big joke - it was like, 'Oh yeah, you're just kidding,' '' she said. five-pointed star -- they just traced their fingers. ''I can't believe the way that people blew the story way out of proportion,'' said 16-year-old John Mancini, sitting in the Phase II pizza parlor on Main Street with four friends on a recent Saturday night. Girls and guys are drinking, and theres a guy all dressed up in a tuxedo has the horns on and all, like a devil and hes saying, You didnt actually think hell would be all that bad, did you? Something close to that. PREPSTER GIRL: Jimmy, he was always kind of wild, always doing strange I said, Sure. I told him Gary might be going, if we could find him. Therell be different dealers. into the dark woods, up in Aztakea, and he would talk to the devil. The one bright spot in this area was a group of kids known as the human sacrifice. 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. . ''I wouldn't care. It was so real. And these were just kids. Bible, "In the following It's Ricky Kasso was involved in Satanism and a group of like minded teens called All Rights reserved. confession, he said he heard the screech of a crow, which, in his mind, was the twentieth or twenty-first of June. Supposedly. that Gary talked to me. I said, Rick, Im getting the hell out here. I met Ricky back in the park. Its like, now if he gets caught, Im going to get involved. It was cute, though, the way he did it. `Kids in the Dark,' a new play by [RICK CLEVELAND], inset, 2) and David 1984 MIKE McGRORY, veteran dirt-bag street kid, 21: Ricky always had that spaced-out look about him. 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. However, in his testimony, Mr. Quinones seemed unsure of what Mr. Troiano had done. TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. 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. from the devil, he ordered Lauwers to say,"I love you, Satan." He Two days later, after confessing, Kasso hanged himself in jail. Woods" by Lindsey Gruson (December 27, 1984), "Jury Selection Begins in Stabbing Death of Teenager in Northport" by Lindsey Gruson (March 27, 1985), "L.I. Kasso would often perform rituals culled from Anton LaVeys The Satanic Hed figured it out in his mind how to take the most without ODing. He and Ricky were going after Gary, looking for him, cause hed ripped him off. book "Say You Love Satan", the band set out to punish. I don't think anybody but God knows what happened that night.''. Lauwers was stabbed somewhere between 17 and 36 times and his eyeballs were possibly sliced out during the stabbing. the Amityville Asylum). If she was told this, instead of They told the doctors of his grave digging, daily use of hallucinogens and other drugs, suicide attempts and jokes, threatening behavior. 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. 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. Weve talked to Jim Morrison through a table. close friend was killed at a New Year's Eve party two years ago. If you asked him what was he on, hed just say, Drugs. After that, Ricky came and slept over on the couch in my room for a bunch of nights. During subsequent testimony he provided under immunity, Quinones later claimed that Troiano did not assist Kasso. "[5] Kasso allegedly participated in occult ceremonies, mostly in Northport, and celebrated Walpurgis Night at the infamous Amityville Horror house in 1984. Acid King and Teen Satanism. And then we went up to Aztakea, because they wanted to go to a good tripping area, and theyve got a little field where you can trip out. He called this girl a slut, and she freaked out and stabbed him. Under some leaves, the worms did their work, Looking for Albert Quinones online? I mean, Ricky and Gary were both talking a lot, shit like that. about sixteen. 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. My parents have been watching me with a fine-toothed comb looking at my wrists, making sure I dont come in stoned. Lauwers response was "No, I love Gary put on her leather jacket, the biker jacket and shit, and I was wearing one of the black-leather belts with the studs. Thirty stabs? 2. It was probably the twentieth or twenty-first of June. stayed here. The jury of eight men and four women deliberated 10 1/2 hours over three days before reaching its verdict. back to the witchcraft trial of It was cute, though, the way he did it. 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. Kasso was arrested for grave robbing. After, he just came up to me and said, I buried the body. I said, Thank God., Then this other guy asked me about Gary, up at the loading docks. STONED PALLBEARER 2: Thats the way he was. 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. He didnt feel good. Main Street. I mean, it happens everyplace, you know?''. The eye sockets were whittled. " What is interesting is that several people They never last. Thats pretty heavy. I was in love with the guy, you know. Two months later, after the murder arrests, Jimmy Troiano was placed in a special observation cell. He had a lot of jokes about Kasso. Northport, L.I. Mr. Quinones appeared uneasy during his second day on the stand and asked Mr. Naiburg several times to repeat questions. Remember when that girl puked in the attic at one of those parties? She raises tables. But you could see the eyes, the nose and the mouth, like a regular skeleton. We put our cigarettes in it. The Acid Hed sleep on the floor of my room and use his leather jacket as a blanket. 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. transfigured themselves into flies and flew off. Ive dreamed about him. So they wanted to find out who knew about it. In May, his parents had taken him FROM Trinity Episcopal Church down to the harborfront gazebo, Main Street in the Village of Northport bustles with young people on a Saturday night. horror house is in! But then I saw him the next night, and I was like, All right, Ill go up and see the body. Cause I didnt think it was true. GIRL, known as Baker, 16: When the dust came to town, Ricky and the guys used to go down to the graveyard, and theyd tape themselves tripping on acid and mesc and dust. Kasso reportedly beat Lauwers on four occasions. But he denied that his perceptions were distorted because he was ''tripping'' on mescaline when Mr. Lauwers was killed. BOY, 17: I started selling off all my possessions to get drugs. Im not getting near that thing. MICHELLE DeVEAU, 15: Gary was like a wimp. ''It's weird because this is where it started - I mean, this is where the whole night started,'' he said, looking around the park. First in the gut and then in the heart. reading LaVey's Satanic Bible) and after the murder was openly boasting of his Reached later at their homes, seven jurors refused to discuss specifics of the case. Kasso killerlong live the new flesh Click Here, Sign the Guest Book A rock music group named themselves after Kasso. Kasso's mother, Yvonne, said she doesn't believe Forsake your homosexuality He dyed his hair so no one could find him. The police said Mr. Kasso led the attack on Mr. Lauwers because he believed the victim had stolen 10 bags of the powerful hallucinogen phencyclidine, or angel dust, from him. First time Ricky got in trouble was eighth grade. And I had a dream that I killed another guy. MARK FLORIMONTE: We were on the Long Island Expressway the other day, stuck with a flat tire for four hours, tripping on mesc. PREPSTER GIRL: Gary pulled a BB gun on two little kids up at the ''It has taken the minds of the young men who worshiped it.''. He would take three; ten minutes later hed take another three; and two hours later hed take four more. COLLUM CLARK, 18: Garyd run away from home. I was standing closest to the grave. Perhaps what most enthralled the country about the teenager who dubbed himself The Acid King were his distinctly normal origins. The murder was a media sensation and reporters descended upon the Long Island town in droves. Only Richard Kasso, she said, had pretended one existed. It was so real. school and doesn't believe in Satan anymore, and he bullshit the doctor so RICH BARTON: The dust high was great, but the aftereffects make your brain feel like a pile of shit. 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.. I mean, you sit there and stare out, and you look at the trees, and it looks like theyre bending down and shit. Im more like a hippie-type person man anything else. Hes like You know, I think Lauwers is dead. And Im like, Holy shit! In the year prior to the murder, Kasso had been arrested for digging into a colonial-era grave inside a local cemetery. KING SARDONIC, Knights of the Black Circle, 20: I have theories about when you die. Go roller-skating. I was committed to Gary. I had nightmares that I killed him. the "Knights of the Black Circle." You can go shopping. I think, Why Gary? over again screaming, "Say you love Satan!!!" SOFTHEARTED GIRL: The first night I found out, I had a dream, a dream When he was seven, he took the hook on a swing set - you know how The kids in Western Suffolk County are very And he was gonna go down to Colombia yeah and get massive amounts of coke, and then we were gonna, he was gonna, buy me my dream apartment, a penthouse on Fifth Avenue, and the bedroom was gonna be all black leather, and he was gonna buy me a red Ferrari with a chauffeur. If youre gonna live, I say have good times all the time. 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. For two weeks MICHELLE DeVEAU My biggest problem in life is my friends dying. He bullshitted. the chain hooks onto the seat - he took it into his mouth on top of the Looking for Alexandra Quinones online? Anyone can read what you share. One of the guys clipped the card from his father. We want your mother to be the leader of it. See, my mother has these powers. animal sacrifices to the Devil and according to Kasso they he did a "Human Ray Buckland: Starts Kasso had been charged in April with digging up a grave the previous fall. They would laugh about it and shit. Books, films, and songs inspired by Kasso, There were two famous suicidal deaths in the 1980s that led to trials in U.S. courts, one involving, Several political groups advocated censorship and/or ratings for rock music, most notably. Judge James Copertino of Suffolk County, who presided over the monthlong trial, ordered Mr. Troiano held without bail in the County Jail on two unrelated burglary charges. And they were just fighting, punching each other and shit, and I didnt think anything was going to happen. The park, bathed in the glow of high-pressure sodium lights, appeared deserted. On July 4, 1984, police used dogs to search Aztakea Woods and recovered the decomposing and mutilated body of Gary Lauwers. Quinones said that Kasso . I said, What was that? And Ricky said, Aw, nothing it was a rock, man. I didnt think anything about it. This is a digitized version of an article from The Timess print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996. http://www.rumourmachine.com/Reviews/Mysweetsatan.htm Kasso stabbed him over and His father said no. 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. ninth-grade dance, they played "Monster Mash" for him,' cause he had so The police were here, and the policeman says, You dont step on our toes, we dont step on yours.. He was a almost all the kids in the area knew of what Kasso said was a "Human Sacrifice," Over the course of two weeks, as the body became a how many black belts does jason statham have Likes. It freaked me out after I heard about things I helped aid him in the cure of his poison ivy gotten burying a friend of mine. He did them to be accepted. SLAYING WITNESS GIVES CONFLICTING TESTIMONY, https://www.nytimes.com/1985/04/11/nyregion/li-slaying-witness-gives-conflicting-testimony.html. A trim youth carrying a round object climbed from the truck and entered the park. Select this result to view Albert Quinones's phone number, address, and more. Kasso confessed to the murder and later hanged himself. All three of them chugged it down. Aztakea Woods . The most lurid stories described a youthful throng chanting satanic oaths by a bonfire as the sacrificial victim was slaughtered before their eyes. (Rolling Stone magazine 11/22/84). One person died. Around the corner, two young women waited by a boutique for anyone they knew to drive by. Kasso continued his assault on Lauwers, and Quinones later claimed that Troiano helped Kasso and held Lauwers during the attack. Naked in a leather mask Jimmy Troiano signed two confessions that he later recanted. BOY AT WAKE: Gary was the type of guy that everybody liked, because he wasnt selfish. 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. Albert Quinones appears to be the only person who saw what happened, and will be the governments star witness. the next room with his girlfriend. Then they just become your total desire. Now hes charged with aiding him in murder. Cookie Duracin Descripcin; cookielawinfo-checkbox-analytics: 11 months: This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. You can't let it keep you in the house.''. He was 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. Hed totally fuck somebody over and not think about the consequences of it. It is speculated the next room with his girlfriend. 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. much, they finally believed him and they let him go. I didnt tell anybody, but I couldnt escape it. --------------------------------------------------. He also testified that he had seen trees bending down in the woods on the night of the murder. . coat of arms of netherlands. Jury Acquits Defendant in Killing of Youth in Woods" (April 26, 1985), This page was last edited on 16 January 2023, at 15:33. I came back, and they had left. 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. It was a festive night. "The act that triggered the murder was Lauwers stealing ten bags of Angel Dust fifteen and perhaps thirty teenagers and young adults were told of the Like most parents. "satanic ritual" that night, involving LSD and Angel Dust. And he said, "I'm I mean, I could see Rickys point, too, which is that he was friends with Gary, and he just turns around and steals ten bags of dust. Like most kids. He bullshitted. GIRL CLASSMATE: In junior high, he was quiet and wasnt in with the cool kids. satanic ritual in which they tried to call forth the devil. TEEN DUSTHEAD 2: Ricky and this dude were in my car, and theyre like, Were trying to get this cult going. When he was on acid, hed go back into the dark woods, up in Aztakea, and he would talk to the devil. Finally a girl overheard other girls Some went into the woods to get a look at the black spot. Im gonna start over., RICH BARTON, 15: I was down at the park that night. Hed stay in the clubhouse all the time. Mr. Naiburg argued that Mr. Kasso had acted alone. LSD-fueled murders of two self-professed Satanists in an empty Georgia woods, Anton Lavey, the man who made Satanism trendy.
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