PEACENIK GIRL, 16: Ricky sang me this song that he wrote on guitar. I met Ricky back in the park. for the insane (Renamed South Oaks). Two days after his arrest, he hanged himself with a bedsheet in his jail cell on July 7, 1984. I guess he was going to make it into a vest. A POLICE DOG WENT MAD ON THE FOURTH OF JULY, DEEP IN THE WOODS behind ''It's scary, but I think it was a freak. MARK FISHER: Another night Albert and two girls held a seance at my house, a Do-de-do, do-de-do. was in 1984, led by Ricky Kasso in the nearby village of Northport. During his hospital stay, his parents tried to convince the doctors to commit him for involuntary psychiatric care. Ricky wasn't there. MIKE McGRORY, veteran dirt-bag street kid, 21: Ricky always had that spaced-out look about him. faggot, and he's into his little dirt-bag group that he's so proud of, he After that, he comes up to a group of my friends who Mr. Troiano said in a statement to the police that Mr. Lauwers was forced to say ''I love you, Satan'' before he died. Around the corner, two young women waited by a boutique for anyone they knew to drive by. like, "There's only one problem." Newsday By Joseph C. Koenenn Apr 16, 1987. were notified, though many teens knew of it. Its sick: Ive seen thirteen-year-old girls running around with RICKY LIVES on their T-shirts. As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. Jimmy Troiano signed two confessions that he later recanted. So he took off his jacket and gave it to Ricky, and Gary just chopped off the sleeves. ''What happened here, you can't let it get to you,'' he added. First in the gut and then in the heart. Editors picks It was sick, it was torture. Its just the suburbs. And he said it was okay. the devil came into the form of a tree, which sprouted out of the ground In May, his parents had taken him to Long Island Jewish Hospital: he had pneumonia. While there, they sought to Ricky was sweet. Im not getting near that thing. It scared the hell out of me. Man, its no big deal. I said, Sure. I told him Gary might be going, if we could find him. Maybe Jimmy was probably thinking that I wasnt gonna rat him out. 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. 54 Berrick St Boston MA 02115. cda navalcarnero granada; benjamin moore relaxing bedroom colors; albert quinones northport. A history of music censorship is given in: Deflem, Mathieu. 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. He didnt feel good. much, they finally believed him and they let him go." It can happen anywhere, that's the thing. "[5] Kasso allegedly participated in occult ceremonies, mostly in Northport, and celebrated Walpurgis Night at the infamous Amityville Horror house in 1984. [originally by Wiseblood] `Kids in the Dark,' a new play by [RICK CLEVELAND], inset, 2) and David At the ninth-grade dance, they played Monster Mash for him, cause he had so many scars on his face. Neither his parents nor his friends notified the police he had vanished. Two weeks after that another friend shot himself. I had some really wicked nightmares, man. BILLY LEASON, pall-bearer, 16: Im not scared of death. 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! Why does anybody fight? http://www.anthropoetics.ucla.edu/ap0902/sacrifice.htm). Jimmys girlfriend told me at the Firemans Fair, Really, I didnt believe him. dead." Poltergeist Movie PEACENIK GIRL: That night Jimmy and Albert and Ricky came up to me, wanted me to buy mesc. the clubhouse all the time. Therell be different dealers. Real estate agent said the "worst thing" about the Maybe his lip was bleeding. The history of Satanic Ritual Killing and, Murder. Kasso was the son of a local high school history teacher and football coach at affluent Cold Spring Harbor High School. People are paying for him to go to trial and you know he's guilty.'' in scorching water! It was clear Ricky Kasso had stabbed him indiscriminately, as his eyes had been chipped away. Welcome!. Hed sleep on the floor of my room and use his leather jacket as a blanket. skeleton, at least They started out by drawing a five-pointed star they just traced their fingers. Kasso killerlong live the new flesh The eye sockets were whittled. Pubs and restaurants are crowded. I dont think they carved his eyes out. We put our cigarettes in it. It was 30 April, the witches' feast of People have no morals. reading LaVey's Satanic Bible) and after the murder was openly boasting of his It wasnt just the ketchup on his wrists. Ill meet you back downtown. I just fucking booked out of there. 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. And all of a sudden someone pops up, grabs me and drags me into the woods. SOFTHEARTED GIRL: The first night I found out, I had a dream, a dream that Gary talked to me. However, in his testimony, Mr. Quinones seemed unsure of what Mr. Troiano had done. I was committed to Gary. "Another night Albert and two girls held a seance at my house, a Now there's no one in there. The police asserted that the teen-age, drug-taking cult had infested the area and committed the murder as part of a worship service. Breskin, based on the 1984 murder of a Northport teenager. The police were here, and the policeman says, You dont step on our toes, we dont step on yours.. At that point, Kasso heard a crow caw. BRIAN HIGGINS, 16: Gary had disappeared so often, you wouldnt think about it. He wanted a bagel. GIRL, former classmate, 18: We all knew his nickname was Drac because of his fangs. Mr. Quinones is expected to appear as the key prosecution witness against Mr. Troiano, who has been charged with second-degree murder. Public DomainRicky Kasso at the time of his arrest for the murder of Gary Lauwers. MARK FLORIMONTE, 17: The really gross part was smelling it like four blocks away. body sank into the earth. 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. Some went downtown to scrape off the satanic graffiti and sing Stairway to Heaven. Some went to praise Ricky Kasso or to bury Gary Lauwers. KINGS PARK RAPPING BOY: Hey, Ricky, youre so fine, why doncha stab me one more time! I tried to question him about it, but he said, I dont like to talk about it. Satan saying that the murder was a good thing. Rolling Stone magazine (11/22/84) said, "They told the We put our cigarettes in it. The group walked to Aztakea Woods, set up camp and ingested several doses, or "hits", of what they believed to be mescaline. He said Acid King and Teen Satanism. Wed joke about him having to go to the dentist to have his teeth filed down. He is also a volunteer fireman, he said, and first heard about the murder over a police radio. . You cant live life that way. of the iceberg, most of what they did we will never know about. murder, some in great detail. Grisly sacrificial slaughter It And Ricky made Gary get on his knees and say, I love Satan. Then Ricky just started hacking away from him, man. I was massively depressed. He told me Ricky was an asshole. She told me someone with this eerie voice called her and said, You will never see your son again, because I just killed him. Neither of us believed it. ''It was like a big joke - it was like, 'Oh yeah, you're just kidding,' '' she said. 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. ALBERT QUINONES: For those three weeks when I didnt know what to do, I was going crazy. This is a digitized version of an article from The Timess print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996. 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. Its gonna die. doctors of his grave digging, daily use of hallucinogens and other drugs, I just started stabbing him in the back of the head. The prosecutor, William Keahon, acknowledged that Mr . South Oaks Hospital, to no avail. MARK FISHER: In about a year, it will be back to normal. Walpurgisnacht, so Ricky knocked together an altar and they all shouted Son of a high-school football coach, brother of three beautiful younger sisters, he was the black sheep of a Norman Rockwell family. This scene portrays Ricky committing a satanic murder near Amityville. He was a pisser sometimes. I was just tripping out, man. And so we go up there, it smelled like shit. 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 called himself the acid king and began to dabble in devil worship. Mr. Quinones appeared uneasy during his second day on the stand and asked Mr. Naiburg several times to repeat questions. He got there, and she wouldnt go out with him again, and he was just freaking out, and he beat the shit out of the box, on the ground right there. ebt declined reason 99; virtual seating golden state warriors One of the last things he said to me, Well, I guess its safe for me to come down here now. The idea was to pretend you werent involved, to hang out and hope it went away. Pics, Murder was behind King Kullen http://northportsevs.com/updates/archives/00000145.shtml, O-o (Where evil dwells) When he was on acid, he'd go back In a confession to the police, Mr. Troiano said he had held Mr. Lauwers during the stabbing. ''He was just like always downtown. 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. They started out by drawing a To the movies. the next room with his girlfriend. They declined to give their real names, calling themselves only Linda and Valerie. The victim TEEN DUSTHEAD 2: Ricky and this dude were in my car, and theyre like, Were trying to get this cult going.