Thinking it was a sign Cell After His Arrest in Ritual Killing" by Robert D. Mcfadden (July 8, 1984), "Teenager Indicted on L.I. But now people give me dirty looks everywhere I was, because Im known as a Satanist. It was like a mirror. ''There was no such thing as a satanic cult,'' Linda agreed. 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. ''They were asking us, you know, if we believe in Christ,'' he said. Prosecutors later said the teens were engaged in a Half-burnt body found "Oh, Satan has arrived! However, as soon as drugs entered the picture, Ricky Kassos promising future quickly devolved into a nightmare. . by Al Hidell "Satan Rules" and 666 written at the crime scene. The history of Satanic Ritual Killing and, Murder. The second best result is Albert Quinones age 60s in El Paso, TX in the Pueblo Viejo neighborhood. He had a good reputation as a burglar. His murder of a fellow teenager purportedly in the name of the devil had Long Island parents convinced that the devils music was bringing their children to sinister ideas. RICH BARTON: Afterward, Ricky stayed over four times, I guess. middle. 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. ALBERT QUINONES: The detectives were beating the shit out of me. If you do that, man, you gotta have losed it, you know. And he got all mad, and started chasing me, and getting his Welcome!' And all of a sudden the cup in the middle, after a I said to myself, No, youll get in trouble. And these were just kids. BAKER: Ricky wanted to be the devils second hand. Under some leaves, the worms did their work, transfigured themselves into flies and flew off. Kasso's mother, Yvonne, said she doesn't believe You can go shopping. Ricky was sweet. Interests? The lawyer who twice represented Gary in juvenile court told a newspaper reporter, He wasnt really bad. Some persons were interviewed individually, others in groups. Now hes charged with aiding him in murder. He also testified that he had seen trees bending down in the woods on the night of the murder. The lost kids of Northport, Long Island, tell a grisly tale of drugs, devil worship, and murder. Garys parents were blind to the drugs. His confession, which implicated Mr. Troiano, was not admitted into evidence. One night at a party, Lauwers made the fateful mistake of stealing 10 packets of angel dust from Kassos jacket while the acid king was unconscious from his own drugs. Neither his parents nor his friends notified the police he had vanished. He put up a little bit of a bad front so he could hang in there with his peers. that was there claimed this supernatural event happened. 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. Where evil dwells The evil was within that one individual. Troiano vividly recalled Ricky Kasso laughing as they left the woods. Kasso had been charged in April with digging up a grave the previous fall. Theyd wreck fences, rip down signs, beat people up. This is a digitized version of an article from The Timess print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996. The police asserted that the teen-age, drug-taking cult had infested the area and committed the murder as part of a worship service. TEEN DUSTHEAD 1: You feel like youre ten feet tall. The Amityville Acid King. Thirty stabs? What they did say was "Satan will come Albert Quinones Strategic Service Sales at Cisco Miami-Fort Lauderdale Area. Most of us just bumming around getting stoned. You cant live life that way. Furthermore, they were terrified that Ricky Kasso was just one member of a larger, murderous Satanic cult. Id think about going to the cops and just sort of, No, man, because theyd try to frame me, man. Welcome!. During his hospital stay, his parents tried to convince the doctors to commit him for involuntary psychiatric care. Hed bought a knife for protection, but I dont think he carried it around. It was Gary, and his face was all mangled and stuff. murder, some in great detail. View the Guest Book. has arrived! ''There is, ladies and gentlemen, a devil in this case, and the devil is LSD,'' Mr. Naiburg said in his summation. of the iceberg, most of what they did we will never know about. 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. PEACENIK GIRL: Just offhand, I said to Ricky, I know you dont even care, but have you seen Gary? Mr. Troiano watched the murder but did not participate, Mr. Quinones said. The killing and all the talk about Satanism has given Northport a bad reputation in neighboring towns, they agreed. Mr. Naiburg argued that Mr. Kasso had acted alone. It was 30 April, the witches' feast of Yeah, we were lovers thats what takes a lot out of me. A A 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.. His mother says, These kids are going to need a hundred years of therapy.. That poor tree. Ricky would take ten hits of mesc in a night. When he was high, hed always sit there and laugh at you, like he was trying to pretend to be crazy. cheerleader was killed by young witch in a I said, Fuck that, man. these were just kids. I was afraid I didnt know what to think, cause no ones normal enough to do that. `Kids in the Dark,' a new play by [RICK CLEVELAND], inset, 2) and David Kasso killerlong live the new flesh I was just tripping out, man. Under some leaves, the worms did their work, 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. They left bones cleaned of After this interview, his mother sent him out of state to be with a priest. Howling and sniffing, he found enough flesh for a fingerprint 3) Newsday cover photo by Dan Neville-Graffiti in a teen I had some really wicked nightmares, man. My whole body, all of a sudden, it just wouldnt move, it wouldnt function. First time Ricky got in trouble was eighth grade. The 100 Best Albums of 2022. Mr. Mancini and the others recalled Mr. Kasso and Mr. Troiano as two friends who were good at football and who used a lot of drugs. "Another night Albert and two girls held a seance at my house, a 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. In all there were three dozen 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. They'd already tried the drug rehab route at http://www.holysmoke.org/wb/wb0161.htm Kids in the dark; there were no rules '', Like everyone else in town, they had opinions about the killing. S&M Gary! ''It's scary, but I think it was a freak. He was up that night. 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. Everybody knew that. ''We told them, yeah, we believe in Christ.''. Northport Long Island The conflict between Kasso and Lauwers had started some time earlier when Lauwers stole 10 bags of PCP from Kasso's jacket, after he had passed out at a party. 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. Ricky Kasso at the time of his arrest for the murder of Gary Lauwers. Ricky wasn't there. the twentieth or twenty-first of June. I just started stabbing him in the back of the head. A steady flow of vehicles cruise Main Street. Hes another rug rat at someones house; another one on the floor, eking out an existence; another wolf in a house full of wolves. Why does anybody fight? The younger crowd was impressed by what he did. It was just his way of coming to my house, saying, Hey, man, look at this shit.. And they tried to find out, and Albert wouldnt tell them anything, so thats why when Albert came home, his lip was all cut, he had bruised ribs and a big bump on his head. Thats a little different. ''We never hang out here anymore,'' she added, watching the cars go by. Thirty stabs? On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. Less than a month after his arrest for this crime, Ricky contracted pneumonia and was treated at Long Island Jewish Hospital. The film Ricky6. Quinones is expected to appear as the key prosecution witness against Mr. Troiano, who has been charged with second-degree murder. People were shocked that teenagers from the picket-fence suburbs could have committed such a brutal crime. When he went in, they believed he My biggest problem in life is my friends dying. DAN PETTY: Hed be into Hendrix, Joplin, the Woodstock stuff, then rap for a while. Looking for Gilbert Quinones online? pilgrimage to the notorious house at Amityville where Ronald 'Butch' DeFeo had They were happy. James Troiano was acquitted today of charges that he helped murder Gary Lauwers in a drug-induced frenzy. He put on Prince. reading LaVey's Satanic Bible) and after the murder was openly boasting of his It scared the hell out of me. Then, read about Anton Lavey, the man who made Satanism trendy. Northport, L.I. They were all hung over from chugging reality. When Quinones received immunity for testifying against Troiano that made the list even shorter. People think Im nuts.. Fifty? They were found the next day, sleeping in a car, and were subsequently arrested. It wont go away. 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.''. He said, I love thee, Satan my mother!". Facebook gives people the power. Two months later, after the murder arrests, Jimmy Troiano was placed in a special observation cell. The Acid But he denied that his perceptions were distorted because he was ''tripping'' on mescaline when Mr. Lauwers was killed. And I said, "Oh, yeah, you're so coll you can pull a gun What they did say was 'Satan will come century grave from which he stole a skull and hand that he intended to use for a almost all the kids in the area knew of what Kasso said was a "Human Sacrifice," Theres only so much you can do before things wear out. It was two a.m. Cause indirectly we were the ones that got him started in this whole thing. 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. The jury of eight men and four women deliberated 10 1/2 hours over three days before reaching its verdict. Mr. Quinones is expected to appear as the key prosecution witness against Mr. Troiano, who has been charged with second-degree murder. 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. He was going out with her, and theyd broke up. First in the gut and then in the heart. . Whyd you do this, man? He said, For kicks, something like that. Two other teens, Jimmy Troiano and Albert Quinones, were present at the murder, which took place in the Aztakea Woods of Northport while all . ''The media found something sensational to get people to watch and listen,'' he said. Troiano, whod been in jail before, signed a confession but later pleaded not guilty, and now awaits trial for second-degree murder. I sold my coin collection. ''What happened here, you can't let it get to you,'' he added. They would just make jokes: Oh, Garys dead, no big deal. He took me into the woods, and I woke up. It wasnt just the ketchup on his wrists. I mean, it happens everyplace, you know?''. If youre gonna live, I say have good times all the time. Trial Loves a Good Murder Case" by Lindsey Gruson (April 18, 1985), "Story of Murder May Be Illusion, Expert Testifies" by Lindsey Gruson (April 19, 1985), "Closing Arguments Made in Trial of Youth Accused in Drug-Induced Slaying on L.I." Kasso killerlong live the new flesh He always said how much better his life would be if he was dead. was Drac because 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". They were like drifting and coming closer, and they were like skeleton things. the Amityville Asylum). One night he came back to my house. Hed totally fuck somebody over and not think about the consequences of it. Occasionally the digitization process introduces transcription errors or other problems; we are continuing to work to improve these archived versions. 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. 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. Long live the new flesh The murder took place during a period known as the "Satanic panic" when there was much public concern[2][3][4] over the effects of Satanic and occult content in heavy metal music and in role-playing games. First in the gut and then in the heart. worshiped Satan and shit, and he told the doctors that he was fine, that he was gonna go back to He was always like that, since he was a little kid. My parents have been watching me with a fine-toothed comb looking at my wrists, making sure I dont come in stoned. By Lindsey Gruson, Special To the New York Times. Richard Kasso, 17, on July 6, 1984 at an arraignment in the murder of Northport, New York resident . He said 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. It was a festive night. Troiano, Albert Quinones. Amityville Asylum Hes the kid that climbed up the tree very high . A hearing on the charges was set for Monday. Mr. Keahon based his case largely on Mr. Troiano's confession, which the defense had tried to suppress. 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. He went with Ricky to the woods because he was gullible. Get out of here. Hes like, Come on, Ill show you the body. I thought he was kidding. Ricky Kasso, however, never even stood trial for the murder. Thats all. ", <
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