She said, Do you have a girlfriend? He said, No, Im not into relationships. Mr. Quinones is expected to appear as the key prosecution witness against Mr. Troiano, who has been charged with second-degree murder. He said that me and him were gonna get married, and he was gonna start dealing coke. [6] Kasso also expressed to friends his interest in Anton LaVey's book The Satanic Bible. Hed get up at two in the afternoon, and Id cook him some hot dogs. MICHELLE DeVEAU: My biggest problem in life is my friends dying. SLAYING WITNESS GIVES CONFLICTING TESTIMONY, https://www.nytimes.com/1985/04/11/nyregion/li-slaying-witness-gives-conflicting-testimony.html. Doesnt say nothing. had stolen drugs from him. Its like, now if he gets caught, Im going to get involved. Long live the new flesh [x3], Ray Buckland: Starts A history of music censorship is given in: Deflem, Mathieu. school and doesn't believe in Satan anymore, and he bullshit the doctor so He was a sweet guy, and very funny. Gary just had a severe dislike for him. close friend was killed at a New Year's Eve party two years ago. The routine was the same as it normally was. ''I mean, I used to walk through there with no fears, and like through the woods and everything. another friend shot himself. They just got carried away. They picked me up at two, and they were beating the shit out of me for like two and a half hours, in Yaphank. They declined to comment on the decision. All Rights reserved. 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. 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. 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. Kasso told police that he and Lauwers and a couple of other young addicts, Troiano and Albert Quinones, 17, had spent the night of June 16 taking LSD and angel dust at a local playground. Sometime after midnight, a Mazda pickup stopped near the park, cruised away, then returned and pulled to the curb. arrest, was a list of the Dignitaries in Hell. And I had a dream that I killed another guy. I was committed to Gary. View the profiles of professionals named "Albert Quinones" on LinkedIn. dead." Friend Mark Fisher said "Ricky was of the devil. Under some leaves, the worms did their work, Occasionally the digitization process introduces transcription errors or other problems; we are continuing to work to improve these archived versions. So Ricky kicked the door of his fathers red Corvette, dented it. In Kasso's They started out by drawing a Pubs and restaurants are crowded. I came back, and they had left. 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. Troiano, Albert Quinones. No one breathed a word of the If youre gonna live, I say have good times all the time. Some went into the woods to get a look at the black spot. Mutilation murder At the end of the Ut enim ad minim veniam laboris. Newsday cover photo by Dan Neville-Graffiti in a teen hangout in the Village of Northport before and after a teenager was stabbed to death by a friend; -----The Murder They'd Rather Forget Newsday By Joshua Quittner Apr 16, 1987 On June 17, Gary Lauwers was in the woods with Kasso, Troiano, and another friend, Albert Quinones. He was dancing. Tissue had darkened and blood had drained. Hed stay in clubhouses that he knew, or in the lumberyard up the road, or in doorways. Ricky Kasso, however, never even stood trial for the murder. Forty stabs? Walpurgisnacht, so Ricky knocked together an altar and they all shouted sacrifice to kill. We tried to make a fire, but we couldnt. All three of them chugged it down. A moment later he was shooting baskets on its well-illuminated cement court. So he took off his jacket and gave it to Ricky, and Gary just chopped off the sleeves. The play asks how such a thing Then another friend got hit by a truck, riding his TONY ZENKUS, 19: Theres a power trip in Satanism. Go out and have a party. Black Sabbath, Ozzy Osbourne. S&M Gary! Looking for Albert Quinones online? Theres so much shit to remind me: his ID bracelet, GARY; his little marines hat. ALBERT QUINONES: The detectives were beating the shit out of me. They started out by drawing a close friend was killed at a New Year's Eve party two years ago. To me, Gary was being cool and shit. http://www.rumourmachine.com/Reviews/Mysweetsatan.htm Kasso stabbed him over and SOFTHEARTED GIRL: Ricky wanted the suicide. sacrifice." You feel like a feather. Anyone can read what you share. 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. I died right away. They left bones cleaned of flesh, full of dents from the blade of a knife. "local satanic group known as the Knights of the Black Circle, which had around http://www.francesfarmersrevenge.com/stuff/serialkillers/kasso.htm The evil was within that one individual. the twentieth or twenty-first of June. Remember when that girl puked in the attic at one of those parties? Sociopathic means robbing graves. MICHELLE DeVEAU, 15: Gary was like a wimp. 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. The 100 Best Albums of 2022. MICHELLE DeVEAU: My dream is to get the hell out of here. Includes free contact info & photos & court records. Driver pulled over and said, Get the fuck out!. Northport is like the perfect village,'' he said. During the attack, Kasso allegedly commanded Lauwers to "Say you love Satan", and Lauwers is said to have instead replied "I love my mother," before finally giving in to Kasso's demands. ''I didn't want to come down here anymore after that,'' said Valerie, glancing across the street toward the deserted park. Then they just become your total desire. And these were just kids. What else can you do? Police found Kasso and Troiano passed out hungover in a car the following day and arrested them both. Ricky treated us to doughnuts at Dunkin Donuts. Push yourself as far as you can go. My parents have been watching me with a fine-toothed comb looking at my wrists, making sure I dont come in stoned. First Gary didnt want to go, but then Ricky said, Well buy jelly doughnuts! So he was, like, Yeah!. on someone." ebt declined reason 99; virtual seating golden state warriors He said fifteen and perhaps thirty teenagers and young adults were told of the I was peaking out, tripping out. Go roller-skating. When he told me about it, he was laughing! BAKER: Ricky wanted to be the devils second hand. DAN PETTY: Hed be into Hendrix, Joplin, the Woodstock stuff, then rap for a while. Im not crazy. I was like, I never said you were crazy, but maybe you need help with drugs. He said, I do not, and then he started yelling, coming closer. I mean, it happens everyplace, you know?''. Howling and sniffing, he found enough flesh for a fingerprint ''It's real,'' Mr. Quinones replied. A substitute for Ricky, a substitute for Jimmy. 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. are sitting, talking, and I guess because now that he broke through his In his pocket, at the time of that arrest, was a list of the Dignitaries in Hell. His mother says, These kids are going to need a hundred years of therapy.. Anyone can read what you share. I came down to the park about four in the morning and sat in the gazebo and looked up where it said GARY 666 and just started crying. You start taking drugs, just like the people in the Bronx. I sold my coin collection. Ricky just started stabbing him in the face when he found out he wasnt dead. The date of the murder was initially misreported by the police and press as June 16, 1984. JURY ACQUITS DEFENDANT IN KILLING OF YOUTH IN WOODS, https://www.nytimes.com/1985/04/26/nyregion/li-jury-acquits-defendant-in-killing-of-youth-in-woods.html. His friend Scott got a call from Lauwers mother. View the Guest Book. After the attack, Kasso and Troiano covered Lauwers' body with leaves and small branches and left it in the woods. ''It was a long deliberation, and, therefore, you can conclude it was well thought out.''. MARK FISHER: Ricky was totally dusted out and went unconscious for a while at a party. But Kasso began boasting about the murder, telling multiple classmates about it and even taking several of them to see the body. He used to run his mouth about being satanic, like he is the devil. My biggest problem in life is my friends dying. In one of several minor discrepancies, Mr. Quinones testified that Mr. Lauwers had taken off both his socks and put them into the fire to get it started. MICHELLE DeVEAU: I fixed his wounds up for him once. to Long Island Jewish Hospital: he had pneumonia. I apologized to him for something. And he said it was okay. It gave him a big scar on his face. And they said, 'Oh, Satan of the iceberg, most of what they did we will never know about. Acid King and Teen Satanism. accused of killing 17-year-old Gary Lauwers by gouging his eyes out and It was like in shock. After this look at Ricky Kasso, read about the LSD-fueled murders of two self-professed Satanists in an empty Georgia woods. Gary was scared of him, cause every time theyd get together, Ricky would chew him out or beat the shit out of him. He said that maybe people were haunting him. Jimmy Troiano signed two confessions that he later recanted. the twentieth or twenty-first of June. transfigured themselves into flies and flew off. Amityville - Mass suicide and Murder, Bram Stoker who wrote "Dracula": His link to Amityville. PREPSTER GIRL: Jimmy, he was always kind of wild, always doing strange things. Troiano A hearing on the charges was set for Monday. He started complaining he was getting flashbacks. And all of a sudden someone pops up, grabs me and drags me into the woods. We'd joke about him having to go to the dentist to have his Jimmy spent a night, too. They declined to give their real names, calling themselves only Linda and Valerie. my mother!". He said the devil came in the form of a tree, which sprouted out of the ground and glowed. The doctors said Kasso was antisocial. 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. Cisco, +2 more University of Florida - Warrington College Of Business, +3 more Albert Quinones . Thats when he discussed his future. He'd put on these weird eyes and And they said, Then, read about Anton Lavey, the man who made Satanism trendy. Long Island.. Eric Naiburg, Mr. Troiano's attorney, and William Keahon, the prosecutor, said that Satanism will not be a part of the trial, so far as they are aware. hangout in the Village of Northport before and after a teenager was stabbed to In the Philadelphia Daily News (Pennsylvania): Chronology of the trial in the New York Times (available online). I think Ricky stopped living in eighth grade. - Woman accused of witchcraft in Amityville area! Some persons were interviewed individually, others in groups. almost all the kids in the area knew of what Kasso said was a "Human Sacrifice," the chain hooks onto the seat - he took it into his mouth on top of the Kasso reportedly beat Lauwers on four occasions. five-pointed star -- they just traced their fingers. Its the story of antisocial behavior become social, of the rules of the game in the game of growing up. the "Knights of the Black Circle." Rick Kasso of Northport. Kasso and Troiano were arrested the next day. In May, his parents had taken him to Long Island Jewish Hospital: he had pneumonia. Troiano was in the next room with his girlfriend. L.I. Kasso was a follower of Anton laVey. Yearbooks 1984 Yearbook Northport High School NORTHPORT, NY Reunions Jan 31, 2010 Albert was invited to the 3rd Annual Winter Bar-B-Q 6945 invitees Jan 31, 2010 He was very insecure. The Murder They'd Rather Forget Newsday By Joshua Quittner Apr 16, 1987 It scared the hell out of me. skeleton, at least like, I saw Gary and he had this upside-down cross and this little book it was a little brown book about Satan and he was just saying all these stupid things. 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. The Acid The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time these were just kids. First in the gut and then in the heart. 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. motorcycle. Going to the library to read up on some books. Knights of the black circle 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. And he was sorta worried that a person would go on a wood hunt and grab a stick, but it would be a hand or a bone. I mean, you sit there and stare out, and you look at the trees, and it looks like theyre bending down and shit. Newsday cover photo by Dan View the profiles of people named Albert Quinones. Fifty? Neville-Graffiti in a teen hangout in the Village of Northport before and after Its a scar. He did those things well enough on his own. I mean, you see them kill once, you just dont think, like, theyre not going to kill you. Ricky wasn't there. There was no face to speak of. I thought it was a nightmare. First in the gut and then in the heart. The book about Kasso called, "Say You Love Satan. ''They say, 'Northport? I don't think anybody but God knows what happened that night.''. And Ricky made Gary get on his knees and say, I love Satan. Then Ricky just started hacking away from him, man. They put a cup in the Half-burnt body found If you do that, man, you gotta have losed it, you know. . Theyd say, Lets go up there and watch him rot. Do-de-do, do-de-do. He was always wasted. About six months ago, he started going to the South Bronx with a friend of mine. They were found the next day, sleeping in a car, and were subsequently arrested. He was always like that, since he was a little kid. ''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. BILLY LEASON, pall-bearer, 16: Im not scared of death. Aztakea Woods . What they did say was "Satan will come (Gary Lauwers was among those who watched.) Ill be back for dinner. His parents got fed up with it. In all there were three dozen Do-de-do, do-de-do. MARK FISHER: Another night Albert and two girls held a seance at my house, a A rock music group named themselves after Kasso. 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. . of violated the code. Hes another rug rat at someones house; another one on the floor, eking out an existence; another wolf in a house full of wolves. Anyone can read what you share. Theres nothing better to do than take drugs. James A close friend was killed at a New Years Eve party two years ago. He fought to get people to like him. In the year prior to the murder, Kasso had been arrested for digging into a colonial-era grave inside a local cemetery. 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.. Ricky Kasso was born to a local high school history teacher and his wife in the quiet suburbs of New Yorks Northport community on Long Island. Quinones gave witness account that Troiano helped Kasso during the murder, but later denied this during his testimony at Troiano's trial. 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. 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. was Kasso who stabbed Lauwers. `Kids in the Dark,' a new play by [RICK CLEVELAND], inset, 2) and David Id think about going to the cops and just sort of, No, man, because theyd try to frame me, man. In his pocket, at the time of that By Lindsey Gruson, Special To the New York Times. Theres only so much you can do before things wear out. 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. ALBERT QUINONES: I was trying to forget about it, man, and I couldnt. I woke up with tears on my face. Slaying Meets for 7 Hours" (April 25, 1985), "L.I. secretive, and the New York Times said, "In Its sick: Ive seen thirteen-year-old girls running around with RICKY LIVES on their T-shirts. At that point, Kasso heard a crow caw. Ulf Kjell Gr Kasso would often perform rituals culled from Anton LaVeys The Satanic He had no shirt on. statement Kasso allegedly gave police and according to Quinones' testimony, it has arrived! They never last. Thats pretty heavy. 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. Kasso was not. Hes the kid that climbed up the tree very high . He was teased. And I said, "Oh, yeah, you're so coll you can pull a gun I said, Sure. I told him Gary might be going, if we could find him. He was a have him involuntarily committed. go court for digging up the grave, he They knew Albert hung with Ricky and him, so they grabbed Albert first. Witch Trials Weve talked to Jim Morrison through a table. Home; About Clearway Half-burnt body found When Ricky confronted him with it, he gave him back five and went and worked and paid him back for the rest. PEACENIK GIRL, 16: Ricky sang me this song that he wrote on guitar. Hey, Ricky, youre a nice guy, why doncha stab me in the eye! He had a good reputation as a burglar. Try restaurant style recipes at home. He wanted a bagel. Rick found other ways to get into the city. They were all hung over from chugging reality. Kasso killerlong live the new flesh People can put out cigarettes on you and you dont even care. After that, he comes up to a group of my friends who MIKE McGRORY: Gary was basically a good kid, young in mind. ''Whoever, whatever, and as you are, we welcome you,'' invites the sign in front of the church. And he was See the article in its original context from. He was calm, and hes like, See, I told you. I said, I think youre crazy, man.

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