On Tuesday he testified that Mr. Lauwers had taken off only one sock. On the night of the murder, Kasso visited the small gazebo in the new Cow Harbor park and borrowed a radio from a friend. Osbourne. Mr. Troiano said in a statement to the police that Mr. Lauwers was forced to say ''I love you, Satan'' before he died. Gary stole the dust from out of his jacket ten little yellow envelopes with the words SUDDEN IMPACT on them. Its the story of antisocial behavior become social, of the rules of the game in the game of growing up. But, I mean, he had no right to stab the kid in the head. ''It was a long deliberation, and, therefore, you can conclude it was well thought out.''. First time Ricky got in trouble was eighth grade. His friend Scott got a call from Lauwers mother. Theyd wreck fences, rip down signs, beat people up. 3) Newsday cover photo by Dan Neville-Graffiti in a teen ''It was like a big joke - it was like, 'Oh yeah, you're just kidding,' '' she said. I tried killing myself. Where evil dwells The one bright spot in this area was a group of kids known as the Friend Mark Fisher said "Ricky was of the devil. In his pocket, at the time of that school and doesn't believe in Satan anymore, and he bullshit the doctor so RANDY KORWAN, Vietnam vet, 33: I honor Kasso. Thirty stabs? and glowed. First in the gut and then in the heart. And some of his tapes were here. To preserve these articles as they originally appeared, The Times does not alter, edit or update them. Mr. Lauwers, she said, had a way of disappearing for days at a time. worshiped Satan and shit, and he told the doctors that he was fine, that he was gonna go back to ''They were asking us, you know, if we believe in Christ,'' he said. Lets go get another one . Welcome!". And I said, Can we hang out again? And he was like, Theres only one problem. And Im like, What? And he said, Im dead. I woke up with tears on my face. ", The Theater Of Suburban Rage The murder was two weeks old before the police They asked me to go to the deli to get orange juice. 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. 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. Im like, Rick, what the hell did you kill, a fucking cat? And all of a sudden hes like, There it is. And theres like a pile of leaves, and Im like, Holy shit, man. I see all these maggots on him, a thick pile of them on top of the leaves. 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 . GLEN WOLF, veteran dirt-bag street kid, 21: Gary was helping me fix my car. Hed get eighty dollars and go out and buy a twenty-five-dollar bong and spend the rest on weed and smoke it all that night. The film Ricky6. And he got all mad, and started chasing me, and getting his Jimmy picked up the knife after Ricky had dropped it, and he gave it to Ricky. Hed totally fuck somebody over and not think about the consequences of it. ninth-grade dance, they played "Monster Mash" for him,' cause he had so I heard they went up to Aztakea and any girls who wanted to get fucked should go up there. He is also a volunteer fireman, he said, and first heard about the murder over a police radio. I came back, and they had left. He looked like he got away with it and shit hes playing it cool. I had a crush on him in the fifth grade. They were all tripping. The history of Satanic Ritual Killing and, Murder. ''It's scary, but I think it was a freak. Thats when he discussed his future. Includes free contact info & photos & court records. I was sitting there with my mouth wide-open, saying, Holy shit! He just comes in and stabs. He said, I love thee, Satan Lauwers also promised to repay Kasso $50 for the five bags of PCP that had been used. and he told the doctors that he was fine, that he was gonna go back to I saw Ricky down in the round house. RANDY GUETHLER: Before the murder, I was known as a gravedigger. ''I mean, I used to walk through there with no fears, and like through the woods and everything. It was a festive night. Pics, Murder was behind King Kullen http://northportsevs.com/updates/archives/00000145.shtml, O-o (Where evil dwells) He did them to be accepted. L.I. TEEN DUSTHEAD 2: My door all of a sudden slammed open. Why? And all of a sudden the cup in the middle, Then another friend got hit by a truck, riding his The trial is to resume Thursday before Judge John Copertino. The younger crowd was impressed by what he did. Now there's no one in there. Two weeks after that Listened to But he didnt really understand it. Hes the kid that climbed up the tree very high . Therell be different dealers. Jimmy Troiano signed two confessions that he later recanted. Two weeks after that another friend shot himself. After the attack, Kasso and Troiano covered Lauwers' body with leaves and small branches and left it in the woods. One day, at the train station, I saw him. 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. MARK FISHER: Ricky was of the devil. "In June 1984 in Northport, New York, Ricky Kasso and James Troiano were 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.''. The murder became sensational news in New York City and across the nation due to the alleged torture of Lauwers and supposed occult aspects of the murder. I wear the peace signs no ones gonna tell me about a murder. I think my generation is a bunch of lowlifes. go court for digging up the grave, he I told them everything. I mean, Ricky and Gary were both talking a lot, shit like that. Mr. Naiburg argued that Mr. Kasso had acted alone. The killing attracted international attention, in large part because the police incorrectly charged that a group of chanting cultists had witnessed what was called a Satanic murder. ALBERT QUINONES: I was trying to forget about it, man, and I couldnt. the devil came into the form of a tree, which sprouted out of the ground Amityville - Mass suicide and Murder, Bram Stoker who wrote "Dracula": His link to Amityville. many scars on his face. Stab! TEEN DUSTHEAD 1: You feel like youre ten feet tall. Indeed, the sinister reality was Kasso acted on his own, not in the name of some larger, formidable cult. Yeah, we were lovers thats what takes a lot out of me. It was a trip, man, Ill tell you, man, it was a trip. the twentieth or twenty-first of June. TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. In May, his parents had taken him things. 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. The jury acquitted Troiano since his lawyer argued that the teen was so high the night of the murder he was incapable of distinguishing reality from the effects of the drugs. I just stayed up and watched Benny Hill, movies and stuff. 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. Northport, L.I. A friend of Kasso's said at his After Ricky stabbed him, Gary took off, ran, and Ricky got him, just like that. And these were just kids. the next room with his girlfriend. James Troiano was acquitted today of charges that he helped murder Gary Lauwers in a drug-induced frenzy. Stabbed him in the woods Kinda ironic that he ends up worshiping Satan and starts by stealing from the church. As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. dead." Lauwers face was destroyed beyond recognition. Ricky just started stabbing him in the face when he found out he wasnt dead. Long Island.. . Kassos father, who also coached the local football team, once described his son as a model child and a young athlete. my mother!". At first, theyre fun. ALBERT QUINONES, 16: Gary already paid him his money back. I went up to Aztakea three hours earlier, with Rick and Jim. confession, he said he heard the screech of a crow, which, in his mind, was He'd put on these weird eyes and 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. But you could see the eyes, the nose and the mouth, like a regular skeleton. Going to the library to read up on some books. ''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. was Kasso who stabbed Lauwers. Finally, a girl whod overheard some other girls talking about it made an anonymous call to the police. TEEN DUSTHEAD 2: You dont feel anything. SOFTHEARTED GIRL: The first night I found out, I had a dream, a dream that Gary talked to me. All three of them chugged it down. Demonic Kasso killerlong live the new flesh much, they finally believed him and they let him go. Im gonna start over., RICH BARTON, 15: I was down at the park that night. Id think about going to the cops and just sort of, No, man, because theyd try to frame me, man. His mother burst into sobs and clutched the arm of her husband, who sat impassively next to her in the front row. It was sick. '', See the article in its original context from. He did so, police said, in part because Lauwers there was a black cat. ALBERT QUINONES: For those three weeks when I didnt know what to do, I was going crazy. Ricky Kasso was involved in Satanism and a group of like minded teens called He always said how much better his life would be if he was dead. Click Here, Sign the Guest Book I died right away. 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. One of the last things he said to me, Well, I guess its safe for me to come down here now. I apologized to him for something. On July 4, 1984, police used dogs to search Aztakea Woods and recovered the decomposing and mutilated body of Gary Lauwers. Ricky thought that because theyre gonna build houses up there that theyd stumble across the body in like a year or so. I did it to see bones, to see history. I didnt tell anybody, but I couldnt escape it. 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. STONED PALLBEARER 3: He went to Florida once. What they did say was 'Satan will come Kasso had been charged in April with digging up a grave the previous fall. BOY AT WAKE: Gary was the type of guy that everybody liked, because he wasnt selfish. This is a digitized version of an article from The Timess print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996. Id like to be back in Woodstock. Very severe, and they hurt. Gina Dimuro is a New York-based writer and translator. But not Ricky, Jimmy, Gary or Albert. >>. BRIAN HIGGINS, 16: Gary had disappeared so often, you wouldnt think about it. Suicide Club in The place was called, "Aztakea.". ''He just did that because he was so wasted all the time - he was just like, 'Oh, let's do this,' '' she said. He However, it wasn't until two weeks went by, on July 1, that the murder was reported to the police via an anonymous tip. coat of arms of netherlands. fourteen. bands and musicians that sing it. massacred his family ten years earlier. 1984 lead a series of tours' to the body for local teens -- all of whom held a People have no morals. The four teens were all tripping on LSD and staring at a small fire when Ricky demanded that Gary remove his clothes and donate them to fire. When Gary did not, Ricky and Gary started to fight, as Albert and I watched, Troiano said. sacrifice to kill. S&M Gary! At the sound of crow-call skeleton, at least He was always like that, since he was a little kid. Kasso went from a budding sports star to drug addict while a high school student. TERRIE ALTO: I knew he was afraid of Kasso. ''I heard 'knife wounds' and I thought, it can't be. that Gary talked to me. I was massively depressed. 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. Kasso, reportedly accompanied by chants of Hang up, hang up from his cell mates, did so. school, to scare 'em. I always felt they had to prove something, cause everyone looked up to them. SOFTHEARTED GIRL, 14: I was the closest person to Ricky. So he took off his jacket and gave it to Ricky, and Gary just chopped off the sleeves. You sit down, totally numbed out, and you start sinking into it. People think Im nuts.. < Luxury Apartments For Sale In Seoul, South Korea,
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