Rick Kasso of Northport. This story was originally published in the November 22, 1984 issue of Rolling Stone. It can happen anywhere, that's the thing. I heard noises as I was getting closer, but I couldnt tell which way to go, and so I finally gave up. I killed Gary. I went, Bullshit! My biggest problem in life is my friends dying. Witch Trials Going to the library to read up on some books. When he was on acid, hed go back into the dark woods, up in Aztakea, and he would talk to the devil. 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. The best result we found for your search is Albert Quinones age 50s in Bronx, NY in the Woodstock neighborhood. http://acidking.com/press/. Indeed, the sinister reality was Kasso acted on his own, not in the name of some larger, formidable cult. Troiano, whod been in jail before, signed a confession but later pleaded not guilty, and now awaits trial for second-degree murder. Ricky asked for a quarter. One person died. Send us a tip using our anonymous form. Fifty? school, to scare 'em. he could use the skull for a ceremony. They would just make jokes: Oh, Garys dead, no big deal. close friend was killed at a New Year's Eve party two years ago. TEEN DUSTHEAD 2: My door all of a sudden slammed open. forth in the form of fire.' 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. Amityville Witch Building: Building shaped like witch hat. the motive: "My son didn't use drugs," she said recently. Then another friend got hit by a truck, riding his motorcyle. Main Street. He was The doctors said Kasso was antisocial. View the profiles of people named Albert Quinones. GIRL CLASSMATE: In junior high, he was quiet and wasnt in with the cool kids. Kinda ironic that he ends up worshiping Satan and starts by stealing from the church. But, I mean, he had no right to stab the kid in the head. but the police did not know for two weeks. Police found Kasso and Troiano passed out hungover in a car the following day and arrested them both. As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. DAN PETTY: I think Ricky shouldnt have been able to commit suicide. Cisco, +2 more University of Florida - Warrington College Of Business, +3 more Albert Quinones . conspiracy of silence against the town's adult population." I admire him. It was cute, though, the way he did it. Im gonna be a peace freak. Its just something teenagers do. Mr. Quinones has been granted immunity in return for his testimony. MARK FISHER: Ricky was of the devil. 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. PEACENIK GIRL: Jimmy Troiano had just gotten out of jail. the following weeks one of those remaining teens -- young Ricky Kasso -- would Grisly sacrificial slaughter When youre a kid, why dont you tell the police, you know? Occasionally the digitization process introduces transcription errors or other problems; we are continuing to work to improve these archived versions. I had another one: I was sleeping down in my room and all of a sudden Gary came through my door and killed me with a knife. They put a cup in the middle. Gina Dimuro is a New York-based writer and translator. The play asks how such a thing It was sick, it was torture. satanic rite." They didnt tell me they were going for Ricky and Jim. Maybe Jimmy was probably thinking that I wasnt gonna rat him out. animal sacrifices to the Devil and according to Kasso they he did a "Human Like most kids. Kasso was arrested for grave robbing. sacrifice to kill. In regard to Kasso's time in Amityville Easily, it answers. See, I dont trust them, man, I dont trust no one anymore. The murder was a media sensation and reporters descended upon the Long Island town in droves. lain ten days before burial. Satanists?' Are you crazy? and shit like that. I had a crush on him in the fifth grade. And then again sometimes he was a dick. A substitute for Ricky, a substitute for Jimmy. I want to go somewhere there are no sickos and you dont get hurt by people. One of the guys clipped the card from his father. MARK FISHER: Another night Albert and two girls held a seance at my house, a TERRIE ALTO, 14: He did talk about his future once. and glowed. TEEN DUSTHEAD 1: Its funny that when Ricky died, it was raining, lightning and thundering. Thirty stabs? He eventually left the body in the woods covered with leaves. His tools were here. Kasso confessed to the murder and later hanged himself. book "Say You Love Satan", the band set out to punish. After that, he comes up to a group of my friends who are sitting, talking, and I guess because now that he broke through his faggot, and hes into his little dirt-bag group that hes so proud of, he calls me a faggot! He used to run his mouth about being satanic, like he is the devil. worshiped Satan and shit, and he told the doctors that he was fine, that he was gonna go back to 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. five-pointed star -- they just traced their fingers. All three of them chugged it down. No ideals. much, they finally believed him and they let him go. After court, he left him off in front of the Midway store. He was about sixteen. He always said how much better his life would be if he was dead. MIKE McGRORY, veteran dirt-bag street kid, 21: Ricky always had that spaced-out look about him. Luciferianism and the Church of Satan. Then, read about Anton Lavey, the man who made Satanism trendy. Real estate agent said the "worst thing" about the The psychiatrists found Kasso to be "antisocial," but not Thats where he was wrong. No one breathed a word of the He often took drugs, mainly marijuana, hashish, LSD, PCP, and purple "microdots" of what he believed to be mescaline, but was most likely low-grade LSD. . Mr. Quinones is expected to appear as the key prosecution witness against Mr. Troiano, who has been charged with second-degree murder. Ulf Kjell Gr faggot, and he's into his little dirt-bag group that he's so proud of, he He was calm, and hes like, See, I told you. I said, I think youre crazy, man. Alex Quinones - @Dominicano1 Aeronautical Engineer with minors in Aircraft Maintenance, Technical Education, and Occupational Education. PEACENIK GIRL: That night Jimmy and Albert and Ricky came up to me, wanted me to buy mesc. Id think about going to the cops and just sort of, No, man, because theyd try to frame me, man. He would take three; ten minutes later hed take another three; and two hours later hed take four more. I sold my tape recorder; I was about to sell my Walkman. PEACENIK GIRL, 16: Ricky sang me this song that he wrote on guitar. Both Mr. Kasso and Mr. Troiano told the police they had taken the drug mescaline prior to the killing. So he took off his jacket and gave it to Ricky, and Gary just chopped off the sleeves. over again screaming, "Say you love Satan!!!" On June 19, 1984, Ricky Kasso, along with his 18-year-old friend James Troiano, and another local addict, 17-year-old Albert Quinones, lured Lauwers into the woods with the promise of getting high. TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. Amityville Insane YouTubeGary Lauwers ran away from home so often that his body lay undiscovered for weeks before anyone realized he was missing. He had no shirt on. The one bright spot in this area was a group of kids known as the Very severe, and they hurt. He was dancing. Kasso believed a black crow possessed by Satan told him to kill. I said, What was that? And Ricky said, Aw, nothing it was a rock, man. I didnt think anything about it. Two people, really, when you think about it. Asylum: Drew Barrymore's Great-Grandfather died there. steadfast conspiracy of silence against the town's adult population." Kasso was the son of a local high school history teacher and football coach at affluent Cold Spring Harbor High School. I said I hadnt seen him. They told the doctors of his grave digging, daily use of hallucinogens and other drugs, suicide attempts and jokes, threatening behavior. Im gonna start over., RICH BARTON, 15: I was down at the park that night. In Kasso's A moment later he was shooting baskets on its well-illuminated cement court. You can experience yourself sinking into a cinder-block wall. The alleged murderers were Ricky Kasso, 17, and Jimmy Troiano, 18, both of whom had rejected school, home and work for a life of streets, backyards, forts, woods, cars, boats, friends floors. my mother!". They were found the next day, sleeping in a car, and were subsequently arrested. And I'm like, "What?" My parents have been watching me with a fine-toothed comb looking at my wrists, making sure I dont come in stoned. to Long Island Jewish Hospital: he had pneumonia. animals to the Devil. They stole a car and smashed it up. 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. accused of killing 17-year-old Gary Lauwers by gouging his eyes out and He had a lot of jokes about Kasso. MICHELLE DeVEAU: I fixed his wounds up for him once. Long live the new flesh But today Mr. Quinones said Mr. Kasso had acted alone in catching Mr. Lauwers and dragging him back to a campfire that the four teen-agers had built in the woods in the Village of Northport. The routine was the same as it normally was. And I owed him thirty dollars. Kasso killerlong live the new flesh stayed here. It was like, every time it would hit after twelve, Id start bugging out. I just stayed up and watched Benny Hill, movies and stuff. http://www.francesfarmersrevenge.com/stuff/serialkillers/kasso.htm COLLUM CLARK: There was a total spur of the moment thing where Gary and some other kids decided to gang up on this guy. It was wet. He was going out with her, and theyd broke up. I said, Whats going on? And he goes, No way are they gonna lock me up. doctors of his grave digging, daily use of hallucinogens and other drugs, The psychiatrists found Kasso to be I was standing closest to the grave. The history of Satanic Ritual Killing and, Murder. Kasso even brought several disbelieving teens to view Lauwers' body before he and Troiano returned to the woods to bury the decomposing remains in a shallow grave. Tissue had darkened and blood had drained. This is a digitized version of an article from The Timess print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996. the Amityville Asylum). 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 was massively depressed. It Some persons were interviewed individually, others in groups. MARK FISHER: Ricky was of the devil. '', Like everyone else in town, they had opinions about the killing. the next room with his girlfriend. Go bowling. I think my generation is a bunch of lowlifes. Where evil dwells Stabbed him in the woods "Another night Albert and two girls held a seance at my house, a Theres so much shit to remind me: his ID bracelet, GARY; his little marines hat. LaVey's real name was " What is interesting is that several people . Looking for Gilbert Quinones online? Kasso killerlong live the new flesh He said he was never gonna trip again. I was peaking. Hed stay in the clubhouse all the time. It was just his way of coming to my house, saying, Hey, man, look at this shit.. Then another friend got hit by a truck, riding his BOY AT WAKE: He told me the way he got out of South Oaks Hospital. hangout in the Village of Northport before and after a teenager was stabbed to It was a trip, man, Ill tell you, man, it was a trip. suicide attempts and jokes, threatening behavior. In the year prior to the murder, Kasso had been arrested for digging into a colonial-era grave inside a local cemetery. It was weird. was acquitted of second-degree murder" (http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Shadowlands/4077/kasso.html, Ill meet you back downtown. I just fucking booked out of there. They told the doctors of his grave Perhaps what most enthralled the country about the teenager who dubbed himself The Acid King were his distinctly normal origins. Kasso killerlong live the new flesh Join Facebook to connect with Albert Quinones and others you may know. PREPSTER GIRL: Jimmy, he was always kind of wild, always doing strange things. TEEN DUSTHEAD 2: Gary was an easy target. on someone." She said, Do you have a girlfriend? He said, No, Im not into relationships. It is speculated I didnt want to, but finally I just said, What the hell, so I took a hit. For Kasso, he said a black crow said to him at the human MARK FISHER: If you met Ricky, he was just one of the nicest people youd ever meet. Two days after his arrest, he hanged himself with a bedsheet in his jail cell on July 7, 1984. The crime attracted international attention, in no small part because Suffolk County investigators said Kasso was a member of a satanic cult and that a throng of chanting cultists witnessed the sacrificial slaughter. And he gave him maybe ten bowl burns, circles with the rim of the bowl, a tattoo, sort of. And they said, Ricky Kasso was the killer. I want to go 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. Weve talked to Jim Morrison through a table. He was a MARK FISHER: Ricky had twenty-five hits of mesc in a little stash bottle down at the park. But not Ricky, Jimmy, Gary or Albert. Nearby Amityville a hot Even investigators claimed that Kasso was a member of a satanic cult, but the Long Island community had more to fear from drug addictions than Satanic cults. Teenage Killer RickyKasso of Northport High School. of his fangs. and they let him go. go court for digging up the grave, he Goody Garlick in 1657. Ricky Kasso would not forget the incident. Black Sabbath, Ozzy Osbourne. 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. After Kasso's murder of Lauwers, several newspapers and television journalists incorrectly reported the Knights as being a "satanic cult. wounds. Wed joke about him having to go to the dentist to have his teeth filed down. The Amityville Acid King. What they did say was 'Satan will come But Kasso began boasting about the murder, telling multiple classmates about it and even taking several of them to see the body. He gave one guy $500, just, Have fun tonight. He went to Laces Roller Rink, and he took a thousand dollars, a thousand dollars, and just chucked it in the air, man. ''It's real,'' Mr. Quinones replied. I said, Rick, Im getting the hell out here. 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. He'd put on these weird eyes and . Mr. Troiano, who acknowledged taking several doses of a powerful hallucinogen a few hours before the killing, confessed at the prompting of his police interrogators, Mr. Naiburg contended. (Gary Lauwers was among those who watched.) praises to Satan. Welcome! "Oh, Satan has arrived! overhearing it, the likelihood is that she would not of told either as it would Kasso was not. And I said, "Can we hang out again?" Mr. Lauwers was killed in a drug-induced frenzy because he had stolen a powerful illegal drug from one of his attackers, the prosecutor and defense attorney agreed. KING SARDONIC, Knights of the Black Circle, 20: I have theories about when you die. When youre on it, its like youre drunk, stoned, tripping. Welcome! Go roller-skating. As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. "Popular Culture and Social Control: The Moral Panic on Music Labeling. Neville-Graffiti in a teen hangout in the Village of Northport before and after RICH BARTON: We were hanging out in Aztakea, getting wasted. When he told me about it, he was laughing! I saw Albert and Ricky talking, and Ricky said, What should I do with it? and Albert said, Throw it in the water. And then they went over and they threw it in the water. Mr. Troiano's confession was also undermined by the only witness to the murder. They were good, Forsake your homosexuality BOY AT WAKE: He told me the way he got out of South Oaks Hospital. It was like in shock. 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. Why? Ricky wasn't there. However, as soon as drugs entered the picture, Ricky Kassos promising future quickly devolved into a nightmare. 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. "His most recent arrest was a charge of grave robbing, where he dug up a 19th His black eye. these were just kids. He probably just stabbed his eyes in. The names are changed but it might have His friend Scott got a call from Lauwers mother. The group walked to Aztakea Woods, set up camp and ingested several doses, or "hits", of what they believed to be mescaline. albert quinones northport. People were shocked that teenagers from the picket-fence suburbs could have committed such a brutal crime. It was just like Gary to take off without warning. The psychiatrists found Kasso to be antisocial, but not presently psychotic, and let him go. Gave them out. The Knights of the Black Circle sacrificed BOY AT WAKE: Gary was the type of guy that everybody liked, because he wasnt selfish. Albert Quinones appears to be the only person who saw what happened, and will be the governments star witness. http://www.rumourmachine.com/Reviews/Mysweetsatan.htm Kasso stabbed him over and ''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. five-pointed star -- they just traced their fingers. school and doesn't believe in Satan anymore, and he bullshit the doctor so He said that maybe people were haunting him. They brought me up to this room, and they started questioning me and shit, and they were beating the shit out of me. The play had its ''It's stupid. Demonic Anyone can read what you share. But not kill me kill 3) Newsday cover photo by Dan Neville-Graffiti in a teen ''They were asking us, you know, if we believe in Christ,'' he said. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et magna aliqua. MIKE McGRORY: Gary was basically a good kid, young in mind. albert quinones northportwellesley, ma baby store. Push yourself as far as you can go. Interests? Mr. Quinones, who has been granted immunity from prosecution in exchange for his testimony in Suffolk County Court, said Tuesday that Mr. Troiano, 19, had joined a second teen- ager, Richard Kasso, in chasing Mr. Lauwers when he tried to escape during the knife assault that led to his death. The eye sockets were whittled. One of these big oak trees. He then invited Lauwers to get high with him, Troiano and Quinones. Then they become necessary to get you through the day. Mr. Quinones appeared uneasy during his second day on the stand and asked Mr. Naiburg several times to repeat questions. It was a festive night. Slaying Meets for 7 Hours" (April 25, 1985), "L.I. Posted at 15:49h in slapping octopus before eating by facilities management jobs kenya. His voice on occasion was barely audible. Gary stole the dust from out of his jacket ten little yellow envelopes with the words SUDDEN IMPACT on them. The lawyer who twice represented Gary in juvenile court told a newspaper reporter, He wasnt really bad. He said the devil came in the form of a tree, which sprouted out of the ground and glowed. KINGS PARK GIRL, 16: Ricky hung out with the kid, and Gary stole from him. 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. - Family & House it is based on located near Amityville! We tried to make a fire, but we couldnt. The book about Kasso called, "Say You Love Satan. Quinones is expected to appear as the key prosecution witness against Mr. Troiano, who has been charged with second-degree murder. Editors picks The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time Hed bought a knife for protection, but I dont think he carried it around. When he was high, hed always sit there and laugh at you, like he was trying to pretend to be crazy. He looked like he got away with it and shit hes playing it cool. To preserve these articles as they originally appeared, The Times does not alter, edit or update them. ''It was like a big joke - it was like, 'Oh yeah, you're just kidding,' '' she said. We put our cigarettes in it. He didnt care. James At one point Mr. Naiburg asked Mr. Quinones whether seeing Mr. Kasso stab the victim had been ''real or a trip.''. 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. Faced with contradictions between his testimony and earlier statements, he said that what he had told a grand jury investigating the murder was ''pretty much'' the truth. People have no morals. I was massively depressed. People are paying for him to go to trial and you know he's guilty.'' . Theyd say, Lets go up there and watch him rot. I mean, it happens everyplace, you know?''. Brush fires. He used to drive in, get dusted and drive back. He had a good reputation as a burglar. An outsider. school and doesn't believe in Satan anymore, and he bullshit the doctor so He was more into peace than fighting. If youre gonna live, I say have good times all the time. I woke up with tears on my face. being dramatized on a Chicago stage. 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. Richard "Ricky" Kasso (March 29, 1967 - July 7, 1984), also known as The Acid King, murdered 17-year-old acquaintance Gary Lauwers in Northport, Long Island, New York on June 16, 1984. He was He did so, police said, in part because Lauwers The body sank into the earth. I was in love with the guy, you know. I mean, Ricky and Gary were both talking a lot, shit like that. 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. Hed totally fuck somebody over and not think about the consequences of it. During the stabbing, Lauwers allegedly called out for his mother, saying, "I It was so real. King. Ricky is the acid king. killing to police, to parents, to any authorities. I met Ricky back in the park. He put ketchup on his wrists and called down to his mother, See what you made me do. His mother ran up the stairs. the chain hooks onto the seat - he took it into his mouth on top of the They just got carried away. You cant live life that way. Welcome!' But he denied that his perceptions were distorted because he was ''tripping'' on mescaline when Mr. Lauwers was killed. Now there's no one in there. Friend Mark Fisher said "Ricky was of the devil. James Troiano was acquitted today of charges that he helped murder Gary Lauwers in a drug-induced frenzy. into the dark woods, up in Aztakea, and he would talk to the devil. MICHELLE DeVEAU: My biggest problem in life is my friends dying. Northport Long Island Troiano was in Finally, a girl whod overheard some other girls talking about it made an anonymous call to the police. In May, his parents had taken him to Long Island Jewish Hospital: he had pneumonia. somewhere there are no sickos and you don't get hurt by people. Albert Quinones Strategic Service Sales at Cisco Miami-Fort Lauderdale Area. On June 19, 1984, Ricky Kasso, along with his 18-year-old friend James Troiano, and another local addict, 17-year-old Albert Quinones, lured Lauwers into the woods with the promise of getting high. "The act that triggered the murder was Lauwers stealing ten bags of Angel Dust TEEN DUSTHEAD 1: Ricky took everything, just like Jim Morrison. Albert Quinones was born on 08/01/1967 and is 55 years old. I dont think they carved his eyes out. Satan saying that the murder was a good thing. SOFTHEARTED GIRL, 14: I was the closest person to Ricky. He drove to the Amityville Horror House to celebrate Walpurgisnacht, an early German pagan feast night when evil spirits supposedly gather. Pubs and restaurants are crowded. was something like "A Child of the Devil." RICH BARTON: Afterward, Ricky stayed over four times, I guess. My mom and dad came in. Id get scared to go in my room, because Ricky used to stay in my room. Gary just had a severe dislike for him. By Lindsey Gruson, Special To the New York Times. Gary Lauwers was high-spirited and mercurial, funny in a dopey way. It was cute, though, the way he did it. When he was on acid, he'd go back Northport, L.I. To me, Gary was being cool and shit. I had some really wicked nightmares, man. Long live the new flesh [x3], Ray Buckland: Starts He said He was on dust. They were dehydrated, so they asked me where the nearest swimming pool was, cause they wanted to go pool hopping. The thing that bugs me out, man, is all of them were pushing me, especially Gary and Ricky, to take a hit of mescaline. It wasnt just the ketchup on his wrists. BILLY LEASON, pall-bearer, 16: Im not scared of death. They left bones cleaned of flesh, full of dents from the blade of a knife. 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. - Woman accused of witchcraft in Amityville area! When Quinones received immunity for testifying against Troiano that made the list even shorter. confession, he said he heard the screech of a crow, which, in his mind, was His confession, which implicated Mr. Troiano, was not admitted into evidence. like, "There's only one problem." Anyone can read what you share. The younger crowd was impressed by what he did. I apologized to him for something. He knew it was just a dream, but it was a dream. Grisly sacrificial slaughter 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. human sacrifice. albert quinones northport 11 Jun. The other five could not be reached. They would have ceremonies where they had On July 4, 1984, police used dogs to search Aztakea Woods and recovered the decomposing and mutilated body of Gary Lauwers. things. Philip Quinn, a former abuser of hallucinogenic drugs and director of Topic House, a drug-rehabilitation center in Plainview, testified that abusers were often unable to recall their actions under the influence of hallucinogens. The Murder They'd Rather Forget Newsday By Joshua Quittner Apr 16, 1987 It says: Now you can strike back at the people that screwed you up. He was fourteen. And then we tried to get out of the woods, but we couldnt. Troiano was in 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. Acid King and Teen Satanism. Hes the kid that climbed up the tree very high . Tissue had darkened and blood had drained. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Analytics". forth in the form of fire." He said ''Yeah,'' Mr. Smith interjected. fifteen and perhaps thirty teenagers and young adults were told of the has arrived! I always felt they had to prove something, cause everyone looked up to them. They remembered the victim, Mr. Lauwers, as someone who was easy to push around. ninth-grade dance, they played "Monster Mash" for him,' cause he had so He was at that age. [6] Kasso also expressed to friends his interest in Anton LaVey's book The Satanic Bible.