Ricky Kasso was the son of a local high school history teacher and football coach at affluent Cold Spring Harbor High School.
12 Facts About Ricky Kasso
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Ricky Kasso was often thrown out of his home as a young teenager and lived on the streets of Northport, New York, a suburb of New York City; he usually slept in the local woods or in the cars, garages, backyards and houses of friends.
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Ricky Kasso 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.
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Ricky Kasso tended to save all of his drugs for his own use but had on occasion dealt drugs in Northport as well.
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Ricky Kasso expressed to friends his interest in Anton LaVey's book The Satanic Bible.
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However, the conclusion of the psychiatrists was that Ricky Kasso exhibited antisocial behavior but was neither psychotic nor a violent danger, and he was released upon recovering from his bout with pneumonia.
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Ricky Kasso confronted him soon after the incident, prompting Lauwers to immediately return five of the ten bags.
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Ricky Kasso then invited Lauwers to get high with him, Jimmy Troiano and Albert Quinones.
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Ricky Kasso scuffled with Lauwers, bit him on the neck and stabbed him in the chest.
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Ricky Kasso continued his assault on Lauwers, Quinones initially claimed that Troiano helped Ricky Kasso and held Lauwers during the attack.
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Ricky 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.
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Ricky 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.