On the night of June 19, 1984 teenage friends Ricky Allen Kasso, Jimmy Troiano, and Albert Quinones invited mutual acquaintance Gary Lauwers to the Aztakea Woods.
While in the previous months Kasso and Lauwers had had some issues that stemmed from Lauwers stealing drugs, the teens had agreed to put everything aside and enjoy a night of smoking PCP and taking LSD by the campfire.
Kasso was infamous in the quiet town of Northport, New York for his outlandish behavior and was given the nickname “The Acid King”. Because of his lack of self control and disobedient nature his parents couldn’t control him. His parents even tried to get him committed to a psychiatric facility numerous times, but to no avail with doctors stating that Kasso was not psychotic.
Therefore Kasso was often kicked out of his home where he would then couch surf with friends and live in the local woods.
When he was around the town he was often seen with a group of marijuana dealers who named themselves The Knights of Black Circle who many believed to be a Santanist group since this was the height of the “Satanic Panic”.
Even though Lauwers had returned five of the ten bags of PCP he had stolen from Kasso and paid him $50 for the other five, Kasso did not see this as enough to make up for the theft.
While the three teens had promised Lauwers a calm night in the woods, things soon took a massive turn.
Kasso and Lauwers started to physically fight. Troiano jumped in to hold Lauwers down while Kasso demanded him to say, “I love Satan” to which Lauwers responded, “I love my mother”. Kasso then began repeatedly stabbing Lauwers upwards of 36 times.
The three then covered Lauwers lifeless body with leaves and left the woods.
On July 1, 1984 an anonymous tip was called in claiming Lauwers was buried in a shallow grave in the woods. Police with the help of search dogs found Gary Lauwers body July 4th.
The following day Kasso, Quinones, and Troiano were arrested for the murder.
But, Kasso never even saw a court room. On July 7, 1984 he was found hanging in his jail cell from suicide.
Quinones and Troiano were both acquitted of second degree murder due to their drug induced state at the time of the murder.
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The Acid King set for Bluray release this September
The Acid King set for Bluray release this September
Dan Jones and Jesse Pollack’s powerful The Acid King, the story of Ricky Kasso, an American teenager who murdered his friend, Gary Lauwers, in an alleged “Satanic sacrifice” during the summer of 1984 comes to Blu-ray September 29 from Wild Eye Releasing.
Bluray extras will include :
Cast and Crew Commentary
Behind The Scenes Documentary
Deleted Scenes
Unresolved Podcast episode
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According to Marcelo's mother, Marcelo left the house one night with a machete to cut bananas and came back full of blood.
Marcelo came from Rio by the same route as always when he saw a boy, liked him so he offered him some money and eventually took the boy to a soccer field and there he raped him, strangled him, killed him, and left the body there, then Marcelo went home but when he arrived he remembered to cut the child's head off so he returned to the scene of the murder.
"Marcelo, what did you take the machete for?”
“Ah, to cut bananas”
“No, tell me the truth”
After returning home and seeing Marcelo's condition, his mother took the machete and hid it.
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An enzyme used in laundry detergent can recycle single-use plastics within 24 hours
Scientists at King's College London have developed an innovative solution for recycling single-use bioplastics commonly used in disposable items such as coffee cups and food containers.
The novel method of chemical recycling, published in Cell Reports Physical Science, uses enzymes typically found in biological laundry detergents to "depolymerize"—or break down—landfill-bound bioplastics. Rapidly converting the items into soluble fragments within just 24 hours, the process achieves full degradation of the bioplastic polylactic acid (PLA). The approach is 84 times faster than the 12-week-long industrial composting process used for recycling bioplastic materials.
This discovery offers a widespread recycling solution for single-use PLA plastics, as the team of chemists at King's found that in a further 24 hours at a temperature of 90°C, the bioplastics break down into their chemical building blocks. Once converted into monomers—single molecules—the materials can be turned into equally high-quality plastic for multiple reuse.
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Even though the episode references it directly, it just hit me how much A Rick in King Mortur's Mort parallels The Vat of Acid Episode. Both episodes involve Rick relapsing after Morty provokes him. But instead of losing his mind and turning into a monster, Rick withdraws and replaces himself with a cheerful, loving version that he programmed to make Morty happy.
He still fucked up, but...I guess he fucked up a little differently this time.
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