Ricky Kasso: The Acid King

Morbid

Ash Kelley & Alaina Urquhart

Comedy, Paranormal, True Crime, Dark History

4.4 • 100.6K Ratings

🗓️ 15 January 2026

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

In the early summer of 1984, seventeen-year-old Gary Lauwers was murdered by his friend Richard “Ricky” Kasso in the small Long Island suburb of Northport, New York. Lauwers was stabbed more than thirty times in the attack and his body showed signs of what appeared to be torture. The death itself was shocking to the tiny community of Northport, but the details that emerged in the wake of Kasso’s arrest would shock the entire nation.

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0:00.0	Hey, weirdos, I'm Elena. I'm Ash. And this is morbid. First thing I want to say is fuck ice so hard.
0:22.9	Times two.
0:23.7	Yeah, fuck ice.
0:24.8	Fuck that whole thing.
0:27.1	It's absolutely tragic.
0:29.9	What happened to Renee Good?
0:31.2	Yeah, she was murdered.
0:32.1	I have no words.
0:33.8	I have no words.
0:35.0	It's horrific what's happening.
0:37.1	But the fact that we live in a place
0:39.4	where a man can shoot a woman in the face and broad daylight over essentially nothing,
0:44.6	mm-hmm. That's scary. Yeah, I think we've all seen the videos, we've all seen it, and, you know,
0:52.1	I know what I saw. Yeah. She was turning her car around. I know what I saw yeah she was turning her car I know what I saw but one thing
0:57.7	I do want to say is like it's really hard right now to be happy about anything or find any kind of
1:06.3	joy in anything and I totally get that but it's really important that you try to yeah it's really important
1:13.4	like even just little things like you know how I mentioned like turn on some fucking soft jazz
1:19.2	on your own that little old timey Bluetooth radio yes in the morning shit like that I saw one of those
1:24.4	the other day yeah just made like any little thing you can find that
1:28.2	makes it a little easier to, to exist. Do you know what? I found so much joy in the other day. I'm
1:35.1	tradwifing so close to the sun lately. Oh, damn. Mopping all my floors. I found,
1:41.1	no, I'm not kidding. I found such fucking joy mopping my floors the other day. The
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