There were two more murders, 15 miles away in the silver-racement of time.

We have a weird...

...described by one investigator as reminiscent of a weird religion.

The Satanic Panic was a crazy time in our history.

A time where music, movies, and role-playing games were being seen as the world's descent into hell and Satan taking hold of our youth.

On June 19th in 1884, a group of boys murdered their teenage friend.

A murder that would, in a time of satanic panic, take a whole new, very dark spin.

So, if you like your coffee hot but your bones chilled, sit back and start your day

with a morning cup of murder.

Richard Allen Casso Jr. born March 29, 1967, was the son of a local history teacher and

football coach at an affluent school.

These well-known and well-liked parents couldn't say the same for their teenage son.

He was a known drug addict and was often thrown out of the house and forced to live on the

streets of suburban Northport, New York.

He was also known to have a constant supply of marijuana, hash, LSD, PCP, and microdots.

They were either mescaline or low-grade LSD.

And though he sold his supply on occasion, he was more likely to consume it himself.

Not only was he known as the resident drug addict, but he was known to have dabbled in the occult and Satanism in the time of Satanic panic.

He was acquainted with the members of a group called the Knights of the Black Circle and would drive to the Amityville Horror House to celebrate the German pagan feast while Bergesnacht.

And in 1983, he was arrested for digging up a colonial era grave in order to

steal the bones for an unknown ritual. People were scared of him in a time where anything that

vaguely showed signs of the devil or Satanism was seen as the ultimate evil. And this fear

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