cults

By K. Thor Jensen

If there’s one thing that can be depended on to scare the piss out of middle America, it’s Satan worship. When people pledge allegiance to the big red guy, they’re capable of pretty much anything. While many satanic crimes actually turn out to be horribly overblown, there are some that are so grisly that they really give the whole deal a bad name. In this feature, we’ll shine the cold light of justice on 10 of the most horrific satanic cult acts in human history.
Say You Love Satan, 1984
The ’80s were the peak of satanic panic in America, with parents freaking out over dark influences in music, movies and roleplaying games. While most of it was hokum, there were real Satan-obsessed creeps out there. One such person was Ricky Kasso, a Long Island burnout who was into two things: drugs and the occult. After stealing a skull and other items from a local cemetery, Kasso was hospitalized but released soon after. He then rounded up a posse and murdered associate Gary Lauwers in the woods, holding a knife to his throat and commanding him to “Say you love Satan” before gouging out his eyeballs and burying him. Kasso later claimed that Satan, in the form of a black crow, had given him the order to snuff Lauwers.

Satanic Threesome, 2011
If you’re looking for sex on the Internet, you have to expect that you’re going to meet some weirdos. And if you’re looking for satanic sex, you’re going to end up in trouble. In 2011, a young man from Arizona met a pair of Milwaukee women who invited him to travel to their home for a three-way. Upon arriving, the man engaged in sex with the two women, Raven Larrabee and Rebecca Chandler, but then they tied him up with duct tape and began cutting him with knives, inflicting over
300 wounds onto his body. He escaped, and cops followed the blood trail to the women’s apartment, taking them both into custody and finding a number of occult and satanic books on the premises.
axelfoloy84/photobucket

horrorfanzine.com

Russian Goth Murders, 2008
Obviously, the biggest sacrifice you can give the dark lord Satan is to spill blood for him, and a quartet of Russian devil worshippers did so with gusto in 2008. Led by the charismatic and disturbing Nikolai Ogolobyak, the group lured four teenagers into the woods outside of Yaroslavl and proceeded to stab each one of them exactly 666 times before cutting off their genitals, scalping them and removing some of the most tender meat to cook and eat over a bonfire. After some of the remains were found in a pit outside of Ogolobyak’s house, the four were arrested and sentenced to as much as 20 years in prison.