No one knows what happened inside the home on Lakeview Circle, in Agawam, Mass., during the height of pandemic lockdowns — but neighbors wonder if something may have turned Jared Ravizza into a monster right out of a horror movie. They said that Jared’s father, Jason, went through a “bizarre” transformation as well.
The 26-year-old allegedly went on a stabbing spree last weekend, knifing four young girls watching the movie “IF” at a theater outside Boston and another two people at a McDonald’s. “Jared and Jason got very bizarre,” a next-door neighbor said of the accused stabber and his 57-year-old father. “Something drastic took place during Covid.
I don’t know what happened inside the house.” Ravizza looked like a clean-cut preppy in photos taken on Martha’s Vineyard just a few years ago. But when he was arrested last Saturday night after the stabbing of the girls at a theater in suburban Braintree, Mass.
, Jared looked more like — as many online commenters opined — Buffalo Bill , the fictional serial killer with flowing blond locks from the 1991 film “Silence of the Lambs.” Ravizza allegedly laughed as he stabbed the girls , ages 9 to 17. A witness to the McDonald’s attack said Ravizza had a “big expression” on his face and compared it to Jack Nicholson’s character in “The Shining.
” He’s also suspected of attacking his roommate Bruce Feldman , on May 25 although he has not yet been charged. The two shared a Deep River, Conn., v.
