It would seem that Lake and Ng did not select their victims at random many of the people they killed were friends, neighbors, or others whom either man was somewhat acquainted with. Ng and Lake were quickly arrested. In the true story, Lake hid a cyanide capsule on his person. Charles Ng at the Orange County Superior Court after being found guilty of 11 murders.   Another was Donald Lake, Lake's younger brother. The courtroom was closed to the public and press while the videotape was shown to Calaveras County Justice Court Judge Douglas Mewhinney and families of Ng's alleged victims. (34) 5.9 1 h 32 min 2000 16+. I want to be able to simply put her away.". Today, we talk about Leonard Lake and Charles Ng. Leonard Lake and Charles Ng met because they were two ex-marines who shared similar extreme right-wing views of the government. Make your choice,' Lake told the woman, according to the transcript. It's believed that Leonard Lake had already killed several people before Charles Ng joined him at what would later be known as his death ranch. And when I'm bored . But there are tons of creeps that have not received the big screen treatment that seem ripe for an adaptation. This site has a lot of stuff, so CLICK SEARCH for your hidden euphoric rage. Leonard Lake is arrested near San Francisco, California, ending one of the rare cases of serial killers working together. The Miranda Murders: Lost Tapes of Leonard Lake and Charles Ng. The trial finally took place in 1999 and lasted eight months. When arrested 14 years earlier, Leonard Lake told cops that he couldnt believe he got caught over the payment of a damned vice tool. Ng fled from officers, but Lake was taken into custody. In the short segment, Lake, sitting in a recliner chair, calmly and dispassionately describes his plan to enslave young women. Suicide of Leonard Lake. At an early age, he began taking nude photos of his sisters; this became the start of his obsession with pornography. At the time, this was considered the most expensive trial in the states history. Original archive footage of serial killer Leonard Lake, recorded at Lake's Wilseyville, Calif., ranch in 1983. What about that horrible Cricket woman who was released with full immunity, who was the third accomplice of this pair? 'If you dont go along with us, we'll probably take you into the bed, tie you down, rape you, shoot you, and bury you. Ng was apprehended in Canada later in 1985. Ng and Lake are also believed to be responsible for the 1985 disappearances of Jeffrey Gerald, Paul Cosnerand Clifford Peranteau. No one would see the couple again until authorities played a video machine at Lakes cabin. Leonard Lake and Charles Ng are confirmed to have murdered at least eleven people. . (youtube.com), submitted 4 years ago by NorrisOBE to r/Destiny. Contents 1 Backgrounds 1.1 Leonard Lake 1.2 Charles Ng 1.3 Criminal Activities and killings 2 Arrest, Lake's suicide, and Ng's conviction 3 Modus Operandi 4 Known Victims The Canadian authorities refused to extradite him on the grounds that Canada had abolished capital punishment and Ng could be executed if he was returned to the U.S. While in Canada, Ng became a legal jailbird (like Gerard Schaefer) and was having nearly as much fun jerking the system as he had with Project Miranda. Their friendship was interrupted shortly after becoming acquainted when Ng was jailed for stealing weapons and going AWOL during his very brief stint in the U.S. Marines. He was expelled from several schools, the first time for starting a fire in a classroom, and the second from a boarding school in England (where his parents had sent him in hopes of straightening out his behavior) for stealing from classmates and shoplifting. Ng is currently at San Quentin prison in California. JOIN OVER 13,630 OF THE CURIOUS, JADED, CINAPHILED, LITERATI, UNCLASSIFIED AND MIKECARTEL-PHOBES BY REGISTERING WITH RUNAWAYNIGHTMARE.COM BELOW Suggesting that Lake killed all the victims himself, Kelley said Ng may have known about Lake's crimes but did not help him commit them. Lush Highway 26 leads to Wilseyville, a saw mill town that survived when the lumber company pulled out. Proving which version is true will be complicated by the fact that Lake committed suicide in 1985, shortly after he was arrested by South San Francisco police at the beginning of the investigation. He was caught but managed to flee to Northern California, where he lived with Leonard Lake in a mobile home in Ukiah. Post a comment! With co-conspirator Leonard Lake, Ng is suspected of torturing and murdering as many as 25 victims . Prosecutors portrayed Ng as a planner and willing participant in the slayings. While Lake was trying to convince the store manager that he would personally pay for the item, Ng disappeared. All of them vanished from San Francisco and have never been located. Now with a taste for getting rich quick (along with bloodlust/infanticide) they visit the family next door for another raid. Sometimes they also lured men to the compound with promises of work and robbed them, after which Lake stole their identities. I think a number of people could pull off Ng well, but the person who comes to mind for me is Randall Park. There are many iconic killers in the history of horror. When many of the dead are believed to have come from the Bay Area, a special task force is organized from San Francisco to assist in the now overflowing case. At the Kaneohe Marine Corps Air Station in Hawaii, Ng participated in a raid of a weapons depot. Then, read up on how 33 of the most notorious serial killers in history met their end. He did this right in front of the childs mother. Five weeks after he had escaped from the South Frisco store manager (July 6), Charles Ng gets himself arrested in Calgary, Canada for shoplifting again. Visit the Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network website or contact RAINN's National Helpline at 1-800-656-HOPE (4673). Using the journals and videos they discovered 25 people died at the bunker. Once they were done with the friends or family who came with the woman, Ng and Lake would then torture and rape the Mirandas for days before ultimately killing them for some slight. They would select a Miranda and then take her. The men reportedly met through an advertisement in a survivalist magazine in the early 1980s. Lake phoned in alibis to the employers or families of the murdered to cover their disappearances. Talk about getting off scot free! The female victims were often videotaped and forced to perform sexual acts for Ng and Lake prior to their murders. But now with Ng as an accomplice, Lake could embark on a gruesome killing spree that lasted close to two years. CARTEL DIRECTS AGAIN AS GHOST DOG HITS THE BEACH Lake explains calmly that he is going to put a bullet into her head. The scope of their crimes is still undetermined, as is the total of their victims. It was also around this time that Ng met Leonard Lake, a man 15 years his senior, through a wargamer advertisement in a magazine. 3. WEIRD ON TOP AND WILD AT HEART They are reported to show brutal acts of sexual assault and torture. Ng fled the scene, but when police questioned Lake at the precinct, he identified Charles Ng as his accomplice - and then swallowed two cyanide capsules he had taped to his lapel. What's even more fascinating is how much porn he had aside from the snuff/torture. Charles Ng, left, June 1999, right, June 2007, is a convicted serial killer who was sentenced by Orange County Judge John J. Ryan, who presided over Ng's trial on a change of venue from Calaveras County, where Ng's murders took place. ABC News reports that Ng was picked up in Alberta, Canada, for shoplifting a month later. When friends or relatives stumbled across the cabin looking for their missing relatives, Lake and Ng would lure them into the dungeon and mercilessly torture and kill them too. Ng was long gone at this point, but Lake wasn't about to wait around for charges to be filed against him for the horrors that he likely knew would be quickly discovered on his property. One story has Lake meeting Charles Ng from some gun ad in a survivalist magazine. JOIN BELOW at the GIRL With The KNIFE It was soon discovered that this is where LeonardLake and Charles Ng would keep their female prisoners while they were sexually assaulted and tortured. He was arrested for carrying a gun with a silencer, and his vehiclestolen from one of his dead victimsultimately led police to the scene of his worst crimes. Ng went to Leavenworth prison for three years (from a plea deal that should have given him an additional 14 years from his previous Marine theft and skip). After O'Connor agrees, Ng, stripped to the waist, walks into the frame of the videotape, tears off the red-and-white baseball shirt she is wearing, then uses a large folding knife to cut off her brassiere. If someone said that to me, Id call them a monster and tell them just how fucked up that is. The security guard nonetheless managed to catch Ng and only suffered minor injuries. Today we have one of the most terrifying stories youve likely never heard of. Ng was indicted on 12 counts of first-degree murder.   Lake had installed a one-way mirror in this room so he could watch his captives (per All That's Interesting), also giving a view to the significant others of the victims that he and Ng were sometimes also able to imprison. The Dubs Family (Neighbors of Lake) The Bond Family; Katheen Allen: Age 18 (girlfriend of Michael Carroll) Michael Carroll (close friends with Ng) Robin Stapley ; Randy Johnson (Lakes close friend) Charles Gunnar; Donald Lake (Leonard's younger brother) Paul Cosner: Age 39 ; Burned, shattered bone fragments suggests that there may be as high as . He met a woman named Claralyn Balazs, a 25-year-old teacher's aide whom he nicknamed "Cricket", in 1977 and married her in 1981 and moved in with her. Heres where the movie version will have to stray from the outcome of the true story. The clerk at the lumberyard spotted Ng trying to shoplift the vise and called the police. Ngs new-old attorney (#6) was dumbstruck at the warehouse-full of documents (4 tons of paper alone) and exhibits in the file. When they arrived, Ng had departed on foot. A DATE WITH MADAM GUILLOTINE Here's where the movie version will have to stray from the outcome of the true story. He can kill and not even think about it. Ng sits on death row with all his needs and appeals paid for. THE MURDER MAC SNUFF TAPES They are believed to have tortured and slain at least 11 and people men, women, and children while living out their mutual sexual fantasy of enslaving young . The jury that Ng faced at trial didn't buy his defense that he was terrified of Lake and was himself a victim. I propose Mark Ruffalo play Lake. All That's Interesting reports that Lake's younger brother Donald and Lake's friend Charles Gunnar were last seen with Lake before disappearing forever. Upon his release, Ng moved in with Leonard Lake and the two began a campaign of abduction, rape and murder. After peering at the terrified video face of a woman nearing death, an investigator said that Lake thought no more of butchering people than someone else might think of spraying a pest with insecticide. The jury, though, was not convinced. Another bucket contained journals written by Lake which detailed the horrors he and Ng had inflicted on their victims. A week after he filmed his fantasy tape, Lake and his partner, Charles Ng went to a South San Francisco hardware store to replace a broken torture vice. So, Ng and Lake made their way to the property slowly, stealing cars, identities and property all along the way to scam others out of money and loans. Of the countless events, ironies, carnage of the Ng trial, one event that haunts viewers from the courtroom to this day is the unknown woman on the TV screen going through the Lake medieval ordeal of humiliation, rape and torture. He dubbed it his torture dungeon.. The killings came to an end only through chance. REDDIT and the ALIEN Logo are registered trademarks of reddit inc. Rendered by PID 32 on reddit-service-r2-dynamic-69986ffc97-h77cr at 2023-03-01 20:51:22.651369+00:00 running f7e3308 country code: DE. More than 40 pounds of human bones were discovered scattered throughout the rest of the property, giving credence to the police's theory that Lake and Ng had many more victims than they could identify (via All That's Interesting). This story has all the elements of an ultimate horror movie: torture, abduction, imprisonment, murder and a murder cabin in the woods. During his first tour, he was hospitalized for "exhibiting incipient psychotic reactions" but was returned to duty after a short time. Needing fast cash more than carpenters, Lake kills both men and sustains himself for a while with a fair score of bank cards, blank checks and invaluable IDs. He was confined to a Canadian prison for the attempted robbery and was extradited upon his release in 1991. Only needing a few hours to deliberate, jurors found Ng guilty of 11 murders, including the deaths of two infants. William Kelley, an assistant Orange County public defender who is representing Ng, portrayed the crimes as solely the work of Leonard Lake, a man he said was obsessed with "The Collector," a psychological thriller written by British novelist John Fowles. Another held pages from Lake's journals, outlining many of his dark fantasies and his sadistic acts of violence. Leaving a Calgary, Alberta, shop, Ng was challenged by security guards over grocery items in his bag. Authorities did, however, find a bucket full of stolen IDs, credit cards and personal belongings, as well as the abandoned vehicles of people who had gone missing. The female victims were often videotaped and forced to perform sexual acts for Ng and Lake prior to their murders. Leonard Lake and Charles Ng: A Match Made In Murder The tapes revealed that the initial threats Lake and Ng made to the victims were not empty. A receipt in Harvey Dubs's name was discovered at Lake's compound, but the family's remains have never been recovered. In several cases, the two men abducted entire families. The charges for the murder of Paul Cosner were dropped on the grounds that it couldn't be proven with absolute certainty that he had died by Ng's hand. Charles Ng . We are prettycold-hearted, so to speak.. While technicians probed evidence that filled a warehouse, detectives replayed the tapes hoping to identify victims. In another segment, Lake tells a bound Brenda O'Connor, "You will work for us, you will cook for us, you will f-- for us . People were easy (fun) to catch and kill. Late in the trial, against his lawyers advice, Ng took the stand himself. We may earn commission from links on this page, but we only recommend products we back. Before the filming was through, OConnor, her husband, and her child would all be killed. The male victims and children were usually tortured before their deaths. While in police custody, Lake said nothing but wrote the name of Charles Ng on a pad, then casually pulled two cyanide capsules from his sewn coat lapel and swallowed. Criminal Minds Wiki is a FANDOM TV Community. Lake and Charles Ng were responsible for a series of particularly. He remained a fugitive for a month but was once again caught shoplifting. I also think John Cho would kill the role (no pun intended). However, there have been no executions performed in the state of California since 2006. In addition to the corpses and body parts, they also unearthed caches of weapons, personal effects from the victims and even videotapes of Lake and Ng raping and killing in their bunker. Who is the right director or screenwriter for it? use the following search parameters to narrow your results: and join one of thousands of communities. Didnt think so. A couple driving near the town are lured into a trail by deep lines of shade trees.   After meeting Lake, he moved into his ranch. MIKE CARTELS EASY ROAD TO SUCCESS Just search below: Real Life Horror - Leonard Lake and Charles Ng. Finally, his trial officially began in October 1998. Further damning Lake that day was that he was driving a car belonging to another victim. "He's certainly not that. Once alone, Lake swallowed several cyanide pills he had been hiding. How fucked up is that? In early afternoon, the first of what promises to be a parade of witnesses took the stand, and the prosecution began to reconstruct the history of the case for jurors. These "treasure maps" led police to buried five-gallon buckets on Leonard Lake's property, the contents of which provided a large window into the torture and murders. Only he was far more successful with murdering the court system that indulged his every fantasy. It was Ng's habit of shoplifting that proved his undoing. 'Why do you guys do this? I want to be able to use a woman whenever and however I want. Ng immediately snitched on Lake in an attempt to preemptively avoid culpability, claiming Lake did all of it alone. The opening statements were almost anticlimactic, considering that it has taken 13 years for the case to come to trial. In October of 1979, he was arrested in relation to a hit and run accident and forced to pay for damages. In a compilation of these tapes offered as evidence in court [Warning: disturbing content], Lake gives a bone-chilling description of his plans for the future. No one suspected a thing. At 18, Ng obtained a student visa to study in the United States, where he briefly attended the College of Notre Dame in Belmont, California, before dropping out. Now, Lake began his dream of building a fortified hillbilly castle complete with a slave harem and torture chamber. Shortly afterward, he met Charles Ng. Detectives found more than 40 pounds of charred human bones buried around Lake's cabin in Wilseyville, along with a cinderblock bunker that prosecutors allege was a sex-torture chamber. That's apparent. Revised/updated 2016 third edition, MORE THAN EVERYTHING YOU WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT RUNAWAY NIGHTMARE AND MIKE CARTEL, A FUNNY THING HAPPENED TO ME ON MY WAY THROUGH VIETNAM, A CONVERSATION WITH RIVER PHOENIX AND DAN AYKROYD, MIKE CARTEL INTERVIEWS ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER, BE THE FIRST KID ON YOUR BLOCK TO RULE THE WORLD, TALKING WITH AL PACINO WITHIN EARSHOT OF BRIAN DePALMA, FIRE IN THE SKY PUSHES THE LIMITS OF FICTION SCIENCE, WE WELCOME PRINCE VLAD AS OUR NEW COLUMNIST, CARTEL DIRECTS AGAIN AS GHOST DOG HITS THE BEACH. Revised/updated 2016 third edition, NOW on KINDLE AMAZON It took him four days to die. Lake told the manager that he would simply pay for the lifted item. An aerial view of serial killer Leonard Lakes compound, where he lured women in and murdered them on camera in his basement. Many of these infamous killers are based on true killers in the real world. Approximate running time: 25 minutes. Photo: Don Kelsen/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images, Idaho Murders: What Led Police to Bryan Kohberger, Your Privacy Choices: Opt Out of Sale/Targeted Ads, Name: Charles Ng, Birth Year: 1960, Birth date: December 24, 1960, Birth City: Hong Kong, Birth Country: China. With the journals were several homemade tapes featuring Ng torturing Brenda OConnor and Deborah Dubs. It's difficult to imagine that the kind of evil friends Leonard Lake and Charles Ng unleashed could happen anywhere.. Thats one thing, but his reaction, beating the loss prevention officer half to death, caused the little shoplifting case to become much more serious. From Freddy to Michael to Norman Bates, icons abound. The Boneyard Serial Killers Leonard Lake & Charles Ng Full Documentary 2015. But in California in the 1980s, the two murdered at least 11 people and potentially as many as 25 for both monetary gain and for grotesque sexual fantasies. It might be a lengthy stay on death row for Ng, as California Governor Gavin Newsom established a moratorium on executions in the state. He was caught one month later during a bungled shoplifting attempt at a Canadian department store and extradited to the United States last year after a lengthy international jurisdictional battle centered on Canada's opposition to the death penalty. He also enjoyed killing mice by dissolving them in chemicals. He expresses his desire to procure an "off-the-shelf sex partner," one that can be used to fulfill his twisted carnal desires only to be "put away" when he is finished. "These 12 people disappeared off the face of the earth," said state Deputy Attorney General Sharlene Honnaka, who is prosecuting Ng with Calaveras County District Attorney Peter Smith. Sorry lady. Oct. 9, 1992 Harrowing videotape shown in Ng mass murder case SAN ANDREAS, Calif. -- Prosecutors showed a harrowing videotape Friday that depicts mass murder suspect Charles Ng and a friend. He was sentenced to 18 months in prison and should have been deported to Hong Kong after completing his sentence, but a bureaucratic error allowed Ng to remain in the United States. He is currently on death row in San Quentin.