CHARLES NG
Serial killer Charles Ng sits in a Santa Ana Superior Court on June 30, 1999, after being sentenced
to die for 11 murders that took place in rural California in the mid-1980s. Ng showed no expression
as the sentence was pronounced. He also tried to delay sentencing by claiming he was too tired to
proceed, and then trying to fire his lawyers.
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. With co-conspirator Leonard Lake, Ng is suspected of torturing and
murdering as many as 25 victims at Lake's ranch. He was ultimately convicted of 11 murders.
Prosecutor Sharlene Honnaka holds what she says is a murder weapon during closing arguments
in the Charles Ng trial on Feb. 3, 1999, in Santa Ana.
LENOARD LAKE
Leonard Lake committed suicide by taking a cyanide pill shortly after
being arrested for a firearms offense on June 6, 1985.
Lake had settled on two and a half acres of woodland near Wilseyville, in Calaveras County,
enlisting the help of neighbors to construct a fortified bunker beside his cabin, stockpiling
illegal weapons and stolen video equipment.
Lake's ranch in Calaveras County, California.
rules in the bunker
Victims
Lonnie Bond Sr., his wife, Brenda O'Connor, and his infant son, Lonnie Bond Jr.
Harvey Dubs, his wife Deborah and infant son, Sean.
From left to right, top row: Don Guiletti, Kathleen Allen, Michael Carroll, Robin Scott Stapley
and bottom row: Randy Johnson, Charles Gunnar, Donald Lake and Paul Cosner.
Charles Ng and Leonard Lake.
They went on a quest to collect women and use them as personal sex slaves, and they killed anyone--even babies--who got in their way. This is the sordid tale of a depraved duo who were so brazen that they documented their plans, from photos of a holding cell under construction, to letters written in their victims' names so they could collect final paychecks, to videotapes that showed two of the women they tortured and killed.
Leonard Lake (October 29, 1945 – June 6, 1985) was an American serial killer. He often used the alias Leonard Hill. The crimes he committed with Charles Ng became known when Lake committed suicide by taking a cyanide pill shortly after being arrested for a firearms offense.
Alan Drey
Randy Jacobsen
Robin S. Stapley
Charles Gunnar
Paul Cosner
Lake was born in San Francisco, California. His parents separated when he was 6 years old, after which he and his siblings were sent to live with their grandparents. He was reportedly a bright child, but had an obsession with pornography that stemmed from taking nude photos of his sisters, apparently with the encouragement of his grandmother. It was also alleged that Lake extorted sexual favors from his sisters.
In 1965 at age 19, Lake joined the Marine Corps and served two tours of duty in the Vietnam War as a radar operator. Diagnosed with schizoid personality disorder, Lake was eventually given a medical discharge in 1971 and underwent psychotherapy. Back in civilian life, he lived in San Jose. He briefly attended San Jose State University, but dropped out after one semester. It is believed that he settled in a hippie commune in the early 1970s. Lake married in 1975, but the marriage dissolved quickly because his wife found out that he was making and appearing in amateur pornographic movies, usually involving bondage or sadomasochism.
In 1980, Lake was released from prison and given a year's probation for car theft. He was married again in 1981 to Claralyn Balasz, a woman he had met while working at a renaissance fair in 1977. However, Balasz left Lake after she got tired of her husband's increasingly erratic behavior and his insistence that she star in pornographic films. Lake was arrested in 1982 for a firearms violation, but he skipped bail and holed up at Balasz's remote ranch near the Calaveras County town of Wilseyville. Lake met a man from Hong Kong named Charles Ng and the two struck up a friendship. They took residence at the ranch and began abducting, torturing, raping and killing people. Most of Lake and Ng's victims were people who knew them.
On June 2, 1985, an Asian man—later identified as Charles Ng—was seen shoplifting in South San Francisco. He fled by the time police arrived, but Lake, who was with him, was arrested when a .22 revolver with an illegally equipped silencer was found in his car. Lake identified himself as "Robin Stapley" and presented a driver's license in that name. Police were suspicious because, according to the driver's license, Stapley was 26 while the man they had in custody was clearly in his late-30's. While being interviewed at the police station, Lake asked for a glass of water and used it to swallow a hidden cyanide pill. Lake collapsed and was rushed to a hospital, where he went into a coma. He survived on life support machines for four days before being pronounced dead.
By the time of Lake's death, police had confirmed his true identity and learned the man whose identity Lake had taken, Robin Stapley, had been missing for several weeks. The car Lake had been driving was found to belong to Paul Cosner, 39, another missing person. The police searched Lake's ranch in Wilseyville, which was fitted with a bunker and a stash of weapons. In a diary, Lake had written that he was convinced there was going to be a global nuclear war, and that he planned on surviving in his bunker and rebuilding the human race with a collection of female slaves; Lake named this plan "Operation Miranda", after a character in the book The Collector by John Fowles. The police also found videocassettes showing Lake and Ng torturing and raping women.
The grounds of the ranch were dug up, and twelve bodies were uncovered in shallow graves. Among these victims were two families: Harvey Dubs and his wife, Deborah, and baby son, Sean; and Lonnie Bond and Brenda O'Connor and their baby son, Lonnie Bond Jr. The women had been sexually abused, and killed after their husbands and infants were disposed of. Five of the bodies were of men lured to the ranch to be robbed and killed — including Stapley and Cosner — and the twelfth was identified as 18-year-old Kathleen Allen, who knew Ng because her boyfriend had once been his cellmate in prison. Police also found charred fragments of human bones, but they were unable to determine the identity of the victims or their number. It has been postulated the number of unknown murdered persons could be as high as 25.
Lake's younger brother, Donald, had vanished in 1983 and was presumed dead, as had Charles Gunnar, a friend of Lake's from his military days; the latters' remains were discovered at the ranch in September 1992.
Charles Chi-Tat Ng (Chinese: 吳志達/吴志达 (Cantonese pronunciation: [ŋ̩̏ tsītàt̚]); Pinyin: Wú Zhìdá; born December 24, 1960) is a Chinese-American serial killer. He is believed to have raped, tortured and murdered between 11 and 25 victims with his accomplice Leonard Lake at Lake's ranch in Calaveras County, California.
After a lengthy dispute between Canada and the United States, Ng was extradited to California and was convicted of 11 murders.He is currently on death row at San Quentin
Ng was born in Hong Kong, the son of a wealthy executive. As a child, he was harshly disciplined and abused by his father. As a teenager, Ng was described as a troubled loner and was expelled from several schools. When he was arrested for shoplifting at age 15, his father sent him to Bentham Grammar boarding school in Lancashire, England.Not long after arriving, he was expelled for stealing from other students and returned to Hong Kong.
Ng finally moved to the United States, where he entered Notre Dame de Namur University in Belmont, California. He dropped out after only one semester.
In early 1980, although not a United States citizen, Ng enlisted in the United States Marine Corps. Ng later revealed that with the help of a recruiting sergeant, he provided fake papers stating he was born in Bloomington, Indiana.fter serving less than a year, he was dishonorably discharged for the theft of heavy weaponry and machine guns from MCAS Kaneohe Bay. He was further charged with escape from confinement and attempted desertion, though the desertion charge was dropped. Ng was convicted on the remaining charges and was sentenced to 14 years in a military prison. He was released in late 1982, when his sentence was commuted.
Ng met Leonard Lake in 1983. The two are believed to have murdered between 11 and 25 victims at Lake's ranch in Calaveras County, California. They filmed themselves raping and torturing their victims.
The crimes became known in 1985 when Lake committed suicide after being arrested and Ng was caught shoplifting at a hardware store. Police searched Lake's ranch and found human remains. Ng was identified as Lake's partner in crime.
Ng fled to Calgary, Alberta, where he was arrested by the Calgary Police Service on June 6, 1985,after resisting arrest for shoplifting at The Bay department store. Ng pointed a pistol at two security guards and, after a brief struggle, shot one of them in the hand. The guards managed to overpower him and held him in custody. Ng was charged and subsequently convicted of shoplifting, felonious assault and possession of a concealed firearm. He was sentenced to four and half years in a Canadian prison.
After a lengthy extradition battle with Canadian courts, Ng was handed over to U.S. authorities. He stood trial in 1998 on twelve counts of murder and was convicted on February 24, 1999, of eleven: six men, three women and two male infants. He was sentenced to death. Ng's trial was lengthy and cost California approximately $20 million. At the time, it was the most expensive trial in the state's history.Ng is currently on death row at San Quentin State Prison. Since entering prison, Ng has taken up a correspondence course in art at the University of the Fraser Valley (UFV).
The M-Lady, Victim of Serial Killers Leonard Lake and Charles Ng
Kathy Allen Victim
Fragments of Charred Bones Recovered by Investigator from the Wilseyville Estate
Serial killer Charles Ng sits in a Santa Ana Superior Court on June 30, 1999, after being sentenced
to die for 11 murders that took place in rural California in the mid-1980s. Ng showed no expression
as the sentence was pronounced. He also tried to delay sentencing by claiming he was too tired to
proceed, and then trying to fire his lawyers.
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. With co-conspirator Leonard Lake, Ng is suspected of torturing and
murdering as many as 25 victims at Lake's ranch. He was ultimately convicted of 11 murders.
Prosecutor Sharlene Honnaka holds what she says is a murder weapon during closing arguments
in the Charles Ng trial on Feb. 3, 1999, in Santa Ana.
LENOARD LAKE
Leonard Lake committed suicide by taking a cyanide pill shortly after
being arrested for a firearms offense on June 6, 1985.
Lake had settled on two and a half acres of woodland near Wilseyville, in Calaveras County,
enlisting the help of neighbors to construct a fortified bunker beside his cabin, stockpiling
illegal weapons and stolen video equipment.
Lake's ranch in Calaveras County, California.
rules in the bunker
Victims
Lonnie Bond Sr., his wife, Brenda O'Connor, and his infant son, Lonnie Bond Jr.
Harvey Dubs, his wife Deborah and infant son, Sean.
From left to right, top row: Don Guiletti, Kathleen Allen, Michael Carroll, Robin Scott Stapley
and bottom row: Randy Johnson, Charles Gunnar, Donald Lake and Paul Cosner.
Charles Ng and Leonard Lake.
They went on a quest to collect women and use them as personal sex slaves, and they killed anyone--even babies--who got in their way. This is the sordid tale of a depraved duo who were so brazen that they documented their plans, from photos of a holding cell under construction, to letters written in their victims' names so they could collect final paychecks, to videotapes that showed two of the women they tortured and killed.
Leonard Lake (October 29, 1945 – June 6, 1985) was an American serial killer. He often used the alias Leonard Hill. The crimes he committed with Charles Ng became known when Lake committed suicide by taking a cyanide pill shortly after being arrested for a firearms offense.
Birth name
Leonard LakeAlso known as
Leonard J HillAlan Drey
Randy Jacobsen
Robin S. Stapley
Charles Gunnar
Paul Cosner
Lake was born in San Francisco, California. His parents separated when he was 6 years old, after which he and his siblings were sent to live with their grandparents. He was reportedly a bright child, but had an obsession with pornography that stemmed from taking nude photos of his sisters, apparently with the encouragement of his grandmother. It was also alleged that Lake extorted sexual favors from his sisters.
In 1965 at age 19, Lake joined the Marine Corps and served two tours of duty in the Vietnam War as a radar operator. Diagnosed with schizoid personality disorder, Lake was eventually given a medical discharge in 1971 and underwent psychotherapy. Back in civilian life, he lived in San Jose. He briefly attended San Jose State University, but dropped out after one semester. It is believed that he settled in a hippie commune in the early 1970s. Lake married in 1975, but the marriage dissolved quickly because his wife found out that he was making and appearing in amateur pornographic movies, usually involving bondage or sadomasochism.
In 1980, Lake was released from prison and given a year's probation for car theft. He was married again in 1981 to Claralyn Balasz, a woman he had met while working at a renaissance fair in 1977. However, Balasz left Lake after she got tired of her husband's increasingly erratic behavior and his insistence that she star in pornographic films. Lake was arrested in 1982 for a firearms violation, but he skipped bail and holed up at Balasz's remote ranch near the Calaveras County town of Wilseyville. Lake met a man from Hong Kong named Charles Ng and the two struck up a friendship. They took residence at the ranch and began abducting, torturing, raping and killing people. Most of Lake and Ng's victims were people who knew them.
On June 2, 1985, an Asian man—later identified as Charles Ng—was seen shoplifting in South San Francisco. He fled by the time police arrived, but Lake, who was with him, was arrested when a .22 revolver with an illegally equipped silencer was found in his car. Lake identified himself as "Robin Stapley" and presented a driver's license in that name. Police were suspicious because, according to the driver's license, Stapley was 26 while the man they had in custody was clearly in his late-30's. While being interviewed at the police station, Lake asked for a glass of water and used it to swallow a hidden cyanide pill. Lake collapsed and was rushed to a hospital, where he went into a coma. He survived on life support machines for four days before being pronounced dead.
By the time of Lake's death, police had confirmed his true identity and learned the man whose identity Lake had taken, Robin Stapley, had been missing for several weeks. The car Lake had been driving was found to belong to Paul Cosner, 39, another missing person. The police searched Lake's ranch in Wilseyville, which was fitted with a bunker and a stash of weapons. In a diary, Lake had written that he was convinced there was going to be a global nuclear war, and that he planned on surviving in his bunker and rebuilding the human race with a collection of female slaves; Lake named this plan "Operation Miranda", after a character in the book The Collector by John Fowles. The police also found videocassettes showing Lake and Ng torturing and raping women.
The grounds of the ranch were dug up, and twelve bodies were uncovered in shallow graves. Among these victims were two families: Harvey Dubs and his wife, Deborah, and baby son, Sean; and Lonnie Bond and Brenda O'Connor and their baby son, Lonnie Bond Jr. The women had been sexually abused, and killed after their husbands and infants were disposed of. Five of the bodies were of men lured to the ranch to be robbed and killed — including Stapley and Cosner — and the twelfth was identified as 18-year-old Kathleen Allen, who knew Ng because her boyfriend had once been his cellmate in prison. Police also found charred fragments of human bones, but they were unable to determine the identity of the victims or their number. It has been postulated the number of unknown murdered persons could be as high as 25.
Lake's younger brother, Donald, had vanished in 1983 and was presumed dead, as had Charles Gunnar, a friend of Lake's from his military days; the latters' remains were discovered at the ranch in September 1992.
Charles Chi-Tat Ng (Chinese: 吳志達/吴志达 (Cantonese pronunciation: [ŋ̩̏ tsītàt̚]); Pinyin: Wú Zhìdá; born December 24, 1960) is a Chinese-American serial killer. He is believed to have raped, tortured and murdered between 11 and 25 victims with his accomplice Leonard Lake at Lake's ranch in Calaveras County, California.
After a lengthy dispute between Canada and the United States, Ng was extradited to California and was convicted of 11 murders.He is currently on death row at San Quentin
Ng was born in Hong Kong, the son of a wealthy executive. As a child, he was harshly disciplined and abused by his father. As a teenager, Ng was described as a troubled loner and was expelled from several schools. When he was arrested for shoplifting at age 15, his father sent him to Bentham Grammar boarding school in Lancashire, England.Not long after arriving, he was expelled for stealing from other students and returned to Hong Kong.
Ng finally moved to the United States, where he entered Notre Dame de Namur University in Belmont, California. He dropped out after only one semester.
In early 1980, although not a United States citizen, Ng enlisted in the United States Marine Corps. Ng later revealed that with the help of a recruiting sergeant, he provided fake papers stating he was born in Bloomington, Indiana.fter serving less than a year, he was dishonorably discharged for the theft of heavy weaponry and machine guns from MCAS Kaneohe Bay. He was further charged with escape from confinement and attempted desertion, though the desertion charge was dropped. Ng was convicted on the remaining charges and was sentenced to 14 years in a military prison. He was released in late 1982, when his sentence was commuted.
Ng met Leonard Lake in 1983. The two are believed to have murdered between 11 and 25 victims at Lake's ranch in Calaveras County, California. They filmed themselves raping and torturing their victims.
The crimes became known in 1985 when Lake committed suicide after being arrested and Ng was caught shoplifting at a hardware store. Police searched Lake's ranch and found human remains. Ng was identified as Lake's partner in crime.
Ng fled to Calgary, Alberta, where he was arrested by the Calgary Police Service on June 6, 1985,after resisting arrest for shoplifting at The Bay department store. Ng pointed a pistol at two security guards and, after a brief struggle, shot one of them in the hand. The guards managed to overpower him and held him in custody. Ng was charged and subsequently convicted of shoplifting, felonious assault and possession of a concealed firearm. He was sentenced to four and half years in a Canadian prison.
After a lengthy extradition battle with Canadian courts, Ng was handed over to U.S. authorities. He stood trial in 1998 on twelve counts of murder and was convicted on February 24, 1999, of eleven: six men, three women and two male infants. He was sentenced to death. Ng's trial was lengthy and cost California approximately $20 million. At the time, it was the most expensive trial in the state's history.Ng is currently on death row at San Quentin State Prison. Since entering prison, Ng has taken up a correspondence course in art at the University of the Fraser Valley (UFV).
The M-Lady, Victim of Serial Killers Leonard Lake and Charles Ng
Kathy Allen Victim
Fragments of Charred Bones Recovered by Investigator from the Wilseyville Estate