Want more real life horror? When Lake died I took his place as the sacrificial lamb, he later said in an interview. . Heres where the movie version will have to stray from the outcome of the true story. On September 1, Ng finally went to trial for the murder of 12 (of the 25) people. Though some sources claim that they met when Lake posted an ad in a survivalist magazine, this cannot be confirmed. They found 11 bodies and 40 pounds worth of ash and bone dust. As described in testimony by two South San Francisco police officers, the string of homicides came to light in June 1985 as the result of a bungled attempt to shoplift a vise from a building supply store in South San Francisco. They found him guilty of 11 murders and sentenced him to death. "I want to be able to use a woman any way I want. Many of the bodies had been dismembered and burned, making identifications of the victims difficult or impossible.   Investigators apprehended Lake after he and Ng were caught shoplifting from a San Francisco hardware store in 1985. The two became fast friends and Lake told Ng about his plan to create the perfect woman. He wanted to see them beg, to plead, an unnamed prisoner told Inside Edition several years after Ng was caught. 0. One of Lakes projects was getting his rustic cabin ready to survive a nuclear war. Then, miraculously, after 6 years the Canadian high court sent him back to the U.S. Chilling Video Of Serial Killer Leonard Lake & Charles Ng & Their Victims - YouTube 0:00 / 5:25 Sign in to confirm your age This video may be inappropriate for some users. When he was released, his reunion with Lake would prove a disastrous one. He was convicted of eleven murders in California in 1999 after 14 years of legal wrangling and stalling. A diary explained that with Project Miranda he planned on building a bunker stockpiled with supplies, weapons, and of course, obedient sex slaves. His father, a business executive, was strict and disciplined him through physical abuse. The jury also was shown a short clip in which Ng's alleged crime partner, Leonard Lake, describes his plan to capture young women and hold them as sexual slaves in special cells built in the basement of his home. But there are tons of creeps that have not received the big screen treatment that seem ripe for an adaptation. Delve into the minds of serial killers Leonard Lake and Charlie Ng with this horrifying found footage film, spanning the 1983-1984 killing spree that shocked California and the nation. Photos of Ng and Lake are posted with this case summary. In a chilling presage of gruesome evidence, the long-delayed trial of accused mass murderer Charles Ng got underway Monday with excerpts from home videos showing Ng and a partner. Leonard Lake is arrested near San Francisco, California, ending one of the rare cases of serial killers working together. When they arrived, Ng had departed on foot. Other documents show that Ng also cooked an infant in a wok in front of the family. Caught stealing from a store, Ngs father sends his 15-year old delinquent to a relative who just happens to run a private boarding school in London. 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. Deborah, Harvey and Sean have never been heard from again. 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. At the Kaneohe Marine Corps Air Station in Hawaii, Ng participated in a raid of a weapons depot. Digitized from VHS. Would that be something youve never heard of? Jeffrey Frentzen. This means, Ng and Lake killed men, women, children, it didnt matter. TALENT HITS A TARGET NO ONE ELSE CAN HIT; GENIUS HITS A TARGET NO ONE ELSE CAN SEE. He got 7 judges removed from the case. A FUNNY THING HAPPENED TO ME ON MY WAY THROUGH VIETNAM Ng, however, had disappeared. In the mid-1980s, Leonard Lake and Charles Ng turned a remote property in northern California into their killing compound.   Canada kept Ng in jail to serve for the crimes committed in Calgary (he had also shot a security officer while being detained for the shoplifting). He claimed Lake was the actual murderer and has never accepted responsibility for the murders. Bettman/Getty ImagesLeonard Lake briefly led a semi-normal life before he and Ng came together. Ng maintained his innocence throughout the trial, pushing a narrative that he was acting merely on the direction of Lake because he wanted to make him proud. His misogynistic idea was that the perfect woman was 100% compliant with her man. Too bad about all those journals and videos, eh? The Miranda Murders: Lost Tapes of Leonard Lake and Charles Ng. For them, the videos of Ng torturing victims and Lakes journals were enough evidence that he was just as culpable. Judge Ryan had the power to sentence Ng to life but instead ordered him to the death house. After meeting Lake, he moved into his ranch. She will soon join many other vacationers who had also turned down the wrong road. CAN HOLLYWOOD GET ANY STUPIDER? The woman is pleading with Lake to know what is happening to her six-month old baby. 0. Court documents indicate that Lake once took the infant of a woman, put its head in between his legs and twisted the babys body until the neck broke and the baby was all but decapitated. Citing the abuse he endured at the hands of his father, Ng said of Lake: Part of me saw him as the father or big brother I always wanted.. Getty ImagesCharles Ng at the Orange County Superior Court after being found guilty of 11 murders. He was imprisoned in Canada and eventually extradited back to California in 1991. What about that horrible Cricket woman who was released with full immunity, who was the third accomplice of this pair? 'While you're here, we'll keep you busy. In total, Ng's legal battle with the state of California cost over $20 million. The exact number of their victims is not known but is thought to be as high as 25 including babies. The women were kept alive for days as sex slaves. Many of these infamous killers are based on true killers in the real world. Ng was imprisoned at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, where he served 18 months. Charles Ng at the Orange County Superior Court after being found guilty of 11 murders. 4.3 1 h 18 min 2017 18+. The excavation yields decayed bodies and bone fragments covered in lime. '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. 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 . CURES IN SEARCH OF A DISEASE After killing the victims by either strangling or shooting them, they would often bury them in shallow graves on the property, though there is evidence that some were also dismembered and burned and their remains shattered. 'I don't want to see the pain that she went through. He is currently on death row in San Quentin. With co-conspirator Leonard Lake, Ng is suspected of torturing and murdering as many as 25 victims . Somewhere offscreen was her baby in peril. Leonard Lake and Charles Ng are confirmed to have murdered at least eleven people. Canada's highest court ultimately ruled Canada cannot impose its constitutional ban on executions on other nations, and that to do so could result in Canada becoming a haven for killers. Ng is also charged with a 12th murder in San Francisco. The stolen car that Lake drove at the time of his arrest had been listed in the classifieds by Paul Cosner.   After being charged in relation to a hit-and-run offense, Ng lied about his birthplace and joined the Marines. Charles Ngs mugshot after being court-martialed in 1982. Visit Site Once alone, Lake swallowed several cyanide pills he had been hiding. But Ng gets bounced back to Hong Kong after stealing the relatives school blind. The prosecution took only 45 minutes to outline the evidence it hopes to present, and the defense side took only five minutes longer. "No gun, no fun. No acts of violence are shown on the videotape, which was played during a preliminary hearing to determine if Ng will stand trial on the murder charges. Ng remained sullen through much of the trial but occasionally showed emotion by shouting a profane or bizarre sentence. [9] Kelley acknowledged that prosecutors will present a mountain of evidence showing that the 12 victims were kidnapped and killed but argued that none of it is directly connected to Ng. The trial finally took place in 1999 and lasted eight months. After Lake's capture, Ng made his way to Canada, where he was arrested after trying to steal merchandise from a Calgary department store. Ng tried everything to delay the trial, frequently firing his lawyers, changing the location of the trial and even applying to defend himself. FIRE IN THE SKY PUSHES THE LIMITS OF FICTION SCIENCE The videotape also shows Ng using a bayonet to cut off a bra worn by a second victim, 19-year-old Brenda O'Connor, who begs for her baby. Together with ex-Marine Leonard Lake, Charles Ng killed at least 11 people in a cabin-turned-torture dungeon in rural California in the early 1980s. Traveling to California at 19, Ng soon finds himself running from a hit-and-run accident. Lake, meanwhile jumped bail and went into hiding at his estranged wifes (parents retirement home) cabin in Wilseyville, 220 miles southeast of Miranda/Ukiah. Lake and Ng made an appointment at Dubs home and loaded up the video along with Harvey, his wife Deborah and their infant son back to Wilseyville. It's a found footage film that manages not to be entirely kitschy while profiling the "lost" moments of notorious serial murderers (rapists, sadists, kidnappers) Leonard Lake and Charles Ng. Between the two killers, an estimated 11-25 people were murdered in Lake's remote cabin that served as a makeshift "dungeon" in Northern California. Another held pages from Lake's journals, outlining many of his dark fantasies and his sadistic acts of violence. Talk about getting off scot free! Ng is currently at San Quentin prison in California. The clerk at the lumberyard spotted Ng trying to shoplift the vise and called the police. Ng was not interested in following in the footsteps of his hardworking parents. Daddy dies, Mommy cries, Baby fries". In July the next year, he was found guilty by the jury on almost all counts and sentenced to death. 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. Once they had the money, supplies and property, they constructed their murder bunker down to the last detail. Register Log in Some, like the notorious Fred and Rose West, are married couples that share the same sadistic fantasies. At an early age, he began taking nude photos of his sisters; this became the start of his obsession with pornography. The men reportedly met through an advertisement in a survivalist magazine in the early 1980s. Once again he was caught stealing, this time military weapons, and he served three years in Leavenworth Prison. Updated 2 times since October 12, 2004. 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. You can cry and stuff, like the rest of them, but it wont do any good. Allen, who was the girlfriend of a former cellmate of Ng's at Fort Leavenworth military prison, later replied: 'I'll go along with whatever you want. In 1971, he was given a medical discharge, having been diagnosed with schizoid personality disorder. 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. 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. The opening statements were almost anticlimactic, considering that it has taken 13 years for the case to come to trial. 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. 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. Deborah told her friend that she had to end the conversation, as two men who were interested in the items had arrived at their home. Two of the victims were the unwilling stars of horrific homemade videotape clips Honnaka played for jurors during her opening statement. He was released in 1984 and moved on to Lake's ranch in Wilseyville, California. Likening this ideal woman as a slave, he continues by describing what his future holds. SAN ANDREAS, Calif. -- Prosecutors showed a harrowing videotape Friday that depicts mass murder suspect Charles Ng and a friend tormenting kidnapped sex slaves at their mountain hideaway. More importantly, U.S. authorities now knew where he was. Delve into the minds of serial killers Leonard Lake and Charlie Ng with this horrifying found footage film, spanning the 1983-1984 killing spree that shocked California and the nation.Delve into the minds of serial killers Leonard Lake and Charlie Ng with this horrifying found footage film, spanning the 1983-1984 killing spree that shocked California and the nation.Delve into the minds of serial killers Leonard Lake and Charlie Ng with this horrifying found footage film, spanning the 1983-1984 killing spree that shocked California and the nation. 33 of the most notorious serial killers in history met their end. Prosecutors portrayed Ng as a planner and willing participant in the slayings. The jury that Ng faced at trial didn't buy his defense that he was terrified of Lake and was himself a victim. He was sentenced to death. He drew a gun, and in the ensuing struggle one of the officers was shot in the hand. Ng hired and fired 5 law teams. "Leonard Lake and Charles Ng planned and committed the murders charged in this case." Two of the victims were the unwilling stars of horrific homemade videotape clips Honnaka played for jurors . The nearly seven minutes of footage [Warning: disturbing content] contains segments of several of Leonard Lake and Charles Ng's victims tied or chained to a chair while their captors calmly give them instructions. Another was Donald Lake, Lake's younger brother. It was also around this time that Ng met Leonard Lake, a man 15 years his senior, through a wargamer advertisement in a magazine. Ngs father would later admit to beating him regularly. In 1982, Lake and Ng were both arrested by the FBI for firearm violations. Trouble was police were already at the scene where a cop ran the plates on Lakes car, finding it belonged to a Paul Cosner who had been missing for several months.   Lake explains calmly that he is going to put a bullet into her head. Ng was charged in Canada on three counts: assault, shoplifting and possession of a concealed firearm. Remember, the whole point was to completely break a woman until she essentially became a sex robot. WE WELCOME PRINCE VLAD AS OUR NEW COLUMNIST Investigators walked into Lakes cabin and into a horrific nightmare where none of them would ever sleep well again. DEATH VALLEY WORM RANCH It might be a lengthy stay on death row for Ng, as California Governor Gavin Newsom established a moratorium on executions in the state. While Lake was trying to convince the store manager that he would personally pay for the item, Ng disappeared. The state of California spent $20 million for the Ng adventure, the most expensive trial ever with the meter still running. AVSLRT AV VIDEO: Charles Ng og hans kamerat Leonard Lake fryktet dommedag. LUST AND DEATH AT PROJECT MIRANDA A receipt in Harvey Dubs's name was discovered at Lake's compound, but the family's remains have never been recovered. He can kill and not even think about it. In 1982, law enforcement raided the property, seized a large collection of illegal weapons and explosives, and court-martialed Ng. He also enjoyed killing mice by dissolving them in chemicals. They found that Lake was using the driver's license and credit cards of Scott Stapley, who was later identified as one of the murder victims. Others, like "Freeway Killer" William Bonin,had multiple individuals aiding in the crimes (per theLos Angeles Times). Upon his release, Ng moved in with Leonard Lake and the two began a campaign of abduction, rape and murder. Lake was 15 years Ng's senior, a diagnosed schizophrenic, and had a history of sexual depravity going back to his childhood. During one of their many torture sessions, a vice they used broke. I wonder about the policemen behind the desk who had to watch the endless tapes that were just him banging Cricket, looking for evidence or whatever. She carrying a leather purse when she was last seen. Ng immediately snitched on Lake in an attempt to preemptively avoid culpability, claiming Lake did all of it alone. At the age of 15, he was arrested for shoplifting and sent by his father to a private boarding school in England in an attempt to change him, from which he was expelled for stealing from his fellow students and sent back to Hong Kong. Canadian police charged him with robbery, attempted robbery, possession of a firearm and attempted murder. WEIRD ON TOP AND WILD AT HEART On June, 1984, Ng got out of the joint just in time to help Lake launch Project Miranda. 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. San Francisco Police Department They knew many of their victims one way or another. 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. A blockhouse, built next to Lakes cabin (and part way into a hill) had a secret passage and two-way mirror that separated a room with chains, knives, saws and video equipment. Fearing he would face the death penalty, he fought extradition back into the U.S. for six years before Canadian officials ordered his return. At the station, before he was even interviewed, he took the pill and killed himself. Lake was born in San Francisco, California, on October 29, 1945. The movie just ends with her watching the dungeon burn. Just search below: Real Life Horror - Leonard Lake and Charles Ng. Nearly as shocking was Ngs appearance entering court; no longer the skinny kid, he was now unrecognizably heavier, wearing thick glasses on a head the size and shape of a bowling ball. 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. After killing the men and children to get them out of the way, they would hold the women captive in a custom-built room in a bunker at Lake's ranch, tie them up and torture and rape them, videotaping each other while doing so.   The women were shackled to a chair or the floor. 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. Lake lured some visitors by either advertising in, or responding to newspaper classified ads. From there, Ng began to spiral out of control. The face on the driver license (Robin Stapley) looked far younger than the 39-year old Lake as well. The film depicts the horrendous. 3 Comments. Deborah and her husband, Harvey, lived with their son Sean in San Francisco, California in 1984.
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