Charles Ng

Charles Ng was born in 1961 in Hong Kong. He is one half of an American sex-killer duo. Ng met his partner, Leonard Lake, through a magazine personal advertisement. Charles was on the run from the Marines for stealing a brace of machine-guns in 1981, and ten years previously Leonard had been released from the military with signs of an 'impending schizophrenic reaction'. Leonard's in-laws gave him the freedom of a two-acre ranch north of San Francisco in the Sierra Nevada, and in 1984 and 1985 the pair made this Wisleyville property the base for their Nordic survivalist fantasies, of the variety where slave girls are tortured in dungeons. Together they snatched transient females, or males and females, or males and females and their babies, exercising the females as sexual drudges before they were discarded, dead. Meanwhile they stalked their male captives through grounds rigged with trip wires and booby traps in a crazed re-creation of the Vietnam War. Investigators were to remove forty-five pounds of bones from the compound. (Murray, 18-22)

Charles Charles's life began in the privileged circles of Hong Kong. Now, it may end in his execution over a gruesome string of sex slayings in California. Charles, 38, was convicted on 11 of 12 counts of first-degree killing in a killing and kidnapping spree in 1984 and 1985 that claimed the lives of 02 children, 03 females and 07 males. After debating the case over the course of two weeks, the jury in Santa Ana, Calif., deadlocked over whether the former marine was responsible for the killing of one of the males. The killings began after Charles became involved with another ex-marine, Lake, Leonard, who committed suicide in 1985. Their sufferers were lured to Leonard's cabin in Wilseyville, about 240 km east of San Francisco, where they were savagely killed. The pair even videotaped themselves tormenting two females before they were raped and killed.

Charles, a former Marine and Hong Kong immigrant, was given capital punishment by the State of California on June 30, 1999. Charles was convicted of the killing of 03 females, 06 males, and 02 boys. He spent fourteen years fighting the charges, thus making his prosecution the longest in the history of California — and one of the costliest, at $14 million. Charles was arrested in Canada in 1985 and fought extradition for five years.

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The evidence in Charles's trial revealed that he and an accomplice named Lake, Leonard, who committed suicide while in police custody in 1985, lured the sufferers to a cabin in California's Gold Rush Country in 1984 and 1985. The cabin was equipped with a bunker that was used as a prisoner's cell. (Vronsky, 25-26)

Videotapes revealed Charles and Leonard tortured and raped their females before killing them. The police only recovered the bodies of two of the sufferers, but there was evidence of hundreds of pieces of charred bones around the cabin, leading authorities to conclude that the other victims were burned. Charles is in prison for cases ...