Charles Ng

On June 2, 1985, Officer Daniel Wright, of the San Francisco Police Department, was dispatched to a lumberyard where a shoplifting had just occurred. Upon arrival, a store employee informed the officer that an Asian man had concealed a bench vice in his jacket and was seen placing it in the trunk of a 1980 Honda Prelude., and when the employee attempted to question the man he quickly fled on foot. Officer Wright looked into the vehicle and discovered a bag that contained a silenced handgun. At this point a bearded man approached the officer with a sales receipt claiming that he had paid for the vice his friend had taken. Officer Wright questioned the bearded man after discovering that he had someone else's drivers' license and the vehicle plate had been switched. Wright recovered the silenced handgun from the vehicle after placing the bearded man under arrest.

At the department the bearded man was further interrogated by Officer Wright. Approximately 30 minutes into the interrogation the bearded man asked for a pen and paper along with a glass of water. The man then identified himself as Leonard Lake and that he was a fugitive wanted by the FBI. He also identified the Asian man to be Charlie Chitat Ng. Lake then stated, "I didn't think a lousy bench vise would bring me to this." With out saying another word, Lake placed the letter he had written to his wife in his pocket then quickly removed and ingested something from under a label on his shirt. The substance sent Lake into convulsions which resulted in Lake's death a few days later. The substance was later identified as having been two capsules of cyanide. When Officer Wright inventoried the impounded vehicle his findings ranged from spent bullet casings and blood, to ID's and ...

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...tudent visa to study in the United States. Upon his arrival to the states Charles did not last long at the college of Notre Dame, he dropped out during the first semester. After doing so he enlisted in the United States Marine Corp. claming he was born in the United States. Overtime Charles' career in the military was cut short after he was caught stealing a large amount of weapons. When he was held in custody Ng managed to escape and return to California. It was there he met Leonard Lake who was also a former Marine. It was then the two became a bad mix in society. When the two met both were already career path criminals. It's assumed that once they became well acquainted they began to fuel each other's sadistic-sexual desires to inflict pain and death on others.

The actually death count has been presumed to be from nineteen to twenty five between both Lake and Ng.