CHARLES NG

'Charles Chi-Tat Ng' (Chinese: 吳志達, Cantonese , Pinyin: Wú Zhìdá; born December 24, 1960) is a Chinese-American serial killer who committed his crimes with Leonard Lake.
He was born to wealthy parents in Hong Kong and partly educated in England. As a child he was harshly disciplined by his father at every opportunity. Ng eventually moved to the United States and briefly served in the Marine Corps before he was dishonorably discharged for theft at MCAS Kaneohe Bay, for which he served time in prison. In the early 1980s he met Leonard Lake. The pair are suspected of murdering up to 25 people at Lake's ranch in Calaveras County, California. They filmed themselves raping and torturing their victims. ^[1]
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The crimes came to light in 1985 when Lake committed suicide after being arrested for a firearms offense, and police searched his ranch and found human remains. Charles Ng was identified as Lake's partner in the crimes. Ng fled to Calgary, Alberta, Canada where he was arrested by the Calgary Police Service on July 6, 1985 after resisting arrest for shoplifting. Ng pulled a gun on two security officers, and after a brief struggle Ng shot one of them in the hand. However, the two officers did manage to overpower him and held him in custody. Ng was charged and subsequently convicted of shoplifting, assault, and possession of a firearm. He was sentenced to 4 and half years to a Canadian prison. After a long extradition battle (see ''Reference re Ng Extradition''), Ng was finally handed over to the U.S. authorities. Ng stood trial on 12 counts of murder in 1998. He was convicted of 11 of the murders, those of six men, three women and two baby boys, and was sentenced to death. He is currently on death row at San Quentin State Prison.
In his trial, Ng claimed to have been uninvolved in the murders, only in the sexual assaults. While Ng was in Leavenworth, prior to the murders, he bragged to his cell mates about killing his first person at the age of 10. He claimed that he and another youth dropped bricks off of the roof of a skyscraper in Hong Kong. The pair would read about it in the news the following day. He said he was disappointed at not being able to see the actual death occur, at close range. While in the Marine Corps, he purchased a .22 Cal. handgun, and waited in the woods outside the base. When a lone Marine was walking back to the base, he jumped out and shot him at close range. This he said was extremely satisfying. He was able to see the look on his victims face.
The head of the FBI task force investigating Ng noted that Ng was suspected of killing an additional eight people in Canada, after the death of Lake.

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1. World: Americas Serial killer sentenced to die, BBC, Thursday, July 1, 1999 Published at 01:01 GMT 02:01 UK
2. Charles Ng and Leonard Lake, The Motherlode Murders, CyberSleuths True Crime, by Bill Kelly

External links

★ Crime Library's detailed accounts of Charles Ng and Leonard Lake's killing spree