VIDEO: Leonard Lake & Charles Ng Original Videos

Leonard Lake and Charles Ng were a pair of serial killers, rapists and abductors who were responsible for as many as 25 murders.

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They mostly targeted women, but were not hesitant to abduct entire families. 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, torture and rape them, videotaping each other while doing so.

According to Criminal Minds, on June 2, 1985, Ng was caught shoplifting in a hardware store in South San Francisco and fled the scene. Lake, who was with him, was arrested in their car outside the store when a .22 revolver illegally fitted with a suppressor, bullet holes and blood stains were found inside the car.

Lake identified himself as “Robin Stapley” (one of his and Ng’s victims) and showed an altered driver’s license which had belonged to the actual Stapley. Because the license listed Stapley’s age as 26 and Lake was clearly older, the authorities became suspicious and arrested him.

When handed a glass of water and left alone, he swallowed a cyanide tablet sewn into a secret compartment of his clothing and slipped into a coma. He was put on life support, but died after four days. Prior to killing himself, he wrote a suicide note revealing his and Ng’s real names and confessing to their crimes.

When the ranch was searched by the police, they found 12 corpses buried in shallow graves on the property as well as a bunker, a stash of weapons and a total of 45 pounds of charred bone fragments, leading the investigators to believe that the pair may have killed as many as 25 people. In the master bedroom, there was a four-post bed with loose restraints tied to each post and bloody pieces of women’s lingerie.

The searchers also found Lake’s diaries and journals as well as video recordings of him and Ng raping and torturing their victims and of Lake alone talking about holding a woman captive as a sexual slave and servant after the world was destroyed by nuclear war.

The bunker had two hidden rooms. The first, the torture chamber, contained various tools and a sign reading “The Miranda”, a reference to the name of Lake’s plan, “Operation Miranda”, a reference to the novel The Collector by John Fowles, in which the protagonist abducts a woman named Miranda and holds her captive in his basement.

The other room was a small, soundproof cell with a bed, a table, and a chemical commode.

In the meantime, Ng fled to Calgary, Alberta, Canada via Chicago and Detroit. He remained a fugitive for a month, but was once again caught shoplifting. At the police station, he fought back against two police officers, shooting one of them in the hand during the struggle.

He was charged and convicted of shoplifting, felonious assault and possession of a concealed firearm and was sentenced to four and a half years in prison. When the American investigators found out about his incarceration, they tried to have him extradited and interviewed him in prison.