Charles Ng
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| “ | You can cry and stuff, like the rest of them, but it won't do any good. We are pretty... cold-hearted, so to speak. | „ |
| ~ Ng on video threatens Brenda O'Connor. |
Charles Ng Chi-Tat (December 24, 1960 - ) is a serial killer who committed numerous crimes in the United States. He is believed to have raped, tortured and murdered at least 11 people with his accomplice Leonard Lake at his cabin in Calaveras County, California, but it is believed that they may have murdered as many as 25 people.
Early life edit
Ng was born in Hong Kong (when it was a British colony by then) to a wealthy business executive and his wife. As a child he was harshly disciplined by his father. By the time he was a teenager, he was described as a troubled loner and was expelled from several schools. From throwing Molotov cocktails from a school balcony and to being arrested for shop lifting, it is also known that he set fire to a classroom. At 15, he went to a boarding school Bentham Grammar School in North Yorkshire, England from his father's insistence. Not long after arriving, Ng was expelled for stealing from other students and writing explicit letters to his teacher. Ng moved to United States in 1978 via student visa and studied biology at the College of Notre Dame in Belmont, California. He later dropped out after one semester. Ng would later be involved in a hit and run accident.
Military service edit
To avoid prosecution he enlisted in the United States Marine Corps in late 1979. With the help of false documents claiming his birth place was in Bloomington, Indiana (though he was not a US citizen to join the military) from a recruiting sergeant. After less than a year in 1980 he was based in Marine Corps Base Hawaii. But was arrested by military police for theft of automatic weapons. He escaped custody and made his way back to California.
Later life edit
He united with Leonard Lake, which he had met through an advertisement for a survivalist magazine. The authorities soon raided Lake's house for illegal weapons and explosives. Ng was arrested and returned to custody ultimately pleading guilty to the theft and desertion charges. Under terms of his plea deal, he was paroled and dishonorably discharged in 1984 after serving only 18 months.
Murders edit
After his release, Ng soon reunited with Leonard. When the latter had already moved into the cabin in Wilseyville. Next to his cabin was a cinder block bunker built into the hill side. Leonard had probably already murdered his brother Donald and friend Charles Gunnar. While, he would get a job at a San Francisco moving company. Over the next year, him and Lake began a rampage of rape, torture and murders. It was called Operation Miranda named after a character in a book Lake had read titled The Collector. Ng would tear the clothes off his female captors with a knife. Ng would kill the men and babies as both Ng and Lake viewed them as threats. They would find placed ads on newspapers from people either selling or renting items.
Arrest edit
On June 2, Ng was caught shoplifting a bench vise in a South San Francisco lumber yard. This was all due to his kleptomania. But soon escaped while Lake was taken into custody and later took a cyanide pill in the interrogation room, dying four days later. And the police were already searching the Wilseyville property where they uncovered up to 40 pounds of bone fragments, three bodies two that were wrapped in sleeping bags and plastic, a videotape showing both him and his accomplice torturing two women, ID cards and personal journals written by Lake for over a period of two years. Charles Ng, meanwhile fled to Canada and lived undetected until July 6, when he was caught stealing in a Calgary department store for shoplifting later getting into a fight with security guards ultimately shooting one of them in the hand but survived.
Aftermath edit
After his 1985 arrest and imprisonment in Canada on robbery and weapons charges, followed by a lengthy extradition between Canada and the United States, Ng was extradited back to California, eight years later he was tried, and convicted of 11 murders in 1999 and sentenced to death. It was the most expensive trial in California costing $20 million. Ng would fire defense attorneys and hire new ones. During his time in a Canadian prison, Ng drew cartoons of his killings and showed them to a fellow inmate Maurice Laberge. Those same sketches were shown during the trial. He is currently on death row at San Quentin State Prison. It is implied that Ng will never be executed because of the moratorium on executions in the state of California.