big true crime tale today, a serial killer double feature.

Two men who very possibly killed separately, one for sure did,

and then they joined forces to kill in all likelihood, at least 25 people.

And probably quite a few more than that in central and northern California

in the early and mid 1980s.

Leonard Lake was a former marine obsessed with preparing for

a nuclear apocalypse, taking nude photos of as many women as possible,

having sex with as many of those women as possible,

and pursuing what he called Operation Miranda.

A sick plan based on the novel to collector,

then involved kidnapping young women to imprison and train to be his sex lives.

Lake was obsessed with building a bunker to both imprison these women,

and also hopefully survive the apocalypse, he believed was about to happen any day,

so that he could then continue to sexually imprison women to be sex lives

after society collapsed.

Leonard Lake was a complete and total psychopath,

and his murder buddy Charles Ng was arguably scarier than he was.

Charles Ng was an immigrant from Hong Kong,

who is really good at coming up with paperwork to create new identities for himself,

good enough to join the Marines less than a year after making it to the US.

Like Lake, he would also become obsessed with apocalyptic survivalism,

and he'd be arrested for trying to steal and smuggle military weapons,

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