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Corpus Delicti

196: Tag Team: Leonard Lake and Charles Ng, Part 2

Corpus Delicti

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True Crime

4.5608 Ratings

🗓️ 16 March 2022

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

This week we wrap up the case of Leonard Lake and Charles Ng. We discuss how they were eventually brought down, a very lengthy court process, and who some of the additional victims were thought to be.

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Kai Engel

"Daemones"

Blooper music by:

Art of Escapism

"Coal Miners"

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Sources:

https://www.biography.com/crime-figure/charles-ng#synopsis

https://www.ranker.com/list/charles-ng-and-leonard-lake-facts/harrison-tenpas

https://murderpedia.org/male.N/n/ng-charles.htm

Leonard Lake and Charles Ng | Criminal Minds Wiki | Fandom

12 Jun 1985, Page 5 - Reno Gazette-Journal at Newspapers.com

Attorneys Ask For Immunity For Lake's Ex-Wife | AP News

11 Sep 1989, 10 - Edmonton Journal at Newspapers.com

Ex-Wife of Murder Suspect Asks Immunity From Charges - The New York Times (nytimes.com)

Marine Corps Veteran Charles Ng Sentenced to Death for Role in Murdering 11 Californians with Fellow Veteran Leonard Lake; Lake Died By Suicide at Arrest (June 30, 1999) | MILITARY JUSTICE FOR ALL

16 Jun 1985, Page 17 - Democrat and Chronicle at Newspapers.com

22 Nov 1985, 26 - The San Francisco Examiner at Newspapers.com

Guardian Angel's Body Found Near Killer's Lair - Los Angeles Times (latimes.com)

Diary Exposes Details for Ng Trial / Alleged partner's entries reveal stalking, murder plans (sfgate.com)

Brutal murder spurs sister's advocacy (newarkadvocate.com)

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“Die For Me: The Terrifying True Story of The Charles ng/Leonard Lake Torture Murders” by Don Lasseter

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, everyone is Jen.

0:25.4

And this is Lindsay.

0:26.9

And welcome to Corpus to Lake Tag the podcast.

0:29.4

Welcome back to part two of Leonard Lake and Charles Inc.

0:33.1

We are still in our tag team series.

0:36.2

So tonight, I hate to say it, but it gets worse.

0:41.1

It does.

0:42.0

And, you know, the last one was somewhat short for a two-parter, but there's so much more

0:47.6

to get into.

0:48.8

And yes, unfortunately, that does include victims.

0:53.0

We covered a lot in the last episode, but there's actually more to come.

0:57.6

So let's do a quick, very quick recap, because there's a lot to do here. These two friends are

1:05.4

survivalists. They meet. They've got this compound. They're preparing for the end of the world.

1:10.1

They need women to repopulate the earth, they build a bunker where they are holding women captive,

1:15.9

they are sex slaves, they are killing their families to get to them, and also they are killing

1:23.4

people just on a day-to-day basis who kind of get in their way, which we'll see a little

1:29.1

bit more in this episode as we get a little bit further into it. This whole repopulation

1:35.4

of the earth thing, you have to have more than two males to do this or the gene pool

1:43.2

gets very polluted. This is their mission though. This is what

1:47.8

they are called to do. So they're not seeing it that way. This is this is their thing. So we know

1:54.8

there's a lot of victims. We talked about that in the last episode and like we said, there's more to come.

2:00.0

But this whole scheme that they are running

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