The Boneyard Monsters: Leonard Lake and Charles Ng
I Could Murder A Podcast
ICMAP LTD
4.7 • 700 Ratings
🗓️ 6 October 2025
⏱️ 96 minutes
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Summary
In the mid-1980s, Northern California became the hunting ground of two men whose crimes would horrify the nation. Leonard Lake and Charles Ng formed a deadly partnership that led to one of the most disturbing series of murders in U.S. history.
The pair lured victims to a remote property in Calaveras County, where their carefully hidden compound revealed the full extent of their crimes. What investigators uncovered would shock even the most experienced officers... a grim trail of victims, disturbing videotapes, and evidence of cold, calculated brutality.
In this episode, we explore the backgrounds of Leonard Lake and Charles Ng, how their paths crossed, and how their twisted fantasies escalated into real-life atrocities. We also look at the investigation that eventually exposed their crimes and brought one of America’s darkest criminal partnerships to an end.
This case raises chilling questions about complicity, manipulation, and how two individuals together can commit horrors far beyond what either might have done alone.
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Presented by Tom Norris & Ben Carter
Written by Ben Carter
Produced by Dan J Lambert
Edited by Ben Bonsey
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| 0:15.8 | several drums Several drums, plastic drums that had been buried on the property, |
| 0:28.3 | and they contain another weapon, another pistol, a lot of ammunition, and several videotapes. |
| 0:35.6 | And when the Calaveras detectives and the San Francisco missing persons people viewed the video, |
| 0:43.0 | then yet there was another shock. |
| 0:45.0 | Now we have on film a number of individuals who are being held captive |
| 0:50.6 | and they're being interrogated by Lake and by Ing. |
| 0:55.8 | Several of the women are made to disrobe. They're told they will cooperate or they'll be killed. |
| 1:05.7 | If you go along with this, cooperate with this, it will be as nice as we can to you, |
| 1:11.6 | within the limits of keeping you prison. |
| 1:14.6 | If you don't go along with this, |
| 1:15.6 | we'll probably take you in the bed, |
| 1:17.6 | tie you down, rape you, shoot you, and bury you, |
| 1:19.6 | and shoot you, and bury. |
| 1:21.6 | Sorry, lady, time's up. |
| 1:22.6 | Thank you, Charles. Hello and welcome to I Could Murder a podcast. We are back again. It is episode 10 and is that Big Ben? |
| 2:01.2 | Dong. Hello hope not. |
| 2:03.6 | Hello, boys. Thank you so much for having me again. |
| 2:06.3 | Another episode, another hour or so with my boys. |
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