Charles Ng

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Charles Ng
Image:Charles Ng.jpg mugshot of Charles Ng
Background information
Birth name:	Charles Chi-Tat Ng
Born:	December 24, 1960
Penalty:	Death
Killings
Number of victims:	12-25
Span of killings:	early 1980's through 1985
Country:	Image:Flag of the United States.svg United States
State(s):	Calaveras County, California
Date apprehended:	July 6, 1985

Charles Chi-Tat Ng (Chinese: 吳志達, Cantonese IPA: [ŋ̩²¹ ʣ̥i³³ d̥at̚²²], pinyin: Wú Zhìdá; born December 24, 1960) is a Chinese-American serial killer who committed his crimes with Leonard Lake, in America.

He was born to wealthy parents in Hong Kong and partly educated in England. As a child he was harshly disciplined by his father at every opportunity. Ng eventually moved to the United States and briefly served in the Marine Corps before he was dishonorably discharged for theft at MCAS Kaneohe Bay, for which he served time in prison. In the early 1980s he met Leonard Lake. The pair are suspected of murdering up to 25 people at Lake's ranch in Calaveras County, California. They filmed themselves raping and torturing their victims. ^{[1] [2]}

The crimes came to light in 1985 when Lake committed suicide after being arrested for a firearms offense, and police searched his ranch and found human remains. Charles Ng was identified as Lake's partner in the crimes. Ng fled to Calgary, Alberta, Canada, where he was arrested by the Calgary Police Service on July 6, 1985 after resisting arrest for shoplifting. Ng pulled a gun on two security officers, and after a brief struggle Ng shot one of them in the hand. However, the two officers did manage to overpower him and held him in custody. Ng was charged and subsequently convicted of shoplifting, assault, and possession of a firearm. He was sentenced to four and half years to a Canadian prison. After a long extradition battle (see Reference re Ng Extradition), Ng was finally handed over to the U.S. authorities. Ng stood trial on 12 counts of murder in 1998. He was convicted of 11 of the murders, those of six men, three women and two baby boys, and was sentenced to death. He is currently on death row at San Quentin State Prison.

In his trial, Ng claimed to have been uninvolved in the murders, only in the sexual assaults. While Ng was in Leavenworth, prior to the murders, he bragged to his cell mates about killing his first person at the age of 10. He claimed that he and another youth dropped bricks off of the roof of a skyscraper in Hong Kong. The pair would read about it in the news the following day.^{[citation needed]}

The head of the FBI task force investigating Ng noted that Ng was suspected of killing an additional eight people in Canada, after the death of Lake.^{[citation needed]}

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[edit] External links

• Crime Library's detailed accounts of Charles Ng and Leonard Lake's killing spree
• Chitat Ng v. Canada, Communication No. 469/1991, U.N. Doc. CCPR/C/49/D/469/1991 (1994).fi:Charles Ng

zh:吳志達