Charles Chi-tat Ng

Serial Killer

Charles Chi-tat Ng: The Wilseyville Serial Murders

Background

Charles Chi-tat Ng was born on December 24, 1960, in Hong Kong. He later moved to the United States and became one of the two men responsible for a series of kidnappings, sexual assaults, torture sessions and murders connected to a secluded property near Wilseyville, California. Ng committed the crimes with Leonard Lake, a survivalist who had constructed a hidden concrete bunker beside a remote cabin in the Sierra Nevada foothills of Calaveras County. Ng and Lake are believed to have killed at least eleven people, although investigators have long suspected that the true number of victims may have been considerably higher. In 1999, Ng was convicted of murdering six men, three women and two infant boys. Several additional disappearances and violent crimes were also linked to the pair, but the available evidence did not result in murder convictions in every case.

The Wilseyville Property

The center of the murder operation was a rural property outside Wilseyville. Lake had access to a cabin there and constructed a small cinder-block bunker that he described in his writings as a place where women could be imprisoned. The structure was equipped with restraints, a bed, concealed spaces and recording equipment. Evidence later recovered from the property showed that victims had been held against their will and that some of the crimes were recorded. Ng and Lake generally targeted acquaintances, coworkers, neighbors and people contacted through classified advertisements. Prosecutors argued that the men followed a deliberate pattern. Adult male victims were often killed shortly after being brought to the property. Women were separated from their partners, confined, sexually assaulted and terrorized before being murdered. Infant victims were also killed, apparently so that no witnesses or surviving family members would remain. The precise dates on which most of the Wilseyville victims were killed have never been established. Many were last seen days, weeks or months before investigators uncovered the property in June 1985. Their disappearance dates are therefore listed below rather than represented as confirmed dates of death. ...

Confirmed Victims: (11)

Charles Gunnar Age: (36), Date of Death: 1983-05-22

Suspected Victims:

Donald Lake Age: (32), Date of Death: 1982-12

Jeffrey Askren Age: (30), Date of Death: 1984-05-01

Donald Giulietti Age: (36), Date of Death: 1984-07-11

Paul Cosner Age: (39), Date of Death: 1984-11-02

Clifford Parenteau Age: (23), Date of Death: 1985-01-20

Jeff Gerald Age: (25), Date of Death: 1985-02-24

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