Back in the early to mid-80s, nestled in the idyllic rolling foothills of the Sierra Nevada in Mark Twain’s fabled Calaveras County, California, prolific serial killers Charles Ng and Leonard Lake teamed up to commit some of the most heinous murders imaginable, raping and torturing their victims before putting them out of their misery.
Charles Ng was born in Hong Kong to wealthy parents, but his father was an abusive disciplinarian during Ng’s formative years. By the time he was a teenager, he had been expelled from several schools, was an introverted loner, and was arrested for shoplifting, a perpetual habit that would thankfully eventually lead to his undoing.
His father next sent him to a boarding school in England, but he was once again quickly expelled for stealing from his fellow classmates. He returned to Hong Kong until his 18th birthday. He then arrived in the United States on a student visa in 1978, attending college for one semester before dropping out.
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