BBC - Great Crimes and Trials Series 3 Set 1 (1995) Part 13 Leonard Lake The Calaveras County Serial Killings

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Part 13 Leonard Lake The Calaveras County Serial Killings

The deadly serial-killing partnership which collected 'sex slaves'. The true number of their victims has never been revealed. In June 1985, a young man is caught shoplifting a vise from a hardware store, fleeing the scene. His apparent employer drove to the store and attempted to pay for the vise, but by then the police had arrived. Noticing that “Robin Stapley” bore no resemblance to the photo in the driver's license he produced, “Stapley” was arrested when the police searched his vehicle and found a gun with an illegal silencer. A fingerprint search identified the man as Leonard Lake. In custody at the police station, Lake swallowed cyanide pills he had sewn into his clothes. Meanwhile, his friend, Charles Ng, was already on the run, heading for Calgary, Canada. A search of the area surrounding Lake's rented cabin near Wilseyville, Calaveras County, California would uncover a horrifying rampage of rape, torture, and murder, with at least 11 victims.

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