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1983
Leonard Lake's mother reported Leonard Lake's younger brother, Donald,
missing after he failed to return from a visit with Leonard in San Bruno
in July. Some investigators believe that Donald was murdered by Leonard,
although Donald's body was never found. Charles Gunnar, a friend
of Leonard Lake's, disappeared. Some investigators believe that Charles
Gunnar was murdered by Leonard Lake, although his body was never found.
1984 After serving time at Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas, Charles Ng rejoined Leonard Lake. On July 25, Harvey Dubs, his wife, and his son disappeared. In October, Randy Jacobson disappeared. On November 2, (or November 5 reports vary), Paul Cosner disappeared. 1985 On January 18 or January 20, Clifford Raymond Parenteau disappeared. Reported dates vary. On February 24, Jeffrey D. Gerald disappeared. In April, Leonard Lake and Charles Ng videotaped themselves mistreating two women at Lake's home in Wilseyville. Other reports claim that there were videotapes or still photos of 21 women. Sometime during April or May, Leonard Lake's closest neighbors, Lonnie O'Connor, Brenda O'Connor, their son, and their friend Robin Stapley, disappeared. On June 2, 1985, a clerk (or a customer reports vary) at a lumberyard in San Francisco (or South San Francisco reports vary) spotted Charles Ng trying to shoplift a vice. The clerk called the police. Charles Ng carried the vice out of the store, placed it in the trunk of a tan 1980 Honda Prelude, and departed on foot. When the police arrived, Leonard Lake was sitting in the Honda. He claimed that he had paid for the vice. He produced a driver's license bearing the name Robin Stapley but he didn't resemble the photograph. The license plate on the Honda Prelude was registered to a man named Lonnie Bond but should have been attached to a Buick, not a Honda. The police searched the Honda and found a .22-caliber revolver that was illegally equipped with a silencer. Leonard Lake was immediately taken into custody for questioning. He reportedly told his interrogators that the name of the man who had stolen the vice was Charles Ng. While he was being questioned, police ran a check of the Vehicle Identification Number on the Honda and discovered that it belonged to Paul Cosner, a resident of San Francisco. The police also learned that Paul Cosner had been unaccountably missing for nine months. At the jail house, Leonard Lake asked for a glass of water. Shortly afterward, he swallowed one (or two) cyanide pill(s) or capsule(s) that he had taped (or glued) to the collar of his shirt (or hidden in a secret niche in his belt or in his belt buckle). The various reports are conflicting. After some investigation, police found (presumably in the Honda) an electric utility bill made out to Claralyn Balasz and addressed to a cabin in Wilseyville. I don't know how the police discovered the address of Charles Ng's apartment but, when a patrol unit arrived there, Charles Ng was already gone. For 34 days, he managed to elude an international dragnet set up by Interpol, the FBI, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, and Scotland Yard. Leonard Lake was kept alive by machines at a Kaiser Permanente Hospital near San Francisco, California. On June 8, he was declared brain dead when the plug was pulled (or the plug was pulled and he was declared dead the reports aren't clear on that point). On June 8, police began digging outward from the Wilseyville cabin. On July 6, while leaving a Calgary, Alberta, shop, Charles Ng was challenged by security guards over grocery items in his bag. He drew a gun and, in the ensuing struggle, one of the officers was shot in the hand. Canadian police charged Charles Ng with robbery, attempted robbery, possession of a firearm, and attempted murder. He was convicted in 1985, in Calgary, Alberta. 1987 In February, the United States formally requested Charles Ng's extradition to stand trial in California on 19 criminal counts including kidnapping and 12 murders committed in 1984 and 1985. 1988 According to court documents, Charles Ng admitted to helping dispose of Paul Cosner's body. In November, a judge of the Alberta Court of Queen's Bench ordered Charles Ng's extradition. For PayPal payments, use frontiersman@pharos.pricelesshost.net.
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1989
In October, the Canadian Minister of Justice decided not to seek assurances
that the American courts would not impose the death penalty on Charles
Ng. News reports surfaced about a series of grisly drawings that
Charles Ng had made while he was in prison in Canada. The drawings
have not been released to the public but sources said that they contain
details that only someone intimately familiar with the Wilseyville killings
would have been able to produce.
1990 Charles Ng filed with the Canadian Federal Court an application for review of the decision of the Minister of Justice to not seek assurances that the death penalty would not be imposed. On June 8, the issues in the case were referred to the Supreme Court of Canada. 1991 On September 26, the Supreme Court of Canada found that the extradition of Charles Ng without assurances as to the imposition of the death penalty did not contravene either Canada's constitutional protection for "human rights" or the standards of the international community. Charles Ng was extradited on September 26. He complained about deceptions committed by Canadian prison authorities following the release of the decision of the Canadian Supreme Court. Instead of being allowed to contact counsel after the release of the decision and to obtain advice about the availability of any remedies, as agreed between counsel and a prison warden, he claimed that he was lured from his cell in the belief that he would be allowed to contact counsel and thereafter told that he was being transferred to the custody of United States marshals. 1992 In August, the State of California enacted legislation that enables an individual under sentence of death to choose lethal injection instead of the gas chamber as the method of execution. The legislation went into effect on January 1, 1993. 1994 In April, Charles Ng's case was transferred from Calaveras County to Orange County. There were six tons of documents in Charles Ng's case file. It was so large that it had to be transported from Calaveras County to Santa Ana in a big rig truck. The case file consisted of 350 boxes crammed with over 100,000 pages of police reports and statements by witnesses, in addition to all of the legal paperwork from motions and assorted filings. 1998 Charles Ng's trial began on Monday, October 26, on the 11th floor of the Orange County Courthouse. Deputy Attorney General Sharlene Honnaka and Calaveras County District Attorney Peter Smith prosecuted the case. Bill Kelley, an assistant Orange County public defender, represented Charles Ng. The presiding judge was Robert Fitzgerald. 1999 The trial lasted eight months or until February 24. The reports arent completely clear on that point. The jury deliberated for a couple of hours or for 15 hours over a period of three days. Again, the reports vary. Presumably on February 24, the jury found Charles Ng guilty of 11 counts of first-degree murder, including six men, three women and two boys. To expedite the process, a deadlocked count was dropped by the judge. The jury also found special circumstances of multiple murder which made Charles Ng eligible for the death penalty. In the spring (the source didn't specify the date), Charles Ng was sentenced to death by a judge of the Santa Ana Superior Court. Maybe that's the point at which the trial can be said to have lasted eight months. The trial reportedly cost $20 million and was reportedly the most expensive trial in California history, even considering the trial of O. J. Simpson. As of this writing, Charles Ng remains on Death Row at San Quentin Prison. Letter to the Editor
Kate; Ipswich, Queensland, Australia
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While I was preparing the article Remote Possibility (April issue, pages 2 and 3), I sent several inquiries to Boeing, asking about the remote control capabilities of their 757 and 767 aircraft. Boeing didn't reply. Eventually, I found the information that I needed in several other locations, one of which was the Boeing website. On Friday, May 12, 2006, I received the above quoted message from the FBI. Even as Sir James the Bold was transcribing the message for me, at about 10:15 AM, two FBI Special Agents, Ray Duncan and James H. Rominger, arrived at my front door. They asked if I was Sam Milam. I asked why they wanted to know. They said that they wanted to discuss a letter that I had sent to Boeing. I asked why. They said that they wanted to know why I wanted that information. At first, I was going to refuse to answer their questions but then it occurred to me that I had a golden opportunity. So, I gave them a lot of my opinions. I didn't record the conversation (maybe they did) so the best that I can do here is to paraphrase the high points. I told them that I didn't trust either them or the U.S. government. They asked why I wrote the letter. I told them that I wanted to know if the aircraft could be remotely controlled. They asked why I wanted to know that. I suggested that they read the article Remote Possibility, in the April issue. They asked if I wanted the information to research the article. I said yes. They asked why I wanted to write the article. I told them that the airplanes had been remotely hijacked. Then I suggested that they read Abuses and Usurpations, in the February issue, in which I demonstrated that the Pentagon hadn't been hit by a Boeing 757 but by a cruise missile. I told them that the cruise missile had been launched by the U.S. government. At about that point in the conversation, they seemed to be losing interest in my opinions. I think that they wanted to leave. I told them that they didn't need to tap my telephone or visit me, just read the newsletter. "Everything that I want to say is there," I told them. Then, I told them about the statements that Shitface Rumsfeld had made on September 10, 2001, in a speech at the Pentagon. At least that name got a blink out of one of them
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Acknowledgments My thanks to the following: Sir James the Bold; SantaClara Bob; Lady Jan the Voluptuous; Joseph, of Northridge, California; Lord Jeffrey the Studious; CVG, of Jerome, Arizona; and Sir Donald the Elusive. editor
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