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A White Man's Notes
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Abstinence Is A Sin
C. Victor Gabriel Catholics and, perhaps even more so, Evangelical Protestants condemn the use of contraception to prevent pregnancy because that would destroy a potential life.1 By the same logic, it is an evil to abstain, even temporarily, from sex because to do so might destroy a potential life. Thus, abstinence is tantamount to murder. Indeed, by that same logic, ought not we encourage all little girls (at least above 10) and all little boys (at least above 12) to engage freely in sex? 2 Recently even the Pope acknowledged the stupidity of the ban on condoms, endorsing their use by marital partners in an effort to prevent the spread of AIDS. Apparently, he approves of the spread of AIDS by unmarried partners. But, how long did it take for the Catholic Church to alter its position? Well, it took over 4 centuries for it to apologize to Galileo. So, they should be praised for taking only several decades to alter their blanket condemnation of the use of condoms. Again, as I've so often said before, nothing has caused more misery to humankind than has religion! 3 Stray Thoughts
Leonard Lake and Charles Ng: Victims and Missing People Sam Aurelius Milam III This article is the second of a series in which I'm presenting my beliefs regarding Leonard Lake and Charles Chitat Ng. The next article, hopefully next month, will address some of the anomalies associated with the situation of which Leonard Lake and Charles Ng were a part. This series of articles might not seem to have much to do with my normal agendas. Be patient. It does. I'll present my list of references after I print the final article in the series. Presented after this article is a list of victims or people suspected of being victims of Leonard Lake and Charles Ng. I accumulated the names in the list from various sources. The actual status (victim versus suspected victim) isn't always clear. I also found inconsistencies in the reported names of a few of the victims and in the reported relationships between a few of them. However, I haven't specifically been trying to document the so-called vital statistics of the victims. Rather, I accumulated that information incidentally while I was trying primarily to understand the numbers. Also, I've reviewed only a small portion of the information that's available regarding the vital statistics. Therefore, the information in the list presented at the end of the article is incomplete. Some of it might be inaccurate. It's impossible to say how many people Leonard Lake and Charles Ng actually killed. The bodies of seven men, three women, and two young boys were discovered buried at the Wilseyville site. However, police also dug up a lot of human bone fragments, teeth, and partial remains from the land surrounding the cabin. I've seen different values reported for the weight of the fragments: 41 pounds, 45 pounds, and 50 pounds. Authorities estimated 25 or 26 as the total number of victims. I believe that the number of victims was much higher than that. I've presented some of my reasons below. In many cases, the disposal of the bodies was extremely thorough. Some bodies were sliced into pieces and strewn around the property. For PayPal payments, use frontiersman@pharos.pricelesshost.net.
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Such remains might have been eaten or carried
away by local scavengers. I read one account in which the claim was
made, and attributed to California Attorney General John Van de Kamp, that
many bodies were chopped into small pieces and fed to the chickens.
Van de Kamp is also supposed to have said that other bodies were apparently
burned in an incinerator beside the house and their bones crushed into
malt. I haven't tried to verify the statements or their supposed
source but I'm skeptical of the claim that people were fed to the chickens.
The amount of effort and determination that would be required to reduce
a human body to pellet-sized pieces seems to me to be excessive.
I'm not convinced that either Leonard Lake or Charles Ng had the level
of "work ethic" that would be required to do such a thing. However,
the disposal of bodies in an incinerator is at least plausible. What
it means is that the fragments that were actually discovered probably don't
represent the entire population of victims. The number of victims
beyond that represented by the fragments that were discovered is unknown.
Only a few bodies were ever identified but between 19 and 25 missing people were reported as being connected in one way or another to either Leonard Lake or to Charles Ng. Since the number varies, we must therefore suppose that at least some of the so-called connections are uncertain. I must also note that a connection doesn't necessarily prove anything. However suggestive it might be, the discovery of someone's stereo equipment in Leonard Lake's cabin at Wilseyville doesn't necessarily prove that the owner of the equipment was killed there or killed by Leonard Lake or Charles Ng. The list of victims and possible victims that I've accumulated, taken from various sources, includes 19 people. Police estimated that 21 missing women were shown as victims in videotapes or still photos made by Leonard Lake and Charles Ng. Only four of the people in my list are women. Two of them, Kathleen Allen and Brenda O'Connor, are among the women who appeared in the videotapes. That means that there are 19 women on the videotapes in addition to the people in my list. Thus, the 19 people in my list plus 19 additional missing women takes the total number of people connected to Leonard Lake and Charles Ng to 38. That alone calls into question the official estimate. From the beginning of my investigation, I have believed that the total number of victims was at least 50. It's just a hunch. According to one report, six of the women identified in the videotapes or still photos were eventually found alive. I don't know if that report is true but, if it is, then one can't help but wonder if the women escaped or if they were released. If they escaped, then how did they do it? If six women escaped, then Leonard Lake and Charles Ng couldn't have been the formidable captors that they were reported to be. Also, if the women escaped, then why didn't they report their experiences? Such questions cause me to suspect that, if they were actually found alive later, then they were released. However, that doesn't make any sense unless the women were in cahoots with Leonard Lake and Charles Ng. Were the women really captives or were they actresses posing as victims to additionally terrorize the actual victims? I don't know the answers. Reportedly, fifteen of the women shown in the videotapes or still photos remain missing. It only makes the total more difficult to estimate. There's one other interesting aspect of the disappearances. Of the 19 people shown in my list as being connected to Leonard Lake and Charles Ng, only five appear in the disappearances reported on The Doe Network website for the years 1984 and 1985 in Northern California. The list on The Doe Network website is presumably of unexplained disappearances. Why, then, do five people whose disappearances were presumably explained nevertheless appear in the data for unexplained disappearances? On the other hand, if those five people are listed then why aren't the other fourteen listed. It's one more inconsistency in the data. Presented next is my list, such as it is, accumulated incidentally from various sources. It includes 19 human beings reported as connected with Leonard Lake and Charles Ng. For PayPal payments, use frontiersman@pharos.pricelesshost.net.
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was the day in October of 1984 when he left to
sell his 1981 Ford van to Leonard Lake. When Lake was arrested on
June 2, 1985, he had in his possession a bank card belonging to Jacobson.
Eventually, Randy Jacobson's corpse was found under a chicken coop on the
ranch along with several other victims. It was one of the few corpses
that officials were able to identify. He had been shot in the head
execution-style with a .22 handgun.
Donald Lake was Leonard Lake's younger brother. Their mother reported Donald missing after he failed to return from a visit with Leonard in San Bruno, in July of 1983. Police believe that he was murdered by Leonard Lake, although the body has never been found. Lonnie O'Connor, Brenda O'Connor, and their son were Leonard Lake's nearest neighbors. Brenda O'Connor didn't trust Leonard Lake and told other local people that she had seen him bury a body in the woods. Instead of notifying the police, Lonnie O'Connor invited a friend named Robin (or Scott) Stapley to stay with them for added protection. The four of them haven't been seen since April (or May — reports vary) of 1985. Brenda O'Connor is one of the women who appeared on the videotape. Lonnie and Brenda O'Connor and their baby son are believed to have been killed by Leonard Lake and Charles Ng. Cheryl Okoro was 26 years old and was described in one source as a partygoer with an hourglass figure who lived in the fast lane. A relative of Cheryl Okoro reportedly said that Cheryl survived by marrying illegal aliens who paid her handsomely then divorced her. That same relative also reportedly said that Leonard Lake had offered to show Cheryl his farm and that she (the relative) had warned Cheryl not to accept the offer. Police believe that Cheryl Okoro was another victim of Leonard Lake and Charles Ng. She's one of the victims whose body was reportedly ground into chicken feed. Clifford Raymond Parenteau was 24 years old. He was employed at Dennis Moving Company in San Francisco, California in 1985. Witnesses told authorities that he often argued with one of his coworkers, Charles Ng. Reports of his disappearance vary. According to one report, he vanished after winning $400 in a Superbowl pool. A local bartender reportedly said that the last time that he had seen either Charles Ng or Clifford Parenteau was when they went off together on January 20, 1985 to celebrate Parenteau's good fortune on winning the Superbowl pool. According to another report, Parenteau went missing on January 18, 1985 after telling his girlfriend that "Charlie" had invited him to Lake Tahoe. Some days later, Parenteau's boss received a letter asking him to send Parenteau's pay check to a postal box. Several of Parenteau's personal belongings were discovered in an apartment owned by Charles Ng. Some were discovered in Lake's cabin at Wilseyville. He was identified on the videotapes by relatives and is presumed to be a victim of Leonard Lake and Charles Ng. Clifford Parenteau is one of the individuals who was named in the indictment against Charles Ng. He also appeared in The Doe Network website listing. Robin (or Scott) Stapley was, according to one report, 26 years old. According to another report, he was 24 years old. He was reportedly the founder of San Diego's Guardian Angels chapter. He was invited by Lonnie O'Connor to stay with the O'Connor family as added protection because Brenda O'Connor didn't trust Leonard Lake, who was their nearest neighbor. Neither the O'Connor's nor Robin Stapley have been seen since April (or May — reports vary) of 1985. Charles Ng reportedly said that he had helped Leonard Lake bury Stapley, who had been missing for several weeks when Leonard Lake was arrested on June 2, 1985. When Leonard Lake was first approached by the police, he gave his name as Robin Stapley and had a driver's license in that name. Maurice Wock was reportedly an excellent guitarist and the life of the party whenever he and his allegedly drug-addicted friends got together. He was a negro and reportedly a hippie-type individual with braided hair and gold emblems and chains dangling from his neck. He's one of the victims whose body was reportedly ground into chicken feed. For PayPal payments, use frontiersman@pharos.pricelesshost.net.
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Acknowledgments My thanks to the following: Sir James the Bold; SantaClara Bob; Lady Jan the Voluptuous; Lord Jeffrey the Studious; and Jon, of Oroville, California. — editor
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