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Most-Chilling-Serial-Killer-Case-in-California-History-Serial-Killer-Documentary · The Evolution of Evil - True Crime Stories

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  Speaker 1: In the summer of nineteen eighty four, San Francisco is
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  Speaker 1: gripped by fear. Neighbors, family, and friends are vanishing without
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  Speaker 1: a trace. Police are perplexed. The investigation takes a deadly
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  Speaker 1: turn when a killing field is uncovered high in the
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  Speaker 1: California Mountains. As the Mighty killed clients. The evidence points
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  Speaker 1: to an elusive killer. To bring this murderer to justice,
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  Speaker 1: the small town prosecutor must take a long, dark journey
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  Speaker 1: into the mind of a serial killer. On the morning
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  Speaker 1: of October twenty sixth, nineteen ninety eight, the longest and
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  Speaker 1: most expensive criminal trial in California history got under way.
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  Speaker 1: With an investigation spanning thirteen years and a case file
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  Speaker 1: weighing over two tons. The burden of prosecuting one of
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  Speaker 1: California's most notorious killers forming Peter Smith, the District Attorney
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  Speaker 1: of Calaveras County.
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  Speaker 2: A prosecutor's job is to seek justice. I think many
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  Speaker 2: people look at prosecutors and think their job is to
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  Speaker 2: convict and put people in jail or prison, and that's
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  Speaker 2: part of the job too, But it really is our
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  Speaker 2: responsibility to make sure the justice system, particularly a criminal
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  Speaker 2: justice system.
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  Speaker 3: Is.
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  Speaker 2: Carried out fairly to the point where justice has always
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  Speaker 2: sought Officers.
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  Speaker 1: Une second, nineteen eighty five, a South San Francisco dispatch
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  Speaker 1: operator received a call a theft was in progress at
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  Speaker 1: South City Lumber thirty.
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  Speaker 4: One Boy one ten eighty seven, Robert one at South
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  Speaker 4: City Lumber Railroad and Spruce on a forty eight shoplifting.
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  Speaker 1: Officer Daniel Wright at the South San Francisco Police Department
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  Speaker 1: responded to the call.
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  Speaker 5: I had just one year on the street at that time,
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  Speaker 5: and you know, my thoughts were, you know, officer safety.
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  Speaker 1: Be careful.
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  Speaker 5: Like any call you go to, things could go awry
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  Speaker 5: at any time.
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  Speaker 1: A witness told Right he had seen an Asian male
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  Speaker 1: stealing a seventy five dollars table device. He said the thief,
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  Speaker 1: when confronted, tossed device into the trunk of a brown
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  Speaker 1: Honda and fled on foot. Inside the Honda, Wright spotted
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  Speaker 1: a suspicious looking case.
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  Speaker 5: I opened up the case and found a twenty two
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  Speaker 5: ruger with a cylinder shape object that was probably six
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  Speaker 5: to nine inches long, and through my training I observed
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  Speaker 5: it to be a silencer.
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  Speaker 1: The gun was illegally modified. As Wright took a closer look,
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  Speaker 1: an agitated man burst from the store. He told the
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  Speaker 1: officer he paid for the vice his friend had taken.
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  Speaker 1: Right Supervisor Sergeant Paul Zeemer arrived on the scene. The
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  Speaker 1: gun in the Honda made both officers suspicious. The car
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  Speaker 1: was impounded at that time.
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  Speaker 5: We told him that he was going to be going
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  Speaker 5: down to the station to give a statement about the weapon,
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  Speaker 5: and he was handcuffed and placed into Officer Zemer's vehicle
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  Speaker 5: and brought to our station.
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  Speaker 1: On the way to the station, the man told Zemer
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  Speaker 1: the shoplifter's name was Charles Ing.
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  Speaker 6: I got an ID on at eight miles.
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  Speaker 1: The officer used his radio to request a background check
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  Speaker 1: on ing November. They got a hit. Ing was a
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  Speaker 1: former marine born in Hong Kong. He'd been convicted in
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  Speaker 1: military court for stealing automatic weapons from a military base
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  Speaker 1: in Hawaii. He had once escaped from a military prison.
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  Speaker 1: At the South San Francisco Police station, the subject was
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  Speaker 1: placed in a secure holding room. He told the officer
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  Speaker 1: his name was Leonard Lake. He said he was a
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  Speaker 1: fugitive from justice and offered to make a statement, but
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  Speaker 1: first he wanted a piece of paper, a pencil, and
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  Speaker 1: a glass of water.
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  Speaker 6: Write your statement. I'll be back.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yes, seems to room to summon. Gary Hopper, the
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  Speaker 1: uncalled detective that Sunday. When they returned, Lake was on
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  Speaker 1: the floor convulsing wild Paper. Detective Hopper called the paramedics.
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  Speaker 7: He was flopping around on the floor. It was very violent,
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  Speaker 7: like a fish flapping out of water. Uncontrollable.
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  Speaker 6: But we had no.
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  Speaker 7: Idea what was happening at the time, whether it was
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  Speaker 7: like an epileptic seizure or just what was going on.
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  Speaker 1: Detective Paper called the paramedics.
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  Speaker 7: What's the car gets latter to give odesy hospital. He
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  Speaker 7: thought out a little later that there was they were fighting,
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  Speaker 7: no activity at all, that is prayed that he was
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  Speaker 7: apparently prayed at.
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  Speaker 1: An autopsy later revealed that Lake had ingested capsules containing cyanide.
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  Speaker 7: The doctor told me and the lab technicians told me
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  Speaker 7: that it took about twenty to twenty five minutes for
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  Speaker 7: the gel cap to dissolve before the sayadide actually had
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  Speaker 7: a system, and that that would probably coincide fairly well
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  Speaker 7: with the about a type between he was at the lumberyard.
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  Speaker 7: It brought to the police station.
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  Speaker 1: Rather than writing a statement, Lake had written a note
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  Speaker 1: to a woman named Lynn. The note read dear Lynn,
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  Speaker 1: I love you, I forgive you. Freedom is better than
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  Speaker 1: all else. I'm sorry, Mom, Patty and all. I'm sorry
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  Speaker 1: for all the trouble, Love Leonard. Police were perplexed. Why
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  Speaker 1: had the suspect taken his own life. Whatever secrets Leonard
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  Speaker 1: Lake held took to the grave. The answer might lie
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  Speaker 1: with Lake's companion, Charles ng. Police issued a warrant for
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  Speaker 1: Ing's arrest for shoplifting. Then they processed the car Lake
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  Speaker 1: had been driving. When they ran the serial number on
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  Speaker 1: the Honda's engine block, investigators discovered that the car belonged
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  Speaker 1: to Paul Coosner. Cosner, a Bay Area resident, had been
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  Speaker 1: missing for seven months. Hello Detective Irene Brunn of the
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  Speaker 1: San Francisco Police Department investigated Cosner's disappearance. Cosner's sister had
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  Speaker 1: reported him missing months earlier ope and.
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  Speaker 3: A half hour, and she was quite distraught her brother
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  Speaker 3: had disappeared. He had had a date that evening with
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  Speaker 3: his girlfriend for dinner, who also lived in the same
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  Speaker 3: apartment building where he lived. He failed to show up
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  Speaker 3: for that dinner date, and in speaking to the girlfriend,
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  Speaker 3: Paul was going to show a car that he was
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  Speaker 3: selling through an advertisement in the paper.
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  Speaker 1: Cosner was only one of many strange cases involving missing
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  Speaker 1: persons in the Bay Area. Detective Brown was also investigating
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  Speaker 1: the disappearance of an entire family. On July twenty fifth,
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  Speaker 1: nineteen eighty four, San Francisco police responded to a frantic
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  Speaker 1: call for help.
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  Speaker 6: RV.
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  Speaker 1: Dubbs, his wife, and their sixteen month old son, Sean
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  Speaker 1: hadn't been seen for several days. Police had to climb
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  Speaker 1: through a window to gain access to the dubs apartment.
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  Speaker 8: Francisco Police form any by our promises.
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  Speaker 1: The Dubbs family had indeed disappeared, and the signs of
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  Speaker 1: a struggle were apparent. Days earlier, RV. Dubbs had placed
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  Speaker 1: an ad in the newspaper to rent out his video equipment.
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  Speaker 1: That equipment was now missing. Missing person cases usually fit
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  Speaker 1: a certain profile. They often involved teenage runaways or people
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  Speaker 1: who disappeared without telling anyone, only to return a.
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  Speaker 6: Few days later.
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  Speaker 1: In the case of the Dubs, it was clear the
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  Speaker 1: family hadn't left voluntarily. Detective Brun feared they would never return.
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  Speaker 3: In the house, there were things that were unusual and
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  Speaker 3: out of order. The baby's room was out of order.
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  Speaker 3: Debra's medication was left at home and it was something
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  Speaker 3: she had to take every day, So there were a
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  Speaker 3: lot of things that were just didn't look right. They
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  Speaker 3: left their cats locked in the house unattended, and they
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  Speaker 3: wouldn't have done that.
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  Speaker 1: It is unusual for people like Paul Kosner or the
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  Speaker 1: Dubbs family to simply vanish without a trace, without leads.
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  Speaker 1: Both cases had gone cold.
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  Speaker 3: To be realistic, we get five hundred a month. We
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  Speaker 3: had one family disappeared July twenty fifth, now that now
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  Speaker 3: we're up to November second, So because of the caseload,
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  Speaker 3: you know, you're not trying to pin cases together. The
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  Speaker 3: only similarity was a newspaper ad.
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  Speaker 1: Based on the discovery of Paul Cosner's brown Honda Runn
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  Speaker 1: and her partner reopened his case and searched the vehicle
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  Speaker 1: for clues. They found a driver's license belonging to a
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  Speaker 1: man named Scott Stately. They found a stun gun and
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  Speaker 1: several unspent bullets on the floor of the car. A
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  Speaker 1: recent electric bill addressed to an unknown woman named clar
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  Speaker 1: Lynn Ballas was found under the passenger seat, and in
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  Speaker 1: the roof of the car. Investigators found a single bullet
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  Speaker 1: can the trajectory of the bullet indicated the shot was
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  Speaker 1: fired from the back seat. The investigators sprayed luminol around
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  Speaker 1: the interior of the vehicle. Luminol reacts with proteins in blood,
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  Speaker 1: making even traces of blood fluoresce high velocity. Blood spatter
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  Speaker 1: associated with a gunshot wound appeared on the roof next
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  Speaker 1: to the front passenger seat. Brunn and her partner now
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  Speaker 1: suspected they would never find Cosner alive. With Leonard Lake
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  Speaker 1: dead and his partner Charles ing at large, investigators could
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  Speaker 1: only wonder how many more victims they might find at
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  Speaker 1: the end of this trail of blood. Leonard Lake's mysterious
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  Speaker 1: suicide had now launched a full scale police investigation. Brown
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  Speaker 1: and her partner drove to the home of Leonard Lake's mother,
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  Speaker 1: lived about an hour outside of San Francisco. At the house,
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  Speaker 1: they were surprised to find Clara Lynn Bealaz, the woman
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  Speaker 1: whose name appeared on the electric bill found in Cosner's car.
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  Speaker 1: Clara Lynn Bealaz was Lake's ex wife. They had been
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  Speaker 1: married for three years, but divorced a year earlier. It's
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  Speaker 1: long drive up detectives suspected she might be the woman
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  Speaker 1: Lake addressed in his suicide note. They asked BelAZ how
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  Speaker 1: an electric bill in her name wound up in Paul
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  Speaker 1: Cosner's car. Balaz explained the address on the bill was
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  Speaker 1: for a cabin her family owned in Calaveras County in
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  Speaker 1: northern California. Although bron and her partner were eager to
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  Speaker 1: search the cabin, Blaz claimed she was too busy to
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  Speaker 1: take them there until the next day. The detectives postponed
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  Speaker 1: their search until the following morning and instructed Bellas not
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  Speaker 1: to visit the property. In the meantime ten o'clock.
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  Speaker 9: Thank you very much, thank you.
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  Speaker 3: So we called the Calva Sheriff's Department and told them
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  Speaker 3: that we were going to be coming up the following morning,
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  Speaker 3: and why we were going, and if it was possible
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  Speaker 3: for them to have somebody keep an eye on the property.
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  Speaker 1: Calaveras County covers over eleven hundred square miles of wild terrain.
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  Speaker 1: The course of thirty four officers protected the entire county
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  Speaker 1: in nineteen eighty five, there hadn't been need for more.
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  Speaker 1: The sheriff sent two deputies to watch the cabin, which
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  Speaker 1: was located outside the town of Wilseyville, a metal gate
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  Speaker 1: prevented them from driving onto the property.
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  Speaker 3: Because of their manpower shortage, they couldn't have somebody sit
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  Speaker 3: there for the next twenty four hours, but they would
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  Speaker 3: make passing calls, which was reasonable.
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  Speaker 1: The following morning, Brunn and her partner arranged to meet
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  Speaker 1: Claralyne Belas outside the Wilseyville Post Office. They were surprised
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  Speaker 1: when she arrived with Lake's mother, and.
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  Speaker 3: At that point Clrolyn admitted that they had driven up
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  Speaker 3: the night before and the pretext was that Leonard was
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  Speaker 3: very untidy and they wanted to tidy up the cabin.
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  Speaker 1: Concerned that Belas and Lake's mother might have compromised evidence
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  Speaker 1: at the cabin, Brunn, her partner, and the Calaveras County
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  Speaker 1: sheriffs followed them to the property. The detectives asked BelAZ
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  Speaker 1: about a cinderblock bunker near the cabin. She said she
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  Speaker 1: didn't have the key and would not give them permission
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  Speaker 1: to search it. Lacking sufficient probable cause for a warrant,
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  Speaker 1: the detectives would have to limit their search to the
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  Speaker 1: cabin alone.
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  Speaker 3: But at this point we were still more interested in
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  Speaker 3: getting into the house, so we didn't want to antagonize her.
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  Speaker 3: Because this was a consent search. Other than that, we
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  Speaker 3: would have had to stop and go get a search warrant.
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  Speaker 3: At that point, while.
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  Speaker 1: Her partner questioned Belase, Detective Brun searched the house.
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  Speaker 6: I came up last night just for a fewtus.
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  Speaker 1: You noticed something odd about the bed. There were holes
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  Speaker 1: drilled into the bedposts and the floor. It seemed designed
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  Speaker 1: to tie someone up.
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  Speaker 3: And I was standing in front of this bookcase and
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  Speaker 3: I happened to turn around, and all of a sudden,
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  Speaker 3: I recognize a piece of equipment. And then it dawns
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  Speaker 3: on me where I had seen it.
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  Speaker 1: It was the doves, the video equipment Brounric had been
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  Speaker 1: stolen from the home of Harvey Dubbs, the San Francisco
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  Speaker 1: man who vanished with his family eleven months earlier.
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  Speaker 3: So I went over and called my office. I said,
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  Speaker 3: would you mind checking our inventory and read me the
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  Speaker 3: serial number to be proceeded to start reading the serial number,
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  Speaker 3: and then I gave him the last three numbers from
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  Speaker 3: the piece of paper that I had my hand. And
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  Speaker 3: so at that point we realized that now this is
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  Speaker 3: even getting bigger. It's not just mister Cosner. Now we
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  Speaker 3: have the dubs, and at that point Clara Lynn got
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  Speaker 3: very nervous and said, you've been here long enough. I
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  Speaker 3: want you to leave.
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  Speaker 1: To learn what other secrets the isolated cabin held. Detective
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  Speaker 1: Brun would need to obtain a search warrant. The investigators
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  Speaker 1: left the property, but this time they made certain the
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  Speaker 1: cabin would be secure until they returned. As investigators conducted
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  Speaker 1: a search of Leonard Lake's cabin in Calaveras County, they
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  Speaker 1: had discovered video equipment that belonged to a family who
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  Speaker 1: had been missing for nearly a year. This gave them
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  Speaker 1: sufficient probable cause to petition the judge for a warrant.
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  Speaker 1: Ron McFall led the investigation for the Calaveras County Sheriff's Office.
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  Speaker 10: We did get one that day, and later that afternoon
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  Speaker 10: we went back to the residents to conduct a search
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  Speaker 10: of the residents and the property and what looked like
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  Speaker 10: a tool shed at first.
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  Speaker 1: The tool shed was a cinderblock structure that bordered the driveway.
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  Speaker 1: Clare Lyn Belaze referred to it as a fallout shelter.
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  Speaker 11: Got it.
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  Speaker 1: Leonard Lake had been a survivalist and this was his
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  Speaker 1: fortress against nuclear holocaust. As the heavy door swung open.
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  Speaker 1: Investigators could only wonder what they might find inside.
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  Speaker 10: And we went into the tool shed and we saw
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  Speaker 10: twenty one photos of a young ladies eighteen to twenty
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  Speaker 10: three years old. And so we were at that point
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  Speaker 10: really concerned about who are these females? Who are these ladies.
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  Speaker 1: Many of the photos were of young girls in various
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  Speaker 1: stages of undress, some were nude. It was unclear who
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  Speaker 1: the subjects were or where they had been photographed. Everyone
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  Speaker 1: feared the pictures might be trophies, such as those serial
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  Speaker 1: killers often keep of their victims. They also found a
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  Speaker 1: journal written by Leonard Lake. In it, he wrote of
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  Speaker 1: The Collector, a novel about a butterfly collector who captures
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  Speaker 1: his ultimate prize, a young girl named Miranda. In his journal,
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  Speaker 1: Lake writes the Collector, as it really been near twenty
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  Speaker 1: years I've carried this fantasy and Mirenda, how fitting, my
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  Speaker 1: lovely little prisoner of the future. In other entries, Lake
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  Speaker 1: referred to a series of operations under the heading of
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  Speaker 1: the Mirnda project. The investigators could only speculate as to
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  Speaker 1: what this meant, but it seemed ominous.
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  Speaker 6: Ron and you'll see where there's what appears.
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  Speaker 1: To be one hundred yards from the bunker, Ron McFall
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  Speaker 1: and the other investigators noticed the ground had been scarred
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  Speaker 1: by a series of several fires.
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  Speaker 10: We'd noticed at that point approximately seven different burn sites
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  Speaker 10: on the property. We decided to look at the burn
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  Speaker 10: sites a little further and we found what we thought
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  Speaker 10: maybe bone fragments, but we really weren't sure.
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  Speaker 1: If the piles of ash did contain human bone fragments.
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  Speaker 1: Someone had attempted to conceal an unspeakable horror. Now desperate
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  Speaker 1: for answers, investigators ran the license plates of a truck
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  Speaker 1: parked near the cabin. It belonged to Lonnie Bond. Lake's neighbor.
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  Speaker 1: Lonny Bond lived with his wife an eighteen month old
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  Speaker 1: son in a house about fifty yards from Lake's cabin.
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  Speaker 1: Officers walked next door to speak with Bond.
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  Speaker 12: Hello, anybody here?
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  Speaker 6: Everybody home?
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  Speaker 1: The smell of decayed food thickened the air. The house
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  Speaker 1: appeared to have been empty for some time, perhaps months,
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  Speaker 1: Although it seemed the occupants departed abruptly, there was no
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  Speaker 1: sign of foul play. Another vehicle found on Lake's property
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  Speaker 1: belonged to Robin Scott Stapeley. Stapley had been missing for
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  Speaker 1: some time, and his driver's license was found in Paul
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  Speaker 1: Coosner's car.
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  Speaker 3: Leonard Lake had used Scott Stapley's driver's license because they
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  Speaker 3: were both big fellows, and he had been trying to
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  Speaker 3: pass himself off of Scott Stapley. So we're contacting southern
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  Speaker 3: California to see, you know, where is Scott Stapley. And
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  Speaker 3: it turns out that he had been living at the
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  Speaker 3: cabin next door, and no one has seen them either.
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  Speaker 1: Investigators intensified their search.
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  Speaker 6: Well.
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  Speaker 1: Cadaver dogs, known for their acute sense of smell, were
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  Speaker 1: brought in to help. Authorities now suspected that eight missing
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  Speaker 1: people from northern California were linked to the cabin if
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  Speaker 1: they had been murdered, as police feared, perhaps their bodies
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  Speaker 1: were buried on the property. One of the dogs recovered
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  Speaker 1: a piece of bone. The deputies working the scene knew
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  Speaker 1: immediately that this was not an animal bone. With the
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  Speaker 1: discovery of human remains, what had been a missing person's
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  Speaker 1: case now became a homicide investigation. Investigators declared Leonard Lake's
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  Speaker 1: property a crime scene and assembled a task force to
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  Speaker 1: process the cabin and surrounding property. Due to the expanding
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  Speaker 1: scope of the case. The Calaveras County Sheriff's Office called
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  Speaker 1: in additional help. Specialists from the San Francisco Police Department
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  Speaker 1: and the California Department of Justice arrived to help with
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  Speaker 1: the investigation. Three days after Leonard Lake's suicide, a convoy
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  Speaker 1: of law enforcement vehicles descended.
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  Speaker 13: On the property.
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  Speaker 1: Now that this was a murder investigation, police knew that
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  Speaker 1: all material recovered from a site could become vital to
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  Speaker 1: the eventual prosecution of the case. Each section of the
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: property was assigned to a specific team. The teams began
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  Speaker 1: a thorough search of the two acres surrounding the cabin.
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  Speaker 1: In a clearing about one hundred yards from the cabin,
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  Speaker 1: officers found a trench with loose dirt. They found the
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  Speaker 1: trench had been filled with personal belongings and debris, was
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  Speaker 1: a ballot, god something. Sergeant Copeland, an investigator for the
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  Speaker 1: Calaveras County Sheriff's Office, joined in the search for clues.
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  Speaker 14: Every button, zipper, jewelry, even everything that was taken out
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  Speaker 14: of there was turnover the evidence officer who took each
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  Speaker 14: one and individually photographed each and every piece of it.
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  Speaker 14: And we're talking hundreds.
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  Speaker 1: Everything excavated from the property was potential evidence. All of
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: the items were collected and sent to the Calaveras County
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: Sheriff's office. They were meticulously cataloged. Investigators hoped that somewhere
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: in this vast collection of evidence they would find the
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: clue that would untangle the mysteries hidden on Lake's property.
• 24:45
  Speaker 14: If we felt there was any chance of it being used,
• 24:49
  Speaker 14: or something that either ourselves or the defense could use,
• 24:52
  Speaker 14: we took it and booked it.
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: Investigators sorted through the survival gear and supplies Lake had
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: stocked child in his so called fallout shelter. Lieutenant Ron
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: McFall remembers that during this phase of the search they
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: made a surprising discovery. There was a secret door inside
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: the bunker.
• 25:16
  Speaker 10: It was a false story. You really couldn't tell just
• 25:19
  Speaker 10: by looking at it, but there was shelving units, and
• 25:22
  Speaker 10: after you wiggled the shelves you saw that the door
• 25:25
  Speaker 10: actually popped open.
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: Beyond the shelves was a double door leading to a
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: hidden room. After the side was another three foot by
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: six foot compartment. The cramp space contained a homemade woodcut,
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: a crude shelf holding some toilet trees, and a roll
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: of toilet paper. A small hole had been cut into
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: the wall near the ceiling, possibly for ventilation. A typed
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: list of rules was affixed to one wall. They included
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: I must always be ready to service my master and
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: must never speak unless spoken to. I must always be
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: obedient and never look my master in the eye. From outside,
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: investigators could see into the small room through a two
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: way mirror. They also noticed that the hinges of the
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: door had been damaged.
• 26:27
  Speaker 6: Top at the bottom.
• 26:29
  Speaker 15: You'll further notice the hinges are bent from obviously pressure
• 26:36
  Speaker 15: from inside the door pushing out trying to get the
• 26:38
  Speaker 15: door open, both the top and bottom.
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: Remembering Lake's journal, investigators feared that Lake had acted upon
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: his fantasy of kidnapping and holding captive a human slave.
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: Forensic specialists dusted for fingerprints and lake in evidence. They
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: hoped that if Lake had indeed kept a prisoner here,
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: he or she had left behind some clue of their presence.
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: They found nothing. As the search of the property outside
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: the bunker continued, an investigator noticed some loose soil next
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: to the driveway. There they found a five gallon plastic
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: paint container. As darkness fell, the task force suspended its
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: search inside the cabin, the investigators viewed one of the
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: videotapes they had found buried in the plastic container. They
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: could hardly believe what they were seeing. This case was
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: becoming more frightening with each piece of evidence they uncovered,
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: but nothing could prepare them for what lay ahead. After
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: two days of searching Leonard Lake's cabin, investigators feared more
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: than eight people had been killed and possibly buried on
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: the property. On the second night, a task force moved
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: inside the cabin to view the videotape found buried in
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: a plastic container. The tape depicted two women suffering extreme
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: verbal and psychological abuse at the hands of Leonard Lake
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: and his accomplice, who demanded sexual submission under the threat
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: of violence.
• 28:33
  Speaker 10: We also observed an Asian male on the tape and
• 28:37
  Speaker 10: he had a knife in his hand and he was
• 28:39
  Speaker 10: cutting the clothing. This would be the blouse, the top
• 28:44
  Speaker 10: as well as the bra strap, removing clothes from the female.
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: The Asian male was identified as Charles Ing, a shoplifter
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: Leonard Lake had identified just prior to his Suicideicide Division
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: of the San Francisco Police Department launched a full scale
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: manhunt for Charles NG. Investigators started with a search of
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: ins San Francisco apartment. They collected some video equipment and
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: a number of videotapes. Everything was tagged as evidence and
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: sent for analysis. San Francisco homicide detective ed Erdelatz led
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: a task force that investigated the euro disappearance of the
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: Dubbs family. The equipment Lake and Ing had used to
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: videotape their captives had once belonged to Harvey Dubbs.
• 29:37
  Speaker 16: Investigators had obtained his California driver's license photo and had
• 29:42
  Speaker 16: made up a photo collage, showed it to neighbors, and
• 29:45
  Speaker 16: identified him as one of the people coming out of
• 29:49
  Speaker 16: the Dubs home.
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: One of the Dubs neighbors told investigators that the night
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: before the family was reported missing, she saw two men
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: leaving their residence. One of the men was carrying a
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: large Duffel bag. It was dark, but she said she
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: could identify him. The eyewitness's critical identification of Charles NG
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: gave investigators probable cause to issue an arrest warrant. Caroline BelAZ,
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: Leonard Lake's ex wife, was questioned about her ex husband's
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: association with Charles NG. She agreed to talk, but only
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: after her attorney convinced the District attorney's office to grant
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: her immunity from prosecution. Belas claimed she didn't know anything
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: about the murders. She did tell them that after the
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: shoplifting incident, King walked to her house. The two drove
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: back to the lumber yard to see if Lake was
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: all right.
• 31:00
  Speaker 6: Well.
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: When they saw him talking to the police, they returned
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: to her house. There they waited expecting a call from Lake,
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: who was now in police custody. When he didn't call,
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: Clalynd drove in to his apartment. King told clare Lyn
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: he had to get out of town.
• 31:22
  Speaker 16: She said that she thought he would probably go to Chicago,
• 31:25
  Speaker 16: that he had mentioned that he would go to Chicago
• 31:28
  Speaker 16: if he had to get out of town, and she
• 31:32
  Speaker 16: claims that that was last that she saw.
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: Because Ing was wanted for murder and there was reason
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: to believe he had fled the state, the California investigators
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: asked for assistance from the FBI. In response, the Bureau
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: launched a massive manhunt for Charles Ing. At San Francisco
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: International Airport, agents learned that a passenger fitting Ing's description
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: had boarded a plane to Chicago, travel under the name
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: Mike Kimoto in Chicago. Agents worked to track Ing's movements.
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: They started with an extensive background check.
• 32:14
  Speaker 13: Charley.
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: Investigators learned that Charles Ing was born in Hong Kong
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: and entered the United States on a student visa in
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: nineteen seventy nine. He enlisted in the Marine Corps, but
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: was eventually arrested for stealing weapons. He escaped from prison and,
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: on the advice of a friend, hid out with Leonard
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: Lake and his wife. Clrolyne Ying stayed with Lake and
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: his wife for six months in Filo, California. At the
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: same time, at F agents were building a case against
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: Lake for possession of illegal firearms. In the spring of
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: nineteen eighty one, they arrested both Lake and Inn. Lake
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: skipped bail and began his life as a fugitive. Ng
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: was sent back to prison to serve the remainder of
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: his original sentence.
• 33:12
  Speaker 16: Ng was released from prison in nineteen eighty four and
• 33:16
  Speaker 16: immediately came back to the San Francisco Bay area. Was
• 33:20
  Speaker 16: picked up at the airport by Clara Lynn Belase and
• 33:23
  Speaker 16: rejoined his buddy Leonard Lake.
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: Charles Ing was an experienced fugitive with a wide network
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: of friends who could help him to develop more leads.
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: The FBI placed Ng on their ten most Wanted list
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: for the time being. Agents focused on Ng's friends and
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: acquaintances in the Chicago area. As the investigation into Charles
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: Zing expanded, a body count in Calaveras County continued to climb.
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: Not far from Lake's cabin, investigators unearthed two intact bodies
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: wrapped in sleeping banks. Calaveras County Coroner Terry Parker was
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: on the scene.
• 34:14
  Speaker 4: They were mostly skeletal remains that were wrapped. He couldn't
• 34:19
  Speaker 4: really make out if there were men or women of
• 34:23
  Speaker 4: the time that the bodies had been there.
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: Due to the deterioration of the bodies, Parker could make
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: only a cursory examination. At the site, it appeared both
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: victims had been gagged and handcuffed. He asked for help
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: from the San Francisco Medical Examiner.
• 34:42
  Speaker 4: San Francisco has a very good forensic department and he
• 34:46
  Speaker 4: was more than happy to come up and assist us.
• 34:50
  Speaker 4: We removed the bodies and transport them to his office
• 34:54
  Speaker 4: for the forensic work, where that.
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: Was done at autopsy. Francisco Medical Examiner determined both victims
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: were males and that they had been shot to death.
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: Using dental records, he identified the men as Lake's neighbors,
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: Bonnie Bond and Scott Stateley in Chicago, the FBI got
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: their first leave. They learned that after serving time on
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: the weapons charge, Ing had kept in touch with his
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: former cellmate. A man described how he had driven Ing
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: first to Detroit, then to the border town of Chatham. There,
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: he said they split up. A witness came forward and
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: told agents that he had seen Ing board a bus
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: in Chatham bound for Toronto. Agents were aware that Ing's
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: sister lived there. The FBI deployed a surveillance team at
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: her apartment house. The future never showed. After days of
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: following in the trail, Breed Gold, the suspected serial killer,
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: was now roaming free in Canada. As word of the
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: multiple murders spread, the news media descended on the property
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: in Calaveras County. Don Lassiter is a true crime author
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: who wrote a book on the Charles.
• 36:27
  Speaker 12: In case, and of course, the media, when they first
• 36:31
  Speaker 12: heard of this, rushed to the site and daily. The
• 36:37
  Speaker 12: media coverage grew, and it got coverage all over California
• 36:43
  Speaker 12: and soon all over the United States and certainly even
• 36:45
  Speaker 12: in Canada.
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: The investigators agreed to let the media on the property.
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: They showed them the site and allowed them to videotape
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: some of the evidence they had collected.
• 36:58
  Speaker 17: Up until this point, we've really we relied on our
• 37:00
  Speaker 17: imaginations to visualize this story. But today we have pictures,
• 37:04
  Speaker 17: pictures that will probably leave many people with an everlasting
• 37:07
  Speaker 17: image of the horror that occurred at the end of
• 37:09
  Speaker 17: this road. These are some of the bone fragments that
• 37:13
  Speaker 17: have been found, and investigators say there are countless fragments
• 37:16
  Speaker 17: just like those scattered over a third of an acre here.
• 37:19
  Speaker 17: The California Conservation Corps has been recruited to pick up
• 37:22
  Speaker 17: the bones. Most of them worked on their hands and knees,
• 37:25
  Speaker 17: raking the ground with their fingers. Investigators came up with
• 37:28
  Speaker 17: ten pounds of bones. The local corner says five bodies
• 37:33
  Speaker 17: have been found here so far. The Calaveras County Sheriff
• 37:36
  Speaker 17: once told me though he believes there are as many
• 37:38
  Speaker 17: as twenty victims though buried on the property.
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: Investigators were counting on the media exposure to help identify
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: the twenty one women depicted in the photographs tacked for
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: the wall of Lake's bunker.
• 37:53
  Speaker 13: We certainly want to know the circumstances of the photos
• 37:56
  Speaker 13: when they were taken. We're interested in and knowing anything
• 38:02
  Speaker 13: we can about mister Lake and mister Ang.
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: A telephone hotline was set up by the Calavera Sheriff's Department,
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: and calls soon began pouring in. We have detectives believed
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: Leonard Lake and Charles Inc Crossed paths with as many
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: as twenty five people who were later reported.
• 38:21
  Speaker 18: Missing property in Calaveras County.
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: Working under San Francisco investigator ed Erdelatz, the task force
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: tried to piece together any leads that would locate in
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: or help identify the growing list of victims.
• 38:36
  Speaker 16: Anybody that had anything to do with either Lak or Ring.
• 38:39
  Speaker 16: We attempted to identify and find out if they were
• 38:42
  Speaker 16: still alive, and if they were, what their relationship was.
• 38:46
  Speaker 16: And it was through that process that we began to
• 38:49
  Speaker 16: identify different victims.
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: Members of the task force were sent around with photos
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: of personal belongings found on the property in an effort
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: to identify anyone who had been at the cabin.
• 39:00
  Speaker 10: To see if you recognize.
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: Relatives and friends of the missing realized their loved ones
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: might be among the dead. There was the Dubbs family
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: from San Francisco, who placed an ad in the newspaper
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: to rent their video equipment and were never heard from again.
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: Randy Jacobson, a friend of Leonard Lake's, was found buried
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: near a chicken coop behind the cabin. Jeff Gerald, who
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: worked with Ing at a San Francisco moving company, disappeared,
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: along with his friend Clifford Parento, who worked at the
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: same company. Ying's longtime friend Mike Carroll and his girlfriend
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: Kathleen Allen had disappeared. Lake's neighbors were also missing, Lonnie Bonn,
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: Brenda O'Connor and their sixteen month old child, Lonnie Junior.
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: Their friend Robin Scott Stapley had vanished with them, and finally,
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: Paul Kosner, whose car had originally led investigators on this
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: trail of kidnapping and murder. The task force received one
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: bit of good.
• 40:23
  Speaker 8: News, who finally caught a break on his sword.
• 40:28
  Speaker 12: We rebel eyed the all these women, and they're.
• 40:29
  Speaker 7: All still alive.
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: Finding the girls alive was a relief, but Lake's properties
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: still held many mysteries. Agents feared they would never know
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: the complete story of the Calaveras County murders unless they
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: found Charles In. After weeks of search on they still
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: had not located the fugitive. Then, on July sixth, nineteen
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: eighty five, boy riding his bicycle in a Canadian park
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: spotted the perfect place for a play for it. He
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: was surprised to see a man living there. He went
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: to the police and told them he had found a
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: campsite and had seen a man who looked like Charles Ing.
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: The boy recognized him from water posters. He led police
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: to the makeshift shelter, only to find that Ing had.
• 41:31
  Speaker 18: Fled fifty pampig clearing.
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: Later that same day, Charles Ng would make the mistake
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: investigators had been waiting for. Ironically, it was the same
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: mistake that started the police investigation. A month earlier, plae Check,
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: a security guard confronted a young Asian male as he
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: slipped stolen merchandise into his knapsack in a Calgary department store.
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: As the security guards struggled with the gunman, he was
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: shot in the hand. Still, he managed to wrestle the
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: weapon from the shooter and held him until police arrived.
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: Charles Ing was captured and booked on charges of attempted murder, robbery,
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: and possession of a firearm.
• 42:34
  Speaker 19: Good Evening Poppy Nightwatch. Charles Ng is in a Canadian
• 42:38
  Speaker 19: jail tonight, and the worldwide manhunt has.
• 42:40
  Speaker 8: Edded for the.
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: Of N's arrest in Canada reached the Sheriff's office in
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: Calaveras County.
• 42:47
  Speaker 19: Ing was captured by security guards in a Calgary department store,
• 42:51
  Speaker 19: but not before he engaged them in a brief gun
• 42:53
  Speaker 19: battle and wounded one of the guards. Ng was quickly
• 42:56
  Speaker 19: subdued by sore patrons and was taken into police custody.
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: San Francisco Police Inspector ed Ertelatz was eager to question
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: the suspect. He flew to Calgary, where Ing was being
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: held in a maximum security prison.
• 43:13
  Speaker 16: And we spent quite a few hours with Charles and
• 43:17
  Speaker 16: the detention center in Calgary. And although he did talk
• 43:21
  Speaker 16: with us, most of his responses were one in two
• 43:26
  Speaker 16: word answers, a very little dialogue, and primarily denial. We
• 43:32
  Speaker 16: could have gone into a lot of things had he
• 43:36
  Speaker 16: been willing to talk to us about those things, but
• 43:39
  Speaker 16: that didn't occur.
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: The murders Ing claimed were all the work of Leonard Lake.
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: When pressed, Ing did admit to Erdelatz that he had
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: helped Lake dispose the bodies of Lonnie Bond and Scott
• 43:53
  Speaker 1: Stapley the day after they were murdered in Paras County.
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: The District Attorney's office indicted Ng on twelve counts of
• 44:04
  Speaker 1: first degree murder, making it possible for the prosecution to
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: seek the death penalty, but Ing's flight to Canada had
• 44:12
  Speaker 1: created a significant obstacle. District Attorney Pete Smith explains.
• 44:19
  Speaker 2: There is an extradition treaty between the United States and
• 44:21
  Speaker 2: Canada at the time, and in that extradition treaty there
• 44:27
  Speaker 2: was a condition that nobody would be extradited from Canada
• 44:31
  Speaker 2: back to the United States who faced the death penalty.
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: There were some exceptions to the treaty.
• 44:38
  Speaker 6: However, do you think we can work around that?
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: If the District Attorney's office could prove to a Canadian
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: court that Ng was guilty of multiple murders, Canada would
• 44:47
  Speaker 1: be required to hand over the suspected killer before the
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: extradition hearing could begin. Ing would have to stand trial
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: in Canada on shoplifting and assault charges. In order to
• 45:01
  Speaker 1: delay his extradition, Ing waived his right to a jury
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: trial and asked for a speedier bench trial. He received
• 45:10
  Speaker 1: a four and a half year sentence. Until he completed
• 45:14
  Speaker 1: that sentence, the Calaveras County District Attorney could not initiate
• 45:17
  Speaker 1: the complicated extradition process. Even if they could prove their case,
• 45:24
  Speaker 1: they would have to wait over four years before they
• 45:27
  Speaker 1: could begin. While the Calaveras County District Attorney's office built
• 45:34
  Speaker 1: their case against Charles Ing, a search for evidence continued
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: at Leonard Lake's cabin. By this time, five bodies had
• 45:44
  Speaker 1: been found and identified, hundreds of personal effects had been recovered,
• 45:53
  Speaker 1: more than forty pounds of unidentifiable human remains had been unearthed.
• 46:00
  Speaker 1: Investigators believed that as many as twenty five missing persons
• 46:03
  Speaker 1: had been linked to the capital. As the evidence against
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: Ing continued to grow, he used his time in a
• 46:12
  Speaker 1: Canadian prison to try to fend off any attempts at extradition.
• 46:17
  Speaker 1: He knew if he was successfully extradited back to the
• 46:20
  Speaker 1: United States, he would have to face a murder trial
• 46:23
  Speaker 1: and the possibility of the death penalty. He began to
• 46:28
  Speaker 1: educate himself on the American legal system.
• 46:31
  Speaker 12: For a boy with limited education raised in Hong Kong,
• 46:35
  Speaker 12: he was remarkably adept at knowing that the legal system
• 46:39
  Speaker 12: here and how to deal with it.
• 46:46
  Speaker 1: A guard reported to the prison warden he overheard Ing
• 46:49
  Speaker 1: say to a fellow inmate, if you want to delay
• 46:52
  Speaker 1: the system, you just have to fire your lawyers. On
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: October seventeenth, nineteen eighty eight, the extradition hearings finally began.
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: Ing lost the case and appealed all the way to
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: the Canadian Supreme Court.
• 47:13
  Speaker 6: His appeal was.
• 47:14
  Speaker 2: Denied within the same day. Charles Ng was placed on
• 47:20
  Speaker 2: an airplane in Canada and flown back to California.
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: But the pursuit of justice was far from over. Charles
• 47:30
  Speaker 1: Ng had used his time in Canada to harm himself
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: with enough legal knowledge to wage an all out war
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: on the American judicial system. On September twenty sixth, nineteen
• 47:44
  Speaker 1: ninety one, suspected serial killer Charles Ng was finally returned
• 47:48
  Speaker 1: to California. The Calaveras County District Attorney charged Ng with
• 47:54
  Speaker 1: twelve counts of murder. Detective Sergeant Randy Grassmark transported Ng
• 47:59
  Speaker 1: daily the California Department of Corrections to the Calaveras County Courthouse.
• 48:04
  Speaker 20: We had high security, We had a SWAT team up
• 48:07
  Speaker 20: on the roof for a while. We had heard that
• 48:11
  Speaker 20: somebody wanted to kill Charles NG. So, let's face it,
• 48:14
  Speaker 20: the last thing we wanted to do, as Calverts County
• 48:17
  Speaker 20: Shriff's department was lose Charles NG.
• 48:20
  Speaker 1: Calaveras County was not prepared to handle a prisoner like
• 48:23
  Speaker 1: Charles NG. Their courthouse wasn't secure enough to hold a
• 48:28
  Speaker 1: maximum security prisoner. The county had to build a special
• 48:33
  Speaker 1: cage to house Ng during his legal proceedings. From the
• 48:38
  Speaker 1: moment Ang arrived in the county, he was intent on
• 48:41
  Speaker 1: wreaking havoc and creating delay. He began by trying to
• 48:48
  Speaker 1: fire his attorneys and complaining about his treatment. He filed
• 48:53
  Speaker 1: motions for better food and a shorter commute from the prisoner.
• 48:58
  Speaker 1: He demanded to have his cage dismount. Although each motion
• 49:03
  Speaker 1: was frivolous, it sapped the resources of the Calaveras County
• 49:06
  Speaker 1: District Attorney's office.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't realize how truly huge this case was. We're
• 49:15
  Speaker 2: very small. We have five attorneys, including myself. There's the
• 49:20
  Speaker 2: assistant District attorney, and then I have three deputy district attorneys.
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  Speaker 2: We have two investigators and we have three support staff
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  Speaker 2: and that's it in our criminal division. It's like a
• 49:34
  Speaker 2: very small offer.
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  Speaker 1: The prosecution battled Charles m for a full year before
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  Speaker 1: his preliminary hearing even started, Your honor, At.
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  Speaker 7: This point in time, we would like to present photos,
• 49:50
  Speaker 7: HALFI davids and videotapes into evidence against the defendant.
• 49:56
  Speaker 1: The purpose of this proceeding was simply to determine whether
• 49:59
  Speaker 1: the Pills execution had sufficient evidence to try Ing for
• 50:02
  Speaker 1: the twelve murder.
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  Speaker 6: Moving forward to trial.
• 50:07
  Speaker 1: Although the burden of proof is not as strict as
• 50:09
  Speaker 1: that of an actual trial, the prosecution had little direct
• 50:13
  Speaker 1: evidence linking Ing to the murders. Lacking eye witnesses, fingerprints,
• 50:19
  Speaker 1: and blood evidence, the prosecution would have to present its
• 50:23
  Speaker 1: case mostly on circumstantial evidence. Their strongest evidence was the
• 50:30
  Speaker 1: videotape found at the cabin entitled m Ladies. The preliminary
• 50:36
  Speaker 1: hearing was the first time the tape was played for
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  Speaker 1: the public. On the tape, Lake and Ing were seen
• 50:43
  Speaker 1: torturing two women, one of whom was Brenda O'Connor. Inspector
• 50:49
  Speaker 1: Erdelatz explains the impact to the videotaped evidence.
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  Speaker 16: Brenda O'Connor is a woman who lived on the adjacent
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  Speaker 16: property with her boyfriend and his friend and their little baby.
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  Speaker 16: And you see her on film. She's handcuffed and she's
• 51:07
  Speaker 16: begging Leonard Lake and Charles Ing for her babyback. She
• 51:11
  Speaker 16: wants her baby back, and she's crying. Of course, they
• 51:15
  Speaker 16: killed this little baby, and it's such a sad thing
• 51:20
  Speaker 16: to see her asking for this little baby back.
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  Speaker 1: The tapes were incriminating, but with so little physical evidence
• 51:31
  Speaker 1: directly linking Ing to the murders, the prosecution would have
• 51:35
  Speaker 1: to rely on the testimony of another criminal.
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  Speaker 6: Okay.
• 51:39
  Speaker 1: Maurice Laberge had served time with Ing in Canada. To
• 51:47
  Speaker 1: pass the time, Ing entertained Laberg's with crudely drawn cartoons
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  Speaker 1: depicting his crimes and with stories of what had happened
• 51:55
  Speaker 1: at Lake's cabin in California. To gain favor with his
• 52:01
  Speaker 1: parole board. Labert's turned over the cartoons and told authorities
• 52:05
  Speaker 1: the details of his conversations with Ing. One of the
• 52:10
  Speaker 1: most damning cartoons depicted Ing killing a baby. Laberier's testified
• 52:16
  Speaker 1: at Ing's extradition hearing, detailing everything Ing had confessed during
• 52:20
  Speaker 1: their jail time together. Laberg's testimony was presented as evidence.
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  Speaker 1: On November thirteenth, nineteen ninety two, the court found sufficient
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  Speaker 1: grounds to try Charles ng on twelve counts of murder.
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  Speaker 1: The judge set his trial date for January twelfth, nineteen
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  Speaker 1: ninety three.
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  Speaker 2: We felt that the case would be tried and over
• 52:48
  Speaker 2: with by ninety three, but no later than nineteen ninety four. Well,
• 52:55
  Speaker 2: that didn't happen. What did happen was delay.
• 53:02
  Speaker 1: Now that Ing knew he would stand trial for his crimes,
• 53:05
  Speaker 1: he began a desperate attempt to delay the proceedings in
• 53:08
  Speaker 1: any way possible. He filed a motion alleging that his
• 53:12
  Speaker 1: court appointed attorneys were incompetent. He succeeded in firing them,
• 53:18
  Speaker 1: and the court appointed him new council. Because pre trial
• 53:24
  Speaker 1: publicity made it impossible to find an impartial jury in
• 53:27
  Speaker 1: Calaveras County, King's new defense team filed a motion to
• 53:31
  Speaker 1: move the trial. The judge granted the motion, moving the
• 53:37
  Speaker 1: trial to Orange County in southern California. A fully loaded
• 53:44
  Speaker 1: thirty six foot truck delivered a mountain of case material
• 53:47
  Speaker 1: to Ing's new council, the Orange County Public Defender's Office.
• 53:52
  Speaker 1: The material included hundreds of boxes of records documenting eight
• 53:56
  Speaker 1: years of courtroom hearing's witness testimony, in investigative, medical and
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  Speaker 1: police reports, and thousands of evidence photographs. William Kelly, Ing's
• 54:09
  Speaker 1: newly appointed counsel, asked for and received two and a
• 54:12
  Speaker 1: half years to prepare his client's case. The prosecution made
• 54:20
  Speaker 1: the move from Calaveras County, four hundred miles south to
• 54:23
  Speaker 1: Orange County and prepared for the largest case of their careers.
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  Speaker 1: The years of delay worried Prosecutor Peter Smith.
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  Speaker 2: As you know, in any case, memories fade, witnesses die,
• 54:40
  Speaker 2: and things of that nature. And so when you tack
• 54:43
  Speaker 2: on six years to the life of a criminal case,
• 54:48
  Speaker 2: that's a long time to delay a case from going
• 54:52
  Speaker 2: to trial.
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  Speaker 6: Morning, gentlemen, have se as.
• 54:56
  Speaker 1: The prosecution and defense attorneys finalized their trial preparation. Ing
• 55:01
  Speaker 1: again attempted to delay the process, but Judge John Ryan
• 55:08
  Speaker 1: put a stop to his tactics. The case was finally
• 55:12
  Speaker 1: going to trial. The prosecution team from Calaveras County worked
• 55:20
  Speaker 1: out their strategy with Charlene Honaka, the Deputy Attorney General
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  Speaker 1: for the state of California.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, she's a tremendous lawyer and a better person. She was,
• 55:32
  Speaker 2: in essence, the heart and soul for this case and
• 55:36
  Speaker 2: for the prosecution.
• 55:40
  Speaker 1: As prosecutors prepared to begin jury selection, the team suffered
• 55:44
  Speaker 1: a devastating setback. Palice Laberge was killed in a car
• 55:49
  Speaker 1: accident while on parole. He was the only person to
• 55:55
  Speaker 1: whom Ing had confessed his crimes. The prosecution had just
• 55:59
  Speaker 1: blown lost its key witness. Thirteen years had passed since
• 56:06
  Speaker 1: investigators began finding bodies at a mountain cabin in Calaveras County, California.
• 56:13
  Speaker 1: Although they eventually linked twenty five missing people to Lake's property,
• 56:18
  Speaker 1: they only had enough evidence to charge Charles Ng with
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  Speaker 1: twelve counts of murder. Ng had managed to delay his
• 56:26
  Speaker 1: trial from more than a decade, but could delay no longer.
• 56:31
  Speaker 1: The murder trial of Charles Ng was finally about to begin.
• 56:36
  Speaker 1: The accused serial killer's fate would now rest with a
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  Speaker 1: jury of his peers. Peter Smith's job was to select
• 56:45
  Speaker 1: that jury.
• 56:46
  Speaker 2: Because the case was going to take so long, we
• 56:49
  Speaker 2: had to time qualified jurors. We had to bring in
• 56:52
  Speaker 2: over two thousand people from Orange County to ask them, basically,
• 56:57
  Speaker 2: can you commit to the time is it'll take to
• 57:00
  Speaker 2: try this case?
• 57:02
  Speaker 1: While council was in the midst of qualifying the jurors,
• 57:05
  Speaker 1: being grew entity shouting obscenities. They tried to halt the proceedings,
• 57:12
  Speaker 1: telling the judge that he did not want a trial.
• 57:19
  Speaker 1: Judge Ryan ordered Ing to wear an electric stun belt
• 57:22
  Speaker 1: for the duration of the trial. The bailiff could trigger
• 57:27
  Speaker 1: the device by remote control if he became violent again.
• 57:34
  Speaker 1: Attorneys from the prosecution and the defense took a month
• 57:37
  Speaker 1: to choose a jury of eight women and four men,
• 57:39
  Speaker 1: along with six alternates. To protect their identities, each member
• 57:45
  Speaker 1: of the jury was assigned a number. On Monday, October
• 57:50
  Speaker 1: twenty sixth, nineteen ninety eight, the trial began with opening
• 57:54
  Speaker 1: statements for both the prosecution and the defense. Opening statements
• 58:00
  Speaker 1: as an outline telling the jury what they are trying
• 58:02
  Speaker 1: to prove and how they intend to prove it. With
• 58:09
  Speaker 1: the years of waiting over, Charlene Hanaka rose to make
• 58:13
  Speaker 1: the opening statement for the prosecution.
• 58:18
  Speaker 21: What the evidence in this case is going to show
• 58:21
  Speaker 21: is that this defendant, with Leonard Lake, planned and committed
• 58:26
  Speaker 21: the twelve charged murders in this case. This is a
• 58:30
  Speaker 21: chart which lists the twelve counts. The evidence will show
• 58:36
  Speaker 21: that between a time frame from July nineteen eighty four
• 58:40
  Speaker 21: until nineteen eighty five. These twelve victims disappeared from the
• 58:47
  Speaker 21: face of the earth, and this trial will tell you
• 58:53
  Speaker 21: the story of what happened to them.
• 58:55
  Speaker 1: Wenaka described the property in Calaveras County as a killing field,
• 59:00
  Speaker 1: a mass graveyard.
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  Speaker 21: Direct connecting this defended.
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  Speaker 1: She then told the jury about the m Lady's tape
• 59:06
  Speaker 1: found buried near the cabin and how they depicted a
• 59:10
  Speaker 1: partially nude ining demanding massages from Kathleen Allen and cutting
• 59:15
  Speaker 1: the clothes off of Brenda O'Connor.
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  Speaker 10: We're going to.
• 59:21
  Speaker 21: Play for you two segments from that videotape as a
• 59:26
  Speaker 21: means of demonstrating the evidence and in helping you understand.
• 59:34
  Speaker 1: The videotape was the centerpiece of the prosecution's case. It
• 59:40
  Speaker 1: showed the jury exactly who Charles Ing was, a man
• 59:44
  Speaker 1: who not only tortured women, but who recorded his acts
• 59:47
  Speaker 1: on videotape so he could relive them again and again.
• 59:53
  Speaker 2: The videotapes dramatic. It is the most It is the
• 59:58
  Speaker 2: most incriminating piece of evidence I've ever used in a case.
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 2: It is also the most emotional piece of evidence I've
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 2: ever used in a case. You can sense the terror
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 2: in the the fear those two victims had when they
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 2: realized the situation they were in.
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 1: Because this was the strongest physical evidence linking Ing to
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 1: the murders, the prosecution plan to use the videotape throughout
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 1: the trial to prove Charles Ng's guilt. William Kelly, Ing's
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 1: court appointed attorney scarcely mentioned the defendant in much of
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 1: his opening statement. His strategy was to shift the focus
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 1: of the accusations from his client, Charles Ing, to the
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 1: late Leonard Lake.
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  Speaker 22: The defense in this case is really simple. That is,
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 22: Leonard Lake had a motive for murder. Leonard Lake also
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 22: had a plan for murder.
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 1: Kelly asserted that Lake's plan for murder was outlined in
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 1: his diary under the heading the Miranda Project. He then
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 1: read the jury excerpts from Leonard Lake's journal. Kelly suggested
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 1: that Lake's conspirator was not Ing, but Carolyne Bellaz, Lake's
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  Speaker 1: ex wife. He asserted that she knew about the Miranda
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  Speaker 1: Project and even recruited potential victims.
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  Speaker 22: Nobody's going to walk in here, sit down in that
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  Speaker 22: jury box. Point of finger at Charles Ang and say
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 22: I saw Charlie Ang murder somebody.
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  Speaker 6: It's not going to happen.
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  Speaker 1: With very little physical evidence placing Ng at the murders,
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 1: Kelly intended to discredit the prosecut Kusichin's circumstantial case and
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 1: prove it was Leonard Lake, not Charles Ing, who murdered
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 1: the twelve victims. He asserted that Ing killed no one.
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 1: The prosecution called Sergeant Larry Copeland of the Calaveras County
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 1: Sheriff's apartment to the stand.
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  Speaker 21: Can you tell us how long?
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 1: He told the jury about a startling discovery he made
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 1: while analyzing the videotapes confiscated from Ing's San Francisco apartment.
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  Speaker 14: Taps and I'd put this tape in and push played
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 14: play and it started with the credits. So I thought,
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 14: well she was someone didn't rewind this tape, So I
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 14: pushed rewind, but I didn't push stop first. I just
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 14: pushed rewind. So it started playing in reverse, and then
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 14: all of a sudden, right at the end of the tape,
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 14: they went.
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  Speaker 1: What Copeland discovered was a still image of two bodies
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 1: in a wheelbarrow. The image was entered into evidence. Medical
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 1: examiner was sworn he was asked to identify two photographs
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 1: of bodies found at the cabin.
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  Speaker 23: Yes, I believe that's the remains of Scott Stabley.
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  Speaker 21: And this next one.
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  Speaker 4: Uh, those remains are from Lonnie Bond.
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  Speaker 1: He went on to the next way, in the way
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 1: in which Lonnie Bond and Scott Stapley were bound, gagged
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 1: and wrapped in sleeping bags. The sleeping bags matched those
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 1: on the tape. Medical examiner testified that the bodies on
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 1: the tape were in full rigamortis.
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  Speaker 6: A lot of the victims have been.
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 1: Rigamortis occurs shortly after death when the blood flow is interrupted.
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 1: It only lasts for a few hours until the body
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 1: begins to decay. In Canada, being told Inspector Hurtelats he
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 1: helped burry Bond and Stately twenty four hours after they
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 1: were murdered. Whoever had taken the picture had done so
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 1: immediately after they were killed. The single frame on the
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 1: videotape found that Ing's apartment linked him to the murder
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 1: of Lonnie Bond and Scott Stapley. Because so few of
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 1: the remains found when the property could be identified, the
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 1: prosecution relied on hundreds of personal effects discovered at Ing's
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 1: apartment and the cabin to link him to the victims.
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 1: These items were photographed and entered as evidence. The District
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 1: Attorney's lead investigator, Mitch Rdlicka, was in charge of witnesses
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 1: testimony for the prosecution.
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  Speaker 18: Well, we had over two hundred pieces of evidence that
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 18: we used in the guilt phase of the trial, and
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 18: we had about seventy five witnesses that we had to
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 18: bring in from various parts of the country as well
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 18: as Canada to prove the those items belonged to the
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 18: people who had gone missing and the victims in our case.
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 1: A prosecution then attempted to establish a link between Kathleen
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 1: Allen and Charles ng. Kathleen Allen was one of the
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 1: women on the n Lady's Dape who was tortured by
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 1: Lake and Ing. Although her body was never found, several
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 1: of her personal effects were unearthed near the cabin. The
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 1: prosecution asked her sister to identify a heart shaped pendant.
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  Speaker 9: Miss Allan, I know this may be very difficult for you,
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 9: but I want you to look very closely at this
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 9: necklace and tell me if you recognize it.
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  Speaker 22: It's a necklace Kathy used to wear all the time.
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  Speaker 9: Thank you, your honor.
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 24: We'd like the record to show that the witness identified
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 24: the necklace as belonging to the victim, Kathy Allen, And
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 24: at this time the people would like to move that
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 24: we play this in evidence.
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 1: The prosecution then began to construct the timeline of Kathleen
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 1: Allen's disappearance to explain how she got.
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 9: To the Capital four nineteen eighty forth.
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  Speaker 1: Former supervisor discussed an odd phone conversation she had while.
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 9: It worked, and can you tell us about that conversation.
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  Speaker 25: Yes, she said she got a call and she said
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 25: she wanted to join her boyfriend because he got a
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 25: gunshot wound.
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 1: Kathleen Allen worked at a grocery store in Milpitas, California.
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  Speaker 1: Her boyfriend, Mike Carroll, had met Charles Ing while serving
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 1: time in Leavenworth Federal Prison. Mike called Kathleen to say
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 1: he was in Lake Tahoe and had been shot. He
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 1: was sending a friend to pick her up and bring
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 1: her to him. Kathleen told her supervisor what Mike had
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 1: said and asked for some time off.
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  Speaker 9: And what happened after that?
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  Speaker 25: A man came by.
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  Speaker 14: To pick her up in a what.
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 25: In a brown or bronze Honda.
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  Speaker 6: I think.
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  Speaker 9: Did you have an opportunity to see.
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 18: The driver a little?
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 1: A little yes?
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  Speaker 11: Can you tell us what he looked like?
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 25: He was in his forties, bald, dark hair, and he
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 25: had a beard. That's all I remember.
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 1: A prosecution then showed the jury Kathleen Allen's videotaped ordeal.
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 1: John Crawford investigated her disappearance.
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 23: The video tape picks up from there and shows that
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 23: Kathy is brought into the residence. Into the living room
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 23: of the residence in Wilseyville, she is handcuffed and she
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 23: is seated in a chair. Kathy was told, if you
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 23: don't agree with us right now, we're going to take
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 23: you into the bedroom, tie you to the bed, rape you,
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 23: take you outside, and put a bullet in your head
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 23: and bury you in the same place we buried Mike,
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 23: who was her boyfriend, Mike Carroll.
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 11: Did you ever hear.
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 9: From her again?
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 1: Kathleen was never seen or heard from again. Her manager
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 1: later received a typewritten letter saying she had gotten a
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 1: job in Lake Tahoe and didn't intend to return. The
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 1: letter was dated May sixth, three weeks after she left
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 1: the grocery store. Many of the victims, co workers, families,
• 1:08:37
  Speaker 1: and friends received typewritten letters from the victims to explain
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 1: their absence. A comparison of the letters showed they all
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 1: originated from the same typewriter. An Olympia typewriter found in
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 1: the cabin was analyzed by forensic document examiners. They concluded
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 1: that it was the one on which the letters were written.
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 1: The prosecution entered the typewriter into evidence. A prosecution next
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 1: tried to prove that Charles Ing was responsible for the
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 1: abduction and murder of the Dubbs family.
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 21: Miss Tuck, you told us that your last contact with
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 21: Debora Dubbs.
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 1: They called Karen Tuck, who was asked to testify about
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 1: the last time she spoke with her friend Deborah Dubbs
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 1: on the telephones.
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  Speaker 19: Well, there was expecting someone to come over to talk
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 19: to Harvey or see his video equipment, and then the
• 1:09:31
  Speaker 19: doorbell rang or someone knocked, and we terminated the conversation.
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 21: So someone came to her door while you were in
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 21: the phone conversation with right.
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 1: Hi, Hi, We'll hear about the video equipment.
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 19: Yeah.
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 1: Harvey Dubbs, a part time wedding photographer, had placed an
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 1: ad in a newspaper offering to rent his video equipment.
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 2: He's got a heavy TV coax came into.
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 1: Karen Tuck told the court she tried to call DEBRAA.
• 1:09:59
  Speaker 1: Dubb the next day, but no one answered the phone.
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 1: The Dubbs family disappeared on July twenty fifth, nineteen eighty four.
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 1: Their bodies were never found someone to come over. Erent
• 1:10:17
  Speaker 1: Tuck was the last person to speak with Deborah Dubbs
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 1: on the day she and her family were abducted from
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 1: their San Francisco home.
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  Speaker 6: It takes really good pictures.
• 1:10:26
  Speaker 1: After placing an ad in the newspaper to rent some
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 1: video equipment, Harvey Dubbs, his wife, Deborah, and his son
• 1:10:32
  Speaker 1: Sean had been robbed and taken from their homes. The
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 1: family was never seen again. Detective Irene Brunn found an
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 1: inventory of Harvey Dubb's equipment at his home.
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 3: Harvey was meticulous in keeping records and photographs, and he
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 3: kept the original receipts from when he purchased him. He
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 3: had serial numbers brand names for everything that he had. Apple.
• 1:11:01
  Speaker 1: Harvey dubs detailed records enabled investigators to trace his equipment
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 1: to Leonard Lake's cabin, but Some video equipment was also
• 1:11:09
  Speaker 1: found in Charles Ing's apartment. One of these pieces matched
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 1: Harvey Dubb's inventory. The prosecution entered the video equipment into evidence.
• 1:11:23
  Speaker 1: Seems the Dubbs' bodies were never found. A prosecution strategy
• 1:11:27
  Speaker 1: was to use overwhelming circumstantial evidence to tie in to
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 1: the missing family.
• 1:11:33
  Speaker 2: The cases is like a puzzle. You have to start
• 1:11:36
  Speaker 2: putting the pieces together so that the jury can get
• 1:11:39
  Speaker 2: a clear understanding of what took place. And to prove
• 1:11:44
  Speaker 2: a case, you have to fit enough pieces of the
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 2: puzzle together so that a jury believes, beyond a result
• 1:11:50
  Speaker 2: doubt that a particular defendant murdered or committed a crime,
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 2: and focused our attention on this bunker.
• 1:11:57
  Speaker 1: Sergeant Larry Copan was called back to the stop when
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 1: we first came on. He testified about the seven burn
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 1: sites they had found. He also described the hundreds of
• 1:12:09
  Speaker 1: bone fragments he found, many of which had been crushed, burned,
• 1:12:13
  Speaker 1: and scattered around the property a complete Judging from the
• 1:12:17
  Speaker 1: size and number of burn sites, investigators suspected Lake and
• 1:12:21
  Speaker 1: Ing had used fire to dispose of the bodies of
• 1:12:24
  Speaker 1: many of their victims. The condition of the remains would
• 1:12:28
  Speaker 1: make it impossible to identify all the victims. No one
• 1:12:34
  Speaker 1: had witnessed any of these crimes. The prosecution's next move
• 1:12:39
  Speaker 1: was to put King's confessor on the stand. During his
• 1:12:44
  Speaker 1: Canadian prison term, Ing told Maurice Leberge he helped Lake
• 1:12:48
  Speaker 1: abduct victims and burn their bodies. Leberge was the prosecution's
• 1:12:53
  Speaker 1: key witness. His first person account and the drawings Ing
• 1:12:57
  Speaker 1: gave him would cement their case, but Laberge died before
• 1:13:04
  Speaker 1: the trial began. At the extradition hearing in Canada, Laber's
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 1: testified about everything Ing had told him. In a calculated move,
• 1:13:16
  Speaker 1: the prosecution argued to have the written transcripts of Laberge's
• 1:13:20
  Speaker 1: Canadian testimony.
• 1:13:21
  Speaker 6: Read into the record if it letter.
• 1:13:25
  Speaker 1: Despite the defense's strong objections, the judge ruled to admit
• 1:13:29
  Speaker 1: the transcript. Sergeant Raymond Monroe, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police,
• 1:13:38
  Speaker 1: took the stand and read Laberge's prior testimony. In the transcript,
• 1:13:45
  Speaker 1: Laber's described how Ing gave him the grotesque cartoons and
• 1:13:49
  Speaker 1: spoke of the crimes he committed, including the videotaped sessions
• 1:13:54
  Speaker 1: with Kathleen Allen and Brenda O'Connor.
• 1:13:57
  Speaker 25: Following statement, he told me that the videotape shows a
• 1:14:03
  Speaker 25: female complaining that it's too warm, and he had a
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 25: butterfly knife, he called it.
• 1:14:07
  Speaker 1: He flicked it open and cut her clothes off.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you.
• 1:14:13
  Speaker 1: Maurice Laberge was a career criminal who served repeated terms
• 1:14:16
  Speaker 1: for robbery and sexual assault. On cross, Kelly attacked Laberge's credibility.
• 1:14:24
  Speaker 22: Isn't it true that Maurice lea Burge had an extensive
• 1:14:26
  Speaker 22: criminal history?
• 1:14:27
  Speaker 21: Objection, your honor, We've already established that overalled.
• 1:14:33
  Speaker 6: Thank you. Sure. Isn't that correct? Yes, sir? And isn't
• 1:14:38
  Speaker 6: it also true that.
• 1:14:39
  Speaker 22: As part of an agreement with the Canadian government to
• 1:14:42
  Speaker 22: enter the witness protection program, that Maurice Leburg's received thirty
• 1:14:46
  Speaker 22: six thousand dollars.
• 1:14:49
  Speaker 6: I believe that was the deal that we.
• 1:14:51
  Speaker 19: Struck with him.
• 1:14:51
  Speaker 6: Yes.
• 1:14:54
  Speaker 1: Kelly implied that Laberge's testimony had been bought and paid.
• 1:14:57
  Speaker 6: For sexual assault and robbery.
• 1:15:00
  Speaker 9: Yes, it is.
• 1:15:00
  Speaker 22: And do you recall offhand, what if any contents were
• 1:15:07
  Speaker 22: retrieved from the automobile at the sight of the accident.
• 1:15:11
  Speaker 25: There was twenty one thousand dollars in cash found in
• 1:15:14
  Speaker 25: the vehicle.
• 1:15:15
  Speaker 6: We see thousand dollars in cash.
• 1:15:19
  Speaker 1: Kelly's cross examination had been successful in insinuating that Laberg's
• 1:15:23
  Speaker 1: would say anything for money.
• 1:15:26
  Speaker 6: Your career police officer.
• 1:15:27
  Speaker 1: The prosecution's key witness had taken the stand by poeris yes.
• 1:15:32
  Speaker 1: They now feared the defense attack had destroyed his credibility,
• 1:15:35
  Speaker 1: Isn't it true? Sergeant Munroe was one of the prosecution's
• 1:15:39
  Speaker 1: last witnesses.
• 1:15:40
  Speaker 6: Had numerous convictions.
• 1:15:41
  Speaker 1: After presenting their case for twelve days, the prosecution rested.
• 1:15:48
  Speaker 1: On November seventeenth, nineteen ninety eight. William Kelly began presenting
• 1:15:52
  Speaker 1: King's defense to the jury. He had a relatively simple
• 1:15:58
  Speaker 1: strategy to prove that Leonard Lake was the real killer
• 1:16:02
  Speaker 1: and King was just a bystander. First, Kelly called a
• 1:16:09
  Speaker 1: series of women to this day. Each testified as to
• 1:16:16
  Speaker 1: their bizarre sexual encounters with Leonard Lake. The women spoke
• 1:16:21
  Speaker 1: of his interest in bondage and taking lurid photographs. One
• 1:16:26
  Speaker 1: woman had a year long relationship with Lake and posed
• 1:16:29
  Speaker 1: for dozens of photos. She explained she left him because
• 1:16:34
  Speaker 1: of his frightening fantasies involving sex and death.
• 1:16:39
  Speaker 21: So that would have been fifteen years ago.
• 1:16:41
  Speaker 1: Another woman testified that Lake had threatened to rape her
• 1:16:45
  Speaker 1: and that he believed in human sacrifice.
• 1:16:47
  Speaker 2: He had come over with the pole.
• 1:16:49
  Speaker 1: The testimony painted Lake as the monster and established that
• 1:16:53
  Speaker 1: none of the witnesses had even met Charles Zing.
• 1:16:57
  Speaker 9: Thank you.
• 1:17:02
  Speaker 1: Another witness testified that he had seen Lake verbally abuse.
• 1:17:05
  Speaker 14: In working as his assistant.
• 1:17:07
  Speaker 1: Or helper, helping the defense establish that Ing was subservient
• 1:17:11
  Speaker 1: to Lake. By calling witnesses who had often seen Bellahs
• 1:17:15
  Speaker 1: with Lake at the cabin, most the defense attempted to
• 1:17:18
  Speaker 1: show that Bellas herself was an accomplice to Lake. Kelly
• 1:17:24
  Speaker 1: also used this testimony to demonstrate that Ing spent little
• 1:17:28
  Speaker 1: time at Leonard Lake's cabin. The defense's strongest proof that
• 1:17:33
  Speaker 1: Lake planned to kidnap, torture, and murder his victims was
• 1:17:36
  Speaker 1: his journal. It was here that Lake outlined the so
• 1:17:42
  Speaker 1: called Miranda project. While the jury was out, Kelly moved
• 1:17:47
  Speaker 1: to enter an edited version of the journal into evidence
• 1:17:52
  Speaker 1: because the edited version eliminated references to Charles Ing. The
• 1:17:56
  Speaker 1: judge resisted.
• 1:17:58
  Speaker 8: I believe the court should eliminate misleading evidence, and this
• 1:18:03
  Speaker 8: edit to diary could do just that if it is
• 1:18:07
  Speaker 8: intended to show that Leonard Lake killed all twelve victims
• 1:18:11
  Speaker 8: without the help of Charles Ang. I believe the diary
• 1:18:15
  Speaker 8: needs to be excluded. Most of it is just pure jump, but.
• 1:18:19
  Speaker 22: The diary shows that Lake was thinking of the fantasy
• 1:18:23
  Speaker 22: for twenty years.
• 1:18:25
  Speaker 21: The jury knows what Lake planned.
• 1:18:27
  Speaker 8: This edit to diary was inadmissible.
• 1:18:33
  Speaker 1: Kelly's attempt to put Leonard Lake on trial appeared blocked,
• 1:18:38
  Speaker 1: but he countered the prosecution strategy with his next witness.
• 1:18:46
  Speaker 1: In his opening statement, Kelly asserted Clarlyn Bellaz knew of
• 1:18:51
  Speaker 1: the Miranda project and helped Lake recruit women to photograph.
• 1:18:57
  Speaker 1: Kelly believed she played a far more active role than
• 1:18:59
  Speaker 1: she admitted, and asserted it was Blaz, not King, who
• 1:19:03
  Speaker 1: was Lake's accomplice. The prosecution had not called her as
• 1:19:08
  Speaker 1: a witness, so as Belas took the stand, everyone in
• 1:19:12
  Speaker 1: the courtroom, including the prosecution, wondered what she would say.
• 1:19:18
  Speaker 1: Then Kelly read the immunity agreement.
• 1:19:21
  Speaker 22: I'll read it to the jury. This is an immunity
• 1:19:25
  Speaker 22: agreement between the State of California and Clarlyn Belaze. The
• 1:19:31
  Speaker 22: State of California promises witness transactional immunity for all crimes,
• 1:19:36
  Speaker 22: including but not limited to, murder, conspiracy to commit murder,
• 1:19:41
  Speaker 22: aiding and abetting murder, theft, and received stolen property related
• 1:19:46
  Speaker 22: to the victims no questions.
• 1:19:58
  Speaker 1: In a stunning move, chose not to question Bellaz. He
• 1:20:04
  Speaker 1: created the appearance she had something to hide, and since
• 1:20:08
  Speaker 1: she had not spoken on the stand, the prosecution could
• 1:20:11
  Speaker 1: not cross examine her. The laws made her immunity deal
• 1:20:16
  Speaker 1: with the prosecution, but in the end she provided them
• 1:20:19
  Speaker 1: with little information and became a witness for the defense.
• 1:20:26
  Speaker 1: Kelly then called another witness who could not be cross examined.
• 1:20:30
  Speaker 1: He played a tape made by Leonard Lake describing his
• 1:20:33
  Speaker 1: rationale for the Miranda project.
• 1:20:38
  Speaker 6: What I want is an office shop sex partner. I
• 1:20:42
  Speaker 6: want to be able to use a woman whenever and
• 1:20:47
  Speaker 6: however I want, and when.
• 1:20:51
  Speaker 2: I'm tired or saytiated, or board or not interested, I
• 1:20:56
  Speaker 2: simply want to put her away.
• 1:21:00
  Speaker 1: With a final glimpse into the mind of Leonard Lake,
• 1:21:03
  Speaker 1: the defense rested its case. Peter Smith made the final
• 1:21:09
  Speaker 1: closing argument for the prosecution. He reminded the jury of
• 1:21:14
  Speaker 1: the evidence they had seen and asked them to return
• 1:21:17
  Speaker 1: a guilty verdict. Then the trial took its most surprising
• 1:21:23
  Speaker 1: turn after hearing the prosecution sum up their case against him,
• 1:21:28
  Speaker 1: ying filed a handwritten motion demanding he be allowed to
• 1:21:32
  Speaker 1: testify on his own behalf. When Kelly tried to convince
• 1:21:37
  Speaker 1: his client otherwise, Ying threatened to fire him against the
• 1:21:42
  Speaker 1: advice of his attorneys. Charles Ing would be taking the
• 1:21:45
  Speaker 1: witness stand. Observers in the Charles Zing trial were stunned
• 1:21:53
  Speaker 1: when they entered the court room on January twenty seventh,
• 1:21:56
  Speaker 1: nineteen ninety nine. The accused serial killer himself was now
• 1:22:01
  Speaker 1: on the witness stand. Ing was charged with killing twelve people,
• 1:22:06
  Speaker 1: and after three months of listening to his case, he
• 1:22:09
  Speaker 1: demanded to testify on his own behalf. Assuming the prosecution
• 1:22:17
  Speaker 1: would use Laberge's testimony to corner Ing, Deputy public Defender
• 1:22:21
  Speaker 1: Clapp decided to take the offensive and prove that Laberge
• 1:22:25
  Speaker 1: had lied.
• 1:22:29
  Speaker 11: Did you tell him that, with regard to Brenda O'Connor
• 1:22:34
  Speaker 11: Kathy Allen, that you shot them in the head while
• 1:22:38
  Speaker 11: they were handcuffed and blindfold no.
• 1:22:43
  Speaker 1: Ing testified that he had helped to imprison Brenda O'Connor
• 1:22:46
  Speaker 1: and Kathleen Allen, but had not intended to hurt or
• 1:22:49
  Speaker 1: kill them.
• 1:22:51
  Speaker 6: Did you tell Maurice Leberge that.
• 1:22:56
  Speaker 11: You put their bodies on a pile of wood and
• 1:22:59
  Speaker 11: ignited it with gasoline. No, did you agree to kill
• 1:23:05
  Speaker 11: and tend to kill or kill any of the victims
• 1:23:07
  Speaker 11: in the twelve murder charges.
• 1:23:09
  Speaker 1: Nomst Niles continued for hours today as Clapp went over
• 1:23:14
  Speaker 1: every statement being allegedly made to his jail mab that
• 1:23:18
  Speaker 1: we gave Ben Clapp moved to have Ing explain away
• 1:23:21
  Speaker 1: the prosecution's other key evidence, the M Lady's tape. On
• 1:23:26
  Speaker 1: the tape Rerendo O'Connor begging not to take her baby.
• 1:23:30
  Speaker 7: Away with regard to the video, which.
• 1:23:32
  Speaker 1: He replied, it is better than the baby is dead.
• 1:23:37
  Speaker 11: Why did you say that?
• 1:23:39
  Speaker 26: I don't know why I said that. It was just
• 1:23:41
  Speaker 26: in the heat of the moment. Some of the comments
• 1:23:43
  Speaker 26: and remarks I made, I don't even know. I may
• 1:23:46
  Speaker 26: until I saw the transcripts.
• 1:23:49
  Speaker 1: The m Lady's tapes had been transcribed during the extradition
• 1:23:52
  Speaker 1: hearing so that every word spoken on the tape could
• 1:23:55
  Speaker 1: be understood. When Charlene Honaka cross examined Ing, she used
• 1:24:01
  Speaker 1: the transcripts to turn his own words against him.
• 1:24:05
  Speaker 21: Were you present at the extradition hearing when mister Laberg's
• 1:24:08
  Speaker 21: testified that you told him that you could hear on
• 1:24:12
  Speaker 21: the video the sounds of handcuff's clicking.
• 1:24:16
  Speaker 26: I remember that statement he made.
• 1:24:19
  Speaker 6: How would mister.
• 1:24:19
  Speaker 21: Laberge know that you could hear the sounds of handcuff's clicking.
• 1:24:24
  Speaker 21: That's not on the printed transcript. Right of them, ladies.
• 1:24:28
  Speaker 1: Right Onnaka demonstrated for the jury that the only way
• 1:24:32
  Speaker 1: Laberg's could have known about the sound of the handcuffs
• 1:24:35
  Speaker 1: was if Ing told him. It was clear, despite Ing's
• 1:24:40
  Speaker 1: denials on the stands, that he had told Maurice Labert's
• 1:24:44
  Speaker 1: the details of the torture and the killings details, Laberg's
• 1:24:48
  Speaker 1: couldn't have known any other way. Honaka then set out
• 1:24:52
  Speaker 1: to establish that Charles ng was not a bystander but
• 1:24:55
  Speaker 1: a willing participant in the crimes. She replayed a scene
• 1:25:01
  Speaker 1: from the m Lady's table showing Ing cutting the shirt
• 1:25:05
  Speaker 1: off Brenda O'Connor.
• 1:25:07
  Speaker 21: So you never talked to Leonard ahead of time about
• 1:25:10
  Speaker 21: your plan to cut her clothes off right?
• 1:25:13
  Speaker 6: No, not on a tape.
• 1:25:16
  Speaker 8: So you just.
• 1:25:16
  Speaker 21: Decided on your own to cut her clothes off right, Yes,
• 1:25:21
  Speaker 21: without any specific instruction from Leonard Lake.
• 1:25:30
  Speaker 1: Wanaka again turned to the videotapes. She played a portion
• 1:25:35
  Speaker 1: of the tape where Ing tells Leonard Lake that a
• 1:25:37
  Speaker 1: gun is on the table.
• 1:25:40
  Speaker 21: You told Leonard at one point that the piece was
• 1:25:43
  Speaker 21: on the table.
• 1:25:44
  Speaker 26: Right, yeah, I remember saying something like that.
• 1:25:47
  Speaker 21: What did you mean by the piece?
• 1:25:50
  Speaker 26: Oh, just wanted to let him know that gun was
• 1:25:52
  Speaker 26: on the table in case Kathy might grab a gun
• 1:25:56
  Speaker 26: and shoot him with it.
• 1:25:58
  Speaker 21: Well, now she's had cuff, right yes, and she's got
• 1:26:03
  Speaker 21: leg medicals on.
• 1:26:05
  Speaker 26: Yes, I believe so.
• 1:26:06
  Speaker 21: And there are two of you and one of her,
• 1:26:09
  Speaker 21: right yes. And the reason you told Leonard that the
• 1:26:13
  Speaker 21: gun was on the table is because you were afraid
• 1:26:16
  Speaker 21: Kathy might pick it up and shoot him.
• 1:26:19
  Speaker 1: Hmmm, something like that. Anaka had shown that Ing was
• 1:26:24
  Speaker 1: more than a bystander to Leonard Lake's crimes, Thank you.
• 1:26:28
  Speaker 1: He was an active participant who sometimes even directed Leonard Lake.
• 1:26:35
  Speaker 1: Because Ing took the stand after the prosecution closed, the
• 1:26:39
  Speaker 1: judge gave them the opportunity to restate their closing arguments
• 1:26:42
  Speaker 1: after Ing's testimony.
• 1:26:47
  Speaker 21: It's never Ng's fault. He always lays the blame on
• 1:26:51
  Speaker 21: someone else. He was not under the control of Leonard Lake.
• 1:26:58
  Speaker 21: He was his own person. He was making his own
• 1:27:02
  Speaker 21: independent choices and doing the things he wanted to do.
• 1:27:11
  Speaker 1: William Kelly then gave the closing arguments for the defense.
• 1:27:16
  Speaker 1: He asserted the prosecution had simply failed to prove their
• 1:27:19
  Speaker 1: case and attack their most important piece of evidence, the
• 1:27:23
  Speaker 1: m ladies take.
• 1:27:25
  Speaker 22: No matter how many different ways they show it to
• 1:27:28
  Speaker 22: you and excerpts from it, there's one thing.
• 1:27:29
  Speaker 6: You never see.
• 1:27:33
  Speaker 22: Anybody being murdered, and you don't see Charles ang involved
• 1:27:39
  Speaker 22: in anybody's murder, no matter how many times you see
• 1:27:47
  Speaker 22: him cut the clothes of Brenda O'Connor. And as offensive
• 1:27:53
  Speaker 22: as that is, and I grant you it's offensive, but
• 1:28:02
  Speaker 22: it ain't murder.
• 1:28:07
  Speaker 6: It's just as.
• 1:28:11
  Speaker 1: Charles Ing had been charged with the murders of seven men,
• 1:28:14
  Speaker 1: three women, and two babies. His fate was now in
• 1:28:18
  Speaker 1: the hands of the jury.
• 1:28:22
  Speaker 2: Anybody who prosecutes cases or tries cases knows there's never
• 1:28:27
  Speaker 2: a sure thing with a jury. And that's the difficult
• 1:28:31
  Speaker 2: aspect of being a prosecutor. You have to convince twelve
• 1:28:33
  Speaker 2: people beyond a reasonable doubt, and they all twelve have
• 1:28:36
  Speaker 2: to agree. It has to be unanimous.
• 1:28:40
  Speaker 1: The jury deliberated for a week, then two weeks the
• 1:28:46
  Speaker 1: media coverage intensified as the deliberations stretched into their third week,
• 1:28:53
  Speaker 1: the prosecutors became increasingly concerned that the jury was having
• 1:28:56
  Speaker 1: difficulty making a decision. This was not a good sign
• 1:29:01
  Speaker 1: for the prosecution, who knew their case was mostly circumstantial.
• 1:29:07
  Speaker 1: If the jury demanded strong physical evidence linking Ing to
• 1:29:10
  Speaker 1: the crimes in order to deliver a guilty verdict, then
• 1:29:13
  Speaker 1: Charles Ing might go free. As time dragged on, all
• 1:29:18
  Speaker 1: the prosecution could do was wait. On February twenty fourth,
• 1:29:26
  Speaker 1: nineteen ninety nine, after three weeks of waiting, the jury
• 1:29:30
  Speaker 1: informed the judge they had reached a decision. The prosecutors
• 1:29:35
  Speaker 1: had called approximately seventy five witnesses and presented about two
• 1:29:39
  Speaker 1: hundred pieces of evidence to prove the charges against Charles Ing.
• 1:29:45
  Speaker 1: All that evidence was now in the hands of the jury.
• 1:29:55
  Speaker 8: As the jury reached its verdict, we are deadlocked.
• 1:30:02
  Speaker 26: We are deadlocked on one count.
• 1:30:04
  Speaker 8: Would the defendant rise and faced the jury? Please read
• 1:30:10
  Speaker 8: your verdict.
• 1:30:13
  Speaker 26: We, the jury and the above entitled case find the defendant,
• 1:30:17
  Speaker 26: Charles Ng guilty of the murder of Sean Dobbs's charged
• 1:30:21
  Speaker 26: in count one.
• 1:30:23
  Speaker 1: The jury found Charles Ing guilty of eleven counts of
• 1:30:26
  Speaker 1: first degree murder. They could not come to a conclusion
• 1:30:31
  Speaker 1: on the death of the podcast case. They did not
• 1:30:33
  Speaker 1: feel they had enough evidence to convict guilty. Charles Ing
• 1:30:38
  Speaker 1: was sentenced to death for the prosecution, the long ordeal
• 1:30:44
  Speaker 1: was finally over.
• 1:30:46
  Speaker 2: And I was just happy for the people of Calver's
• 1:30:48
  Speaker 2: County that finally mister Ing was found guilty of these
• 1:30:56
  Speaker 2: murders after so many years. I'm proud of the fact
• 1:31:00
  Speaker 2: that I was the district attorney at the time and
• 1:31:05
  Speaker 2: prosecuted Charles Ng and I was, in essence the last
• 1:31:08
  Speaker 2: person standing from Calvert's County after all these years.
• 1:31:13
  Speaker 1: With a final cost of over twenty million dollars, the
• 1:31:17
  Speaker 1: longest and most expensive criminal case in California history came
• 1:31:21
  Speaker 1: to a close. For thirteen years, the prosecution never wavered
• 1:31:26
  Speaker 1: in their pursuit of justice. Charles Ing now sits on
• 1:31:33
  Speaker 1: California's death Row.
• 1:32:03
  Speaker 6: Woll