The Miranda Murders

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The Miranda Murders

• Leonard Thomas Lake (October 29, 1945 – June 6, 1985), was an American serial killer.
• During the mid-1980s, he and accomplice Charles Ng raped, tortured and murdered an estimated eleven to 25 victims at a remote cabin in Calaveras County, California,
• In the Sierra Nevada foothills 150 miles east of San Francisco.
• After his arrest in 1985 on illegal weapons, auto theft, and fraud charges, Lake swallowed cyanide pills that he had sewn into his clothing, and died four days later.
• Human remains, videotapes, and journals found at the cabin later confirmed Ng's involvement, and were used to convict Ng on eleven counts of capital murder
• Ng was convicted and fought a long court case, eventually being sentences to death, he is still on death row.
• there are many videos of the horror that these two monsters perpetrated.

References:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Lake
https://allthatsinteresting.com/leonard-lake
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Ng
https://www.ranker.com/list/charles-ng-and-leonard-lake-facts/harrison-tenpas

Photographs and additional reading.
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Resources:
https://www.health.nsw.gov.au/mentalhealth/Pages/contact-service.aspx#24-hour
https://www.beyondblue.org.au
https://www.betterhelp.com
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