Leonard Lake and Charles Ng The Prossecutors

“ I want to be able to use a woman whenever and however I want. And when I'm tired or bored or not interested, I simply want to put her away, lock her up in [her cell], get her out of my sight, out of my life. ”

— Lake in one of his video tapes

Leonard Lake and Charles Ng were a pair of serial killers, rapists, and abductors believed to be responsible for as many as 25 murders.

"No gun, no fun. No kill, no thrill. Daddy dies, Mommy cries, Baby fries."

-Ng's work-time chant

Lake and Ng targeted women, but were not hesitant to abduct entire families. After killing the men and children to get them out of the way, they would hold the women captive in a custom-built room in a bunker at Lake's ranch, tie them up and torture and rape them, videotaping each other while doing so. Sometimes they also lured men to the compound with promises of work and robbed them, after which Lake stole their identities. After killing the victims by either strangling or shooting them, they would often bury them in shallow graves on the property, though there is evidence that some were also dismembered and burned and their remains shattered.

Known Victims

Unspecified dates from 1983 to 1985:

The Dubs family

Harvey Dubs (father)

Deborah Dubs (mother)

Sean Dubs (son)

The Bond family

Lonnie Bond (father)

Brenda O'Connor (mother)

Lonnie Bond, Jr. (son)

Kathleen Allen, 18

Michael Carroll

Robin Scott Stapley

Randy Johnson

Unspecified dates in 1983:

Charles Gunnar

Donald Lake (Lake's younger brother; disappeared and was presumed to have been killed by Lake and Ng)

November 1984: Paul Cosner, 39 (possibly; the charges were dropped)

Note: The massive amount of burned, shattered bone fragments suggests that Lake and Ng killed several more victims besides the ones found buried; investigators suggested that the total victim count may be as high as 25.

The Collector, the book that inspired Lake to abduct and imprison women, also appears to have served as inspiration for some other killers. Robert Berdella, a.k.a. The Kansas City Butcher, who abducted young men and tortured them, photographing the process, claimed to have been inspired by the movie adaptation. Christopher Wilder, a.k.a. The Beauty Queen Killer, who abducted and raped at least ten girls aged 10-12, eight of whom died, during the course of a month-long spree before killing himself, had a copy of The Collector in his possession at the time of his death and was reputed to have memorized the whole book.

Though Lake and Ng have only been mentioned by name once in the show, specifically in Zoe's Reprise (when Rossi reads aloud from the foreword of his book, Deviance: The Secret Desires of Sadistic Serial Killers, along with Dahmer, DeBardeleben, and Berdella), the duo appear to have served as basis for Francis Goehring and Henry Frost in the episode Identity. Like Lake and Ng, the pair abducted women, kept them enslaved at a private compound which the dominant partner had obtained from his ex-wife, raped them and tortured them, videotaping the acts, and then killed them and disposed of them on the property. Additionally, the home videos where Goehring voices his narcissistic beliefs and his plans to enslave women are very similar to tapes made by Lake and Ng where Lake talks about his plan to do so. Also, like Lake, Goehring committed suicide before he could be arrested for his murders.

Lake and Ng are also similar to Gary and Ervin Robles. Both were serial killing teams, family annihilators, and robbers, whose teams consisted of a Caucasian male and another male that was of a different race and had at least one member who was abused by parental figures (Ng was abused by his father; Gary and Ervin were abused by their foster parents). In addition, one of the members of both teams assumed the identities of one of their victims before being arrested.

Ng's background of being abused by his father and being sent to boarding school by him seems to have been some inspiration for that aspect of Hollis Walker's background.