Leonard Lake sexually deviant behaviors can be traced all the way back into his childhood. Allegedly encouraged by family to take nude photos of his sisters, Lake’s fascination with pornography soon spiraled into extorting his sisters and forcing them to perform sexual favors on him. It shouldn’t come to much surprise that as Lake grew older his fantasies began to become more extreme. His first wife divorced him after he was caught starring in some home videos involving bondage and other sadist sex acts with women other than Mrs. After his divorce he packed up and made a new home at a hippie commune, nestled within the Northern California valley.
Classification: Serial killer. A collection of female slaves (he named this plan 'Operation Miranda' after a character in the book The Collector by John Fowles).
It was at a renaissance fair that Lake would meet his second wife, “Cricket”, and convinced her to come live at the commune with him. Cricket enjoyed exploring Lake’s sexual fantasies and the pair would often make amateur sex tapes together. Living together for eight years at the commune, the two would eventually marry. It would seem that finally Lake had everything he needed, but things weren’t all daisies and sexual sadism at the hippie commune. Lake’s Cabin Aside from his obsession with making pornography, Lake also liked to stockpile guns. Having spent several years in the Marines, Lake was medically discharged after a mental breakdown led to a diagnosis of schizoid personality disorder.
Lake’s years of going untreated for his psychological disorder began to get the best of him. He became increasingly paranoid about an impeding nuclear holocaust and as his delusion grew, so did his need to create a bunker. Now living at the Greenfield Ranch, another hippie commune, Lake’s first attempt at creating the bunker was thwarted once the landowner saw the earth movers and ordered him to halt the construction.
This prompted Lake and his wife to rent their own cabin in the remote area of Wilseyville, California. Lake’s decision to build the bunker revolved around an idea he had, one which he would later coin “Operation Miranda”. Lake’s personal logs described how he would go about constructing his bunker with the intention of capturing and enslaving women there.
Once the world had been destroyed, Lake planned to emerge from the bunker and repopulate the world through the use of his female sex slaves. Aside from the plans detailed within Operation Miranda, Lake also had much darker plans. Plans that would include rape, torture, and murder with the help of one very ambitious accomplice. A recent photo of Charles Ng take from behind prison walls.
It was around this time that Lake began corresponding by another man, Charles Ng. Charles, originally from Hong Kong and a former Marine himself after falsifying his citizenship, became acquainted with Lake through a survivalist magazine. Ng only spent a year in the Marines before he had been caught stealing weapons and charged with desertion. Sentenced to serve 14 years behind bars, Ng’s sentence was later commuted after just three and received a dishonorable discharged. Once Ng was released he agreed to go live with Lake and Lake’s wife over at their Wilseyville cabin. Codec: mpeg audio layer 1/2/3 (mpga).