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Die for Me: The Terrifying True Story of the Charles Ng / Leonard Lake Torture Murders
Die for Me The Terrifying True Story of the Charles Ng / Leonard Lake Torture Murders
Author: Don Lasseter
In 1985, Charles Ng and Leonard Lake were spotted shoplifting. Ng escaped, but Lake's capture led police to a concrete bunker in the Sierra Nevada foothills, where they discovered the grisly evidence of an orgy of sex crimes, torture and murder that claimed at least sixteen victims. Lake committed suicide: Ng fled to Canada, where he was tracked...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780786011070
ISBN-10: 0786011076
Publication Date: 5/1/2000
Pages: 428
Rating:
  • Currently 3.7/5 Stars.
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3.7 stars, based on 39 ratings
Publisher: Pinnacle Books
Book Type: Mass Market Paperback
Members Wishing: 1
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nuttmeg avatar reviewed Die for Me: The Terrifying True Story of the Charles Ng / Leonard Lake Torture Murders on + 29 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 5
Very, very, very disturbing book. Halfway through I was wondering why I was reading about this heinous event(s).
Maybe because I remember it, living in No. Ca as I do.
Hard to believe any human being could do things like these to other humans.
There's no good answer to why this book should be read. Maybe voyeurism? Sick entertainment?
I read it myself and feel hypocritical saying this but maybe there is a good reason to revisit this hell-on-earth series of events in our beloved northern Ca.
If this book doesn't make you sick, there's something wrong with you!
wezzymay avatar reviewed Die for Me: The Terrifying True Story of the Charles Ng / Leonard Lake Torture Murders on + 14 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 5
This book was the most horrible books I have ever read. This is a true story. The men that this book is written about are sick and twisted. Great book and I couldn't put it down.
reviewed Die for Me: The Terrifying True Story of the Charles Ng / Leonard Lake Torture Murders on + 8 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 3
I would have given this book a higher rating but it scared the heck out of me! Its a very interesting book and a good read -- the reality of it was just a bit too much for me.
murder101 avatar reviewed Die for Me: The Terrifying True Story of the Charles Ng / Leonard Lake Torture Murders on
Helpful Score: 2
Bone chilling horrible account of two twisted sadist torture,rapist, murders you have to read this to believe it. This is Scary stuff for sure.
TangoBrat avatar reviewed Die for Me: The Terrifying True Story of the Charles Ng / Leonard Lake Torture Murders on + 83 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 1
From the back of the book...

It began with a shoplifting arrest. It led to a search of a remote California hamlet called Wilseyville that yielded six bodies, 45 pounds of burned bone fragments, and a child's liver. Then, horror-struck investigators made the most chilling discovery of all: the videotape that showed what Charles Ng and Leonard Lake did to their handcuffed female victims before snuffing them out.

Here is the terrifying story of one of the most notorious serial killer teams in American history -- a pair of maniacs whose orgy of sex crimes, torture, and murder took the lives of at least sixteen victims. From Charles Ng's strange Hong Kong childhood to his twisted friendship with Leonard Lake, DIE FOR ME is the graphic portrait of two monsters who walked among us -- Lake, who took his own life, and Ng, who will die by lethal injection.

Includes 16 pages of shocking photos.
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reviewed Die for Me: The Terrifying True Story of the Charles Ng / Leonard Lake Torture Murders on + 4 more book reviews
A dark tale of a fan of "The Collector" who took it to heart and tried to create his own "Miranda" in his dungeon. A sick retelling of a murder spree


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