The State - News from July 3, 1985

The FBI said it has pieced together the escape route into Canada of a martial arts expert sought for questioning in the deaths or disappearances of 22 people, some of whose bones have been found at a California mountain hideaway. Robert Gast, special agent in charge of the San Francisco FBI office, traced Charles Ng’s trail as far as Sudbury, Ontario, on June 14, where a man resembling Ng was seen in a hotel restroom shaving his sideburns and eyebrows, and also in a ticket line at a Greyhound bus terminal. The FBI says Ng, 24, was the companion of Leonard Lake, who swallowed poison and died June 6 in the custody of South San Francisco police. Since then, officers have dug up 45 pounds of human bones at Lake’s mountain home in Calaveras County, 150 miles east of San Francisco, and have tied Lake or Ng to 22 missing or dead people.