The State - News from July 15, 1985

Charles Ng is not expected to return to the United States to face murder charges for at least several months, as authorities work to compile evidence tying him to the bizarre mass murders in Calaveras County. A two-inch thick stack of investigative reports were given to a judge to support the arrest warrant naming Ng in two murders connected to the remote California cabin that has yielded at least 11 bodies, bloody weapons and torture videotapes. But much of that evidence may provide stronger links between the cabin’s gruesome activities and Leonard Lake, the man who lived there and who died after swallowing a poison pill while in police custody. An international manhunt for Ng ended when he was arrested in Calgary, Canada, where he is being held on charges that he allegedly shot a security guard during a department store shoplifting attempt.