Operation Miranda - Leonard Lake and Charles Ng

In the mid 1980's, in a cabin and associated bunker in  the foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains, ex-marines Leonard Lake and Charles Ng ran a deadly operation of abduction, torture and murder. Using a variety of aliases and schemes the duo killed many to variously steal their identification, possessions or in the case of an unknown number of women, to keep them as captives in a dungeon hidden in the bunker.The remains of 11 to an estimated 25 victims (if not more) were found on this remote property, all in service of enacting a sadistic fantasy Leonard Lake had dreamed of putting into action since he read John Fowled novel "The Collector" as a teenager. To this day the number and identification of many of the victims remains unknown