In the foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountains of California during the early 1980s, Leonard Lake was methodically building an underground dungeon
In the foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountains of California during the early 1980s, Leonard Lake was methodically building an underground dungeon. There, he and an accomplice held dozens of people captive, tortured and sexually assaulted them, and eventually, incinerated their bodies. And worst of all, they videotaped everything. Watch one of Lake’s homemade video tapes and step inside the demented mind of a serial killer by clicking the link in our bio. Leonard Thomas Lake (October 29, 1945 – June 6, 1985), also known as Leonard Hill and a variety of other aliases, was an American serial killer. During the mid-1980s, he and his accomplice, British Hong Kong-born Charles Ng, raped, tortured and murdered an estimated eleven to twenty-five victims at a remote cabin near Wilseyville, California, in the Sierra Nevada foothills, located 150 miles east of San Francisco. After his 1985 arrest on unrelated charges, Lake swallowed cyanide pills that he had sewn into his clothing and died...