California authorities have identified a previously unknown victim of a pair of serial killers, 40 years after they were arrested.
The Calaveras County Sheriff's Office announced last week that 28-year-old Reginald 'Reggie' Frisby was one of at least a dozen victims of serial killers Leonard Lake and Charles Ng.
The duo apparently abducted and killed the New York transplant in the 1980s, and killed Frisby, before dumping his body in a mass grave at Lake's cabin in Calaveras County, about 150 miles east of San Francisco.
It remains unclear how exactly Frisby was killed and how he may have known Lake or Ng, who primarily killed acquaintances or people they met through classified ads, according to the San Francisco Gate.
They had apparently bonded over their military experience and their love of violence.
Lake was born in San Francisco in 1945 and enlisted as a Marine following high school. He was then spent several tours in Vietnam, before he was medically discharged when he was diagnosed with a personality disorder.
He had become obsessed with the idea of a nuclear holocaust and survivalism, ultimately moving into the Wilseyville cabin.
By the early 1980s, Lake met Ng - who was born in Hong Kong and came to the Bay Area on a student visa to attend Notre Dame de Namur University, the Gate reports.
Reginald 'Reggie' Frisby, 28, was one of at least a dozen victims of serial killers Leonard Lake and Charles Ng.
Lake (left) and Charles Ng (right) committed a series of kidnappings in which they engaged in bondage and sadism ending in murder in the early 1980s
When he failed out of school, Ng falsified his identity in order to join the Marines, but in 1980 he was busted for allegedly stealing weapons from a military base and he went on the run.
The pair were eventually caught in 1985 thanks to Ng's propensity for stealing.
While Lake waited in a car, prosecutors said Ng stole an item from a hardware store in San Francisco.
The thief was able to escape, but police caught up with Lake and apprehended him.
But while he was in custody, Lake committed suicide by taking a cyanide pill he had hidden in his clothing.
Ng was then found about a month later in Alberta, Canada, after attempting to shoplift from a department store.
He was extradited back to the United States to face trial, and was convicted in 1999 of killing six men, three women and two baby boys between 1984 and 1985.
Prosecutors noted at the time, however, that he and Lake may have killed over a dozen more people.
Lake killed himself in prison, but Ng went on to face trial for the murders
Ng and his defense attorneys tried to argue that he was under the influence of Lake, who they claimed engineered the serial slayings
They claimed that Lake was obsessed with pornography as a teenager, and was inspired to kill by the novel The Collector - about a man who kidnaps a woman named Miranda and keeps her as a slave.
Lake and Ng even code-named their murders 'Operation Miranda,' prosecutors claimed.
But Ng and his defense attorneys tried to argue that he was under the influence of Lake, who they claimed engineered the serial slayings. Ng denied participating in many of the crimes.
Damning evidence presented at trial, however, seemed to refute those claims.
It included videotapes of the two killers tormenting bound, terrified women they used as sex slaves before their murders, according to the Associated Press.
Jurors were also shown a tape of one woman pleading in vain for the men to spare her husband and baby as Ng cut off her shirt and bra with a knife in front of the camera.
Investigators also discovered piles of charred bones, blood-stained tools, shallow graves and a 250-page diary kept by Lake.
Lake had reportedly become obsessed with the idea of a nuclear holocaust and survivalism, ultimately moving into a Wilseyville cabin, where the remains were found
As many as 25 people were suspected victims in the sex-torture slayings at the remote Sierra foothill site
Four law enforcement agencies spent five weeks scouring the property, according to the court's detailed description.
They found thousands of buried teeth and bone fragments throughout the property, with at least four of the dental specimens belonging to a child under age 3. 'Many hundreds' of the bone fragments had also been burned.
But because of the state of the remains in the mass grave, investigators were unable to determine exactly how many people had died at the cabin.
Investigators then saved the remains, and in November 2022, the Calaveras County Sheriff's Office cold case task force decided to take another look at the evidence.
Ng, now 64, remains on death row and is currently incarcerated at the California Medical Facility in Vacaville
Members of the Calaveras County Sheriff's Office cold case task force focused on remains that had been the subject of an autopsy in 1985, and for which a composite sketch was created
Members of the task force specifically decided to reexamine remains that had been the subject of an autopsy in 1985, and for which a composite sketch was created.
Those remains were then sent to a private lab in Utah for testing, a DNA profile was developed and a potential familial match was identified, the sheriff's office said.
At that point, investigators reached out to the woman, who said her son Reginald Frisby last contacted family members in 1984.
Further DNA tests then confirmed the remains belonged to Frisby.
Frisby was born in New York in 1956 and was living in San Francisco as of January 1984. He 'had never been reported missing and was previously not considered or suspected to be a potential victim or suspected to be associated with the Wileysville serial killer case,' authorities said.
The sheriff's office is now continuing to investigate Frisby's murder.
Meanwhile, Ng, now 64, remains on death row and is currently incarcerated at the California Medical Facility in Vacaville. Here's more about CHUYỂN NHƯỢNG CĂN HỘ ST. MORITZ look into our web site.
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The Calaveras County Sheriff's Office announced last week that 28-year-old Reginald 'Reggie' Frisby was one of at least a dozen victims of serial killers Leonard Lake and Charles Ng.
The duo apparently abducted and killed the New York transplant in the 1980s, and killed Frisby, before dumping his body in a mass grave at Lake's cabin in Calaveras County, about 150 miles east of San Francisco.
It remains unclear how exactly Frisby was killed and how he may have known Lake or Ng, who primarily killed acquaintances or people they met through classified ads, according to the San Francisco Gate.
They had apparently bonded over their military experience and their love of violence.
Lake was born in San Francisco in 1945 and enlisted as a Marine following high school. He was then spent several tours in Vietnam, before he was medically discharged when he was diagnosed with a personality disorder.
He had become obsessed with the idea of a nuclear holocaust and survivalism, ultimately moving into the Wilseyville cabin.
By the early 1980s, Lake met Ng - who was born in Hong Kong and came to the Bay Area on a student visa to attend Notre Dame de Namur University, the Gate reports.
Reginald 'Reggie' Frisby, 28, was one of at least a dozen victims of serial killers Leonard Lake and Charles Ng.
Lake (left) and Charles Ng (right) committed a series of kidnappings in which they engaged in bondage and sadism ending in murder in the early 1980s
When he failed out of school, Ng falsified his identity in order to join the Marines, but in 1980 he was busted for allegedly stealing weapons from a military base and he went on the run.
The pair were eventually caught in 1985 thanks to Ng's propensity for stealing.
While Lake waited in a car, prosecutors said Ng stole an item from a hardware store in San Francisco.
The thief was able to escape, but police caught up with Lake and apprehended him.
But while he was in custody, Lake committed suicide by taking a cyanide pill he had hidden in his clothing.
Ng was then found about a month later in Alberta, Canada, after attempting to shoplift from a department store.
He was extradited back to the United States to face trial, and was convicted in 1999 of killing six men, three women and two baby boys between 1984 and 1985.
Prosecutors noted at the time, however, that he and Lake may have killed over a dozen more people.
Lake killed himself in prison, but Ng went on to face trial for the murders
Ng and his defense attorneys tried to argue that he was under the influence of Lake, who they claimed engineered the serial slayings
They claimed that Lake was obsessed with pornography as a teenager, and was inspired to kill by the novel The Collector - about a man who kidnaps a woman named Miranda and keeps her as a slave.
Lake and Ng even code-named their murders 'Operation Miranda,' prosecutors claimed.
But Ng and his defense attorneys tried to argue that he was under the influence of Lake, who they claimed engineered the serial slayings. Ng denied participating in many of the crimes.
Damning evidence presented at trial, however, seemed to refute those claims.
It included videotapes of the two killers tormenting bound, terrified women they used as sex slaves before their murders, according to the Associated Press.
Jurors were also shown a tape of one woman pleading in vain for the men to spare her husband and baby as Ng cut off her shirt and bra with a knife in front of the camera.
Investigators also discovered piles of charred bones, blood-stained tools, shallow graves and a 250-page diary kept by Lake.
Lake had reportedly become obsessed with the idea of a nuclear holocaust and survivalism, ultimately moving into a Wilseyville cabin, where the remains were found
As many as 25 people were suspected victims in the sex-torture slayings at the remote Sierra foothill site
Four law enforcement agencies spent five weeks scouring the property, according to the court's detailed description.
They found thousands of buried teeth and bone fragments throughout the property, with at least four of the dental specimens belonging to a child under age 3. 'Many hundreds' of the bone fragments had also been burned.
But because of the state of the remains in the mass grave, investigators were unable to determine exactly how many people had died at the cabin.
Investigators then saved the remains, and in November 2022, the Calaveras County Sheriff's Office cold case task force decided to take another look at the evidence.
Ng, now 64, remains on death row and is currently incarcerated at the California Medical Facility in Vacaville
Members of the Calaveras County Sheriff's Office cold case task force focused on remains that had been the subject of an autopsy in 1985, and for which a composite sketch was created
Members of the task force specifically decided to reexamine remains that had been the subject of an autopsy in 1985, and for which a composite sketch was created.
Those remains were then sent to a private lab in Utah for testing, a DNA profile was developed and a potential familial match was identified, the sheriff's office said.
At that point, investigators reached out to the woman, who said her son Reginald Frisby last contacted family members in 1984.
Further DNA tests then confirmed the remains belonged to Frisby.
Frisby was born in New York in 1956 and was living in San Francisco as of January 1984. He 'had never been reported missing and was previously not considered or suspected to be a potential victim or suspected to be associated with the Wileysville serial killer case,' authorities said.
The sheriff's office is now continuing to investigate Frisby's murder.
Meanwhile, Ng, now 64, remains on death row and is currently incarcerated at the California Medical Facility in Vacaville. Here's more about CHUYỂN NHƯỢNG CĂN HỘ ST. MORITZ look into our web site.
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