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Book Review of Die For Me: The Terrifying True Story of the Charles Ng & Leonard Lake Torture Muders

Die For Me: The Terrifying True Story of the Charles Ng & Leonard Lake Torture Muders
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THEY KILLED FOR THRILLS...
It began with a shoplifting arrest. It led to a search of a remote California hamlet called Wilseyville that yielded six bodies, 45 pounds of burned bone fragments, and a childs liver. Then, horror-struck investigators made the most chilling discovery of all: the videotape that showed what Charles Ng and Leonard Lake did to their handcuffed female victims before snuffing them out.
Here is the terrifying story of one of the most notorious serial killer teams in American history-a pair of maniacs whose orgy of sex crimes, torture, and murder took the lives of at least sixteen victims. From Charles Ng's strange Hong Kong childhood to his twisted friendship with co-conspirator Leonard Lake, Die For Me is the graphic portrait of two monsters who walked among us-Lake, who took his own life, and Ng, who will die by lethal injection.