This Aug. 24, 2018, photo provided by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation shows Charles Ng, who was sentenced to death in 1999 for his part in nearly a dozen torture-murder cases from 1984-1985. The California Supreme Court has upheld his conviction and death sentence, Thursday, July 28. AP photo/California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation photo
Don ThompsonThe Associated PressThe California Supreme Court Thursday, July 28, upheld the conviction and death penalty for one of two men implicated in at least 11 notorious horrific torture-slayings in the mid-1980s in which the duo kept their victims hidden in a secret bunker in the Northern California woods.Thirty-seven years later, authorities are still trying to identify the remains of some of their victims.Charles Ng, now 61, was convicted in 1999 of killing six men, three women and two baby boys in 1984 and 1985. He was initially accused of 13 slayings – 12 in Calaveras County and one in San Francisco.He and his criminal partner, Leonard Lake, committed a series of kidnappings in which they engaged in bondage and sadism ending in murder. They were initially su
