THE BUNKER: Charles Ng, Leonard Lake & Wilseyville Horrors

In June 1985, a routine shoplifting arrest in South San Francisco cracked open one of the most disturbing cases in American criminal history, exposing a remote bunker in Wilseyville where Leonard Lake and Charles Ng had spent years abducting, torturing, and murdering men, women, and children. The episode traces Ng’s troubled upbringing in Hong Kong, his path through the Marines and repeated brushes with the law, and the fateful partnership with Lake that turned a secluded ranch into a chamber of horrors. Lake’s cyanide suicide and Ng’s six-year flight to Canada set the stage for one of California’s longest and most expensive trials, whose forensic questions remain unresolved forty years later.