Friday, December 20, 2024

Victims

  •      Leonard Lake's streak of violent crimes began his and Ng's cabin in Wilseyville. His first victim was in fact his own brother, Donald Lake, who had been in a train accident as a child and was mentally disabled. Leonard was quoted as referring to his brother as a "leech" and saying that he "didn't deserve to live."  In 1982, Leonard took his brother on a house sitting job, and they were never seen again. Lake resurfaced in 1983 and stole Donald's identity in order to cash his disability checks


  •     Shortly after this, Lake moved in with his best friend Charles Gunnar (pictured below), the best man at his wedding to Claralyn Bazales. After his divorce from her, he invited Gunnar on a road trip to Las Vegas in celebration, from which Lake returned alone. He told people that Gunnar had run away with a woman he'd met, and assumed his identity in Wilseyville. His body wasn't found until a secondary unearthing in 1992.


                 Leonard Lake (left) at his wedding with his best man and friend Charles  Gunnar (right). Lake later on murdered Gunnar and assumed his identity,  with Gunnar becoming Lake's likely second victim out


  •     It wasn't until 1984 that Lake and Ng began their sting of murders together, responding to a newspaper add offering oral sex to straight men put out by Donald Albert Giulietti, an openly day radio personality living with Richard Carazza. The two men heard a knock on the door and after opening it, Giulietti was shot in the head point blank and Carazza was shot in the chest. Carazza survived and is the only known survivor of the two, and he identified Ng as one of the shooters in the attack. 

  •     Harvey and Deborah Dubbs, along with their one year old son Christopher, disappeared from their home on July 25th, 1984. Deborah was on the phone with a friend when the door rang, telling her that they were expecting people over to talk to Harvey about his video equipment, and she hung up. The family was never seen again. The family's video equipment was found on the Wilseyville property, along with a receipt belonging to Harvey Dubs.



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