

After a four-month trial, the jury convicted Ng and he was sentenced to death in 1999. One of America’s most notorious serial killers, Robert Hansen was called ‘The Butcher Baker’ as he owned a bakery. Soon, Clark began bringing prostitutes home for threesomes. The pair met at a bar in 1980 and moved in together almost immediately. The two murdered seven people in 1980 alone.
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Bundy were known as the 'Sunset Strip Killers.' They were convicted of a series of killings in Los Angeles.

Ng said the cartoons were meant to be funny. Douglas Daniel Clark and his accomplice Carol M. The prosecution used his testimony to introduce new evidence, including cartoons drawn by Ng depicting babies being smashed, drowned, fried in a wok, and put in a microwave oven. He told the jury that he was Lake’s subservient partner, and denied killing anyone. Ng persuaded the judge to let him testify in his own defense, against his attorney’s advice. It was one of the longest homicide prosecutions in state history and one of the costliest, at approximately $11 million dollars. By the time he was finally convicted, he had gone through multiple attorneys and judges. When he was finally returned to California for trial, he utilized other delaying tactics. was to pick up young men, ply them with alcohol, then systematically harm them before ending their lives. With the majority of his nefarious actions taking place in southern California, Kraft's M.O. Ng escaped to Canada, where he successfully avoided extradition for almost six years. Randy Steven Kraft committed a string of grisly murders between 19. Lake, who had been arrested in 1985 for his connection to a burglary committed by Ng, ingested a cyanide capsule while in custody, and killed himself.
