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Jan 1, 2023 · Claralyn Balazs, also known as Cricket, was the ex-wife of Leonard Lake, one of the two serial killers who tortured and murdered women at a cabin in California. She claimed she thought he was living a fantasy life and cooperated with police, but faced death threats and legal issues.
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- Leonard Lake’s Chilling Childhood
- Leonard Lake Goes from Hippie to Homicidal
- Enter Charles Ng
- The Cabin Becomes A Chop Shop
- Capture, Conviction, and Cyanide
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In 1971, long before he ever met Charles Ng, Leonard Lake was in a dark state of mind. He’d just been medically discharged from the United States Marine Corps following two tours of duty in the Vietnam War. During his last tour, he’d suffered a mental breakdown and later was diagnosed with a schizoid personality disorder. Of course, Lake had been s...
Following his graduation from Balboa High School in San Francisco in 1964, Leonard Lake enlisted in the United States Marine Corps. Of course, we already know how his two active duty tours in Vietnam ended. Following what army medical techs deemed a “delusional breakdown,” he was discharged and sent back home. Around this time, Lake discovered a hi...
Whether driven by his schizoid personality disorder or simply the constant, mounting paranoia most Americans experienced concerning nuclear war at the time, Leonard Lake began to believethat the world was facing an impending nuclear holocaust. In order to survive this disaster, Lake conceived of a survivalist bunker. However, the owner of the Green...
Between 1983 and 1985, Leonard Lake and Charles Ng kidnapped, tortured, raped, and murdered between 8 and 25 people, mostly women, in their bunker perhaps in a bid to prepare for the impending nuclear holocaust when they would be required to repopulate the earth. The scope of their crimes is still undetermined, as is the total of their victims. Pol...
However, the quiet rampage of Leonard Lake and Charles Ng lasted only two years. In 1985, thanks to petty theft, the two killers were finally caught. In June of that year, while on a trip into downtown San Francisco, Ng attempted to shoplift a vise from a hardware store. The clerk caught him and held him back, threatening to call the police. Ng pan...
Claralyn Balazs was a hippie who married Leonard Lake, a former Marine and pornographer, in 1975. She accepted his sadistic fantasies and starred in his home videos, but was unaware of his crimes until he was arrested in 1985.
Jun 30, 1999 · Claralyn Balazs is mentioned in several blog posts about the crimes of Marine veterans Charles Ng and Leonard Lake, who murdered 11 people in California in the 1980s. The posts include details of the victims, the investigations, the trials and the sentences of the killers.
Dec 21, 2022 · Claralyn Balazs let her ex-husband Leonard Lake live in a cabin in Wilseyville, California, where he and Charles Ng tortured and killed at least 11 people. The cabin was the scene of their horrific crimes, which are explored in the Oxygen special \"Manifesto Of A Serial Killer\".
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Lake's ex-wife, Claralyn Balazs, cooperated with investigators and received legal immunity from prosecution. Court records stated that Balazs turned over weapons and other material to authorities during the investigation. She was called as a key witness in Ng's trial in 1999. Yet in a surprise move, Ng's lawyer, William Kelley, dismissed Balazs ...
Jun 17, 1985 · The lawyer, Stan Rozanski, would not say how many theats his client, Claralyn Balazs, had received. Miss Balazs is the former wife of Leonard Lake, who committed suicide June 2 after his arrest...
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Under the passenger seat, a utility bill was found in the name of Lake's ex-wife, Claralyn Balazs, with a Wilseyville address. On June 4, San Francisco Police detectives and Calaveras County Sheriffs investigators searched the Wilseyville cabin with Balazs's permission.
