The State - News from Oct. 20, 1986

Calaveras County authorities have filed extradition papers with Atty. Gen. John Van de Kamp, seeking the return from Canada of accused mass murderer Charles Ng. Ng, 26, currently serving a four-year prison term for shoplifting and assault in Canada, is suspected of 11 killings in the Sierra foothills and one in San Francisco. Bits of charred bones, teeth and other human remains were found last year at a remote mountain hideaway in Calaveras County. Canadian law, however, prohibits extradition of suspects who would face the death penalty, as Ng could, if convicted. An alleged Ng accomplice, Leonard Lake, committed suicide last year by swallowing a cyanide pill shortly after his apprehension on unrelated charges.