Charles Ng and Leonard Lake tortured and killed 12 people in a kidnapping and sex-slavery spree in Northern California in 1984 and 1985. Lake took a cyanide pill to commit suicide. Ng, whose 1999 trial was moved to Orange County because of pretrial publicity in northern California, was sentenced to death on June 30, 1999. His victims were Kathleen Allen, Michael Carroll, Robin Stapley, Randy Johnson, Charles Gunnar, Donald Lake, Paul Cosner, Brenda O'Conner, Lonnie Bond, Sr., Lonnie Bond, Jr., Harvey Dubbs, Deborah Dubbs and Sean Dubbs.