Serial killer Charles Ng did not want to be extradited to California to face justice.
For a time, Canadian courts played along until the government of Brian Mulroney in 1991 was given a brief window to pack the monster onto a plane out of the country.
Now, more than 30 years later, cops in California say they have identified a previously unknown victim of Ng and his buddy, Leonard Lake.
The John Doe was identified by the Calaveras County Sheriff’s cold case unit as New Yorker Reginald “Reggie” Frisby, who was around 28 when he vanished from San Francisco in 1984.
Lake and Ng are two of the most notorious serial killers of the 20th century. Cops say they committed 12 murders, with that number possibly doubled.
Together, the Vietnam War vet and Ng, his acolyte, preyed upon acquaintances and people they hooked up with in the classified ads. The males were quickly eliminated and dumped in a mass grave at their rural Calaveras County cottage.
There would be no quick death for their female victims. Instead, they were kept as sex slaves to be raped and tortured before they too were murdered.
Cops caught up with the pair in 1985 because of Ng’s kleptomania. The Hong Kong native was busted stealing from a hardware store in San Francisco while Lake waited in a car registered to a missing person.
Ng slipped away but Lake was nabbed and took a cyanide pill, killing himself.
A month later Ng was nabbed in Calgary again while trying to shoplift.
California wanted him back but Ng was a master at gaming the system, changing lawyers a dozen times, lining up activists who cried foul and protested.
Canada finally extradited him in 1991 in a clandestine operation caused by a courthouse glitch.
Ng was convicted of 11 murders and sentenced to die in the Green Room at San Quentin.
Odd couple Ng and Lake met in the Bay Area in the early 1980s and discovered they shared a penchant for violence and depraved sex. They would snatch victims off the street and take them to a concrete bunker on Lake’s property.
Frisby was identified from remains at the scene of their killing ground after cops took another look in November 2022. A DNA profile was developed and a family match was identified.
His mother told detectives that Frisby hadn’t contacted family since 1984.
“(He) had never been reported missing and was previously not considered or suspected to be a potential victim or suspected to be associated with the Wilseyville Serial Killer case,” the sheriff’s office said in a statement.
Ng, now 64, remains caged at the California Medical Facility in Vacaville.
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