Originally Released 7.22
FROM THE AUTHORS OF NO KILL NO THRILL
Darcy Henton and Greg Owens
Victim’s sister pleased California Supreme Court rejected killer’s appeal
Although serial killer Charles Ng was never convicted of murdering her brother, Sharon Sellitto believes Paul Cosner was instrumental in ending the former U.S. marine’s murder spree.
Ng and his psychopathic partner Leonard Lake were driving Cosner’s car when Lake was arrested in San Francisco in 1985.
Evidence found in the vehicle led police to the Wilseyville killing field in the Sierra Nevada foothills where Lake and Ng are believed to have murdered as many as 25 people. Lake committed suicide with a cyanide pill while in police custody and Ng fled to Canada where he was arrested for shoplifting and the reign of terror was over.
Sellitto said Friday she was pleased that Ng’s appeal to overturn his death sentence was rejected by the California Supreme Court this week.
“I was also pleased that my brother, Paul, was not forgotten in the story of these horrific murders and disgusting crimes.
“Paul did not get justice, but his kidnapping and murder is what led to Lake and Ng getting caught and ending their murderous serial killing crime spree. Paul is my hero.”
Ng – pronounced ENG – was acquitted of participating in the murder of Cosner, who disappeared after taking strangers for a test drive in a copper-coloured Honda Prelude he was selling. Although it appeared Cosner was shot from behind while sitting in the passenger seat of his car, the jury didn’t believe the prosecution proved Ng had been the shooter.
Lake referred to the killing in his diary, writing that Ng had canceled a debt he owed that day.
The defense at Ng’s trial presented evidence that Lake was the sole offender in the charged offences. A few days before Cosner disappeared a neighbor saw him speaking to Lake.
On the witness stand Ng denied telling prison informant Maurice Laberge that Cosner’s slaying was “a hard operation because he wouldn’t co-operate” and that Cosner “made strange noises” when he shot him.
Ng denied killing Cosner when he was arrested in Calgary in 1985, but he told a detective he helped Lake bury his body. Cosner’s remains have never been located.
While Ng was acquitted of Cosner’s murder, he was convicted on 11 counts of murder. He was found guilty of murdering infant Sean Dubs, the child’s mother Deborah Dubs, and father Harvey Dubs, as well as Ng’s workmates Clifford Peranteau and Jeffrey Gerald. His victims included friend Mike Carroll, Kathleen Allen, Robin Scott Stapley and Wilseyville neighbors Brenda O’Connor, Lonnie Bond Sr. and their son, Lonnie Bond Jr.
Sellitto said she hopes she lives long enough to see Ng executed.
“That would be true justice for the victims and their families and those who helped find him guilty and send him to Death Row in San Quentin Prison which is where he belongs,” she said.
There is currently a moratorium on executions in California and no one has been executed in the state since 2006.
Darcy Henton and Greg Owens
Victim’s sister pleased California Supreme Court rejected killer’s appeal
Although serial killer Charles Ng was never convicted of murdering her brother, Sharon Sellitto believes Paul Cosner was instrumental in ending the former U.S. marine’s murder spree.
Ng and his psychopathic partner Leonard Lake were driving Cosner’s car when Lake was arrested in San Francisco in 1985.
Evidence found in the vehicle led police to the Wilseyville killing field in the Sierra Nevada foothills where Lake and Ng are believed to have murdered as many as 25 people. Lake committed suicide with a cyanide pill while in police custody and Ng fled to Canada where he was arrested for shoplifting and the reign of terror was over.
Sellitto said Friday she was pleased that Ng’s appeal to overturn his death sentence was rejected by the California Supreme Court this week.
“I was also pleased that my brother, Paul, was not forgotten in the story of these horrific murders and disgusting crimes.
“Paul did not get justice, but his kidnapping and murder is what led to Lake and Ng getting caught and ending their murderous serial killing crime spree. Paul is my hero.”
Ng – pronounced ENG – was acquitted of participating in the murder of Cosner, who disappeared after taking strangers for a test drive in a copper-coloured Honda Prelude he was selling. Although it appeared Cosner was shot from behind while sitting in the passenger seat of his car, the jury didn’t believe the prosecution proved Ng had been the shooter.
Lake referred to the killing in his diary, writing that Ng had canceled a debt he owed that day.
The defense at Ng’s trial presented evidence that Lake was the sole offender in the charged offences. A few days before Cosner disappeared a neighbor saw him speaking to Lake.
On the witness stand Ng denied telling prison informant Maurice Laberge that Cosner’s slaying was “a hard operation because he wouldn’t co-operate” and that Cosner “made strange noises” when he shot him.
Ng denied killing Cosner when he was arrested in Calgary in 1985, but he told a detective he helped Lake bury his body. Cosner’s remains have never been located.
While Ng was acquitted of Cosner’s murder, he was convicted on 11 counts of murder. He was found guilty of murdering infant Sean Dubs, the child’s mother Deborah Dubs, and father Harvey Dubs, as well as Ng’s workmates Clifford Peranteau and Jeffrey Gerald. His victims included friend Mike Carroll, Kathleen Allen, Robin Scott Stapley and Wilseyville neighbors Brenda O’Connor, Lonnie Bond Sr. and their son, Lonnie Bond Jr.
Sellitto said she hopes she lives long enough to see Ng executed.
“That would be true justice for the victims and their families and those who helped find him guilty and send him to Death Row in San Quentin Prison which is where he belongs,” she said.
There is currently a moratorium on executions in California and no one has been executed in the state since 2006.
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