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This is perhaps one of the few serial killers cases where shoplifting was the downfall, of not just one, but both murderers. When Charles’s fellow marine, and serial killer accomplice, Leonard Lake, was caught shoplifting, he committed suicide.
This death lead detectives down a trail that ended in the discovery of the killer couple’s ‘hostage bunker’ where men, women and babies were butchered.
Charles fled to Canada but was apprehended after resisting arrest after shoplifting from a grocery store...