Wilseyville, California
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Wilseyville is an unincorporated community
in Calaveras County
, California
. It lies at an elevation of 2769 feet (844 m). Wilseyville's post office was established in 1947; it has the zip code
95257. Wilseyville was named after Lawrence A. Wilsey, an executive at the American Forest Products Company.
Wilseyville is notorious for being the location of the ranch where serial killers Leonard Lake
and Charles Ng
killed and disposed of some of their victims. Their spree ended when Ng was spotted loading stolen merchandise into a car driven by Lake in South San Francisco. Ng fled, but Lake was arrested at the scene for illegally outfitting a .22 revolver with a silencer. He swallowed a cyanide pill while in police custody and died four days later. Police found human remains and other evidence at the Wilseyville ranch and began a manhunt for Ng. He was arrested in Canada while shoplifting and was extradited to the United States after serving a sentence in Canada. Ng was sentenced to death after being found guilty of 11 of 12 counts of murder. It was later ruled that Lake and Ng were responsible for the 12th victim, though they were thought to have killed as many as 25 people.
Unincorporated area
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in Calaveras County
Calaveras County, California
Calaveras County is a county located in the Gold Country of the U.S. state of California. Calaveras is the Spanish word for skulls; the county was reportedly named for the remains of Native Americans discovered by the Spanish explorer Captain Gabriel Moraga. As of the 2010 census, the county had a...
, California
California
California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...
. It lies at an elevation of 2769 feet (844 m). Wilseyville's post office was established in 1947; it has the zip code
ZIP Code
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95257. Wilseyville was named after Lawrence A. Wilsey, an executive at the American Forest Products Company.
Wilseyville is notorious for being the location of the ranch where serial killers Leonard Lake
Leonard Lake
Leonard Lake was an American serial killer. He often used the alias Leonard Hill. The crimes he committed with Charles Ng became known when Lake committed suicide by taking a cyanide pill shortly after being arrested for a firearms offense.-Life:Lake was born in San Francisco, California...
and Charles Ng
Charles Ng
Charles Chi-Tat Ng is a serial killer. With Leonard Lake, he is suspected of murdering between 11 and 25 victims at Lake's ranch in Calaveras County, California, United States....
killed and disposed of some of their victims. Their spree ended when Ng was spotted loading stolen merchandise into a car driven by Lake in South San Francisco. Ng fled, but Lake was arrested at the scene for illegally outfitting a .22 revolver with a silencer. He swallowed a cyanide pill while in police custody and died four days later. Police found human remains and other evidence at the Wilseyville ranch and began a manhunt for Ng. He was arrested in Canada while shoplifting and was extradited to the United States after serving a sentence in Canada. Ng was sentenced to death after being found guilty of 11 of 12 counts of murder. It was later ruled that Lake and Ng were responsible for the 12th victim, though they were thought to have killed as many as 25 people.