The State - News from Aug. 2, 1985

The seven-week examination of self-styled survivalist Leonard Lake’s property in Calaveras County has turned up nearly 2,000 bits of mass-murder evidence, including 45 pounds of charred and hacked human bones, Sheriff Claud Ballard said as he formally ended that search. A crew of two people with dogs will resume hunting next week in a five-mile radius around Lake’s home. “We have reason to search around the property,” Ballard said. “Evidence has led us there.” Lake, 39, committed suicide by swallowing poison while in police custody June 2, and his suspected accomplice, Charles Ng, 24, is awaiting trial on robbery and attempted murder charges in Alberta, Canada, where he was arrested July 6.