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Charles Ng

1960 - Today

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Charles Chi-tat Ng (born Ng Chi-tat) (Chinese: 吳志達; Jyutping: ng4 zi3 daat6; born 24 December 1960) is a convicted Hong Kong-born serial killer who committed numerous crimes in the United States. He is believed to have raped, tortured, and murdered between eleven and twenty-five victims with his accomplice Leonard Lake at Lake's cabin in Calaveras County, California, 60 miles (96 km) from Sacramento, between 1983 and 1985. After his arrest and imprisonment in Canada on robbery and weapons charges, followed by a lengthy dispute between Canada and the U.S., Ng was extradited to California, tried, and convicted of eleven murders. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Charles Ng has received more than 3,004,635 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Charles Ng is the 250th most popular extremist, the 81st most popular biography from Hong Kong and the most popular Chinese Extremist.

Memorability Metrics

  • 3.0M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 41.63

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.48

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.99

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among EXTREMISTS

Among extremists, Charles Ng ranks 250 out of 283. Before him are Eric Rudolph, Thomas Lubanga Dyilo, Hamza bin Laden, Karla Homolka, Javed Iqbal, and Vlado Taneski. After him are Seung-Hui Cho, Tohir Yoʻldosh, Mohammed Bouyeri, Baitullah Mehsud, Ziad Jarrah, and Stuart Christie.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1960, Charles Ng ranks 499. Before him are Vali Ionescu, Bill Prady, Kim Christofte, Kara Wai, Sandy Powell, and Ljubomir Radanović. After him are Amy Klobuchar, Stéphane Freiss, Ioan Andone, Christian Prudhomme, Alice Brown, and Fritz Walter.

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In Hong Kong

Among people born in Hong Kong, Charles Ng ranks 81 out of 115. Before him are Charmaine Sheh (1975), Danny Chan Kwok-kwan (1975), Marguerite Higgins (1920), Eason Chan (1974), Kara Wai (1960), and Sammi Cheng (1972). After him are Maggie Shiu (1965), Gillian Chung (1981), Moses Chan (1971), Gigi Leung (1976), William Chan (1985), and Miriam Yeung (1974).

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Among EXTREMISTS In Hong Kong

Among extremists born in Hong Kong, Charles Ng ranks 1. 

Chinese born Extremists

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