At the age of 15, he was arrested for shoplifting and sent by his father to a private boarding school in England in an attempt to change him, from which he was expelled for stealing from his fellow students and sent back to Hong Kong. From an early age, he displayed an obsession with martial arts and fire-setting and also had a lifelong addiction to stealing. His father, a business executive, was strict and disciplined him through physical abuse. Ng was born in Hong Kong on December 24, 1960. Like Balazs, she left him when she could no longer put up with his sexual deviance. He had been married to another woman before her in 1975 while he was serving in Vietnam. Lake would star in S&M- and bondage-related amateur porn movies and also made Balazs take part in them. He met a woman named Claralyn Balazs, a 25-year-old teacher's aide whom he nicknamed "Cricket", in 1977 and married her in 1981 and moved in with her. Around this time, Lake became obsessed with the idea of a global nuclear war and developed a kind of survivalist paranoia and with it an obsession with guns. He moved to San Jose, California and attended the San Jose University, but dropped out after only one semester and joined a hippie commune. In 1971, he was given a medical discharge, having been diagnosed with schizoid personality disorder. During his first tour, he was hospitalized for "exhibiting incipient psychotic reactions" but was returned to duty after a short time. Marine Corps and did service in Vietnam during the war as a radar operator. In 1965, aged 19, he enlisted in the U.S. He also enjoyed killing mice by dissolving them in chemicals. At an early age, he began taking nude photos of his sisters this became the start of his obsession with pornography. When he was young, his parents separated, and he and his siblings were sent to live with their grandparents. Lake was born in San Francisco, California, on October 29, 1945.
2 Arrest, Lake's suicide, and Ng's conviction.