On June 2, 1985, Leonard Lake was arrested near San Francisco for carrying a gun and an illegal silencer in a stolen car he was driving. Balazs, who’d worked as a teacher’s aide, married Lake in 1981.

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While in custody following his arrest in San Francisco on June 2, 1985 for possession of an illegal firearm silencer, Leonard Lake, 39, swallowed a cyanide pill sewn into his clothes. It took him four ...