Born to Kill (23 page)

Tinh Ngo, as he looked at age thirteen, standing on the grounds of a refugee camp in Thailand. Tinh had arrived at the camp after a torturous journey on a boat similiar to the one pictured below, where fifty Vietnamese refugees are crowded onto a thirty-foot fishing vessel, part of a mass exodus in the years following the U.S. evacuation of Saigon.
AP/WIDE WORLD PHOTOS

Tho Hoang “David” Thai

LV Hong

Tommy Vu

Hoang “Jungle Man” Ngo

Lam Trang

Eddie Tran

Two Chinatown power brokers in a rare photo together. Eddie Chan
(left)
formerly president of the On Leong tong, now a fugitive from the law, and Benny Ong, adviser-for-life of the Hip Sing tong and believed by many to be the “Godfather” of Chinatown.
CHINATOWN HISTORICAL MUSEUM

A classic photo of an early Hip Sing convention
CHINATOWN HISTORICAL MUSEUM

An immigration card belonging to Kim Ngoh Yee, David Thai's second wife, known to BTK gang members as Sophia

Kenny Vu displays his tatoos for the benefit of the New York Police Department.

Jewelry store owner Odum Lim, after a BTK robbery in Doraville, Georgia, went awry

After the bungled robbery in Doraville, it took the robbers a while to realize that Nicky,
(left)
had accidentially been left behind inside the store.