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Lawrence Singleton was a brutal attacker and killer and I dont believe it started with Mary Vincent in 1978
Based on his age (he was 50 years old when he attacked Mary Vincent), I believe this man could have been connected to many girls missing or unidentified in the California, Nevada, and other areas. His MO is overkill. Are there any cases you know of thought to be committed by someone the victim didn't know, but the kill was extremely brutal. Most overkill is thought to be committed by someone who knew the victim.
Killing years could be between 1948 and Oct. 8, 1978 and then again from April 1988 until Feb. 19, 1997
Most killers start out assaulting women, which over time escalates into murder. I believe by the time he attacked Mary Vincent he had already killed before. Who knows how many. His intention was not only to attack but also to kill. He left her for dead. I have never heard of him being connected to any other murders, but I feel certain he was. Lawrence Singleton had a deeply ingrained hatred and dislike of women, said Assistant Attorney General Scott Browne
He was in prison from Oct. 9, 1978 to April 25, 1987 for the brutal attack of Mary Vincent: Singleton, picked up 15-year-old Mary Vincent in Berkeley and drove her to an isolated area a few miles west of Patterson and not far from Interstate 5. There he bludgeoned her, then raped her and then used a hatchet to chop off her arms just below the elbows. Then he dragged her down into a culvert, where he left her, apparently thinking she would die from the trauma he had just inflicted on her body. But she didn't die. She managed to get out of the culvert and started walking toward the distant noise of I-5 traffic, her bloody stumps hanging down from her shoulders. People in the first car that saw her were so horrified they turned around and fled. People in the second car stopped and got her to a hospital. Mary was able to give a description of her attacker and the vehicle was driving.
Singleton is arrested in Sparks; Nev. Oct. 9, 1978. In March 1979, a San Diego jury convicted Singleton of kidnapping, mayhem, attempted murder, forcible rape, sodomy and forced oral copulation. He received 14 years. He served only 8 years.
He was paroled on April 25, 1987 but held in a trailer on the grounds of San Quentin State Prison until April 1988 -- Singleton, released from parole, leaves San Quentin, and begins to roam around the East Bay, living part of the time in Richmond.
Singleton was free to kill again from April 1988 until Feb. 19, 1997
Singleton was arrested in February 1997 for the murder of another woman in Tampa Florida.
Singleton's known timeline:
-- Sept. 29, 1978 -- Lawrence Singleton kidnaps hitchhiker Mary Vincent, 15, from Berkeley, drives her to rural Stanislaus County, then rapes her and chops off her forearms with a hatchet.
http://www.dc.state.fl.us/InmateReleases/detail.asp?Bookmark=1&From=list&SessionID=318619253
Based on his age (he was 50 years old when he attacked Mary Vincent), I believe this man could have been connected to many girls missing or unidentified in the California, Nevada, and other areas. His MO is overkill. Are there any cases you know of thought to be committed by someone the victim didn't know, but the kill was extremely brutal. Most overkill is thought to be committed by someone who knew the victim.
Killing years could be between 1948 and Oct. 8, 1978 and then again from April 1988 until Feb. 19, 1997
Most killers start out assaulting women, which over time escalates into murder. I believe by the time he attacked Mary Vincent he had already killed before. Who knows how many. His intention was not only to attack but also to kill. He left her for dead. I have never heard of him being connected to any other murders, but I feel certain he was. Lawrence Singleton had a deeply ingrained hatred and dislike of women, said Assistant Attorney General Scott Browne
He was in prison from Oct. 9, 1978 to April 25, 1987 for the brutal attack of Mary Vincent: Singleton, picked up 15-year-old Mary Vincent in Berkeley and drove her to an isolated area a few miles west of Patterson and not far from Interstate 5. There he bludgeoned her, then raped her and then used a hatchet to chop off her arms just below the elbows. Then he dragged her down into a culvert, where he left her, apparently thinking she would die from the trauma he had just inflicted on her body. But she didn't die. She managed to get out of the culvert and started walking toward the distant noise of I-5 traffic, her bloody stumps hanging down from her shoulders. People in the first car that saw her were so horrified they turned around and fled. People in the second car stopped and got her to a hospital. Mary was able to give a description of her attacker and the vehicle was driving.
Singleton is arrested in Sparks; Nev. Oct. 9, 1978. In March 1979, a San Diego jury convicted Singleton of kidnapping, mayhem, attempted murder, forcible rape, sodomy and forced oral copulation. He received 14 years. He served only 8 years.
He was paroled on April 25, 1987 but held in a trailer on the grounds of San Quentin State Prison until April 1988 -- Singleton, released from parole, leaves San Quentin, and begins to roam around the East Bay, living part of the time in Richmond.
Singleton was free to kill again from April 1988 until Feb. 19, 1997
Singleton was arrested in February 1997 for the murder of another woman in Tampa Florida.
Singleton's known timeline:
-- Sept. 29, 1978 -- Lawrence Singleton kidnaps hitchhiker Mary Vincent, 15, from Berkeley, drives her to rural Stanislaus County, then rapes her and chops off her forearms with a hatchet.
-- Oct. 9, 1978 -- Singleton is arrested in Sparks, Nev.
-- March 29, 1979 -- Singleton is convicted by a San Diego jury of multiple counts and is sentenced to more than 14 years in prison.
-- April 25, 1987 -- Singleton is paroled from California state prison in San Luis Obispo after serving just over half of his sentence. A furor erupts in Contra Costa County after many towns refuse to allow Singleton to settle there. State officials eventually settle him in a trailer on the grounds of San Quentin State Prison.
-- April 1988 -- Singleton, released from parole, leaves San Quentin, and begins to roam around the East Bay, living part of the time in Richmond.
-- Sept. 14, 1990 -- Singleton, now living in Tampa, Fla., is released from jail after serving 48 days for petty theft.
-- Feb. 19, 1997 -- Roxanne Hayes, a 31-year-old prostitute and mother of three, is stabbed to death in Singleton's Tampa, Fla., home, nine days after Singleton is released from a psychiatric hospital after attempting suicide. A sheriff's deputy, knocking on Singleton's door, finds him in blood-spattered shirt, Hayes' bloody corpse lying on the floor nearby.
-- April 14, 1998 -- Singleton is sentenced to die after a Tampa jury convicts him of first-degree murder in Hayes' death.
-- Dec. 28, 2001 -- Singleton, 74, dies of cancer in a Florida prison hospital.
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