The Horrific Case of The Mad Chopper Murderer

The year was 1987 and somewhere in Rodeo California, a 59-year-old man was terrified inside a mobile home surrounded by at least a dozen police officers scrambling to put on bulletproof vests as they hurriedly prepared to escort him out of town. . The man's name was. lawrence singleton and he was an ex-convict who the government was desperately trying to relocate but the community did not agree, in fact there was a mob coming for him, vigilant mothers, fathers and neighbors who would not hold out until lawrence singleton No matter how far from the community the west was from the hell of the east, some of the wealthiest inhabitants were willing to finance a one-way trip to Cuba or the Congo for Mr.

Singleton; they would only feel safe if he was permanently expelled from the continent. and if he decided that he would not leave. Some people were more than willing to send Mr. Singleton back to his creator in the most violent way possible. That's how hated Lauren Singleton had become in 1988, so the question we should be asking is who he was. He, what had he done to be so vilified and despised? How could he incite that level of violence from normal, mostly peaceful people? In other words, what were the good people of Rodeo California really afraid of being welcomed or welcomed back into twisted minds? james and today we are going to delve into the disgusting inhumanity of lawrence singleton and the miraculous and almost unbelievable survival of mary vinson. our story today begins with a young mary vinson whose unfortunate encounter with lauren singleton served as a catalyst for the overwhelming infamy linked to her name today one of seven children mary vincent was born in 1963 to strict parents her father worked as a mechanic in their home in the las.

Vegas and her mother juggled a military career and a side job as a professional blackjack dealer when Mary was a teenager, she had a generic but conflicted life, on the one hand she liked competitive dancing and wanted to explore the world as an artist, on the other On the other hand, his parents' marriage was on the verge of collapse and, like many teenagers in his place, his parents' collapse. The relationship was quickly sparking a rebellion within her that began gradually, at times she would skip classes and at other times she would skip school altogether. She was eventually just 15 years old when she ran away from her parents' home to live with an older boyfriend in Sausalito, California. her boyfriend would soon get into serious trouble, he was accused of assaulting another girl and was immediately arrested, causing mary vinson to return to las vegas, but she didn't return home to her parents, she wandered around for a bit sleeping in open cars around night and rushing free meals during the day, she finally decided to travel to her grandparents' house, they lived in Corona California, quite far from where she was, but Mary was lost and desperately needed stability in her life.

She promised herself that she would work hard to become a professional. Once established as a wild dancer, as wild as she may seem in our time, it was common practice for teenagers to hitchhike for rides to complete and hopefully friendly strangers, a concept we now frown upon due to the long history of unfortunate events to which this practice has led. but the year was 1978, the hippie movement might have been dying but the spirit was still very much alive and what was the alternative of returning home to a broken family that was not an option for mary vinson, so on september 29, 1978 She walked down a highway holding a sign that said southbound, but she was not alone.

There were two other hitchhikers behind her heading in a similar direction. After a couple of hours of standing, a blue van pulled up and sitting behind the wheel was 50-year-old Lawrence. bernard singleton this was 10 years before the rodeo incident he was 50 years old at the time and to marry vincent he looked like someone's harmless grandfather at this point i should tell you some details about lauren singleton's past a backstory a brief biography childhood turbulent something that unfortunately we know very little about this man's past, we know that he was a maritime merchant native of Tampa, Florida and that his only brother, a man named Walter, had become estranged and did not say a word about the existence of his Brother, however, the world was about to learn.

More of Lawrence's future than her past could tell. When Lauren Singleton stopped in front of the three hitchhikers, she chose Mary Vinson as the only one she would be willing to give a ride to the other hitchhikers. This was strange in 50 years. The old stranger who was alone in a van didn't give good news to make things more suspicious, the three of them were heading in the same direction and there was more than enough room for everyone, so it made very little sense for Lawrence to be refusing to carry them. at all three, but you know how someone can be so tied down that their brain runs away and they make bad decisions by default, well, that's exactly what happened to Mary Vinson, despite the warnings of the other two hitchhikers, she accepted Lauren Singleton's offer.

She'd been on the road for too long, she'd spent enough nights in other people's cars and hadn't properly processed all the emotional baggage that had hit her over the past few days, she was young and she trusted everything. he was in place for her to make a bad decision now lauren singleton wasn't exactly heading in her direction but he offered to turn around at one point for her she was glad to have another gesture of good will when he had settled into the vehicle and they were already on the road, Mary took out a cigarette and was about to take a drag when she sneezed, then the man approached her, touched her back and pulled her close, saying "let's see if you're sick." Mary immediately became defensive and rightly so, so why would she do it herself?

A stranger she had just met felt comfortable enough to touch her, so she moved out of reach, leaned back, and Lawrence returned her attention to the road. A few moments later, Mary fell asleep. When he woke up, he noticed that the signs on the road were all wrong, they were going in the wrong direction, all his instincts kicked in and he picked up a stick that was lying on the floor of the car, pointed it out to Lawrence and insisted that he turn around. to the car, she told him she knew what she was doing. Lauren Singleton dismissed it as a simple mistake and she agreed to turn around, however, he told her that she wanted to urinate, so she drove off the road, she parked and got out of the vehicle, leaving her alone in the vehicle with only her thoughts. her.

Mary Vinson began to soak. In the danger of her situation, she knew she was in trouble, however, to her the man seemed old and unhealthy, she felt that she could easily overpower him or leave him behind, then she realized that his shoelaces were untied, so when she got out of the vehicle she bent over to tie her laces and Lauren Singleton hit her in the back of the head with a sledgehammer knocking her unconscious. When Mary regained consciousness she was naked and tied up in the back of her truck in such a way that He wouldn't be able to move even if she tried, he drove into a canyon and when they were far enough away he began attacking her during a harrowing night.

This vile man repeated the assault about six times. At some point, Mary Vinson just wanted to die. It was unbearable for her. She kept asking him why but got no answer and when he was done and the sun was starting to rise, she begged him to release me, so he let go of her, took her out of the truck and then mocked her with these words. : you want Be free, I will set you free. He took out an ax from her toolbox, grabbed her left arm and attacked him immediately. Mary grabbed his arm. There were too many things happening at once.

She was shocked. She didn't realize what she was doing this monster. He gave another blow to her left arm and she began to fall. Her hand fell away from her body but she was firmly gripping Lauren Singleton's arm. It wasn't until she looked at her own hand that she realized what had happened and began to flail around screaming with hope. that someone would hear him, but this devilish man wasn't done, he grabbed her right hand and slashed it repeatedly until she let go. The horror of what had just happened to her was intense and her body went into shock and the last thing she said.

He could remember that as he was fading Lawrence was trying to remove his dismembered left hand which was still clutched tightly in his hand and somehow this monster still wasn't done after this he dragged away what he must have thought was a lifeless body to a paper clip and tossed her to her death before stuffing her into a sewer, anyone would have died, in fact there are countless who have suffered fewer horrors and didn't make it, but somehow within Mary Vinson's core her will wouldn't let her. go, they say when people are at their lowest and most desperate is when you know their true nature for Mary Vincent, who was in the ditch slowly bleeding to death, her mind raced and she pondered one thought: if you die here, this man will try do this to another girl than Mary was.

Without thinking about herself as the adrenaline took over, she was thinking about other girls like her, so she gathered strength in every fiber of her being and stood up, her arms were bleeding buckets, so she artfully plunged both severed arms into the mud to reduce bleeding. she and she went out, walked until she could hear the sound of vehicles crossing the road. She finally got to the road and the first vehicle that saw her was a red sports car with two guys inside it, but they got scared and left. I don't blame them, no one could, she was armless, covered in blood, actively bleeding and completely naked, it was not a sight for the faint of heart.

Finally, a couple on their way to her vacation saw her and, without asking questions, wrapped her in a towel and took her. She was taken to the hospital when she was finally asked, all she could say about her was that he wrote to me. She was taken to surgery immediately and given prosthetic arms. When the police arrived, they questioned her about her

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attack, but the trauma had eaten deep and they had to use her. forensic hypnosis for marriage to give them a detailed account of the events surrounding her attack and a detailed description of the mutilator who attacked her.

It worked. One of her severed limbs was later found near the Golden Gate Bridge and a sketch of her attacker was circulated around the world. The media until a California man recognized the killer as his neighbor Lawrence Singleton, was immediately arrested and 11 days after the attack, Mary was able to confirm that he was indeed her attacker between his capture and the trial. Lauren Singleton gained great infamy. The story was too bloody. Could anyone be so depraved? that was the question everyone was asking it was beyond surreal the media started calling lauren singleton the crazy helicopter five months after the incident the crazy helicopter trial would begin in court mary vincent had to sit through the painful trial process she she was only 10 to 15 feet away from the monster and every time she had to get on the stand she had to walk in front of him during one of those times he whispered something that shook her to her core, he said if it's the last thing I'll do is finishing the job when Lauren Singleton took the stand he told so many incongruous lies he said that Mary Vinson was a prostitute who worked 10 hours an hour and that she had tried to mutilate him he also talked about the other two hitchhikers who he said were involved he kept his innocence in his skull delusional he wasn't the one who committed the crime but his lies were useless they didn't add up and the jury didn't believe him they couldn't not when mary vinson was both the key witness and the living evidence he was finally found guilty and sentenced to 14 years behind bars, which It was the maximum he could legally serve at the time when judges were not allowed to impose consecutive sentences for each felony, so the most a bachelor could get was 14 years. and four months if Singleton had been sentenced today on the charges he was convicted of in the 1978

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, he would have received multiple sentences of 25 years to life in prison and a judge could have stacked the sentences for each conviction instead of allowing Singleton fulfilled them simultaneously.

Singleton would not have been eligible for parole until he had served 49 years, which is more than six times the time he spent behind bars, even the judge was distraught and publicly stated that if he could he would have made sure that Singleton spent time. rest of his life. The miserable life confined Mary and the public was understandably upset by the sentence which they considered too short and unfair. This would lead to the passage of the Singleton Bill in California which ended the early release of criminals who used torture in their crime and allowed for 25 to 100-year-old prison sentences.life as well, however, as the law became tougher, Singleton got the short end of the stick during his time in prison.

Mary was terrified at home, she was having problems with her family and she felt isolated at her specialized school for the disabled. Her dreams of becoming a dancer were ruined, she moved away as soon as she graduated and became secretive about her life and where she was. Traumatized and depressed. Vincent became anorexic. He had trouble leaving the house and saw many of his close relationships fall apart. He ended up living in fear for years. While Mary lived in agony, San Quentin released Lawrence Singleton on parole after serving only eight years and four months because, in his words, he had been a model prisoner, becoming a teacher's assistant in prison and staying away from the problems, for them this was enough to let a mutilator in easy situation the public expressed its massive indignation against this act of leniency the prisoner without remorse still maintained his innocence just before his release his psychiatrist stated the following why he is so out of touch with his hostility and anger that remains a heightened threat to others security inside and outside the prison after this evaluation he was released;

However, if Lawrence Singleton thought he had escaped proper judgment from the justice system, he was about to get a wake-up call from the people that no town wanted the monster in their town. Lauren Singleton embarked on a parole odyssey in April In 1987, the people of Antioch County, Contra Costa, learned that their city had been chosen for Singleton's parole. More than 10,000 people signed a petition that blocked the state's attempt. Meanwhile, Nevada and his home state of Florida rejected him. , so the state of california chose martínez as the county where singleton would serve his parole on the 24th of that same month and one day before his release, martínez city council officials obtained restraining orders that would prevent singleton from settle anywhere in his county the next The day Singleton 59 was released from the California men's colony in San Luis Obispo and had to spend some time heavily guarded at a secret location in San Francisco.

Three days later, San Francisco officials found out and obtained a restraining order prohibiting him. Reporters found him in a hotel in Redwood City and had to be whisked away over the next month. Contra Nosta county officials actively thwarted the state's covert attempts to keep him in their midst when they moved him to Richmond. The mayor publicly denounced Singleton and He joined demonstrations to force him out. He eventually found himself in the city of Rodeo, where several hundred angry people protested in front of his apartment. Some people were willing to lynch the man if the state insisted on keeping him in their city when pressure reached a fever pitch.

The governor of California at the time. george duke may gm announced that singleton would serve the remainder of his parole in a trailer on the grounds of san quentin prison lauren singleton joined alcoholics anonymous and claimed he was sober while mary vinson remained in hiding singleton felt like she was the victim in the attack on Mary Vinson and decided to sue her began to tell anyone who would listen that while she was in jail she considered the alleged facts and determined that she was not guilty said she remembered that Vincent threatened to accuse him of rape and that she brandished him a stick decided that was the reason he had become violent, maintaining abuse in court filed a complaint suing vinson for forcible kidnapping for the purpose of robbery can you even begin to imagine the madness lurking between this monster's ears ? sympathy for vinson claiming that he almost vomited three times and was unable to sleep several nights after the act, however this lawsuit never gained traction and was soon dismissed by the courts, some details began to come to light after his early release , it turned out that Mary Vinson wasn't the only one who feared Singleton.

He had a daughter, Debra, who shared some details about the nature of her father. When she found out that he was getting out of jail, she too fled and hid, asking the authorities if there was any way she could do it. She could keep him behind bars longer considering how he had just used his status as a father to lure Mary into her car. To her it only made sense in her own words. I asked the California prison staff what could be done to keep him in prison longer and asked. They told me they didn't suggest anything.

I obtained a restraining order upon his release. I'm sorry, but I say it quite sarcastically. I tell you it's a danger. I said that before the first crime I changed my name several times and moved. across state lines and you all suggest a piece of paper that will tell you exactly where I am, what my name is and to not come within 300 feet of me, yet you didn't go looking for your estranged daughter afterward that his parole ended, he thought. which had no place in California so he moved to Florida three years later he was arrested for theft and sentenced to two years he once again served only a fraction of the time he continued his petty theft stealing small cheap items and was relatively free until the 19th February 1997.

A local house painter was going about his business when he witnessed what he could only describe as a

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scene: a naked man covered in blood relentlessly stabbing a woman who was lying motionless on the couch. He was macabre and senseless. where she was she could hear bones crunching with each stab so she rushed to call the police and when they answered the call and knocked on the door of this naked

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in a bath of blood, it turned out to be Lauren Singleton once again, 20 years old after his first crime. The crazy Chopra had attacked, but this time, unlike Mary Vinson, who survived, he finished the job when the police arrived at the door of his apartment.

Lawrence responded nonchalantly still naked and still covered in blood. He had not attempted to clean himself when asked why. He was covered in blood, he told them he hurt his finger and when they told him they would like to question him, Lawrence apologized leaving the door ajar, the lifeless body of his victim, Roxanne Hayes, was clearly in view, still on the couch. . he hadn't even bothered to hide the body or his crime this man didn't even mind being caught his victim roxanne hayes a mother of three children and a companion who did what she could to support her family had agreed to meet him for Twenty Dollars in The Court Lawrence Singleton told the most brazen and strange account of the events.

It was both amazing and surprisingly dumb. He claimed that she tried to make more money than they had agreed upon. They struggled and she grabbed a knife he had kept on the living room table. to cut vegetables while watching TV, the fight lasted about 30 seconds and each time he pulled Haye's arm down to remove the knife from her hand, according to him, she stabbed herself each time, but this bullfighting story doesn't end there , went on to say that he didn't realize she was hurt until she lay dying on his couch and asked him to hug her, then he said she put both her arms around him and they hugged, at which point he said he realized that Hayes was injured and was bleeding badly.

He called 9-1-1 but he took the remote from her and then said that he had told her they had to go to the hospital, but when he tried to help her out the door, her knees buckled and They collapsed in the dining room. He then sat there and cried, rubbed her face and tried to talk to her, but she didn't respond because she was dead. I can only imagine how the jurors must have felt about this story that feels like the plot of an underfunded movie. movie, everyone was ready to finally and permanently put this man behind bars and they had someone who would make sure the mistake of 20 years earlier was not repeated.

Mary Vinson flew from California to Florida to testify on Roxanne's behalf. She went into great detail about what had happened to her and gave them a vivid idea of ​​what kind of monster she was. Justice would not be cheated again once the trial was over. It only took jurors four hours to reach a guilty verdict. On April 14, 1998, Singleton received a death sentence for the horrific and senseless murder of Roxanne Hayes. As expected, Lauren Singleton did not seem to care about the sentence and finally admitted that he killed her on December 28 while awaiting execution. . Lawrence Singleton died of cancer at the age of 74.

After this man's despicable life there have been questions, we know that no one wakes up to commit crimes of the nature that Singleton committed, many have been wondering how many women he must have killed in the past whose death was never related to him, how many victims . They are currently outside the California Highway begging to be found victims who unfortunately did not have the same luck or will that Mary Vinson possessed, so what about Mary Vinson, how has she been since Singleton's death? Well no one can say she has been good after the attack her leg had to be used to reconstruct her arms this reality ended her childhood dreams of dancing years after her recovery mary got married and divorced her trauma had caused her stress and severe depression, she eventually became a mother of two children and her life began there.

To change for the better, he began to heal and establish close relationships as his new family became the source of his strength. Vinson also learned to paint, sketch, and draw, which brought him immense joy and a new direction for her life. Her works have been sold. thousands of dollars since then and if you know her you will not see any trace of Lauren Singleton's crime in her behavior. She has managed to turn everything into strength. Thank you for tuning into twisted minds. That was the

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