338:(Harrower, 1998). The leniency of the legal system shocked and outraged many. One journalist who interviewed him remarked, "What was most surprising to me, however, was not his sentence. Larry Singleton had worked his crimes around in his mind so completely that they did not warrant punishment at all." Right before Singleton's parole ended, Donald Stahl, the
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The outrage at this sentence resulted in legislation, supported by Mary
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her, and tortured her by severing both her forearms with a hatchet. Singleton figured she was dead or near death, and he threw her off a 30-foot cliff on
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after his release. In 1990, he was twice convicted of theft. He served a 60-day sentence for stealing a $ 10 disposable camera in the spring of 1990 and, in the winter, received a two-year prison term for stealing a $ 3 hat. Before his sentencing for the latter crime, he described himself to the
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which suppressed her bleeding while she managed to pull herself back up the cliff. She walked for three miles, naked, covered in blood, and armless, before finding and alerting a passing couple who took her to a hospital. By the time of
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754:"Notorious Rapist Gets 2-Year Term for Theft"
356:judge as "a confused, muddleheaded old man".
781:"A Figure of Infamy Is Held in a 2d Outrage"
496:"The Amazing Survival Story Of Mary Vincent"
300:prison until his parole ended a year later.
913:"Lawrence Singleton, despised rapist, dies"
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63:, U.S.
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