Lawrence Singleton
American murderer
Died when: 73 years 153 days (881 months)Star Sign: Leo
Lawrence Bernard "Larry" Singleton (July 28, 1927 – December 28, 2001), nicknamed the "Mad Chopper" in media accounts, was an American criminal known for perpetrating an infamous rape and mutilation of adolescent hitchhiker Mary Vincent in California in 1978, and then perpetrating a second attack on a woman shortly after being released from prison eight years later.
He raped Vincent and cut off her arms, then left her to die in a culvert off of Interstate 5 in Del Puerto Canyon.
Vincent managed to hike to safety and later acted as a key witness against the rapist.Released from prison on good behavior after serving eight years of his fourteen-year sentence, Singleton later murdered Roxanne Hayes, a mother of three.
On February 19, 1997, police found him covered in blood after stabbing her in his new home.