Website. In her return to Las Vegas, She began to understand her new reality as a public spectacle. She enrolled in a school for the handicapped. Mary Vincent soon after her attack by Larry Singleton. The attack upon her would horrify the public and Lawrence Singleton would serve as a terrifying warning about accepting rides from strangers. Some in the home of an uncle just outside of Santa Cruz. [7], After her attacker was released from prison and attacked and murdered a woman, Vincent volunteered to testify against him again at his trial. Journalists across the country heard about this moment and saw an opportunity. In those thoughts and recollections, did she recall the voice that had told her to stay awake all those years ago, that told her she couldnt let him hurt anyone else? Each written piece used the murder of Roxanne as a springboard to retell what felt like a favorite horror story, with a coalescent tone of Oh, of course, hes done it again. Across the country, when told what happened, Mary Vincent wasnt surprisedwith a small shudder and pain evident in her voice, she responded by saying, he destroyed everything about me.. 36-year-old woman whose forearms and hands were hacked off by a rapist who left her for dead near Modesto when she was just 15. I'm sure that it was like a scene from a slasher film. Just over eight years later, Singleton was released and back on the streets for good behavior.. She did receive. In the latest accounts of her life, she was still reliant on disability checks and couldnt afford to replace the arms she had outgrown, but she reveled in her ability to use bits and pieces from broken radios and refrigerators to make them function the way she needed. As she had no money, Mary hitchhiked along a freeway in the San Francisco Bay Area. A woman survives multiple stab wounds in a drug fuelled attack by her enraged boyfriend. The attack upon her would horrify the public and Lawrence Singleton would serve as a terrifying warning about accepting rides from strangers. Next to them, Roxannes boyfriend, Clifford Tyson, breathed heavily as he and the children observed the trial and awaited its sentencing. But the events that took place in this case found life beyond these law reports. This insufferable defense, along with the inarguably shocking and gruesome nature of the attack, left him easily depicted and dismissed as a one-dimensional monstera bogeyman who served to frighten and entertain, selling newspapers that told little of the who or how or why behind Lawrence Singleton.