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Though he has paid his legal debt to society, Lawrence Singleton spends his days in a vortex of unmade restitution. A convicted rapist who hacked off the forearms of his 15-year-old hitchhiker victim, Singleton, 59, was paroled from a California jail last month after serving nearly eight years of a 14-year four-month sentence. But Singleton, a model prisoner who maintains his innocence, immediately found himself to be a pariah, staying in a string of motels as authorities tried in vain in California, Florida and Nevada to find a welcoming town...
...crime was so stunningly brutal that the years have done little to calm public outrage. Lawrence Singleton, 59, was convicted in 1979 of kidnaping and raping a 15-year-old hitchhiker, then chopping off her forearms with an ax. He left her to die in a culvert beside a rural Northern California road. But the girl survived the attack, managed to seek out assistance and later helped convict her tormentor. When Singleton was paroled two weeks ago, after serving nearly eight years of a 14-year, four-month sentence, local officials across the state took court action to ensure that...
After corrections officials assigned Singleton to parole in Antioch (pop. 48,000), some 40 miles northeast of San Francisco, nearly 10,000 town residents signed a petition opposing his presence. Fearing vigilante violence, county officials got a temporary court order to block the plan. San Francisco County quickly followed suit, citing similar public safety concerns. Nearby San Mateo County also raised objections to having Singleton living within its borders. At week's end Singleton's ex-wife Mary Collins stated that she was not afraid of him and offered to take him into her home in Lake County, north...
Huskie guard Adrienne Colbert led N.U. with 18 points and four steals, while Carla Singleton--who frequently battled Cibotti on the boards--grabbed 11 rebounds...
NORTHEASTERN (74): Amy Malinadic 3-0--6; Adrienne Colbert 4-10--18; Joanne Healy 3-0--6; Carla Singleton 6-4--16; Lesley Willis 3-3--9; Yvette Ford 3-0--6; Clarrisa Blake 2-1--5; Shayna Stuart 2-0--4; Arlene Poole 2-0--4; Lois Bollewski 0-0--0; Amie Nappi...