The Mad Chopper
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Epilogue
There’s an old saying: you can’t keep a good man down. The same might be said for the opposite of the breed.
Three days after Singleton’s death sentence, he was back in the news. It seemed that Larry, ever the avuncular sort, had made a good friend in prison: Willy Sexton, the son of Eddie Lee Sexton.
The elder Sexton, the subject of Lowell Cauffiel’s recent book House of Secrets, was an Ohio man accused of incest and charged with ordering a family killing. Sexton listed Singleton as a witness for his July 13 trial.
Eddie Lee Sexton had previously been convicted in 1994 of ordering his son, Willie, to strangle another family member. An appeals court later overturned Eddie Lee’s conviction and death sentence, maintaining that the jury should not have heard specific testimony regarding the bizarre life of the Sexton family.
Willie Sexton had only recently made a deal with prosecutors. He would plead guilty to second-degree murder and testify against his father.
Singleton and Willie had gotten tight while spending time together in the Hillsborough County Jail. “We believe that [Singleton] has information that will support our position that Eddie Sexton is not guilty of first-degree murder,” said Sexton’s attorney, Rick Terrana. Singleton “developed a close relationship with Willie in jail,” Terrana continued. Terrana had talked extensively with Singleton but would not disclose what he had to say.
So with it all, Lawrence Singleton may have found a get-out-of-jail card—albeit a limited one—and another shot at the spotlight.
Image Gallery
A dissipated Lawrence Singleton at the time of his arrest for the murder of Roxie Hayes. Police noted that there was blood on his chest.
Courtesy of Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office
Roxanne “Roxie” Hayes, career prostitute, 1996.
Courtesy of Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office
The Tampa house where Singleton stabbed Roxie to death.
Author’s collection
The driveway of his Tampa home where singleton tried to commit suicide just prior to his brutal murder of Roxie Hayes.
Author’s collection
Mary Vincent, 15, just before her forearms were hacked off by Singleton in 1977.
Courtesy of The Modesto Bee
Police drawing of Singleton’s Bay area home, created from description given by Mary Vincent under hypnosis.
Courtesy of Richard Breshears
Amazingly accurate police sketch of Mary Vincent’s attacker as described by Vincent.
Courtesy of Richard Breshears
The forensic x-rays of both parts of Mary Vincent’s severed arm. The bone breaks matched almost exactly.
Author’s collection
Aerial shot of the barren area and the culvert where Singleton left Vincent for dead.
Courtesy of The Modesto Bee
The culvert where Singleton stuffed Mary Vincent after he cut off his forearms.
Courtesy of The Modesto Bee
The coast in the San Francisco Bay Area where Vincent’s severed forearm was found.
Vincent’s severed hand and forearm as found by a fisherman.
Courtesy of The Modesto Bee
The air strip where Todd Meadows drove Mary Vincent to call the police after her vicious attack.
Courtesy of The Modesto Bee
Lawrence Singleton’s mug shot, taken at the time of his arrest for the attach on Vincent.
Courtesy of Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office
Vincent’s family on their way to visit her during her recuperation from the assault.
Courtesy of The Modesto Bee
Singleton arrived under heavy security for his arraignment in 1978.
Courtesy of The Modesto Bee
Detective Richard Breshears (left) helping to convey evidence confiscated in Singleton’s home.
Courtesy of The Modesto Bee
Singleton on his way to trial in San Diego for his vicious assault on Mary Vincent.
Courtesy of The Modesto Bee
Mary Vincent holds up her newly fitted prosthetic arms in triumph.
Courtesy of The Modesto Bee
Lawrence Singleton, 1986, after his release.
Courtesy of The Modesto Bee
The living room of Singleton’s Tampa home where Police found the dead body of Roxie Hayes. Investigators speculated that the rope would have been used to drag the body out of the house.
Courtesy of Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office
The autopsy revealed the deep wounds on Hayes’s fingers from trying to protect herself from Singleton’s deadly knife attach.
Courtesy of Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office
Mug shots of Roxie Hayes for various counts of prostitution from 1986–1995.
Courtesy of Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office
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Copyright © 1999 by Fred Rosen
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