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...some criminologists that evil eventually melts out of the body. That if you warehouse a man in jail long enough, he will become harmless. Youth's passions dim. Perversion's fires cool. Old felons may not exactly reform but are defanged by time. It is this theory that Lawrence Singleton contested last week, after his bloody fashion...
...spotted a struggle while working on a neatly kept house in Tampa's working-class Orient Park suburb. Inside, a naked man appeared to be throttling a naked woman. The witness called 911, and when a police officer arrived at the door, he was met by an apparition. Lawrence Singleton, says a neighbor, "came out of the house staggering. His shirt was unbuttoned, and he had blood all over his chest." Apparently drunk, he announced that he had cut himself chopping vegetables. But when he moved casually to answer a ringing phone, the cop saw a bloodied, naked corpse...
...fact, Singleton is notorious for "the first time." In 1978 a 15-year-old Las Vegas, Nevada, runaway named Mary Vincent hitched a ride outside San Francisco with a balding man in a blue van. The man approached her sexually, backed off, but later--having liquored up--beat her, bound her and raped her twice. Then he got his ax. He chopped off her arms and left her in a concrete culvert to die. She didn't. The next day, read court records, Vincent was found "wandering nude ... holding up her arms so that the muscles and blood would...
...judge couldn't. California law at the time set a maximum of 14 1/3 years for the crimes, with sentence reductions for good behavior and work in prison. Singleton's release after just 8 1/3 years sparked his bizarre drama's second act. As authorities attempted to settle him in one Bay Area town after another, angry crowds screamed, picketed and eventually prevailed. Singleton ended up spending the rest of his parole in a trailer on the grounds of San Quentin prison...
...Casey Singleton works for Norton Aircraft in California. When an accident occurs on a Norton jet, it's her job to figure out what went wrong, aided by a gruff, profane but lovable band of engineers. She is up against corporate intriguers, angry union members and Jennifer Malone, a young, cynical producer for Newsline, a TV newsmagazine. Crichton has done a lot of research into the construction and testing of aircraft, and the detail on this subject is the most impressive part of the book. He plays fair with the mystery; the characters adequately fulfill their roles of heroes...