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【MIRACLE SURVIVOR】
15-Year-Old Girl Had Both Arms Chopped Off
and Was Thrown Off a 30-Foot Cliff…
Then She Did the Impossible
September 29, 1978.
15-year-old Mary Vincent was hitchhiking in California
when 50-year-old Lawrence Singleton picked her up.
What happened next was pure evil.
He raped her repeatedly.
Knocked her unconscious with a sledgehammer.
Hacked off BOTH her forearms with a hatchet.
Then threw her naked body down a 30-foot ravine —
certain she would die.
But Mary refused to die.
Bleeding heavily and in shock,
she packed mud into her own wounds to stop the bleeding.
Somehow climbed out of the ravine.
And walked nearly 3 miles completely naked to the highway —
holding her severed arms up so her muscles wouldn’t fall out.
She flagged down help and survived.
In court, wearing prosthetic hooks,
she faced him and helped convict him.
He was sentenced to 14 years and 4 months —
the maximum allowed at the time.
Then came the betrayal no one expected.
After serving only 8 years for “good behavior,”
he was released in 1987.
19 years later, in 1997,
he murdered another woman —
31-year-old mother of three Roxanne Hayes —
stabbing her to death in his Florida home.
He was sentenced to death…
and died in prison in 2001.
Because of Mary’s courage,
California passed the “Singleton Bill” in 1987,
making 25 years to life mandatory for crimes involving torture.
Today, Mary Vincent is a successful artist
and victim advocate.
She turned the darkest nightmare
into a powerful legacy of strength and hope.
Some people survive the impossible.
Mary Vincent proved it.
