TAMPA, Fla. – Lawrence Singleton, who chopped off a teen-age hitchhiker’s forearms in California and was later sent to death row in Florida for killing a prostitute, has died of cancer behind bars. He ...

TAMPA, Fla. -- A rapist who chopped off a teenager's arms in California more than 23 years ago has died of cancer behind bars. Lawrence Singleton, 74, first gained infamy for his 1978 mutilation ...

Neither my conscience nor my religion approves of my celebrating the death of another human being. But on this occasion I hope my conscience will excuse and pray my God to forgive. Lawrence Singleton ...

Tucked in archives in at least two states, the psychiatric files of Lawrence Singleton provided a chilling profile of an emotional misfit who snapped from exposure to women and hard liquor. To ...

One 15-year-old girl miraculously survived after a brutal serial killer raped her, severed both her arms and left her for dead in a ravine, where she packed dirt into her mutilated stumps to stem the ...