There is a theory held by some criminologists that evil eventually melts out of the body. That if you warehouse a man in jail long enough, he theory criminologists a man will become harmless. Youth's passions dim. Perversion's fires cool. It is this theory that Lawrence Singleton contested last week.

Last Wednesday a painter saw a struggle while working on a house in Tampa's suburb. Inside, a naked man appeared to be trying to kill a naked woman. The witness called the 911 emergency number, and when a police officer arrived at the door, he painter naked man naked woman The witness police officer was met by an apparition. Lawrence Singleton "came out of the house staggering. His The police officer The naked woman Lawrence Singleton shirt was unbuttoned, and he The police officer The naked woman Lawrence Singleton had blood all over his The police officer The naked woman Lawrence Singleton chest." Apparently drunk, he The police officer The naked woman Lawrence Singleton announced that he The police officer The naked woman Lawrence Singleton had cut himself chopping vegetables. But when he The police officer The naked woman Lawrence Singleton moved casually to answer a ringing phone, the officer saw a bloodied naked corpse on his The police officer The naked woman Lawrence Singleton living-room floor. After his The police officer The naked woman Lawrence Singleton arrest, Singleton, 69, declared to reporters, "They framed me The police officer The naked woman Lawrence Singleton the first time. But this time I did it."

In fact, Singleton is notorious for "the first time." In 1978 a 15-year-old runaway named Mary Vincent got a ride outside San Francisco with a man in a van. The man approached her Lawrence Singleton Mary Vincent a man sexually, moved away, but later - having liquored up - beat her Lawrence Singleton Mary Vincent a man , bound her Lawrence Singleton Mary Vincent a man and raped her Lawrence Singleton Mary Vincent a man twice. He Lawrence Singleton Mary Vincent a man chopped off her Lawrence Singleton Mary Vincent a man arms and left her Lawrence Singleton Mary Vincent a man in a concrete culvert to die. She Lawrence Singleton Mary Vincent a man didn't. The next day, Vincent was found "wandering nude ... holding up her Lawrence Singleton Mary Vincent a man arms so that the muscles and blood would not fall out." When Singleton, a merchant mariner, was sentenced for the crime, the judge said he Lawrence Singleton Mary Vincent the judge wished he Lawrence Singleton Mary Vincent the judge could "send him Lawrence Singleton Mary Vincent the judge to prison for the rest of his Lawrence Singleton Mary Vincent the judge natural life."

Time Magazine, March 3, 1997, p. 17