THE MAD CHOPPER

Paperback. He savagely butchered one young woman, then they turned him loose to kill another. Featuring Larry Singleton who 20 years earlier, raped and beat 15yr. old Mary Vincent senseless, and used a hatchet to turn her arms into bloody stumps so police couldn't identify the body. But Mary - limbless, battered, and thrown naked down a mountainside - survived her horrifying ordeal, and staggered for 2 miles for help. Mary lived to testify against the monster who maimed her for life. When he was only sentenced to 14yrs. in prison and paroled after 8, she warned that he would strike again. Tragically her prediction came true, on a Tampa night in 1997, when he stabbed young career prostitute, Roxanne Hayes to death. Illus. 272pp. mass market p/back. From the library of true-crime writer, Wilfred Gregg, with his personal b/plate. F. with no creasing to covers.