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The Survival of Mary Vincent - Part II · Murder Files Unsealed

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  Speaker 1: And numerous stab wounds. According to Criminally Intrigued, Mary Vincent
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  traveled from California to Florida upon learning of Singleton's arrest
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  to provide testimony in support of Roxanne Hayes. During the
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  court proceedings, she recounted her own harrowing experience to illustrate
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  the extreme depravity of Laurence Singleton and to advocate for
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  his death sentence. I was raped, she recounted to the jury.
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  My arms were severed. He used a hatchet. He abandoned
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  me to die. On April fourteenth, nineteen ninety eight, Singleton
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  was sentenced to death. He spent three years on death
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  row awaiting execution, but ultimately succumbed to cancer at the
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  age of seventy four. For the first time in decades,
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  Mary Vincent was able to find peace. While in the hospital,
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  Vincent promptly collaborated with law in four Horsement to assist
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  in identifying and locating her assailant, prioritizing the completion of
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  a composite sketch for the investigators over her need for rest.
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  She later provided testimony during Singleton's trial, which contributed to
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  his eventual conviction. Vincent secured a civil judgment against her
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  attacker amounting to two point five six million dollars. However,
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  she did not receive the funds due to her assailant's
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  unemployment and inability to fulfill the payment. Furthermore, Vincent recounted
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  that as she passed Singleton in the courtroom, he discreetly
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  threatened her, vowing to finish what he started once he
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  was released from incarceration. Mary Vincent's life after the attack.
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  In the years that followed the assault, Vincent found herself
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  uncertain about the possibility of returning to a normal existence.
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  She faced numerous challenges, entered into marriage only to experience divorce,
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  raised two children, and ultimately established the Mary Vincent Foundation
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  to assist other victims of violent crimes. He obliterated every
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  aspect of my being, she remarked, regarding Singleton. My thought processors,
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  my lifestyle, the preservation of my innocence, and I continue
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  to strive to maintain it. In two thousand and three,
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  she shared with the Seattle Post Intelligencer, I have sustained
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  broken bones as a result of my nightmares. I have
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  leapt from my bed, dislocating my shoulder in the process.
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  I have fractured ribs and broken my nose. Ultimately, Vincent
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  found solace in art, which became a means for her
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  to manage the trauma she had experienced. Lacking the financial
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  resources to purchase expensive prosthetic arms, she ingeniously fashioned her
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  own from components of refrigerators and stereo systems, simultaneously teaching
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  herself the skills of drawing and painting with her creations.
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  Prior to the incident, Mary Vincent shared with the Ventura
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  County Star, I was unable to draw a straight line,
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  even with a ruler, I would make mistakes. This talent
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  emerged after the attack, and my artistic endeavors have inspired
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  me and bolstered my self esteem. Within two weeks following
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  the attack, Vincent commenced the use of prosthetic arms. A
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  person with a pension for tinkering, she has creatively repurposed
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  components from discarded electronics to enhance her prosthetics with personalized modifications.
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  In the aftermath of the attack, she embarked on a
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  new career in the arts. As an adult leerner, Vincent
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  pursued her education at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
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  She was previously married to a man named Tom with
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  whom she shares two sons, but they later divorced. Presently,
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  she resides in Vaughan, Washington, alongside her husband Tony McGriff.
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  Following the release of her assailant from prison, who subsequently
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  assaulted and killed another woman, Vincent took the initiative to
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  testify against him once more during his trial. She has
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  candidly discussed her journey towards healing through her role as
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  a victim's advocate, championing victim's rights and providing motivational speeches.
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  Vincent utilizes chalk pastels to depict vibrantly energetic women akin
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  to female action figures. Additionally, she produces commissioned family and
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  individual portraits. Her bespoke prosthetics are also her own designs,
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  which include a specialized prosthetic for bowling. In nineteen ninety eight,
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  Vincent traveled to Washington, d C. To provide testimony in
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  support of a congressional bill known as the No Second
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  Chances for Murderers, Rapists, or Child Molesters Act. During her
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  appearance before Congress, Vincent recounted the specifics of her assault
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  and highlighted how Singleton's lenient sentencing enabled him to take
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  the life of Roxanne Hayes, nearly two decades after Vincent's
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  own survival. She concluded her testimony with the following statement,
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  I have now obtained the long overdue psychological counseling to
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  help me get over my nightmares and fear. Yet sometimes
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  I still feel like that confused fifteen year old runaway
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  trapped in the body of a thirty five year old
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  mother of two. No one should ever have to go
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  through what I went through, or what the children of
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  Roxanne Hayes will go through without their mother. Although she
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  is currently flourishing, it required many years of both emotional
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  and physical healing for her to regain a sense of
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  safety and peace.