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Speaker 1: get into today's story. In the nineteen sixties and nineteen seventies,
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Speaker 1: hitchhiking became very popular amongst young people in America. Hitchhiking
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Speaker 1: is a form of transportation where you basically get rides
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Speaker 1: from strangers.
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Speaker 2: And so the way it works is a hitchhiker will stand.
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Speaker 1: On the side of a busy road and they'll extend
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Speaker 1: their arm out and they'll kind of hold their thumb up,
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Speaker 1: which signals to passing motorists.
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Speaker 2: That they want a hitchhike.
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Speaker 1: That's the kind of universal sign for hitchhiking. And then
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Speaker 1: a willing motorist when they see a hitchhiker, they'll pull
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Speaker 1: up alongside and offer a ride. Now today it seems
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Speaker 1: unfathomably dangerous to just hop into a stranger's car, or
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Speaker 1: conversely for a motorist to pick up a random stranger
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Speaker 1: on the side of the road. But back then this
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Speaker 1: was considered totally normal and socially acceptable, and so with
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Speaker 1: that in mind, on September twenty ninth, nineteen seventy eight,
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Speaker 1: a fifteen year old girl named Mary Vincent was standing
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Speaker 1: on the side of a highway just outside of Modesto, California,
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Speaker 1: which is not far from San Francisco, California. Mary was
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Speaker 1: a rebellious teenager who would recently run away from her
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Speaker 1: home in Las Vegas, Nevada.
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Speaker 2: Her parents were going.
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Speaker 1: Through a very nasty divorce and she just couldn't stand
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Speaker 1: to be in the house anymore, and so that's why
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Speaker 1: she had run away, And so she had hitchhiked all
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Speaker 1: the way up to Los Angeles, California, where her grandfather lived.
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Speaker 1: But after only being there for a couple of days,
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Speaker 1: she became unbelievably homesick and wanted to go back and
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Speaker 1: be around her parents and her family. And so one day,
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Speaker 1: when her grandfather was out, she slipped out of his
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Speaker 1: house and she began hitchhiking back to Las Vegas, Nevada.
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Speaker 1: And so she had hitchhiked from Los Angeles to Modesto, California.
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Speaker 1: That's where the first person was willing to drive her to.
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Speaker 1: And so she was on that strip of highway in
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Speaker 1: Modesto looking for another ride that could take her farther south.
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Speaker 1: She was on this highway with two other young hitchhikers.
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Speaker 1: They all had these signs that said going south. So
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Speaker 1: they weren't just holding their thumbs out, they were holding
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Speaker 1: these signs. And so the three of them are huddled
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Speaker 1: in a group. They're holding their signs up. And at
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Speaker 1: some point mid afternoon, at this light blue passenger van
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Speaker 1: that only had one passenger who was the driver. He
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Speaker 1: was a fifty something year old man. He looked pretty harmless.
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Speaker 1: He pulled over when he saw their signs and he
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Speaker 1: parked on the side of the road, maybe fifteen feet
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Speaker 1: ahead of where they were. And so Mary's companions stayed
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Speaker 1: where they were, and Mary ran up to this light
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Speaker 1: blue van and she looked through the passenger side window,
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Speaker 1: which had been rolled down, and she asked the sky, hey,
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Speaker 1: can you give all three of us a ride?
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Speaker 2: We're going south?
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Speaker 1: And this man, he would look at her and say,
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Speaker 1: I can only give you a ride. I can't give
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Speaker 1: the other two a ride. I can only give you
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Speaker 1: a ride. And so Mary is confused because she's looking
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Speaker 1: at the sky and she's seeing all this space in
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Speaker 1: his van, and she's thinking to herself, you know, why
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Speaker 1: am I only allowed to go when they're going the
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Speaker 1: same place I'm going and there's plenty of room in
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Speaker 1: this van. But when she kind of gently prodded this
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Speaker 1: man and said, well, you know, are you sure you
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Speaker 1: don't you don't mind taking them too, he just said, look,
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Speaker 1: I will take you.
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Speaker 2: I will not take them.
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Speaker 1: And so Mary said, okay, well hold on, let me
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Speaker 1: go back and get my bag, and so he stays parked.
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Speaker 1: She leaves the van and she runs back to the
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Speaker 1: other two people she was with, and you know, she
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Speaker 1: explains the situation and they tell her, you know, Mary,
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Speaker 1: this is not good. There's clearly something off with the sky.
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Speaker 1: But Mary, even though she too shared this kind of
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Speaker 1: reservation about the sky. She was so desperate to get home.
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Speaker 1: She was so homesick that she couldn't face the idea
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Speaker 1: of having to wait around for another ride, which might
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Speaker 1: not come until the next day or the day after,
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Speaker 1: because not every motorist is willing to pick up pitchhikers,
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Speaker 1: and she just did not want to wait any longer.
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Speaker 1: And so she told her companions that guys, I'm gonna
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Speaker 1: take the ride. And so she says goodbye to her
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Speaker 1: two friends. She grabs her bag, and she runs back
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Speaker 1: up to the van and she hops in the passenger seat.
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Speaker 1: As soon as she sat down and closed the door,
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Speaker 1: this man pulled back out onto the road and started driving.
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Speaker 1: And then he turned and looked at Mary and introduced himself.
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Speaker 1: His name was Lawrence Singleton, and he was fifty years old.
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Speaker 1: And then Mary, you know, she introduced herself and then
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Speaker 1: they have some small talk, and very quickly Mary feels
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Speaker 1: at ease around Lawrence. He kind of reminded her of
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Speaker 1: her grandfather. He was very nice, very polite, and so
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Speaker 1: when she started to feel tired pretty early on in
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Speaker 1: their trip, she said, Hey, Lawrence, do you mind if
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Speaker 1: I doze off while you drive, and Lawrence would say,
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Speaker 1: no problem, go ahead, go to sleep, And so Mary
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Speaker 1: turned away from Lawrence and kind of curled on the seat,
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Speaker 1: and pretty.
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Speaker 2: Quickly she was asleep.
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Speaker 1: A little while later, when she woke up, she looked
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Speaker 1: out the window and immediately could.
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Speaker 2: Tell they were going the wrong way.
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Speaker 1: So she turns to Lawrence and says, you know, we're
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Speaker 1: going the wrong way, and.
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Speaker 2: Lawrence would say, oh, you know what, I made a mistake.
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Speaker 2: I'll get us turned around. You know, sorry about that.
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Speaker 2: I had no idea.
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Speaker 1: But Mary's thinking to herself, we're really far in the
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Speaker 1: wrong direction and there's no way he accidentally did this.
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Speaker 1: But she kind of bit her tongue because Lawrence would
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Speaker 1: actually turn around and start going in the right direction.
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Speaker 1: And so they're traveling in the proper direction for a
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Speaker 1: little while, and Mary's totally on edge, but she's careful
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Speaker 1: not to give that off to Lawrence because she doesn't
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Speaker 1: really know this guy, and even though he did make
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Speaker 1: her feel comfortable, she just doesn't really know what his
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Speaker 1: intentions are, and so she's just kind of looking around
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Speaker 1: pretty apprehensively. And then they pull into this stretch of
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Speaker 1: highway they kind of ran through this fairly forested area
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Speaker 1: where very few cars are on this stretch of road,
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Speaker 1: and Lawrence suddenly tells Mary that he wants to pull
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Speaker 1: over because he has to go to the bathroom.
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Speaker 2: He wants to.
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Speaker 1: Relieve himself, and so Mary kind of apprehensively says, yeah, okay,
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Speaker 1: that's fine. And so as Lawrence is beginning to pull
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Speaker 1: off of the highway, Mary happens to look down at
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Speaker 1: her feet and she notices one of her shoes is untied,
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Speaker 1: and instinctually, Mary just thought to herself, I better make
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Speaker 1: sure that shoe gets tied, because I might need to
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Speaker 1: run away from the sky.
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Speaker 2: But she didn't want to.
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Speaker 1: Reach down and start tying her shoes kind of awkward
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Speaker 1: because the space was small and she was worried it
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Speaker 1: would be kind of suspicious if she did it, and
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Speaker 1: so she thought, Okay, as soon as we pull off,
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Speaker 1: I'll get out of the car.
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Speaker 2: And I'll tie my shoe.
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Speaker 1: And so Lawrence he pulls over, but he doesn't just
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Speaker 1: pull over onto the shoulder of this road. Instead, he
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Speaker 1: pulls into this access road that kind of trails into
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Speaker 1: the forest. And so as soon as he turned onto
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Speaker 1: this road, the alarm bells are going off in Mary's head.
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Speaker 1: She knows something is wrong, but she doesn't really know
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Speaker 1: what to say to Lawrence because he's not talking to her,
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Speaker 1: and she doesn't really want to look at him, and
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Speaker 1: so she's just kind of going over in her head
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Speaker 1: what she's going to do.
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Speaker 2: Is she going to run? Is she going to confront him?
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Speaker 2: She doesn't know.
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Speaker 1: And then eventually, after about a minute or so, when
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Speaker 1: they are far enough away from the main road that
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Speaker 1: no one on that road could see them. They're pretty
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Speaker 1: far into this forest, Lawrence stops the car and he
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Speaker 1: hops out to go relieve himself, and immediately Mary she
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Speaker 1: hops out of the car too, and she bends down
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Speaker 1: to tie her shoe. Before she could finish tying her shoe,
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Speaker 1: suddenly something smacked her hard in the back of the head,
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Speaker 1: and it knocked her unconscious. It was Lawrence. He had
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Speaker 1: hid a hammer next to his seat, and when he
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Speaker 1: had gotten out, he did not go relieve himself. Instead,
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Speaker 1: he walked around the vehicle and smashed her in the head.
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Speaker 1: When Mary came to, she realized she was laying down
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Speaker 1: in the back of the van, and as she was
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Speaker 1: looking out the windows, she could see that they were
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Speaker 1: still parked out in the middle of the forest, and
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Speaker 1: then when she tried to move, she realized her hands,
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Speaker 1: her feet, everything had been tied.
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Speaker 2: Down to the van. She couldn't move.
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Speaker 1: And so as she's wondering what's going on, Lawrence comes around.
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Speaker 1: He opens the back doors to this van, he hops inside,
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Speaker 1: and he begins assaulting her. Mary has no idea what
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Speaker 1: to do. She's a fifteen year old kid, and this
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Speaker 1: guy is on top of her. He's not stopping, and
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Speaker 1: so she just began quietly begging him to please stop,
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Speaker 1: set me free. I won't tell anyone. She just kept
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Speaker 1: repeating that over and over and over again, and Lawrence
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Speaker 1: never spoke back. He just continued the assault for hours
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Speaker 1: and hours. Finally, when Lawrence got tired, he got off
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Speaker 1: of Mary and he climbed out of the back of
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Speaker 1: the truck and he went around and he climbed into
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Speaker 1: one of the front seats and he fell asleep. And
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Speaker 1: so Mary probably tried to free herself from her restraints,
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Speaker 1: but there was nothing she could do. The restraints were
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Speaker 1: tied too tightly, and so for hours she must have
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Speaker 1: just laid there wondering what was going to happen to her,
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Speaker 1: and then at some point in the middle of the night,
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Speaker 1: Lawrence wakes up again, and without saying a word to Mary,
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Speaker 1: he just climbs out of the van and gets into
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Speaker 1: the driver's seat and then drives the van out of
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Speaker 1: the forest.
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Speaker 2: He drives on the main road for a.
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Speaker 1: Little while until he turns down another access road that
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Speaker 1: takes them away from the main road, so away from
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Speaker 1: any prying eyes, And he comes to a stop somewhere
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Speaker 1: out in this forest, in the middle of this big canyon,
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Speaker 1: and sparks the van. He climbs out and walks around
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Speaker 1: to the back. He opens up the back doors, where
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Speaker 1: Mary is laying there whimpering and crying and begging to
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Speaker 1: be set free. He climbs inside, and her torture continues
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Speaker 1: for hours and hours until the sun finally came up,
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Speaker 1: at which point Lawrence stopped. He climbed out of the
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Speaker 1: back of the van, and he's standing out there, and
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Speaker 1: he turns around so he's facing Mary, and he reaches
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Speaker 1: in and he undoes her restraints, so he frees her.
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Speaker 1: He pulls her out of the van and stands her
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Speaker 1: up on the ground. And so she's crying, she's beaten,
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Speaker 1: she's bloodied, she doesn't know what's going on, and she
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Speaker 1: just gently says to him, please set me free, and
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Speaker 1: he says, oh, you want to be set free.
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Speaker 2: I'll set you free.
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Speaker 1: And so he walks around this totally destroyed fifteen year
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Speaker 1: old girl, and he reaches into the back of his
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Speaker 1: van where there's this toolbox, and he pulls out a hatchet.
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Speaker 1: And so he walks back and he's standing in front
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Speaker 1: of Mary, and Mary would have had a fraction of
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Speaker 1: a second to see what was in his hand before
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Speaker 1: in one fluid motion, he reaches and grabs her left
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Speaker 1: arm with his left hand.
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Speaker 2: He grabs her on the wrist.
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Speaker 1: Then he raises his hatchet up and he brings it
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Speaker 1: down on her left forearm, severing her arm off right
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Speaker 1: below the elbow. And so Mary falls backwards to the
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Speaker 1: ground and she looks down at where her left arm
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Speaker 1: just was. She's in shock, and before she can do anything,
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Speaker 1: Lawrence just walks over and with his left hand again,
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Speaker 1: he reaches over and grabs her right wrist, and now
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Speaker 1: Mary knows what he's about to do. He's still holding
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Speaker 1: this hatchet, and so she's screaming and she's kicking him
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Speaker 1: as hard as she can to try to get him
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Speaker 1: off of her, but his grip is too strong, and
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Speaker 1: then he begins to chop at her right forearm over
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Speaker 1: and over again. It would take four hard blows to
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Speaker 1: finally sever her right arm off of her body, and
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Speaker 1: so Mary falls to the ground and a heap. She's
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Speaker 1: bleeding profusely, she's screaming in agonizing pain, and all Lawrence
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Speaker 1: can focus on is that one of Mary's amputated hands was.
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Speaker 2: Clutched on to his left arm.
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Speaker 1: When he cut off her left hand, it had gripped
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Speaker 1: on to his arm and now it was stuck to him,
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Speaker 1: and so very nonchalantly he began trying to flick this
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Speaker 1: hand off of his arm, and then finally, when it
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Speaker 1: did come off, he turned and looked at Mary and
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Speaker 1: realized she had gone silent and she was limp and
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Speaker 1: she was laying in a huge pool of blood.
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Speaker 2: And so Lawrence put the bloody hatchet.
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Speaker 1: Back inside of his van, and then he just walked
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Speaker 1: over to Mary and grabbed her and began dragging her.
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Speaker 2: About one hundred feet down the road from the van
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Speaker 2: was a culvert.
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Speaker 1: A culvert is a big tunnel that goes underneath roads.
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Speaker 1: It allows water and run off to pass by the
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Speaker 1: road without damaging it. And so this particular culvert underneath
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Speaker 1: this access road was built about thirty feet below the
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Speaker 1: surface of the road. And so if you were standing
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Speaker 1: on the road over the area where this culvert was,
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Speaker 1: if you walked to the edge of the road on
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Speaker 1: either side, there would be a thirty foot drop off
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Speaker 1: down to the opening of this culvert on either side.
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Speaker 1: And so Lawrence dragged Mary all the way over to
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Speaker 1: this section of the road over the culvert and then
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Speaker 1: chucked her life, lifeless body off the side, smashing it
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Speaker 1: down onto the rocks below. And then Lawrence walked around
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Speaker 1: very carefully all the way down to her body and
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Speaker 1: stuffed her inside of the actual culvert, and then as
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Speaker 1: he was walking away, he said to her, now you're free.
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Speaker 1: After Lawrence left, Mary should have been dead. Really, she
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Speaker 1: should have died at several points along this attack. But
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Speaker 1: miraculously Mary did not die, and in fact, she would
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Speaker 1: later say she vividly remembered the entire attack. She was
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Speaker 1: fully lucid, fully, conscious fully aware for the entire thing,
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Speaker 1: save for the moment when she was knocked unconscious by
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Speaker 1: the hammer, and so she vividly remembered having her arms amputated,
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Speaker 1: and she specifically remembered one particular point in the beginning
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Speaker 1: before her left arm, the first arm had been amputated,
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Speaker 1: he grabbed her left wrist, and she in turn instinctively
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Speaker 1: grabbed with her left hand onto his left arm, so
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Speaker 1: she's clutching onto him. And so when he came down
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Speaker 1: and cut her arm off and falling backwards, but she
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Speaker 1: remembered thinking to herself, why am I falling backwards? I
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Speaker 1: just grabbed onto his arm. I had a firm grip.
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Speaker 1: And then as she's falling, it's like time is standing still.
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Speaker 1: She literally saw her hand still clutching his arm and
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Speaker 1: saw it had.
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Speaker 2: Been cut off of her body.
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Speaker 1: And then when Lawrence cut off her right arm, despite
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Speaker 1: being in agonizing pain, it's like she instinctively understood that
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Speaker 1: she has to pretend to be dead otherwise she will die.
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Speaker 2: And so she went totally limp.
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Speaker 1: Her eyes were half open, and she watched as Lawrence
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Speaker 1: is flicking her left hand, the one that she thought
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Speaker 1: she had gripped onto when she was falling back. She
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Speaker 1: watched as he shook that hand off of his arm,
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Speaker 1: and then she was limp as he grabbed her and
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Speaker 1: dragged her the one hundred feet to the culvert, and
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Speaker 1: she was limp and still and didn't make a sound
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Speaker 1: when he threw her thirty feet down onto jagged rocks and.
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Speaker 2: She broke four of her ribs.
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Speaker 1: She was in excruciating pain, but her will to survive
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Speaker 1: was tell telling her make no sound, take this punishment,
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Speaker 1: and you will survive.
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Speaker 2: And then after he left, she remembers thinking, you know,
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Speaker 2: I don't know where he is. He could be waiting
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Speaker 2: up on the road for me.
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Speaker 1: I can't just crawl out and try to save myself
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Speaker 1: because then he might actually finish me off. And so
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Speaker 1: she laid in this culvert in this horrible position, totally contorted,
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Speaker 1: with her arms gone and broken ribs. And then finally,
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Speaker 1: after a while, she started to feel exceptionally tired, and
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Speaker 1: that was from blood loss. And she said there was
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Speaker 1: a voice in her head telling her you can't go
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Speaker 1: to sleep. If you go to sleep, you're gonna die.
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Speaker 1: And if you die, we can't catch this monster, and
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Speaker 1: he's gonna do this to someone else. And so she
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Speaker 1: had the surge of adrenaline where she decided I'm gonna live,
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna get out of here. I don't know if
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Speaker 1: he's still up there, but I have to get out
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Speaker 1: and I have to try to save myself. And so
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Speaker 1: somehow she got out of the culvert, and then once
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Speaker 1: she was on the ground, she dug the nubs of
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Speaker 1: her arms into the dirt and attempted to pack the
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Speaker 1: wound with dirt and mud. And then afterwards she raised
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Speaker 1: her arms up over her head because she didn't want
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Speaker 1: the blood and muscles to fall out. And so with
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Speaker 1: her mutilated arms up over her head, she managed to
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Speaker 1: crawl up this embankment up onto the road. She's got
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Speaker 1: no clothes on, She's covered head to toe in blood,
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Speaker 1: she's in shock, and she starts running down the highway
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Speaker 1: and a car would actually come by fairly quickly, but
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Speaker 1: they were so startled at what they were seeing they
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Speaker 1: didn't stop and they drove on. And so Mary would
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Speaker 1: ultimately run three miles on this highway before finally flagging
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Speaker 1: down a passing motorist that happened to be a young couple,
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Speaker 1: and after they got over the initial shock of what
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Speaker 1: Mary actually looked like, they put her inside of their
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Speaker 1: car and they sped to the hospital. Mary would stay
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Speaker 1: in the hospital for a month, and during that time
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Speaker 1: she would give police all this information about her attacker,
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Speaker 1: about Laurence Singleton, and using her very detailed description of him,
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Speaker 1: the police were able to come up with a very
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Speaker 1: good composite sketch, and Laurence Singleton's neighbor happened to see
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Speaker 1: that sketch and they turned him in Laura. Surrence was
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Speaker 1: ultimately sentenced to fourteen years in prison for what he
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Speaker 1: did to Mary. It was the maximum sentence.
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Speaker 2: That the judge could give.
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Speaker 1: The judge wanted to do more, but legally they couldn't,
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Speaker 1: and so Mary she testified at court. And so after
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Speaker 1: it all ended and he was sentenced, Mary was leaving
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Speaker 1: the courthouse and as she passed by Lawrence, it was
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Speaker 1: the one time she had to be physically close to him.
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Speaker 2: He turned and.
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Speaker 1: Kind of leaned into her and said, I will finish
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Speaker 1: the job if it takes me the rest of my life.
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Speaker 1: Eight years later, Lawrence was paroled for good behavior. And
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Speaker 1: so of course this terrified Mary, who by now had
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Speaker 1: become a wife and she had two sons, and so
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Speaker 1: she's worried that now that this guy is free, he's
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Speaker 1: going to come and finish the job.
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Speaker 2: But Lawrence would not go after Mary.
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Speaker 1: Instead, ten years after he got out on parole, he
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Speaker 1: would attack another woman, a thirty one year old mother
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Speaker 1: of three named Roxanne Hayes, and unfortunately, he would kill her.
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Speaker 1: At Roxane's murder trial, Mary would actually testify against Lawrence,
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Speaker 2: But before he could be executed, Lawrence died of.
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