The State - News from April 25, 1988

A southern Oregon pastor who offered convicted rapist Lawrence Singleton a home said he and his wife expect to die as a result of the uproar their invitation triggered. “We believe we will be killed, my wife and I,” pastor Thomas Smith Jr. of the Bride of Christ Church in rural Azalea, told United Press International. “My wife (Susan) and I went to the post office yesterday and they were lined up in their pickup trucks, glaring at us,” Smith said of the Azalea residents. “Anything could key them off now,” Smith said. “We hear people shooting their rifles.” Singleton, 60, who will be a free man today, served less than eight years in prison in California for kidnaping and raping a teen-age girl, then hacking off her forearms and leaving her for dead.