Lawyer Admits Client Killed Prostitute

Lawrence Singleton’s lawyer acknowledged in court that her client--who chopped a California girl’s arms off in 1978--took a prostitute home and stabbed her to death. In an opening statement aimed at keeping Singleton off death row, lawyer Jill Menadier said the crime was an act of a depressed and over-medicated man who got into a drunken struggle with Roxanne Hayes, 31. The slaying came 10 years after Singleton was paroled after serving a prison sentence for raping a California teen and chopping off her arms, a parole greeted by predictions that he would try to kill again.