In 1978, 15 year old Mary Vincent was raped, had her arms cut off, and was thrown off a 30-foot cliff. Barely alive, she packed her stumps with mud to stop the bleeding, climbed back up, and walked three miles naked to find help.
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She went on to testify against the pile of shit who did that to her but he was released after only 8 years and murdered another woman. Wtf?
> Singleton was freed from prison in 1987 after serving eight years of his fourteen-year sentence, despite massive public protests against his release. … Singleton moved back to Florida, where in 1997, he murdered a mother of three in Sulphur Springs. Vincent testified against Singleton during his subsequent murder trial in 1998, and he was sentenced to death; before he could be executed, Singleton died in 2001 from cancer while on death row.
I saw a documentary episode on this. She came across a couple who were driving down the road. They stopped to help but when they saw she had stumps, they got scared and drove off, leaving her there. Someone else came by and helped her thankfully.
Even death itself has respect for this woman.
How many murders to you think Singleton got away with between his attempted murder of Vincent and the murder he was convicted of before his death? It feels very, very unlikely these two events were the only similar acts in his life.
This reminds me of the South African lady, Alison Botha, who had her throat slashed, was disemboweled, and stabbed so many times that the doctors couldn’t count the wounds, and she stood up, pushed her head down to keep it from flipping back, put her guts in a backpack, and made her way to the road to get help.
Some people are just so badass to survive these things. And that they get justice at their own hands… It’s pretty mind blowing.
Sometimes it makes me think that people really do have a specific time they’re meant to die, cause for these women it clearly wasn’t their time yet.
Damn, this makes that 127 hours story look like a picnic. What a warrior.
Number one badass
She is a true survivor. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Vincent_(artist)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Vincent_(artist))
Where there’s a will, there’s a way but sad that she had to go through all that to begin with.
Arms cut off? Please tell me this psychopath is not out there still
Badass! She deserves the best life.
Mary Vincent didn’t just survive—she refused to die. Her strength, resilience, and sheer willpower turned the ultimate horror story into one of the greatest tales of human endurance. Absolute legend
This case gives me chills. Unreal that happened to her.
I’m guessing I know why she chose to have hooks for hands “try it again assholes! Try it again!”
I respect her will to fight and live.
On a similar but different note, it pisses me off when they say women can’t do this or that because they are inherently female. I know if I was in a foxhole about to assault an enemy position, I’d fucken have Mary with me than some of the slaps I served with.
The should have sent him to CA prison. The general population would of took care of him
Incredible Woman! The smile on her looks so pure!
More info.
https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/a-victim-a-survivor-an-artist-1106335.php
Cases like this make me feel like the victim should get to choose: either the judges sentence or to have what happened to them happen to the monster
You can get sepsis and die from a knee scrap so I assume she survived infection from the mud due to prompt treatment? She’s amazing.
I just watched this episode of I Survived and it just blew my mind. I was so fucking angry when he got out after 8 years, jfc. There are so many horrific stories on that show, this is one of the few that really stayed with me.
Morbid podcast did an excellent episode on her!
I remember this story
We can only aspire to be that courageous. What a badass.
I’m gonna piss on his grave. He isn’t too far from me.
What a baddie
I remember this from my favorite murder, wild story
This is an amazing story. She was so strong.
That is wild
OMG
My favorite episode of “my favourite murder” is about her. It probably doesn’t hit the same if you know the story. But listening to it for the 1st time my jaw was dropped.
I think it’s episode 18 if I remember right.
Holy shit what a strong willed person
Fucking hell.
What an icon! Hope she lives a happy life after that.
That has to be the most badass girl I’ve read of!
A hero and a survivor
Mad respect
The composure and ability to think clearly of this back then child is just beyond me
I lived in a small town in Saskatchewan, Canada when I was in high school. A boy in my class took a photo of Singleton and made a Facebook profile using his picture and the town we lived in after we read her story in class. Our school got a call from Los Angeles, it was Mary Vincent’s sister. The fake profile came up as a friend suggestion for Mary and she was extremely traumatized as he had been dead for several years at that point. Our teachers and principal were not happy.
I know they’re not the important person in this story but I kinda want to hear from the person who found her. I want to hear the story of someone just going about their day and finding a naked and presumably bloody and beaten 15 year old girl with no arms and mud packed in to her arm stumps. How do you even react to that?
Surgeons then attached a shotgun and a chainsaw to her shoulders so they she could totally fuck up her attackers
– Quentin Tarantino, probably
Was the rapist caught?
I hope the mutherfucking piece of shit who did this was castrated and violently ass-raped for decades, which would already be too lenient