The State - News from Sept. 30, 1988

Rapist-mutilator Lawrence Singleton was still in the town of Pinole, but was expected to be gone by the weekend, Police Chief Ted Barnes said. While many residents of the small Contra Costa County town expressed their anger at Singleton’s decision to return to the Bay Area, there has not been a repeat of the 1986 near-riots that drove Singleton out of several towns that the state had selected for his parole. “I’m sure that people are upset by this,” Barnes said. “But they seem to be willing to let us deal with it and get him out of here.” Singleton, convicted in 1979 of raping a 15-year-old hitchhiker, hacking off her forearms and leaving her for dead, returned to the county, his former place of residence, on Monday to settle some personal business, Barnes said.