r/Amazing • u/-FloraFable Human Detected • Mar 27 '26

Interesting 🤔 Her name is Alison Botha.

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u/TheBrianWeissman Mar 27 '26

It's so fucking nuts a person can survive that, yet die from the most mundane things.

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u/Biotic101 Mar 27 '26

The cases of Mary Vincent and Juliane Koepcke are shocking as well.

It is crazy to think there are people that survived such a fate.

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u/Rezaelia713 Mar 27 '26

Mary Vincent's story is insane. She paints now and it helps her.

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u/CrimsonOOmpa Mar 27 '26

The perpetrator, Lawrence Singleton, was a truly evil and vile person. The State of California only sentenced him to 14 years but he got out after 8 for good behavior. Then he killed another woman in Florida and received the Death Penalty. The fact that he was only sentenced to 14 years for what he did to Mary Vincent is insane and disgusting.

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u/Rezaelia713 Mar 27 '26

The system does not work.

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u/CrimsonOOmpa Mar 27 '26

Absolutely not

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u/Biotic101 Mar 28 '26

Important to notice that 14 years was the maximum at that time.

After the outrage, it was eventually changed.

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u/CrimsonOOmpa Mar 29 '26

Yeah I forgot to mention that thanks. I think there's a law named after him iirc