Byron H. Singer, the incarnation of Emerson's observation that a "foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds", is an insurance actuary, and the man who sent "Light Bulb Len" to the park on the evening he was killed. Mr Singer is an avid ornithologist who insisted on have Len verifying and recording his sighting of a mated pair of red-tailed hawks, a recon mission which led to Len instead witnessing the kidnapping of Tyler Donegal, and Len's subsequent murder by the kidnapper.