Wayne Adam Ford: A Detailed Account of His Crimes
Background
Wayne Adam Ford, born on December 3, 1961, in Petaluma, California, is an American serial killer. Ford, a former long-haul truck driver, murdered four women between 1997 and 1998. He strangled them and dismembered three of his four victims. Ford turned himself in with a woman's breast in a bag in his coat pocket.
Victims
- Kerry Ann Cummings (25) - Killed in 1997. Her body was discovered on October 17, 1997, north of Eureka, California, in the Ryan Slough. Cummings was listed as a Jane Doe until June 2023 when a partnership between the Humboldt County Sheriff's Office Cold Case Unit, the California Department of Justice DNA Lab, and Othram Inc., identified her body after building a DNA profile and finding and confirming a genealogical match.
- Tina Renee Gibbs (26) - Killed on May 16, 1998, near Las Vegas. Her body was found on June 2 near Buttonwillow, California.
- Lanette Deyon White (25) - Killed on September 25, 1998, in Ontario, California, then dumped near Lodi, California.
- Patricia Anne Tamez (29) - Killed in Hesperia, California. Her body was found on October 23, 1998, in an aqueduct in San Bernardino, California.
Arrest and Trial
Ford turned himself in to the Humboldt County Sheriff Department on November 2, 1998, with his brother and had a woman's severed breast in his pocket. He confessed to having killed four women and is thought to have killed others. He was found guilty of four counts of first-degree murder on June 27, 2006, and was sentenced to death in August 2006.
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