Wayne Adam Ford

Ford was born in Petaluma, California, the second son of an American father and a German immigrant mother. His parents divorced when he was 10. He dropped out of high school and enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps, where he served for 6 years before being honorably discharged in 1985. Beginning in 1983, he had escalating problems at work and psychological declines, necessitating several hospitalizations.[1]

He had two brief marriages, both of which ended in divorce. He had a series of scrapes with the law, including allegations of beating and robbing a prostitute, and animal cruelty for which he served a brief jail sentence. He was working as a long-haul truck driver at the time of his arrest.[1]

Ford turned himself in. He walked into the Humboldt County Sheriff Department in Eureka, California in November 1998 with a woman's severed breast in his pocket.[1] He confessed to having killed four women in 1997 and 1998, and is thought to have killed others.[1]

He was found guilty of four counts of first-degree murder on June 27, 2006,[2] and was sentenced to death in August 2006.[3] Currently, he resides on death row at San Quentin State Prison in California.

• List of death row inmates in the United States
• List of serial killers in the United States

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• Rother, Caitlin (2009). Body Parts. Pinnacle True Crime. ISBN 978-0-7860-1954-0.

• Smith, Carlton (2001). Shadows of Evil. New York: St, Marten's Paperbacks. ISBN 0-312-97887-1.