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    Wayne Adam Ford - California Death Row


    Kerry Ann Cummings was the first victim



    Wayne Adam Ford


    Wayne Adam Ford in his death row cell


    Facts of the Crime:

    Ford, a former long-haul truck driver, murdered three prostitutes and a hitchhiker, strangling them during sex and cutting off body parts. He turned himself in years later with the breast of a woman in a bag in his coat pocket.

    The torso of a woman, thought to be between 20 and 30 years old, was found in a California slough in 1997. Though in 2006 Ford was convicted of her murder and the gruesome deaths of three other women — Tina Gibbs, Lanett White and Patricia Tamez — no one has been able to positively identify Jane Doe.

    Ford was sentenced to death in San Bernardino County on March 16, 2007.

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    Ford was appointed counsel to represent him on direct appeal before the California Supreme Court on March 1, 2011.

    http://appellatecases.courtinfo.ca.g...doc_no=S151172

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    On December 19, 2017, a prosecution response to Ford's initial brief was filed.

    http://appellatecases.courtinfo.ca.g...1TUCAgCg%3D%3D

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    Ford's direct appeal has been fully briefed before the California Supreme Court since October 16, 2018.

    http://appellatecases.courtinfo.ca.g...1TUCAgCg%3D%3D

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    California Serial Killer’s Victim Identified After 25 Years

    By Tracy Connor
    The Daily Beast

    In 1998, a long-haul trucker named Wayne Adam Ford walked into the sheriff’s office in Humboldt County, California, and confessed to being a serial killer. He had with him a plastic bag containing the breast of one of his victims.

    Ford, an ex-Marine, told investigators he had murdered four women, including one whose torso had been found in a stream known as Ryan Slough, north of Eureka, in October 1997.

    More remains from that woman were discovered on Clam Beach in January 1998. And after Ford turned himself in, more of her body was found in his encampment.

    Ford, who underwent a drastic personality change after a head trauma, was found guilty of killing the women, sentenced to death, and has spent the last 25 years on death row.

    Across those years, one mystery has endured: Who was the woman found in Ryan Slough? Although police had her DNA and ran it through databases periodically, they never got the match that would reveal her identity.

    But that changed when California justice officials teamed up with the private lab Othram to see if they could use the emerging investigative technique of forensic genealogy to build a family tree for Jane Doe.

    That led them to a potential close relative of the victim, who confirmed that a female family member had been missing since the mid-1990s. Her name was Kerry Ann Cummings.

    Cummings was mentally ill and had left home to couch-surf in Eugene, Oregon, in 1997, when she was 25. The family lost touch with her, tried to report her missing, and even hired a private detective.

    “Unfortunately, back then they were told that Kerry was an adult, that she had chosen the lifestyle, and that if she wasn’t a threat to herself or others, there was nothing that [law enforcement] could do,” her sister Kathie said in a statement released by the sheriff on Wednesday.

    “As the internet expanded, I took to searching the NamUs website when I was missing her, scanning for mention of her tattoo and searching through the pictures of the Jane Does. She was dearly loved.”

    The sheriff’s office said it is now working with the family to have Cummings’ remains released to them so she can buried with her relatives.

    https://news.yahoo.com/california-se...024403635.html
    "There is a point in the history of a society when it becomes so pathologically soft and tender that among other things it sides even with those who harm it, criminals, and does this quite seriously and honestly. Punishing somehow seems unfair to it, and it is certain that imagining ‘punishment’ and ‘being supposed to punish’ hurts it, arouses fear in it." Friedrich Nietzsche

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