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"Caitlin Rother is the model for serious crime journalism today. She's bold, meticulous, and exhaustive, returning to cases with loose ends to update us on the latest innovations and developments.”
-- Katherine Ramsland, bestselling author
"This kind of frightening and fascinating glimpse into a killer's mind is rare, and an extremely intuitive Rother makes the most of it.”
-- Ron Franscell, NYT bestselling author
"The updated material in this new edition of Body Parts not only brings the story full circle by giving a name, face, and tragic backstory to the mystery that set the nightmare in motion, it adds another layer of depth. Caitlin Rother never lets the horrific nature of the crimes overshadow the humanity of the vicitms.”
-- Author Simon Read
"Rother has produced a superior study of a serial killer and his lost and lonely victims."
-- Author Carol Anne Davis
BODY PARTS, updated edition
(Citadel, February 2025)
In this significantly updated edition, Rother has added 10,000 words of new material about the identification of serial killer Wayne Adam Ford's first victim, via forensic genealogy, 25 years after he killed and dismembered her in Eureka, CA. This 25-year-old victim now has a name--Kerry Anne Cummings--and her family, whom Rother interviewed for this new edition, now has closure. The rest of the book takes a psychological look at the life of Ford, a long-haul trucker who was convicted of murdering four troubled young women during rough sex, dismembering two of them, and then turning himself in so he wouldn't kill again. Still claiming the women’s deaths were accidental -- and that their strangulation was erotic asphyxiation, for their pleasure -- he is on death row at San Quentin prison in California. See below for previous covers of the book, released in 2009 and 2013, and Ford crying at his sentencing hearing. Ebook and audio versions are of the earlier editions.
"I hurt some people.
I don't want to hurt anyone anymore. . . Once you see what I have in my pocket, you'll know.”
--Wayne Adam Ford
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Wayne and his brother Rodney as boys. Adult Rodney. Room Zero, where they both stayed the night before turning Wayne in. Wayne in the U.S. Marines. Wayne after a severe head injury that put him in the ICU for 9 days. Wayne being booked.
"A must read. . . well-written, extremely intense; a book that I could not put down.”
-- True Crime Book Reviews
"Rother tells a riveting, thought-provoking tale in which the focus appropriately remains on Wayne's victims... Body Parts is a must-read volume, not just for serial killer aficionados, but all true crime fans.”
-- Colloquium book reviews
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