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Title: Body Parts

Author: Caitlin Rother

Publisher: Citadel Press

Publication Date: February 25, 2025

Pages: 384

Genre: True Crime

BODY PARTS takes a deep psychological look at serial killer Wayne Adam Ford. A long-haul trucker, Ford confessed to picking up dozens of prostitutes and troubled women along California roads. He tortured and repeatedly choked them during sex, revived them with CPR, then did it again. Only four of them didn’t survive, he said, claiming that was an accident. After dismembering two of his victims, he dumped their bodies in the California Aqueduct and other waterways in Humboldt, Kern, San Joaquin, and San Bernardino Counties. Ford’s complex death penalty case made national news because he is one of the only serial killers to turn himself in and help authorities identify his victims. He was recently transferred from death row at San Quentin to a state prison in San Luis Obispo.  

Originally released in March 2009, this new edition of BODY PARTS has been updated with 32 pages of new developments about the identification of Kerry Anne Cummings, Ford’s first victim, whom he dismembered and who went unidentified for 25 years. If there is such a thing as a happy ending to a book about a serial killer, this is it. The new material takes the reader through the investigative process involved in solving a cold case like this one so many years after the fact. Kerry now has her name back and her family has closure after so many years of not knowing what happened to her, after being prevented from reporting her missing to police because she was using drugs. Rother is the first to interview the Cummings family about Kerry and her troubled life before she went missing in late 1997. 

Overall, the book is based on exclusive information Rother uncovered during her extensive research and exclusive interviews with Ford’s father and brother. She also interviewed, the prosecutor, sheriff’s detectives from all four counties, the defense’s sole investigator, and a woman who survived after being raped and tortured by Ford.  By obtaining a court order to release sealed court files and digging through boxes of evidence and investigators’ reports, Rother was able to paint comprehensive and compelling portraits of Ford, his family and his victims. Rother’s book shows readers how Ford’s family dynamics, his severe head injury, his bouts of mental illness, and his compulsive sexual perversions led to his tragic killing spree, tearful confessions, and dramatic trial.

This is a re-release with 32 pages of new developments about the recent identification of Ford’s first victim, Kerry Anne Cummings, through genetic genealogy 25 years after her murder. So, now she has her name back and her family has closure.

Here’s what reviewers are saying about Body Parts!

“Rother provides an unbiased account of Ford’s killing spree and how the investigation unfolded from the moment Rodney and Wayne stepped into the sheriff’s office. She investigates the psychology of a killer who might never have been caught if he hadn’t turned himself in, and how an earlier head injury and past emotional trauma evolved into dark sexual impulses he seemed unable to control. Body Parts is a riveting page turner from beginning to end. Highly recommended!”

— The Book Connection

“BODY PARTS takes us deep into the mind of a serial killer. It tells about the lives of the women he killed. It tells us what he did to the women before and after he killed them. There are some pretty horrific and graphic scenes in Body Parts. It will break your heart at all the things this guy did to the women. Body Parts takes us deep inside Wayne Adam Ford’s mind. The descriptions are so well written that it is easy to picture it all in my head. Body Parts will stay with me long after I have read the last page. I don’t know how anyone could do such horrible things to another human being. Body Parts kept me glued to the pages as I raced to the end to find out the true story of Wayne Adam Ford! If you like true crime stories, I highly recommend Body Parts. Grab a copy today for a look inside the mind of a serial killer!”

–The Avid Reader

“Highly recommended! The book was well written and I look forward to reading more from this author. I was captivated from the beginning and turning pages until the very end. This was one I had never heard about before and it was well researched. I enjoyed this book and would recommend it to any reader who loves true crime.”

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BODY PARTS is available at Amazon at https://www.amazon.com/Body-Parts-Serial-Killers-Compulsions/dp/0806543914


About the Author books

New York Times bestselling author Caitlin Rother has written or co-authored 15 books, ranging from narrative non-fiction crime to thrillers and memoir. Among her recent titles is an updated edition of BODY PARTS with 32 pages of new developments about the Wayne Adam Ford case, and DEATH ON OCEAN BOULEVARD, the story of the Rebecca Zahau death case. Coming out in June is DOWN TO THE BONE, about the McStay family murders, and in 2026, DOPAMINE FIX, the first in a two-book deal for a new crime fiction series with Thomas & Mercer. An award-winning investigative reporter for 19 years, Rother’s stories have been published in Cosmopolitan, the Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, The San Diego Union Tribune, The Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, and The Daily Beast. Her more than 250 TV, radio and podcast appearances include 20/20, People Magazine Investigates, Crime Watch Daily, Australia’s World News, and numerous shows on Netflix, Investigation Discovery, Lifetime, HLN and REELZ. A popular public speaker, she also works as a writing-research coach-consultant and website designer. For fun, she binges on limited series, swims, and plays keyboards and sings in a jazzy bluesy trio called In the Lounge with her partner. Rother earned a bachelor’s in psychology from UC Berkeley and a master’s in journalism from Northwestern University. 

Website & Social Media:

Website https://caitlinrother.com  

Twitter https://twitter.com/caitlinrother 

Facebook https://www.facebook.com/caitlinrother/  

Instagram https://www.instagram.com/the_real_caitlin_rother 

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