Wayne Adam Ford

This article is about the American serial killer. For the Iowa State Representative, see Wayne Ford.

Wayne Adam Ford
Born	(1961-12-03) December 3, 1961 Petaluma, California
Criminal penalty	Death
Conviction(s)	Murder
Killings
Victims	4+
Span of killings	October, 1997–November 3, 1998
Country	U.S.
State(s)	California
Date apprehended	November 3, 1998

Wayne Adam Ford (born December 3, 1961) is an American serial killer.

Background

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; he served for 6 years and was honorably discharged in 1985. Beginning in 1983 he had escalating problems at work and psychological declines, necessitating several hospitalizations. He had two brief marriages 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.

Arrest and trial

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. He confessed to having killed four women in 1997 and 1998, 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. Currently he resides on death row at San Quentin State Prison in California.

See also

• List of death row inmates in the United States