In November 1998, Wayne Adam Ford walked into the Humboldt County Sheriff's Office with a woman's breast in his pocket. He was there, he said, to turn himself in for murder.
were identified fairly quickly. Tina Gibbs, 26, was found dead in June 1998 after Ford dumped her body near Buttonwillow. He had left Lanett White, 25, in a ditch in Lodi. Patricia Tamez, 29, was discovered in a San Bernardino aqueduct in October 1998. But his first victim remained unidentified for decades.they finally know who she is: 25-year-old Kerry Ann Cummings.
How Cummings came to be a Jane Doe for 25 years is a heart-wrenching story. According to family members, Cummings had an untreated mental illness that distanced her from her loved ones. When they last heard from her in 1997, she was couch-surfing in Oregon with no desire to move back in with family. When Kerry stopped contacting them, family members did everything they could to find her.
“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,” Kerry’s sister Kathie Cummings told investigators. Kerry Cummings, 25, was identified in June 2023 as a victim of California serial killer Wayne Adam Ford.Because Kerry was not officially reported missing, she was never added to any law enforcement databases. In October 1997, a hunter in Ryan Slough near Eureka discovered a woman's torso floating in the water; a few months later, more parts belonging to the same woman were found on Clam Beach.
In December, detectives submitted the woman's DNA to a forensic genealogy company. The company was able to track down what they believed was a close DNA relative of the victim. When investigators asked the possible relative if anyone in their family had ever gone missing, they mentioned Kerry Cummings. Kathie Cummings provided a DNA sample, which confirmed the remains did belong to Kerry.
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