The body of Kerry Ann Cummings was found in northern California in 1997. A serial killed admitted to killing her a year later, but her body was not identified until recently.
In 1997, Kerry Ann Cummingsin northern California. According to her family, she was couch-surfing in the Eugene, Oregon, area before the family lost contact with her.
That was until November 1998, when Wayne Adam Ford came to the Humboldt County Sheriff's Office with another woman's body part, officials said. He admitted to killing several women in the area, including who investigators would later learn was Cummings. Years later in 2006, Ford was convicted of four counts of first-degree murder and sentenced to death. He remains on death row at San Quentin State Prison.Cummings still had not been identified, however.
From there, investigators tracked down Cummings' sister, Kathie Cummings, and tested her DNA against that of the remains found decades earlier. They found a match, and officially identified the remains as those of Kerry Cummings. She was in her mid-20s.Cummings' family said that she was suffering from untreated mental illness before she lost contact with her family.
According to Kathie Cummings, her parents tried to report her sister missing in Arizona and Oregon back in the '90s, but that a missing persons report was never taken because of laws surrounding reports back then. Because of that Kerry Cummings was never listed as missing and never put into any national missing persons databases.
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