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Socal True Crime Author talks about a cold case with a book book on the body – Patch

Socal True Crime Author talks about a cold case with a book book on the body – Patch

Riverside, California – “I hurt some people.” Wayne Adam Ford’s cooling words, acknowledging his deadly mania, began a job that was years in the creation of southern California author Caitlin Rotter. Her book, Parts of the Body: Deadly forced a Serial Killer, offers a new look at Ford’s first victim, identified in the cold case, DNA reveals 25 years after her brutal murder.

Body Parts is planned to reissue February 25, and in March it has numerous books scheduled in southern California.

Rotter is the author and co-author of 15 real criminal books that deepen in the minds of some of the most famous killers of Southern California and the mysterious, high-ranking death. She is a prize investigative journalist and bestselling author of the New York Times. She writes both fiction stories and non -filming, with a new fantastic series in the works right now.

Deft Touch and a detailed Rotter investigation lead the reader on a difficult subject, leaving readers to be swallowed. Her in -depth investigation is diving not only to capture and deprive the murder, but also in what she believes, he puts his descent into madness. He confessed to the murder and dispensing of four women and was sentenced to death in the San Bernardino District Court in 2006.

“In the case of Ford, he was a Marine, located at the El Toro Sea Base at 19, when he learned first aid and CPR,” she said. “He was at a meeting one night when he saw a car accident and stopped to see if he could help the victims and a bleeding passenger. He put his hand on the victim’s carotid artery to try to save a person’s life, the same technique , which he would later use to cut the oxygen of the women who suffocated during rough sex, and then revive them with CPR.

As he visited the wounded passenger, a drunk driver hit him by knocking him down. Ford suffered a traumatic brain trauma and his family told him he was never the same after he woke up on ICU nine days later. It is not known if this was a factor for his deadly forced. Still, while working as a long -distance truck, he admits that he has killed and breaks down many women. Although a handful is found and identified, Rotter believes there may be more.

Her 2025 edition of the best-selling non-artistic work “parts of the body” of the body “details of pre-sealed testimony and interviews key players in the case, including Ford’s brother and father. The book is referred to as “Intimate and Psychological Resonance” in the identity of Wayne Adam Ford’s first victim, Carrie Ann Cummings of Tuson, Arizona, who disappeared in 1997 and found herself in Humboldt, where her remains were discovered.

Carrie Ann Cummings, a high school photo and a later photo before her disappearance. (California State Photos of law enforcement)

“Everything she knew about his first victim was based on her torso,” Rotter said. She gave birth, but not much else is known. “We had no idea, except that she was 25 and had drugs on her, a strange conservative and a pink petal tattoo.”

The rest came later, thanks to family DNA.

“A cousin registered for a DNA website that offers the police the opportunity to” think “cases of a missing person,” she said. The story of this trip is described in detail in 10,000 words added to the story, with extensive Kummings updates, how she came to California and where her life ended.

Now her family knows what happened, which is important to Rotter.

“There is never really a happy end to the story of the serial killer, but it’s the closest thing about him,” Rotter told Patch. “She has her name and her family has a closure.”

Rotter conducts a series of books signatures for “body parts” in southern California:

In San Diego County:

  • Saturday, March 1, 12am to 2pm in Bay Books, located on 1007 Orange Avenue, Coronado.
  • Sunday, March 2, from 1 to 3 pm at Barnes & Noble in Mount Carmel, located on 11744 Carmel Mountain Road, San Diego.

In Riverside County:

  • Saturday, March 8, 1 to 15 hours at Barnes & Noble, Galleria in Tyler, 3485 Tyler Str., Riverside.

In Orange County:

  • Saturday, March 15, from 2pm to 3pm in Book Carnival, located on 347 S. Tustin Street, Orange. Rotter will discuss “body parts” during this signing.

The pre -orders of her next release, “To the bone: The murder of the missing family and the elusive pursuit of justice,” is to be published in June 2025, are available on Amazon.com.

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