Killer Comparisons: John Eric Armstrong and Wayne Adam Ford
A gruesome killer on wheels, traveling the highways and byways in his long-haul truck, claiming the lives of sex workers wherever he went -- dismembering them and leaving their body parts in different places. And when confessing his crimes to police, even producing a woman's severed breast in a plastic bag. Truth is often stranger than fiction, and the case of Wayne Adam Ford is definitely in that category. But how does this lesser-known serial stack up to the convicted Detroit serials I have researched? I always have to compare, when I discover another serial who targets prostitutes, as that is my special area of interest -- I have a heart for these girls. So in looking at the life and crimes of Wayne Adam Ford in comparison to John Eric Armstrong and Benjamin ("Tony") Atkins, I would have to say the former is more similar to him. Wayne Adam Ford Ford was born in 1961 in Petaluma, California, more than a decade before Armstrong, and he certainly was older when committing...