Caitlin Rother's Latest Explores the Coronado Mansion Case

On a brisk November afternoon in 1998, Wayne Adam Ford walked into the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Department in Eureka, California, and simply stated “I hurt some people.” In his pocket was grueling evidence to the crimes he committed, and soon enough his trail of victims were discovered.

In Body Parts, Caitlin Rother brings in previously sealed testimonies, dramatic photographs, interviews from key witnesses, and the crazy confession from Ford explaining the horrifying demons inside of him that pushed him to commit his perverse crimes.

After enjoying the retired life sailing around on their yacht, the Well Deserved, Tom and Jackie Hawks decided to sell the boat and move to Arizona with news of a grandson on the way. But when Skylar Deleon and his pregnant wife Jennifer showed up as prospective buyers, Tom and Jackie disappeared. 

The Deleons attempted to access the Hawkses’s bank account, which tipped off the police investigation. Soon, a third victim was tied to the couple, and an unusual motive was uncovered. The Deleons had already scheduled a gender reassignment surgery, and they needed the money to pay the $100,000 bill.

In Rother’s updated edition, she includes exclusive new material from the case. Skylar, after being sentenced to death row for the three murders, transitioned via hormones while in San Quentin’s psych unit. She also recently changed her legal name and gender in a strategic plan to be moved to an all women’s prison and more.

Just eight miles and one year separated two school girls who went missing from San Diego County. Chelsea King was an achieved, popular high school senior. Amber Dubois was an animal-loving 14-year-old. When both girls went missing, the community’s desperate search led them to a monster hiding in plain sight.

John Albert Gardner was a brutal predator, and now Rother investigates the horrors behind the heart-breaking true crime case—one that hits some of our deepest fears.

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Taking a break from Rother’s true crime books, we have Naked Addiction, a psychologically exciting crime thriller. Police detective Kevin Goode is tired of working undercover narcotics, and he is ready for a transfer to homicide. When he finds the body of a beautiful woman in an alley, he decides this is his chance to prove he is worthy to work homicide.

As he investigates the surrounding neighborhoods, he begins to clash with community members including real estate agents and beauty school students -- who then begin turning up dead. The disappearance of Goode’s sister only adds to his troubles and puts the pressure on.

The intricately woven crime thriller includes a cast of characters that all use their unique addictions as ways to fill up the empty space in their lives, including detective Kevin Goode.

On November 6, 2000, paramedics arrived at a San Diego home where they found Kristin Rossum, a twenty-four year old talented toxicologist, sobbing over the body of her husband Greg de Villers. She claimed that he had overdosed on drugs after learning Kristin was planning on leaving him. However, his friends and family knew how much he despised drugs and knew he would not take his own life like that, so they weren’t buying her story.

Soon enough, Kristin’s dark secret would begin to come out bit by bit. Her success, intelligence, and beauty would be the mask of her much more dangerous side. While in high school, Kristin had secretly become addicted to meth, and shortly after their wedding she had begun cheating on Greg.

With each new clue, Kristin’s “good girl” façade is chipped away until what remains is the true face of a murderer.

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Nanette Johnston Packard is a confident and seductive divorcée who enjoys meeting her latest dates at the gym and through personal ads. Soon after meeting millionaire Bill McLaughlin, he moves her and her kids into his bay-front home in Newport Beach. It can’t get much better than this.

But for Nanette, one man is never enough. She begins an affair with NFL linebacker Eric Naposki, who is able to fulfill her wildest desires. The couple starts to scheme how they can take out Nanette’s fiancé and walk away with all of his money.

When McLaughlin is gunned down, the police have their suspicions but no proof. Rother tells the story of how Nanette appears to have it all, until one day justice may be finally served.

This true crime book by Rother dives into the case of a bad marriage and divorce that went wrong and turned into a murder investigation in Arizona.

Artist and therapist Carol Kennedy believed she had married her soulmate, Steve DeMocker. But even when Carol was pregnant, Steve couldn’t stop sleeping around and being emotionally abusive and controlling. Once Carol was finally at her wit’s end, she divorced Steve and left him for good.

However, when her body was found bludgeoned to death in their Arizona home, Steve was the prime suspect. Yet, it took authorities months to arrest him and years to convict him. Rother’s Then No One Can Have Her explores the twists and turns of the case and how every bizarre detail fits into the story of a woman who paid the ultimate price for leaving a terrible marriage.

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