Lanette Deyon White was a 25-year-old African American woman who was killed on September 25, 1998, in Ontario, California. Her body was found dumped in an irrigation canal near Lodi, California. Her death was later linked to a series of killings carried out by long-haul truck driver Wayne Adam Ford, who targeted women along his routes and whose crimes involved extreme violence and mutilation.

Ford turned himself in to the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Department on November 3, 1998, and confessed to four murders committed between 1997 and 1998, including Lanette’s. He was charged with four counts of first-degree murder and, after lengthy proceedings, was found guilty and sentenced to death in 2006. He is incarcerated on death row at San Quentin State Prison.