Free Body Parts by Caitlin Rother Page A

Foust wrote.
    That said, the doctor stated that Wayne was not in any mental condition to continue on in the marines.
    In a recommendation that was approved by Forde, the Psychiatry Department’s inpatient director, Foust wrote: “This patient will be discharged to Marine Corps Liaison with the recommendation that he be expeditiously administratively separated from the US Marine Corps due to a newly diagnosed and documented personality disorder of such severity that he can no longer render useful service to the Marine Corps. Until such administrative separation is effected, it is our opinion that the patient remains at risk of another decompensation and could become a danger to himself, others and government property.”
    On January 31, 1985, Wayne was discharged from the military for “the convenience of the government, character, and behavior disorders.”

CHAPTER 6
    A DAM AND W ADAD
    After Wayne was kicked out of the military, he drove delivery trucks for Sears and Wards. His uncle Jimmy also got him a job repairing boats at a fishery in Eureka. It was dirty work, Jimmy said, but paid good money. Wayne soon quit and moved back to southern California.
    “He didn’t like that because the work was too demeaning,” Jimmy recalled later. “Wayne always had this attitude that he was better, not than anybody else—well, he did have a very high opinion of himself for some reason, and that type of work was beneath him.”
     
     
    Following in his mother’s footsteps, Wayne started calling himself Adam, his middle name, around this time. (His mother had already begun going by her middle name, Brigitte; his father and brother also went by their middle names, but they had always done so.)
    In 1986, he landed a job as a driver’s helper, loading trucks at American Delivery Service in Garden Grove. There, he met a nice Kuwaiti girl named Wadad Radwan, who was in her late teens and worked in the customer service office. Wayne asked her out for coffee and their relationship progressed from there.
    He never held any one job for very long. In addition to delivering papers for the Orange County Register , Wayne sold cars at two dealerships, worked at a motorcycle shop, and drove a school bus for disabled children in San Juan Capistrano. He also worked as a tow truck driver and security guard.
    By the same token, Wayne never lived in the same place for very long. Given this pattern of behavior, it’s not surprising that Wayne’s six-year relationship with Wadad was very off and on, marked by breakups, sporadic periods of living together, and a passing engagement.
    Not long after they began dating, they got into an argument and split up for a couple of weeks. Wayne moved in with his friend Dave from the marines, back with Wadad, in with Dave again, then back with Wadad.
    Wadad, who just wanted Wayne to be happy, lived with her mother during the in-between times.
    “Whatever he did, he was never challenged enough,” Wadad, who knew Wayne as Adam, said later. “He was too smart for his own good, I think. He’d get bored too quick. He was always depressed. . . . I wanted to see him happy because I believed in him.”
     
     
    Similar to his relationship with Kelly, Wayne’s sexual practices with Wadad seemed normal at first.
    Initially, he asked her to give him oral sex, but she said no.
    “I can’t do something like that if I don’t love you,” she said.
    Wayne seemed pretty upset by this, but he didn’t take it out on her, perhaps because things changed soon enough.
    It wasn’t long before Wadad fell in love with Wayne, so she was more willing to do what she needed to please him—that included letting him put a safety pin in her nipple during sex.
    “I loved him a lot and I thought, well, you know, I’ll try that,” she said later.
    Even though it hurt, she let him stick her on four separate occasions. He never pushed the pin all the way through, he just pricked her with it and pulled it out when she complained of