This is the concluding part to our deep dive into the unbelievable case of Ward Weaver III.

In today’s episode we look at what could have happened in his life that may have contributed to turning him into the killer that he is soon be exposed to be …

Was he just born with a predisposition for murder or was it sadistic, abusive behaviours he had learned as he went through life, perhaps from his own family members ?

As his house & surrounding property in Oregon City, Oregon is finally searched by the FBI some shocking truths are revealed & truly grim discoveries are made .

We will learn the awful truth of what happened to the two missing school girls 12 year old Ashley Pond & 13 year old Miranda Gaddis on the days they both disappeared en route to school, two months apart .

And as we take a look into Weavers family history & lineage it reveals a shocking pattern of sexual violence, abuse & murder from not one, not two, but three male members of the same family . Making the Weaver family the perfect example of the age old fascinating but morbid question , is it nature or is it nurture that creates a sadistic killer….?

This is episode 111: Generational Evil: The Murders Of Ashley Pond & Miranda Gaddis

Crime talk timestamp: 4:40 minutes

Sources : KATU TV archives YouTube / Wikipedia / Murderpedia / the Oregonian / People magazine/ CBS News / Thought.co/ The Devils Backyard Ebook

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