...but only a little chunk at a time, beginning with the knees...
Posted on 08/24/2002 5:17:23 PM PDT by ex-Texan
Prayer on the way for them.
It's kind of a mixed blessing - at least the children will be laid to rest. My heart is breaking.
Killer followed his killer father's M.O. and left at least one body in his own yard.
The girls families must be in tremendous greif at the moment. God be with them and give them comfot and strength.
prisoner6
PAGING HENRY BOWMAN!
I just turned it on and that is William LaJuenesse. He was at Jarbidge, Nv. 2 years ago. I asked him, please tell this story right....and he did. The land rights issue would have NEVER gotten the national attention it did without him.
Saturday, August 24, 2002
OREGON CITY, Ore. — The FBI discovered human remains Saturday in a shed behind the house of Ward Weaver, a self-described suspect in the case of two missing teenage girls.
Remains of one person were found hidden in the outbuilding, said Charlie Mathews, special agent in charge of the FBI's Portland office. Mathews added that officials continue to look under a concrete slab directly behind the Ward's home for more remains, he said.
Weaver had said he laid down the slab in order to build a hot tub.
The FBI began the search Saturday morning after saying late Friday that they had "achieved legal authority" to conduct the search.
After an uneventful morning, activity at the scene picked up around 3 p.m. Saturday afternoon, as crime reconstruction teams, digging equipment and FBI agents poured into the fenced-off property. A medical examiner's vehicle pulled up about two hours later and backed into a shed near the house.
The 13-year-old girls, Ashley Pond and Miranda Gaddis, lived in a housing project across the street from Ward.
Weaver was evicted from the single-story house after his arrest July 13 on an unrelated rape charge. Weaver's son called police and told them that his father had admitted killing the girls. Weaver is also accused of raping his son's 19-year-old girlfriend.
Weaver had earlier said the FBI considered him a suspect in the girls' disappearance.
On Saturday morning, police set up two large white portable tents behind Weaver's house. One appeared to be over the concrete slab; the other was farther back in a brushy area.
Three search dogs worked the property, along with about 40 investigators from the FBI, Oregon City Police and the Oregon State Police. Steele said that forensic investigators would begin their work once the police dogs were done.
Ashley disappeared Jan. 9. She was last seen eating breakfast with her younger sister and was to walk about eight minutes to a bus stop near Weaver's home. Michelle Duffey, Miranda's mother, last saw her daughter in a bathrobe eating breakfast on March 8.
Linda Beloof, an attorney representing the girls' mothers, said the women "were in a safe place" and didn't want to talk with the media.
The grandfathers of the two girls sat in lawn chairs Saturday watching the search. They said they have gotten to know each other well since their granddaughters went missing.
"Our family was very close and it's been very hard not having her around," said Wesley Duffey, Miranda's grandfather.
"Right before she disappeared, she gave me a big hug and kiss and that was the last I saw her. I play that over and over in my mind."
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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