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Exclusive: Inside Weaver's Home, Shed 08/28/2002 By C.W. JENSEN, ABE ESTIMADA and AMY PALANUK, KGW Staff After a grueling weekend of work and two terrible discoveries, investigators finished their investigation of Ward Weaver’s rental house and turned the keys back over to the landlord Tuesday afternoon. Steve Hopkins, the owner of the home, said investigators told him a little of what they found. They said they found Miranda Gaddis’ remains stuffed into a box in a shed behind the house, Hopkins said. The Federal Bureau of Investigation and Oregon City police spent three days inspecting the shed where Gaddis’...

OREGON CITY, Ore. -- Two decades before investigators searching for two missing girls found human remains in a shed behind the home of Ward Weaver, the body of a raped and murdered woman was found buried in his father's yard. Weaver's father, Ward Francis Weaver Jr., is now on death row in California for two murders. The truck driver was convicted of killing a man whose car had broken down and for kidnapping, raping and murdering the man's girlfriend, 23-year-old Barbara Levoy. Her body was found in 1982 buried beneath a deck at his home in Oroville, Calif. The prosecutor...

BREAKING NEWS: Human Remains Found at Weaver's Home 08/24/2002 By DOUG IRVING, kgw.com Staff Investigators found the apparent remains of a single body hidden in a backyard shed as they searched Ward Weaver’s former property Saturday for evidence of two missing girls. Police had not identified the remains. Search crews continued to search a concrete slab behind Weaver’s Oregon City house, not far from the apartment complex where Ashley Pond and Miranda Gaddis disappeared. Weaver had identified himself as a top suspect in the months-old case, but had denied any involvement. He was jailed earlier this month on unrelated rape...