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Oregon child killer Ward Weaver stabbed during haircut Posted by The Associated Press May 08, 2007 06:18AM Categories: Breaking News Ward Weaver ONTARIO -- Convicted child killer Ward Weaver survived a stabbing by an inmate barber at the Snake River Correctional Institution, authorities said. Weaver, 44, is serving two life sentences at the Eastern Oregon prison. He pleaded guilty in 2004 to killing two Oregon City girls whose bodies were found in 2002 at his home -- one under a concrete slab and the other in a bag in a storage shed. The barber, Marvin Lee Taylor, 44, was charged...

Body Found at Oregon Kidnap Suspect's Home Body found in shed on property. Not yet I.D. Link to Story

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. (Reuters) - The remains of at least one of two missing teenage girls discovered in an ex-convict's backyard had been put there recently -- explaining why past searches of the property had failed to find them, police said Tuesday. With a grand jury impaneled to determine whether to charge toolmaker Ward Weaver, 39, with murdering Ashley Pond, 12, and Miranda Gaddis, 13, police officials rushed to assure the public that they did everything they could to find the girls. Pond's body was found in a barrel under a concrete slab on the one-acre property rented by Weaver,...

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...

Just breaking on the local news: The FbI is preparing to dig up the yard of the property previously rented by Ward Weaver. Mr. Weaver, who has described himself as the prime suspect in the disappearance of two thirteen-year old girls, was arrested last week on charges he raped his son's girlfriend. The young woman was found by a passer-by as she ran, naked, from Mr. Weaver's house. According to reports, she was terrified, saying that he had told her he was going to kill her. Mr. Weaver was arrested shortly thereafter. Late last night, it was announced by the FBI that they...