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True Crime Brewery

On the Way to the Bus Stop: The Disappearances of Ashley Pond & Miranda Gaddis

True Crime Brewery

Tiegrabber Podcasts

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.51.1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 April 2022

⏱️ 103 minutes

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Summary

On a chilly January morning in 2002, 12-year-old Ashley Pond disappeared on her way to her school bus stop in Oregon City, Oregon. Two months after Ashley disappeared, Miranda Gaddis, age 13, also vanished while on her way to the same bus stop. Miranda and Ashley were good friends and they lived in the same […]

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New from DurX, 7 different vibrations. you'll want to put on repeat.

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Now available at boots and at duerX.co. UK. True Crime Brewery contains disturbing content related to real life crimes. Medical information is opinion

0:36.3

based on facts of a crime and should not be interpreted as medical advice or treatment.

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Listener discretion is advised.

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Welcome to True Crime Brewery.

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I'm Jill.. I'm Jill.

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And I'm Dick.

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On a chilly January morning back in 2002,

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12-year-old Ashley Pond disappeared on her way to the school bus stop in Oregon City, Oregon.

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Two months after Ashley disappeared, Miranda Gatis, age 13, also vanished while in her way to the same bus stop.

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Miranda and Ashley were good friends and they lived in the same apartment complex.

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They were both friends with Mallory Weaver too, the daughter of local man Ward Weaver 3rd.

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Join us at the quiet end for On the Way to the Bus Stop.

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After Miranda's disappearance, the FBI put together a task force to search for both girls.

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While some were holding out hope that they had run away,

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law enforcement and family members alike soon believed that the girls had been abducted.

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Ashley's mom believed that the girls had been abducted. Ashley's mom believed that Ward Weaver was

1:45.2

responsible and she had good reason to believe that. Just five months before her

1:50.2

disappearance Ashley had accused Weaver of molesting her. her And as public opinion and law enforcement turned toward him as the primary suspect,

2:06.0

Weaver made plans to move out of state.

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But it wouldn't be as easy as he thought it would be to escape his demons and his crimes. So I was waiting for a

2:15.3

nice Oregon case so he could do a review of one of Cascade Brewing's beers.

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