The Weaver Family
Criminology
Emash Digital
4.7 • 7.2K Ratings
🗓️ 11 January 2026
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
In this episode we are talking about the Weaver family. Ward Weaver Jr., Ward Weaver III, and Francis Weaver are three generations of Weavers who displayed vicious criminality. All experienced violence during childhood and went on to repeat the cycle of violence.
Join Mike and Morf as they discuss the Weaver family. Ward Weaver Jr committed murder and sexual assault. His son Ward Weaver III abducted and murdered Ashley Pond and Miranda Gaddis. His son Francis was ultimately involved in a murder as well. Nature vs. nurture is a question that comes up often in true crime cases, and this might be one of the most fascinating examinations of that.
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| 0:00.0 | Criminology is a true crime podcast that may contain discussion about violent or disturbing topics. |
| 0:05.9 | Listener discretion is advised. Hello, everyone and welcome to episode 392 of the criminology podcast. I'm Mike Ferguson. |
| 0:43.5 | And this is Mike Morford. Hey, Morph. What's going on this week, buddy? Not a whole lot trying to get my sleep schedule coordinated because I woke up at two 30 in the morning and i've been up |
| 0:55.7 | ever since and i you know just i hate having that sleep schedule thrown off yeah you know sleep is |
| 1:02.8 | a big deal man it can really change your whole day your week can change a whole week if one day |
| 1:10.0 | gets out of whack yeah that just means more naps |
| 1:12.8 | during the week for me huh you got to do what you got to do let's go ahead and give our |
| 1:17.0 | patreon shoutouts we had henrietta cole Cheryl and ranger gal so that's a lot of great new support |
| 1:24.6 | we really appreciate it yeah that is some awesome support. Thank you. |
| 1:28.4 | For anyone else that would like to help support the show, head on over to patreon.com slash |
| 1:32.1 | criminology. So more if it's a new year, which is a reminder for us that there's an all new |
| 1:38.9 | crime con and it's going to be here before we know it. Yeah, Crimecom, Las Vegas is happening May 29th through the 31st at Caesar's Palace |
| 1:47.7 | in Las Vegas. |
| 1:49.3 | So it's just four months from now. |
| 1:50.8 | And that's the biggest true crime convention in the world where you can meet all |
| 1:54.0 | your favorite true crime celebs and catch up with old friends. |
| 1:57.5 | And like you said, it's happening in Vegas, which is always a blast. We'll be there, |
| 2:02.3 | of course, on podcast row. And we'll be having our annual criminology T-Cat meetup with listeners. |
| 2:08.6 | So it's going to be a lot of fun. And if you're going, use our promo code, which is criminology. |
| 2:13.5 | That'll save you 10% on your standard badges at crimecon.com when you check out. |
| 2:17.8 | We hope to see a lot of people there. |
| 2:19.6 | Right. |
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