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Post by karis on May 28, 2019 2:41:42 GMT -6
The following document was obtained from a manila folder titled "Poss. Suspect File" sent to the filmmakers during the making of Cabin 28: The Keddie Murders Part II.
6-12-84 approx 0900 hr, I received a phone call from Cpt. Leroy Wood of the BCSO. He advised than an informant told him who committed the Keddie homicides. He explained that the informant called just before he called me. The informant says that he knows the ex-wife of Ward F. Weaver. He is currently in the Kern Co. Jail on 187 charge. The ex-wife told the informant that her ex-husband committed the Keddie murders. The only other information Cpt. Wood had was that the ex-wife is very afraid of her ex-husband and she will not come forward this time out of fear.
In checking on the ex-husband's name in the case file I found a supplemental report where he was considered as a possible suspect during the original investigation.
6-22-84, I contacted Bill Opferman of DOJ BOCCI unit in Sacramento. Opferman has information on W.F.W. and has followed his criminal history. He told me that the suspect's whereabouts on April 11/12 - 1981 are unknown but that he was in Southern California on the 3rd of April and in Reno NV on the 14th of April, 1981. I obtained a brief description from Opferman on the suspect's M.O. in two homicide/kidnap cases and notice some similarities with the Keddie case. I will contact Opferman in person next week and obtains copies of the information.
6-21-84, Sgt. Young stopped by the BCSO on the way back from Feather Falls and talked with Capt. Wood. He obtained a photo of the suspect and a copy of the BCSO coroner report concerning [name omitted], who was the girl the suspect picked up in Kern Co. and later killed in Butte County.
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Post by jmo on Dec 18, 2019 16:27:35 GMT -6
There was a handwritten note in the case files from Stoy to Bradley about a pellot gun recovered from Weaver's son in May 1983. It had a broken sight. It was not in the 1984 two page report on Ward Weaver.
True?
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Post by Admin Horan on Dec 18, 2019 21:19:28 GMT -6
There was a handwritten note in the case files from Stoy to Bradley about a pellot gun recovered from Weaver's son in May 1983. It had a broken sight. It was not in the 1984 two page report on Ward Weaver. True? Yeah--is that TRUE? It sounds true. But then again, so did "You can keep your doctor." Sooo.... I think it's true, but until now, "we" didn't think Ward Weaver was such a hot suspect. IIRC. I know that one of the things I give McNarie credit for is effectively showing that Sue's injuries were consistent with a Daisy Air rifle. So, maybe I remember that bit about Weaver's son from that discussion... Anyone else? Should I stop typing long enough to get a word in edge-wise?
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Post by karis on Feb 18, 2020 16:50:16 GMT -6
Ok, I am going to try to copy this report that was handwritten if I remember correctly.
6-2-83 To: HB (Harry Brandley From:: Don Stoy (Keddie)
Harry: here is what I have found on the gun so far.
The Revolation(?) 663376 WP is not the same as the Powerline 880 but the (WP Dealer)? didn't have one in stock so I couldn't look at the sights. He ordered one for me. I'll look at it when it comes in.
I haven't found the information on Weaver on our original investigation yet, but am still looking.
There are 2 side notes on this report.
Note: Bradley to check with Ventura on this subject
Note: Bradley recovered pellet gun from Weavers son in May of 1983 that had a broken sight. The model was Revolation GC 3376. The sights found at the scene was from a Powerline (both Daiseys) 880(?) new model
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Post by snoho17 on Feb 18, 2020 20:32:49 GMT -6
I know certain parts were interchangeable between daisy models, I'd bet a sight could be used between manufacturers
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Post by kmik on Feb 19, 2020 21:33:34 GMT -6
Daisy 880 rear sight:
Revelation 3366 rear sight:
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Post by kmik on Feb 19, 2020 21:54:00 GMT -6
The Revelation appears to be attached on the barrel with 2 visible screws. The sights may have been interchangeable but it doesn't look like a good fit. I do remember my brother had a little gun that was pretty beat up from being carried around so would it have been common to have a gun with broken sights?
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Post by hope on Oct 18, 2020 16:33:23 GMT -6
I apologize this may be a long post. Been going back and looking at all sorts of different things and came across this article regarding Ward Weaver III: truecrimecases.blogspot.com/2012/08/ward-weaver-like-father-like-son.html?m=1Can certainly see the similarities between Weaver's victim Ashley & Tina's behaviors and even their mothers. Sitting on men's laps (Ashley with weaver & Tina with her teacher Joel Lipsey + whoever's the man was that Lipsey mentioned Tina would sit on the lap of). Reading the section in the above link, where Ashley's mom's boyfriend describes the time Ashley sat on Weaver's lap and how inappropriate it was. He actually informed the police & FBI over it. It sounds as if her mother was present at the time it occurred....why would she still allow her daughter to be around him, spend the night, go on vacation with his family!?! Another source said Ashley would sleep in bed with Weaver when she had sleepovers with his daughter and this caused fights between him and his live in girlfriend. Really!?!? What is wrong with this woman that she would allow this to happen in her home and not beat his ass and tell the authorities??? Instead she became jealous over Ashley and called Ashley's mother to complain that Ashley was always there. Wtf is wrong with people and why did Ashley's mother continue to let her go around him? That poor girl was let down big time by a lot of adults. It also mentions a teacher saw Weaver kiss her on the lips while dropping her off for school one day. The teacher reported it but nothing was done with it. Someone else called social services twice with complaints regarding concerns over their relationship. My point in all that is that Ashley was also just a 12 year old little girl. Her story is so sad to me, her entire life was flipped upside down when she was 7 or 8 years old when she found out through a court appointed DNA test that the man who had been her dad her entire life was not her biological father. Attempting to get to know her bio dad she began visiting him on the weekends. This discusting man, her father, raped and sodomized this poor little girl for 4 years at which point she told her mom and charges were filed. He made a plea deal and only received 10 years of probation for what he did to her. Shame on the justice system and I hope that man is living a miserable life. The detective who handled the case stated that Ashley informed him that her father was not the only man in her life who had abused her. I'm not saying I think one of the Weavers killed Sue, John, Dana & Tina, but I do wonder if something similar may have going on in Tina's life that caused the events of that night. I'm also not sure she was involved or just got involved in something over the head that spiraled out if control. But speaking of Ward Weaver, it is quite a coincidence that PCOS looked at him. I believe he came on their radar after his ex-wife told someone that he had committed the murders in Keddie and she was scared of him. And they examined a bb gun of his son's with a broken site but it turned out to be a different model. Does anyone know if he had a direct connection to Keddie, Quincy, the Sharps, etc? I have to go back and read the PCOS report on him. One last thing, if someone molested or abused my daughter I would kill the mother f'er. If I ran into him at some bar it would not end so well for him and I certainly would not have just hung out at the same location as him. The fact that Sue let Tina return unsupervised to the trailer park right after the incident and the entry below makes me feel as if what was done to Tina was just a normal part of life as far as Sue was concerned. I know that sounds terrible, but her attitude just seemed so nonchalant: "The man suspected of molesting Tina Sharp sees Sue and Daryl J. playing pool with “Suede” at the Maple Leaf Bar, in Belden, the last two weeks of March."
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