Analysis of an Offender
Annette Williams
Walden University
Professor J Grimes
Abstract Ward Francis Weaver III is a convicted felon serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole for sexual assault, rape, attempted murder, and the murders of Ashley Pond and Miranda Geddis in Oregon City, Oregon. After taking a closer look at Weaver's life, answers to many questions as to how he could become so violent were answered. He was raised in an extremely violent home and beaten with a belt by his muscular built stepfather. He in turn took to beating on his younger siblings. It is thought to be genetics as to how his crimes could mirror those of his father committed almost two decades earlier.
Analysis of an Offender
Detailed Overview Ward Francis Weaver was born into this world on April 6, 1963, just one once shy of 10 pounds. He was nicknamed Little Pete by his father. He was only with his father for a short time. In 1967 his mother, Trish Weaver, left his father, Ward Weaver Jr., after enduring a volatile and unhappy marriage. The elder Weaver kept in contact with his three children, Ward, Teresa, and Tammi, until he was drafted by the Army and sent to Vietnam. When he would return on leave he would pick the children up and take them for a ride in his convertible. Even without much contact, a young Weaver seemed to idolize his father, These feelings never faded even after his father was convicted of murder in 1984 and sentenced to death. Trish Weaver met Bob Budrow, who would become her 2nd husband, at a hotel bar in Eureka, California a few years after her divorce. He was a 6 foot 2 almost 200 pound smooth talking brawler. He had tabs at several bars. The 2 married but she found herself just as unhappy as she was in her 1st marriage. While Budrow was out drinking, Trish would make the backseat of her car a bed for her kids and drive around from bar to bar looking for her husband. The children were tired of Budrow's beatings and felt happy when he got himself a hotel room and they went home without him. As a young child, Weaver could be described as happy. He showed strange behavior as well. At age 4 he fell out of a 2nd story window and Budrow calmed him down by giving him a dollar. After that his mother would find him by the same window trying to fall again to collect another dollar. By 1970, Budrow, being a longshoreman, had work in the North Bend area now. While there he ran up new bar tabs and Trish had to waitress to help pay them off. By the summer of 1975, Budrow had secured a job in Sacramento, CA. He had promised to take Weaver on this job several weeks earlier. After being in a hotel room with the other dockworkers for several weeks, one of them called Trish and informed her of Budrow's bar hopping and how he was leaving Weaver alone. She ordered her husband home immediately with her son. When the pickup pulled up at his home 12 year old Weaver got out and slammed the door. He gave his mother a hateful glare as well. Trish always blamed Budrow for her son's misery. Family members insist he was never the same after the trip. Weaver's mother always suspected that something had happened on that trip to make her son be filled with so much anger and rage. Shortly after this incident, Weaver began showing signs of antisocial behavior. He was only 12 but had already physically and sexually abused at least 1 family member. He never stopped even after he was married. Another early victim of Weaver's abuse was his half brother Robert Burdrow Jr. 9 years his junior. He would stand him against a tree and wrap a dog chain around him. He would then place him inches from the neighbor's dogs. He would then howl with laughter as the dogs would snap at his terrified brother. Ward , much larger than Robert, would frequently beat him. His sister Tammi was often shot in the back with a BB gun by Ward often. He also practiced wrestling
