OREGON CITY, Ore.  - Seven years after Ward Weaver murdered her sister, a young woman writes to him, gains his confidence - and then confronts him during visits in prison to get answers.

Now, Miriah Gillett, sister of murder victim Miranda Gaddis, has come forward with some of the details revealed to her in Weaver’s letters and from her face-to-face meetings with him.

Gillett claims Weaver confessed to her how he killed Miranda and her friend, Ashley Pond.

They are details Ward Weaver has never shared publicly. And Gillett said the visits ended abruptly when Weaver shared a terrifying confession with her: she was also on his list of intended victims.

“He told me that that if I was more fully developed and had gone through puberty, he probably would have taken me too, but I wasn't at the time,” Gillett said Weaver told her. “That’s what caused him not to take me.”

The words from her sister's killer left Gillett shaken and in tears as she sat face to face with him in the Oregon State Penitentiary.

“It's really sick, actually,” Gillett said.

It was a visit that came after six months of letter writing, and Gillett said Weaver would reveal more details with each letter.

Text from the letters included passages such as:

“…with you coming back into my life...you give me a great connection to my past life.”

He also wrote:
    
“If you ever need to just vent, I am here for you. You've grown up to be a beautiful young woman and you were a pleasure to have around our house...a little hyper...but still a pleasure.”

He ended that passage with a small smiley face.

The correspondence also included hand-drawn holiday cards for Christmas, Halloween and her birthday, signed, “love, Ward.”

Gillett says she wanted to make Weaver think she was his friend, so when the time came, he would tell her the truth about how her sister died and why.

He did not disappoint.

Gillett says Weaver told her he killed Ashley Pond to save her from a terrible home life.  And he said he killed Gillett’s sister, Miranda Gaddis, to protect himself.

“Miranda was a ‘wrong place wrong time,’ and he was afraid she saw something,” Gillett said.

Gillett said that when Weaver went into details about Ashley, “he laughed a lot. With Miranda, he cried a couple of times, but he went into details about how he killed them...what he did with their bodies.”

The girls’ bodies were found on the grounds of Weaver’s rented Oregon City home. Ashley Pond was found under a concrete slab that Weaver stood on while giving an interview to KATU in the months leading up to his arrest.

Miranda’s remains were found in a bag in an outbuilding on the property.

The letters and meetings held answers Gillett says will somehow help her move on from the murders.     

Some of the information Gillett is claiming Weaver told her could lead to new criminal charges.

FBI agents said they wouldn't confirm whether they're launching a new investigation but did say they would follow up on any leads Gillett or anyone else would bring to them that are prosecutable under the law.
    
Meanwhile, Miriah Gillett said she is enrolling in criminal justice classes at a community college.
    
She is planning a March 8 vigil at the site where the girls bodies were found. Her sister Miranda Gaddis disappeared on March 8, 2002.

Ward Weaver remains in the Oregon State Penitentiary where he is serving a life term without possibility of parole.

The home where the girl’s remains were found was bulldozed by the property owner shortly after the case was closed.