new trial. given that he s a proven flight risk, he remains in prison. despite the heartache that gordon weaver, aka david carson, created first and foremost in minnesota and then in oregon, he still has his defenders and not just his own mother and father. who are both charged with aiding an offender. his mother admitted in court they had helped their son and was sentenced to community service. while the case against his father was dropped because of a medical condition. in oregon, jaime jaramillo s daughter, who says the breakup of her family was inevitable, still speaks fondly of her one-time lover, who abandoned his own son but helped raise her two boys. i m grateful that he came to our family because he helped me to change and grow. he helped my boys to become young wonderful men. and her mom appears even more devoted. she has moved to iowa, her home state, which happens to be
warned gordon that his time was up. unlike in august when he had been very upset about it, he was very calm and matter of fact that wednesday morning. and he said, you know, this isn t what i want. why didn t he want it? given the way they were living. why would he want to go on that way? we thought maybe it had to do with the fact that he was struggling in his business and she was supporting the family, that it was a control issue. he didn t want her to be the one that left him. the sisters say that golf and tennis club of gordon s was in financial trouble. they believe he was counting on his wife s income from her new job to make ends meet. what would he do when she divorced him? i just can t get over the fact that my sister was treated like a piece of trash by him. a beautiful woman with a pure soul and a pure heart. police wasted no time.
indeed david carson was gordon weaver, did you think certainly now my mom will be so relieved that i ve helped her? i actually did. i thought she d be relieved, she d be happy and that the whole family could rally around this incident to draw really close together and we could all become very tight-knit group like we used to be. but yet she said that he was innocent, that all of it was false accusations, lies. but the lies were actually those of david carson, aka, gordon weaver. so how had weaver turned into carson? well, he d had some help from his parents. remember they re affluent, respected and accomplished. his father is a retired college dean with a building named after him. those calls from aunt rita? they were really from his mother, and his father had obtained a credit card for him in the name of david carson.
jon immediately logged on to the show s website and started scanning the mugshots of men who had appeared on the program since the fall of 1999 shortly before david arrived in oregon. that s when he saw it, a photo of a man who looked a lot like david carson in a show that aired in late 2000. he downloaded the picture and blew to it up to an 8x10 for a closer inspection. when you looked at it, what did you think? he changed the hair color, he didn t have the gray, he had a goatee and put on weight. but i thought this really looks a lot like him. trembling, hardly able to believe the evidence, jon rushed over to his dad s home in eugene, showing the photo to his father and a visiting friend. i put the picture down on the table and said, does this look like anybody you know? and they both said, it s david. and i go, well, it s not david. his name is gordon weaver. and he murdered his wife in
two weeks later they arrested gordon weaver for second degree murder and first degree arson. surprisingly, he was granted bail. he wouldn t have to await trial in jail. then it looked like the charges were going to be even more serious. just before he was to be indicted for first degree murder in march 2000, he disappeared. the last trace of him, his mother s car, which he had been driving. police found it abandoned 400 miles away in suburban chicago, with blood inside. and a nearby hotel, police also found some of his personal items, clothing, and medication for depression. colleen got the news when she was at her brother rich s house. i was totally shocked. i can still remember that day rich got the phone call and turned around and said, they can t find him. he s gone. gordon weaver was not only gone but his parents said they feared he was dead.