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Kristi Sloan, Ward Weaver's ex-wife

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(CNN) -- Authorities have confirmed that a second set of remains found behind the Oregon City house of Ward Weaver are those of Ashley Pond, a 12-year-old girl who had been missing since January.

The news came Monday, a day after police announced a first set of remains discovered at Weaver's rental home belonged to Ashley's friend, Miranda Gaddis, 13. Weaver -- the girls' neighbor whom police have called their lead suspect -- is in jail on an unrelated rape charge. He has called himself the prime suspect in the girls' disappearances but has denied any involvement.

Weaver's ex-wife, Kristi Sloan, said she told authorities months ago about her suspicions in the case. She appeared Monday on CNN's "Connie Chung Tonight."

CHUNG: Kristi ... you told us that you had called the FBI. You met with them and told them that they should look in Ward Weaver's back yard. And now the authorities have found two sets of remains in the back yard of Ward Weaver's home. When you found that out, what did you think?

SLOAN: I was disgusted, really disgusted and frustrated with the FBI that this could have been taken care of five months ago.

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CHUNG: Do you really believe that Ward Weaver buried those girls in the back yard?

SLOAN: Yes, I do. There is no doubt.

CHUNG: What made you suspicious in the first place that you would call the FBI and signal them to Ward Weaver's back yard?

SLOAN: What made me suspicious is [that] three days after the second girl, Miranda, came up missing, there was a hole dug and filled with cement -- the concrete slab along the backside of the house. And he said it was for a hot tub.

CHUNG: Now, Kristi, when I talked to you on Saturday night, you were so upset. Why were you so upset?

SLOAN: The first remains were found in the back shed. We had no idea that that's where one of the bodies would be found. And we just found out that it was the remains of the second girl that came up missing.

CHUNG: Miranda Gaddis.

SLOAN: Correct. I was hoping in a way that they would be found, so the family would have closure. But I was hoping in a way, too, that they wouldn't be found, hoping that they would still be alive.

CHUNG: I know that just the thoughts were racing through your mind. What were you thinking?

SLOAN: If only people would have listened to me five months ago and tried to understand why I was so frustrated and why I was trying to get that attention on him. It's not because I'm an ex-wife and because I have hate against him.

When the first remains were found, I was hysterical. I was crying so much, I couldn't talk. My aunt is the one that drove me up to Ward Weaver's house up in Oregon City because I could not drive. And I wanted all the news media to know my frustration with the FBI and why it has taken five months for this investigation to be cleared up.

CHUNG: When I talked to you last Saturday night, you had so many what-ifs in your head and in your mind. What was going through your mind, knowing that the remains of two individuals were found in that back yard?

The remains of Miranda Gaddis, left, and Ashley Pond were found on Weaver's property.

SLOAN: Somebody does not become a killer at the age of 39. So it makes me wonder if he has killed anybody else or if any other people's children have been victims of his alleged abuse, sex abuse.

CHUNG: Are there a lot of what-ifs?

SLOAN: There are more what-ifs than anything. What if they would have taken Ashley's allegations of sex abuse against Ward? Would they have checked into it a little bit more? And would he be in jail before these two girls came up missing? What if, when Miranda came up missing, and I reported that concrete slab, would they have dug it up a little bit faster?

CHUNG: Do you know why authorities finally did go into that back yard and dig it up?

SLOAN: There has been no say, but I honestly feel, deep down in my heart, that Ward confessed.

CHUNG: Why do you believe that?

SLOAN: On Friday night at 11:20, there was an FBI news conference stating that they got the proper authority to search the property.

Pieces of cyclone fencing went up right then around the house and tarped off the back concrete slab and then tarped off the back shed. And they went right to the shed on Saturday morning when they started searching. And that's where the first remains were found. And then when they dug up the concrete slab, the second remains of a body were found.

CHUNG: Kristi, what is so eerie is that Ward Weaver's father is on death row for committing a crime not unlike the one that's being described that Ward Weaver might be accused of. And that is, [the father] is on death row for killing a girl and burying her in his back yard. What do about know about your former father-in-law?

SLOAN: Ward told me about his father and what he did. He was a truck driver. And there was a young guy that was 18 years old with his girlfriend, that was in her early 20s, that were broken down. And he stopped on the side of the road to pick them up.

He, the 18-year-old male, was a cadet. I believe he shot him there and took his girlfriend and kept her for two days, while he continually raped her and then killed her. I believe he buried them in the desert and then six months later went back and got her remains and then buried her...

CHUNG: All right, you were really angry when I was talking to you on Saturday. Can you express really whom you blame for not being able to find these remains until now?

Weaver -- described by police as the lead suspect in the case -- is in jail on an unrelated rape charge.

SLOAN: I blame the FBI and the Oregon City Police Department -- and not specifically the Oregon City Police Department but really the FBI. I really feel that there are certain areas that they didn't go through with that they should have.

CHUNG: Kristi, the families of these two girls do not seem to be upset about the pace of the investigation. What do you make of that?

SLOAN: I don't -- I can't speak on their part. I've never met either of them. And my condolences and my thoughts and prayers really go out to the mothers. And I'm really glad that at least one of them finally has closure.

I can't say what they feel and what I feel because we're on two different standpoints here. I'm just really frustrated because I feel that this is something that should have been taken care of five months ago and that these mothers should have had closure five months ago.

But if they're happy with how the search went, then I'm happy for them, too. But I'm still frustrated on my part.