Slain Oregon girl's sister: 'I'm still in shock'

Linda Beloof, left, an attorney for the mothers of Ashley Pond and Miranda Gaddis, with Miranda's friend Robin Speaks, center, and Miranda's sister Maryssa.

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OREGON CITY, Oregon (CNN) -- Authorities were working Monday to identify the remains of a second person found behind the home of Ward Weaver, who is a suspect in the disappearance of two Oregon girls.

Authorities confirmed Sunday that remains found Saturday in a shed behind Weaver's Oregon City house are those of 13-year-old Miranda Gaddis, who was last seen going to school March 8.

A medical examiner will try to determine whether additional remains found Sunday in a barrel under a concrete slab are those of Ashley Pond, also 13, who was last seen walking to school January 9.

Miranda's sister Maryssa, along with Miranda's friend Robin Speaks and Linda Beloof, an attorney for Miranda's and Ashley's mothers, spoke Monday with CNN's Bill Hemmer.

HEMMER: Maryssa, how are you doing?

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MARYSSA: I'm still in a lot of shock. It's not all hitting yet, I think.

HEMMER: What kind of support are you getting from your family and your friends around you?

MARYSSA: I'm getting a lot of support. It's really overwhelming, all the support that I'm getting from everybody.

HEMMER: How well did you know Ward Weaver?

MARYSSA: I've only met him a couple of times. I've only seen him a couple of times, too.

HEMMER: Had you ever spent the night at his house like a number of other girls had there?

MARYSSA: No, I've only been in his house once.

HEMMER: What kind of a man is he?

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MARYSSA: I don't know. I've never actually talked to him. He gave me a ride home from school a couple of times.

HEMMER: You say you're hanging in there the best you can. I would imagine that you were holding out hope until the very end. Is that about right?

MARYSSA: Yeah, I was.

HEMMER: Tell us about your sister.

MARYSSA: She was very outgoing. She was always smiling, making everybody else smile. She was a great dancer, and she always wanted to be a model.

HEMMER: What about your friend, Robin? Robin, how are you doing?

ROBIN: I'm doing OK.

HEMMER: What is the community doing today? How is it feeling? How are people reacting? Because we can see the flames flicker behind you [from a makeshift memorial], and the notes and the cards and the roses and flowers that have come to that fence. Give us an idea of how people are reacting.

ROBIN: People are still kind of shocked at what they heard and the news and everything. But they're doing pretty good.

HEMMER: Have you thought about how things are going to be at school when classes resume soon?

ROBIN: It's going to be really weird, just thinking about what happened and everything. It's going to be really weird.

HEMMER: Do you ever stop and think, "Why here?" and "How here?" in Oregon City?

ROBIN: I used to think that nothing happened here -- that it's a boring city -- but not anymore. It's kind of weird that it happened here.

HEMMER: Linda, how are the mothers of the two girls doing? I know you represent them. How are they holding up?

BELOOF: They're holding up pretty well. They are in seclusion. They are asking all members of the media not to contact them, to give them their privacy. They would also like to thank the community, both locally here and nationally, for all the support they have received over the last few months, for everything that's on the fence behind us here. They really appreciate it. It helps them a lot.

HEMMER: [Sunday] both women came to the scene there. They were wearing hooded sweat shirts. How important was that for them, to visit that location?

BELOOF: Actually, Lori Pond did not come [Sunday]. It was Michelle Duffey [Miranda's mother] and her family. And it was very important for Michelle Duffey and her family.

HEMMER: Is the fear now that the second set of remains may be that of Ashley?

BELOOF: I'm sorry. I'm not going to speculate on that or tell you what may be the fear. I apologize.

HEMMER: Can you give me a sense of the community, then, like I asked the two young women, about how people are thinking, feeling, reacting?

BELOOF: I think people are really giving a lot of support to this family. Earlier [Sunday] before the family came down here, we stopped at a staging area, which was a local restaurant. And people just came up to us and said, you know, "Our hearts go out to you." Perfect strangers, people who have never met the girls before, are expressing their sympathy and their sorrow.