Overview: Ashley Pond and Miranda Gaddis (Missing Persons): On the morning of January 9, 2002, 12-year-old Ashley Pond, of Oregon City, Oregon, was on her way to catch a bus en route to school. Then she disappeared before she could reach the bus stop. Two months later, on March 8, 13-year-old Miranda Gaddis (also of Oregon City, OR) disappeared in a similar matter. She too was on her way to school when she suddenly vanished.