Weavers Ready To Move To Montana - Where Else? Ruby Ridge Figure Says Daughters Miss The Mountains

Randy Weaver says he’s leaving Iowa as soon as he can and will settle in Montana.

“The mountains are more home to our girls,” he said in an interview with the Quad-City Times. He declined to specify where he would live except to say he wants room to raise horses and chickens.

“We could do that here, too, but it’s a slower life out there, quieter,” he said. He said he planned to leave immediately.

Weaver is the central figure in the Ruby Ridge, Idaho, standoff with the FBI that resulted in the death of his wife and son, and a federal marshal in August 1992.

Weaver served 16 months in prison for the weapons violation that prompted the siege but was acquitted on a charge that he murdered the agent, William Degan. Each of the three girls received $1 million in a settlement with the government, and Weaver received an additional $100,000.

Under terms of his probation, Weaver moved back to Iowa, where he was required to live until this past December.

In April, Weaver accompanied former Green Beret Col. James “Bo” Gritz to Jordan, Mont., where Gritz attempted to negotiate a surrender of the freemen holed up on a nearby ranch.