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The FBI says an unidentified man was seen in the vehicle along a highway near the victims' home during the early morning hours of Aug. 15, 2002. The bodies of Michael and Mary Short were found in their home later that day, and 9-year-old Jennifer was missing. Her body was found about six weeks later.

Michael and Mary Short were found dead in their Henry County home on August 15, 2002. Jennifer's remains were found six weeks later under a bridge across the border in North Carolina. All three were shot once in the head. >>>>> THIS IS AN UNSOLVED CRIME IN MY AREA - CAN ANYONE HELP WITH INFORMATION OUT THERE? <<<<<< If you have any information about this case, contact the FBI Tip Line at 1-800-225-5324 or your local FBI office.

ROANOKE, Va. (AP) - Henry County Sheriff Frank Cassell and 12 of his employees have been indicted on federalcharges in an alleged drug-related racketeering conspiracy. A U-S Postal Service employee, a probation officer and five citizens were also charged in the 34-count indictment, which wasunsealed today. Charges in the indictment -- which was handed down on Tuesday --include racketeering, narcotics distribution, obstruction ofjustice and perjury. A spokesman for the U-S Marshal's Service in Roanoke says federal agents arrested most of the defendants early this morning. The indictment alleges that beginning in 1998, drugs seized bythe sheriff's office were sold to...

Indictments handed down in Short family slaying 3-4-05 By Jen McCaffery Landmark News Service News & Record ROANOKE, Va. -- Indictments have been handed down relating to the investigation of the 2002 slaying of the Short family, a U.S. attorney said Thursday. But attorney John Brownlee also indicated in a news release that the three homicides remained unsolved. The joint federal, state and local investigation into the case is continuing, according to the release, which did not say who was indicted, or on what charges. Brownlee said he would announce the indictments at a news conference at his office today....

Yellowknife, N.W.T. - The crown prosecutor's office will decide early this week whether to prosecute an illegal alien from the U.S. for drunk driving or turn him directly over to U.S. authorities who are investigating a triple murder. On Friday, an immigration adjudicator ruled Garrison Bowman should not have entered Canada because he had a criminal record in the U.S. Bowman is the North Carolina man wanted by U.S. investigators for questioning in a murder of young girl and her parents in Virginia. He was arrested in Inuvik on Oct. 3. On the way out of the court, Bowman was...

CNN is reporting The skeletal remains in North Carolina has been dna identified as Jennifer Short.

STONEVILLE-- Evidence that may be linked to the August abduction of 9-year-old Jennifer Short was seized this week at a mobile home in Rockingham County, about a mile from the site where skeletal remains of a young girl's body were discovered, according to court records. A map showing the Short family home was seized from a mobile home moved from this site. Rockingham County sheriff's deputies seized the items on Saturday from a green-and-white mobile home parked in the driveway of 490 Webster Road, east of Madison, records show. The items include maps of Virginia, one of which was marked...

STONEVILLE, N.C. (AP) - A partial skull and bone fragments found this week fit the description of a missing 9-year-old Virginia girl, according to a report from the state medical examiner. The report released Friday shows the skeletal remains were of a 9- or 10-year-old white female with medium-length brown hair who had died within the past year, and likely since early summer. Authorities would not say whether they thought the remains were that of Jennifer Short, who disappeared on Aug. 15, the same day her parents were shot and killed at their Bassett, Va., home. "It's not 100...

CALDWELL, W. Va. -- West Virginia state police said they found a body of a young person in a wooded area of the Greenbrier Forest State Park Thursday in Greenbrier County. Greenbrier State Forest is located in southeastern West Virginia, near Lewisburg and White Sulphur Springs. Investigators said the body is of the age and size of missing 9-year-old Jennifer Short (pictured, left). The decomposed body has been sent to the medical examiner's office in Charleston, W. Va., according to officials. Investigators hope an autopsy will tell them whether the body found is Jennifer. Officials said the decomposed body appears...

/Courtesy of the Henry County Sheriff's Department Mary Hall Short and Michael Wayne Short were killed; their daughter, Jennifer Renee Short, is missing. Friday, August 16, 2002 9-year-old Henry County girl missing after her parents are found shot to death in home Killings lead to anxious search "We have to presume she's been abducted," said Henry County Sheriff's Captain Kimmy Nester. By MIKE ALLEN THE ROANOKE TIMES    OAK LEVEL - A nationwide search for a missing 9-year-old Henry County girl began early Thursday after her parents were found shot to death in their home alongside U.S. 220.     Authorities...

Please pause today and say a prayer for this 9-year-old girl who has apparently been abducted following the execution-style murder of her parents in their home.

Note: The networks are reporting the execution-style murders of Jennifer Short's parents and the apparent abduction of Jennifer from her home in Virginia yesterday. She is 9 years old and a 4th grader. Please pray for the safe return of this child.