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Bones found are of missing Va. girl©Associated PressOctober 5, 2002 WENTWORTH, N.C. -- Bone fragments and a skull found on a rural property are the remains of a 9-year-old girl who vanished after her parents were shot and killed in their home seven weeks ago, authorities said Friday. No arrests have been made, but investigators would like to talk with a man whose rented house and mobile home in Rockingham County were recently searched. The remains were discovered Sept. 25 near a home in Stoneville, N.C., about 30 miles south of Jennifer Short's home. Jennifer had been missing since Aug. 15, when her parents -- Michael Short, 50, and Mary Short, 36 -- were found shot to death in their Bassett, Va., home. Investigators had said they believed the girl had been abducted. "The skeletal remains in Rockingham County have been determined to be a positive match with the DNA profile of Short and are hers," Rockingham County Sheriff Sam Page said. MAN CHARGED IN OREGON GIRLS' DEATHS: Ward Weaver was arrested Friday on charges he murdered two Oregon City girls whose bodies were found in his back yard over the summer. Weaver, 39, was in jail on charges of raping his son's girlfriend. The girls, Ashley Pond, 12, and Miranda Gaddis, 13, disappeared two months apart last winter. Their bodies were found in August.
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