Michael was on a couch, in the attached garage and Mary in the bedroom.
The phone line had been cut.
They had both been shot in the head and their 9 year old daughter Jennifer was missing.
Police removed 64 items from the Short home during their investigation, including two .22-caliber shell casings found near the Shorts’ bodies.
A month later, Jennifer's body was found near a stream in Rockingham County, North Carolina, she had also been shot in the head.
The last time the family was seen alive was the night before their murders.
The last time the family was seen alive was the night before their murders.
The family went through the drive-thru at Burger King in Collinsville before heading home.
That was around 11:00 p.m., on August 14.
An unknown male had been parked along U.S. Highway 220 near the Short home during the early morning hours of August 15, 2002.
This individual is described as having a weathered complexion and an age consistent with someone in his forties.
The man was reported to have been in a 1998-2002, white, single-cab, two-ton flatbed stake body truck with wooden rails.
To this day the case has remained unsolved.
One potential suspect in the case is Garrison S. Bowman.
One potential suspect in the case is Garrison S. Bowman.
He a 60-year-old man from Mayodan, NC who had allegedly had a dispute with Michael Short.
Allegedly, Bowman had complained that "he had paid a man in Virginia to move his mobile home and that if the man didn’t move it or return his money, ‘he would have to kill him.’”
Bowman also lived near where Jennifer’s body was found and moved to Canada a day after the murders.
Bowman had allegedly pulled a gun on the landlord on the day of the murders and installed a “false floor” in his van.
Bowman’s landlord said that he had found a Virginia map in the house Mr. Bowman rented that was marked with the location of the Shorts’ house.
In 2007, the FBI confirmed that Bowman was no longer considered a suspect.
Did the police bungle or have something to do with the case?
Could the same person or persons be responsible for the murder of Jaymee Closs' disappearance and her family's murder?
On October 15th, at around 1:00 a.m. Denise and James Closs were shot dead inside their home in northwestern Wisconsin and their daughter, Jaymee, was gone.
Denise and James were found in different rooms of the house.
The Sheriff, H. Frank Cassell, plead guilty in 2007, to “knowingly and willfully making a false material statement and representation to a Federal Bureau of Investigations special agent” in relation to corruption charges spanning back as far as 1998.
12 of his deputies were charged with dealing crack-cocaine, marijuana, and ketamine” and he was determined to have been an integral part of the “drug distribution and money laundering ring” in Henry County, VA.
Michael Short’s uncle lamented to news reporter that “he believes police might have destroyed crucial evidence by allowing too many people in and around the Shorts’ house after the bodies were found.”
12 of his deputies were charged with dealing crack-cocaine, marijuana, and ketamine” and he was determined to have been an integral part of the “drug distribution and money laundering ring” in Henry County, VA.
Michael Short’s uncle lamented to news reporter that “he believes police might have destroyed crucial evidence by allowing too many people in and around the Shorts’ house after the bodies were found.”
Supposedly Mary had a stalker from the Pluma plant she previously had worked at.
Could the same person or persons be responsible for the murder of Jaymee Closs' disappearance and her family's murder?
Denise and James were found in different rooms of the house.
Jaymee has yet to be found and the case remains unsolved.
Whatever happened to Jaymee, hopefully she doesn't meet the same fate as Jennifer.
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