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Jennifer Short: Bones Found, Man Arrested

Question:

I think the best idea is to televise the executions.  Sort of like a BBC presentation.  Except, this is the "Bitter Boy Channel".  And then we could have infomercials for jar-opening and bug-killing vocational schools.  After all, what else are men good for? Great idea.  It reminds me of what it’s like reading soc.men.

I kill bugs, and then put them in jars, thereby utilizing both skills simultaneously.

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- Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Saturday, October 05, 2002 The bones found in Rockingham County, N.C., have been identified as belonging to Jennifer Short, the 9-year-old Henry County girl who has been missing since Aug. 15 when her parents were found murdered. You know what her family said when they found her missing? "We’re a little Short this month". So in addition to finding rape and torture humorous, you find the abduction and murder of nine-year-old girls funny?

Soc.men in a nut-shell.

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- Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Saturday, October 05, 2002 The bones found in Rockingham County, N.C., have been identified as belonging to Jennifer Short, the 9-year-old Henry County girl who has been missing since Aug. 15 when her parents were found murdered. You know what her family said when they found her missing? "We’re a little Short this month". So in addition to finding rape and torture humorous, you find the abduction and murder of nine-year-old girls funny?

What do you expect from soc.men?

Response:

- Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Saturday, October 05, 2002 The bones found in Rockingham County, N.C., have been identified as belonging to Jennifer Short, the 9-year-old Henry County girl who has been missing since Aug. 15 when her parents were found murdered. ‘I didn’t want to hear this news,’ one Henry County neighbor of the Short family said. ‘We kept our hopes up that she wouldn’t meet a violent death.’ ‘She’s gone now’: Authorities identify remains found in North Carolina as Jennifer Short By MIKE ALLEN THE ROANOKE TIMES    WENTWORTH, N.C. – The national search for Jennifer Short is over.     In a terse voice, Sheriff Sam Page of Rockingham County, N.C., told a crowd of reporters that the skeletal remains found there last week have been identified as Jennifer’s. The 9-year-old from Henry County had been missing since her parents were found shot to death more than seven weeks ago.     "She’s gone now and she’s safe now, and no evil can befall her," said an emotional Henry County Sheriff Frank Cassell.     The DNA test that confirmed the bones’ identity ended a hunt that spanned the country, reached into Mexico and involved the FBI, the Secret Service and national media outlets. Page and Cassell talked of narrowing the investigation toward the only remaining goal: finding the person or persons who killed the Short family.     "This is just one piece of the puzzle that is now coming together," Page said, adding that although detectives are continuing to interview witnesses, there are still no suspects in the case.     Investigators in Rockingham have turned repeated attention to a Mayodan, N.C., carpenter who left the area the day after the bodies of Michael and Mary Short were discovered in their home in Oak Level.     According to North Carolina search warrants, Garry Storm Bowman said he would kill a Virginia businessman whom he had paid to move a mobile home if the man didn’t do the job or refund the money. The Shorts owned a mobile home moving business.     Friday, Cassell called Bowman "a person that we’re interested in talking to, nothing more." Investigators have chased many leads since the killings were discovered, and "we’re still a long way from solving this case," the sheriff said.     The efforts by detectives to determine whether Bowman, 66, is at all connected to the Short case raise eyebrows and questions. The reclusive furniture maker has lived near Mayodan for more than a decade, gathering a reputation as a skilled handyman.     In 1997, he had a brush with the Rockingham County law, serving 60 days in jail and losing his driver’s license for a year after pleading guilty to a drunken-driving charge.     Bowman served in the Navy and has been a self-employed carpenter for most of his life, said his son, Garry Bowman Jr., who lives in Georgia. Bowman’s son said he hadn’t spoken to his father in seven years.     In recent years, Bowman rented a house on Beaver Creek Road near Mayodan, which he used as a workshop while living in a trailer parked in the yard. He did odd jobs for his neighbors and for Gary Lemons, his landlord. Employees of Lemons’ said Bowman often paid his rent well in advance and would leave on trips for months at a time.     According to search warrants, during an Aug. 12 visit to the rental house, Lemons saw Bowman installing a false floor in his green van. The next day, during a phone call, Bowman talked about killing a man in Virginia whom he had paid to move his trailer.     On Aug. 15, the day the Shorts were killed and Jennifer disappeared, Lemons went to visit Bowman, who came around a corner of the rental house holding a pistol. He told Lemons to leave.     The next day, Lemons returned to find that Bowman had left. Bowman’s trailer was gone, too. Police searched the rental house Aug. 18, after Lemons went inside and found a map of Henry County with a red mark in the area of the Shorts’ house, and children’s clothes.     Last week, as investigators searched for more of the skeletal remains found by a bridge near Stoneville, N.C., they discovered Bowman’s trailer parked in some woods less than a mile away. On Sept. 28, police searched the trailer, confiscating bedclothes and hair samples.     Documents say that Bowman left a note saying he was going to Alaska, but giving a Pennsylvania forwarding address. Page said authorities have found Bowman in Canada and intend to interview him.     Friday, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in Inuvik, a town in the Northwest Territories, said they had arrested an American citizen for investigation by immigration officials.     A Canadian immigration official confirmed the man being held was Bowman. The official said Canadian authorities believe he is in the country illegally.     People who know Bowman – as well as other people who knew the Shorts – said they were skeptical about whether there is any connection between them.     Moving a mobile home can cost between $1,500 and $2,500. Jessie Rickmond, a friend of Michael Short’s who owns A-1 Mobile Homes in Boones Mill, said he never knew Short to rip off customers. Also, Short wasn’t licensed to transport mobile homes in North Carolina, he said.     Rickmond added that Short often worked for him and had never mentioned Bowman or told him of a North Carolina job.     Stan Smith, a neighbor of Bowman’s in Mayodan, said he thought the attention police have paid Bowman wasn’t justified. "Everybody’s pointing fingers at him … they’ve just got nowhere else to point them."     ‘A good place’     Thursday, Cassell and Page met with state police and FBI agents from Virginia and North Carolina to discuss how the investigation would proceed. The two sheriffs, who now share a homicide investigation, pledged Friday to keep working together until the case is solved.     Cassell also cleared up a question about Jennifer’s parentage that has hung over the investigation since its second week. Responding to a rumor that Jennifer could have been kidnapped by a man who believed he was her biological father, police had a paternity test done.     The tests showed that Michael Short was Jennifer’s father, but Cassell withheld the information out of fear that Jennifer might be hurt or killed by her abductor.     Jim Whitehead, an uncle of Jennifer’s, said he had no doubt who the father was after studying a picture of her. "She had Mike’s eyes." Jennifer played baseball and liked to draw, and enjoyed answering the phone in Rickmond’s office when her parents were there working.     Even though Whitehead had come to believe the remains were Jennifer’s even before Friday’s announcement, he was devastated when the word came. "I thought I was prepared for it. But I wasn’t," he said. "It’s hard on each of the family members."     Today, he’ll fly to Virginia from his home in Alaska to help make burial arrangements for Jennifer. The family has already chosen a place to lay her to rest. "It’s a good place," Whitehead said.     News researcher Belinda Harris contributed to this report. The man who did this is in Canada. He should be brought back to the states and promptly shot in the head. Soon. Ira Howard Totally agreed.  We need to stop coddling murderers and execute them. I think the best idea is to televise the executions.  Sort of like a BBC presentation.  Except, this is the "Bitter Boy Channel".  And then we could have infomercials for jar-opening and bug-killing vocational schools.  After all, what else are men good for?

Great idea.  It reminds me of what it’s like reading soc.men.   Jill

Response:

- Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Saturday, October 05, 2002 The bones found in Rockingham County, N.C., have been identified  as belonging to Jennifer Short, the 9-year-old Henry County girl  who has been missing since Aug. 15 when her parents were found murdered. You know what her family said when they found her missing? "We’re a little Short this month". So in addition to finding rape and torture humorous, you find the abduction and murder of nine-year-old girls funny? I’m a Gigantic Asshole, remember? You are Number 6. Well, I have a couple of questions for you. Who are the first five? And what are we talking about? Devin is quoting from a British TV series made in the 60’s named "The Prisoner", from whence came the semi-famous quote "I am not a number, I am a free man". The audio from this sequence was also used on a track by Iron Maiden, also called "The Prisoner" in the early eighties.

<light bulb going on over my head Ah.

Response:

– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Saturday, October 05, 2002 The bones found in Rockingham County, N.C., have been identified as belonging to Jennifer Short, the 9-year-old Henry County girl who has been missing since Aug. 15 when her parents were found murdered. You know what her family said when they found her missing? "We’re a little Short this month". So in addition to finding rape and torture humorous, you find the abduction and murder of nine-year-old girls funny? I’m a Gigantic Asshole, remember? You are Number 6. Well, I have a couple of questions for you. Who are the first five? And what are we talking about?

Devin is quoting from a British TV series made in the 60’s named "The Prisoner", from whence came the semi-famous quote "I am not a number, I am a free man". The audio from this sequence was also used on a track by Iron Maiden, also called "The Prisoner" in the early eighties.

Response:

– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Saturday, October 05, 2002 The bones found in Rockingham County, N.C., have been identified as belonging to Jennifer Short, the 9-year-old Henry County girl who has been missing since Aug. 15 when her parents were found murdered. You know what her family said when they found her missing? "We’re a little Short this month". So in addition to finding rape and torture humorous, you find the abduction and murder of nine-year-old girls funny? I’m a Gigantic Asshole, remember? You are Number 6.

Well, I have a couple of questions for you. Who are the first five? And what are we talking about?

Response:

- Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Saturday, October 05, 2002 The bones found in Rockingham County, N.C., have been identified as belonging to Jennifer Short, the 9-year-old Henry County girl who has been missing since Aug. 15 when her parents were found murdered. You know what her family said when they found her missing? "We’re a little Short this month". So in addition to finding rape and torture humorous, you find the abduction and murder of nine-year-old girls funny? I’m a Gigantic Asshole, remember?

You are Number 6.

Response:

- Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Saturday, October 05, 2002 The bones found in Rockingham County, N.C., have been identified as belonging to Jennifer Short, the 9-year-old Henry County girl who has been missing since Aug. 15 when her parents were found murdered. ‘I didn’t want to hear this news,’ one Henry County neighbor of the Short family said. ‘We kept our hopes up that she wouldn’t meet a violent death.’ ‘She’s gone now’: Authorities identify remains found in North Carolina as Jennifer Short By MIKE ALLEN THE ROANOKE TIMES    WENTWORTH, N.C. – The national search for Jennifer Short is over.     In a terse voice, Sheriff Sam Page of Rockingham County, N.C., told a crowd of reporters that the skeletal remains found there last week have been identified as Jennifer’s. The 9-year-old from Henry County had been missing since her parents were found shot to death more than seven weeks ago.     "She’s gone now and she’s safe now, and no evil can befall her," said an emotional Henry County Sheriff Frank Cassell.     The DNA test that confirmed the bones’ identity ended a hunt that spanned the country, reached into Mexico and involved the FBI, the Secret Service and national media outlets. Page and Cassell talked of narrowing the investigation toward the only remaining goal: finding the person or persons who killed the Short family.     "This is just one piece of the puzzle that is now coming together," Page said, adding that although detectives are continuing to interview witnesses, there are still no suspects in the case.     Investigators in Rockingham have turned repeated attention to a Mayodan, N.C., carpenter who left the area the day after the bodies of Michael and Mary Short were discovered in their home in Oak Level.     According to North Carolina search warrants, Garry Storm Bowman said he would kill a Virginia businessman whom he had paid to move a mobile home if the man didn’t do the job or refund the money. The Shorts owned a mobile home moving business.     Friday, Cassell called Bowman "a person that we’re interested in talking to, nothing more." Investigators have chased many leads since the killings were discovered, and "we’re still a long way from solving this case," the sheriff said.     The efforts by detectives to determine whether Bowman, 66, is at all connected to the Short case raise eyebrows and questions. The reclusive furniture maker has lived near Mayodan for more than a decade, gathering a reputation as a skilled handyman.     In 1997, he had a brush with the Rockingham County law, serving 60 days in jail and losing his driver’s license for a year after pleading guilty to a drunken-driving charge.     Bowman served in the Navy and has been a self-employed carpenter for most of his life, said his son, Garry Bowman Jr., who lives in Georgia. Bowman’s son said he hadn’t spoken to his father in seven years.     In recent years, Bowman rented a house on Beaver Creek Road near Mayodan, which he used as a workshop while living in a trailer parked in the yard. He did odd jobs for his neighbors and for Gary Lemons, his landlord. Employees of Lemons’ said Bowman often paid his rent well in advance and would leave on trips for months at a time.     According to search warrants, during an Aug. 12 visit to the rental house, Lemons saw Bowman installing a false floor in his green van. The next day, during a phone call, Bowman talked about killing a man in Virginia whom he had paid to move his trailer.     On Aug. 15, the day the Shorts were killed and Jennifer disappeared, Lemons went to visit Bowman, who came around a corner of the rental house holding a pistol. He told Lemons to leave.     The next day, Lemons returned to find that Bowman had left. Bowman’s trailer was gone, too. Police searched the rental house Aug. 18, after Lemons went inside and found a map of Henry County with a red mark in the area of the Shorts’ house, and children’s clothes.     Last week, as investigators searched for more of the skeletal remains found by a bridge near Stoneville, N.C., they discovered Bowman’s trailer parked in some woods less than a mile away. On Sept. 28, police searched the trailer, confiscating bedclothes and hair samples.     Documents say that Bowman left a note saying he was going to Alaska, but giving a Pennsylvania forwarding address. Page said authorities have found Bowman in Canada and intend to interview him.     Friday, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in Inuvik, a town in the Northwest Territories, said they had arrested an American citizen for investigation by immigration officials.     A Canadian immigration official confirmed the man being held was Bowman. The official said Canadian authorities believe he is in the country illegally.     People who know Bowman – as well as other people who knew the Shorts – said they were skeptical about whether there is any connection between them.     Moving a mobile home can cost between $1,500 and $2,500. Jessie Rickmond, a friend of Michael Short’s who owns A-1 Mobile Homes in Boones Mill, said he never knew Short to rip off customers. Also, Short wasn’t licensed to transport mobile homes in North Carolina, he said.     Rickmond added that Short often worked for him and had never mentioned Bowman or told him of a North Carolina job.     Stan Smith, a neighbor of Bowman’s in Mayodan, said he thought the attention police have paid Bowman wasn’t justified. "Everybody’s pointing fingers at him … they’ve just got nowhere else to point them."     ‘A good place’     Thursday, Cassell and Page met with state police and FBI agents from Virginia and North Carolina to discuss how the investigation would proceed. The two sheriffs, who now share a homicide investigation, pledged Friday to keep working together until the case is solved.     Cassell also cleared up a question about Jennifer’s parentage that has hung over the investigation since its second week. Responding to a rumor that Jennifer could have been kidnapped by a man who believed he was her biological father, police had a paternity test done.     The tests showed that Michael Short was Jennifer’s father, but Cassell withheld the information out of fear that Jennifer might be hurt or killed by her abductor.     Jim Whitehead, an uncle of Jennifer’s, said he had no doubt who the father was after studying a picture of her. "She had Mike’s eyes." Jennifer played baseball and liked to draw, and enjoyed answering the phone in Rickmond’s office when her parents were there working.     Even though Whitehead had come to believe the remains were Jennifer’s even before Friday’s announcement, he was devastated when the word came. "I thought I was prepared for it. But I wasn’t," he said. "It’s hard on each of the family members."     Today, he’ll fly to Virginia from his home in Alaska to help make burial arrangements for Jennifer. The family has already chosen a place to lay her to rest. "It’s a good place," Whitehead said.     News researcher Belinda Harris contributed to this report. The man who did this is in Canada. He should be brought back to the states and promptly shot in the head. Soon. Agreed. Correctamundo.

Es Verdad. – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – "The day will come when men will recognize woman as his peer, not only at the fireside, but in councils of the nation. Then, and not until then, will there be the perfect comradeship, the ideal union between the sexes that shall result in the highest development of the race."

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