The Short Family Murders - February 20 2026

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🗓️ 20 February 2026

⏱️ 18 minutes

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February 20th: Short Family Home Burns Down (2019) Motive plays a huge role in solving a case. On February 20th 2019 one last mysterious event took place in an already complicated case. One where motive remains elusive and, because of that, the case remains difficult to solve. https://www.wfxrtv.com/news/local-news/southside-virginia-news/after-20-years-are-we-any-closer-to-answers-in-short-family-murders-in-henry-co/, https://www.oxygen.com/crime-news/short-family-triple-homicide-haunts-virginia-20-years-later, https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/14kyiq0/the_short_family_murders_a_strange_and_terrible/, https://unresolved.me/the-short-family, https://the-line-up.com/the-short-family-murders, https://myfox8.com/news/north-carolina/its-been-20-years-are-we-any-closer-to-answers-in-the-jennifer-short-case/, https://www.wxii12.com/article/memorial-ride-honors-short-family-unsolved-murders/40891007, https://myfox8.com/who-killed-jennifer-short/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Now, are all the traitors present?
0:02.0	Let's get started, shall we?
0:04.0	From rags to riches.
0:06.0	I'm so sick of this.
0:07.0	Working like a dog and being treated worse.
0:09.0	Yorkshire to New York.
0:10.0	Or climbers, you and me.
0:12.0	A life dedicated to revenge.
0:14.0	Let's make this an occasion to remember.
0:17.0	A Woman of Substance on Channel 4. Stream now.
0:20.0	Is the government hiding proof of intelligent life beyond our planet?
0:25.3	A new season of High Strange is here.
0:28.1	The explanation keeps changing, but the stories don't go away.
0:32.7	Video is appearing to show UFOs flying through the air are real.
0:37.0	My name is Payne Lindsay, and my new season of High Strange goes deeper into real encounters,
0:42.9	firsthand accounts, and the explanations that never seem to stick.
0:47.1	Images of that rotating thing captured by U.S. Navy aircraft.
0:51.0	I talk to scientists, military witnesses, pilots, and people who saw something they can't
0:57.5	unsee.
0:58.5	There was no other explanation for what we saw that day.
1:01.5	I remembered those faces and they weren't human.
1:04.0	High Strange is available now.
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