More bones uncovered at site where skull was found
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STONEVILLE, North Carolina (CNN) -- Searchers looking in an area where a small skull was found said Tuesday they had found more bones.
The searchers are awaiting the results of DNA tests they hope will determine whether the skull, found last week by a dog, are the remains of Jennifer Short.
Nine-year-old Jennifer vanished August 15, the same day her parents were killed in their Bassett, Virginia, home 30 miles away.
Deputies from the Rockingham County Sheriff's Department said it was not immediately clear if the bones found were human.
In addition, they said they were putting a Global Positioning Satellite collar on the dog that originally found the skull. Deputies said they hoped the collar would help them locate more remains.
The medical examiner told CNN Monday that the 9-year-old girl whose body was found in Rockingham County died from a bullet wound to the head, but tests so far had not been able to match the skull to Short.
DNA tests on a leg bone may determine "within the next day or so" whether the body parts belong to Short, said Rockingham County Sheriff Sam Page. The bone was taken to a lab in Roanoke, Virginia, for testing.
