A number of people, none of whom knew Short, contacted police and the newspapers and claimed to have seen her during her so-called "missing week", between her January 9 disappearance and the discovery of her body, on January 15.
En række mennesker, hvoraf ingen kendte Short, kontaktede politiet og aviser, og påstår at have set hende under den såkaldte "forsvundet uge" mellem tidspunktet for hendes forsvinden 9. januar og den tid, hendes lig blev fundet den 15. januar.