Listener Leylha J notified us that a Reddit user, SnowflakeBaube22, created an enhanced version of the very blurry picture. On February 20, after three days of unsuccessful searching, they suspended the official search. For reasons still unclear as far as I know, she walked out of the arena, walked toward the highway, and was last seen hitchhiking on a bridge. This is the unresolved disappearance of Asha Degree. It has never been solved and she was never found again, dead or alive. He returned shortly after and fell asleep on the couch. In total, he circled around three times before the girl ran into the woods and out of sight. I thought it was a woman. Could she have met with a similar fate as Morgan? I cant believe the family or law enforcement hasn't put this out everywhere. Years ago I followed the Morgan Harrington case on an online true crime forum. The next day, the men returned to Shelby and went straight to the command post at Mull’s Memorial Baptist Church to report the sighting in person.4. Podcasts. Iquilla, who was preparing a shower for the kids when the lights went out, decided to leave it for the morning and sent both of them to bed. The SBI simply describes her top as a white shirt, so I went with that just to play it safe. He was very thankful to those who share the case and said that the family believes she is alive. It also makes sense if it was someone close to the family since Asha would be more likely to trust them because they are familiar to her parents. The fact that there have apparently been no other unsolved abductions and/or murders of young black girls in the Shelby area in the years since Asha's disappearance, and the fact that the FBI has recently stated they have no suspects, to me points to a stranger abduction. Striving to win type of thing. They lived in a rented two-bedroom duplex at 3404 Oakcrest Drive, located in a quiet residential neighborhood about five miles north of Shelby, North Carolina. Armed with this new information, they began combing a five-mile radius around the intersection of Highways 18 and 180. I’m just wondering how involved they actually were. Asha 1 Degree was a girl who went missing in 2000. The Dr. Seuss book could be entirely unrelated. There was no evidence of foul play inside the home. I attended a church group every day after school since my parents worked late. *I do not mean any harm or disrespect by the content of this podcast, only to raise awareness of the case. In 2014, a student at the University of Virginia, Hannah Graham, was abducted and murdered, and the investigation led to the arrest and conviction of a man from Charlottesville who had been running a taxi service the night Morgan Harrington disappeared, and DNA from the Graham case and from a prior rape years earlier in Fairfax, VA, tied all three to the taxi driver. Asha Degree was 9-years-old when she woke up in the middle of the night, packed her bags, and left home. If you have access, listen/watch O’Bryants Facebook live he just did on the recent anniversary. This would mean either she turned on the light when she went to the bathroom or he did. Today is the 21st anniversary of Asha Degree’s disappearance. By 6:45, Sheriff Dan Crawford and officers from the Cleveland County Sheriff’s Office had converged on the Degree home and were scouring the neighborhood. This photo needs to be shared everywhere! I’m relevantly new to Asha’s case, so sorry if this has been discussed before. This is Jan. 10, 2016 I have not come to a conclusion as to how Asha left her home or as to what ultimately happened to her. Like, the mystery girl was wearing it. The SBI taped off the Degree home at 2:00PM. I know it sounds horrible (not sure if this is the right term, English isn’t my first language), but I always imagined the little girl in the picture to be white. He also mentioned that they slept with the covers up over their heads. 1 Reports differ on almost every aspect of O’Bryant’s sighting. Asha Degree: Family, Friends Refuse to Give Up Search for Little Girl Who Disappeared in 2000 - 02/16/08. He thought she was tossing and turning in her sleep, then heard her get up and apparently go to the bathroom. Here are some sources and important footnotes/clarifications. An article by Emily Thompson 22nd January 2018 • 6 min read. Based on this, it sounds like he was fully aware of her getting up and returning. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. Over at Reddit unresolved some users were discussing the idea that such a specific car model (including the colour which would be difficult to identify at night from a distance) would be remembered after 16 years was unlikely. She looked like she knew where she was going. As children, we all have a tendency to harbor this idea of a wonderful other life. I don't think it was ever meant to be officially released. Asha and O’Bryant spent the day at their aunt Kisha’s house down the street before attending basketball practice later that afternoon. At 11:30PM, Harold stepped out for a last-minute trip to buy some Valentine’s Day candy. They were latchkey kids and were allowed to play outside so long as they finished their homework. He also mentioned Asha had said she had a headache but mentioned this casually, maybe like he heard it second hand. What Happened to Asha Degree? I went back, but she never did look up at me. That night, Asha attended a slumber party at her 15-year-old cousin Catina’s house, where they stayed up late watching Soul Train and Showtime at the Apollo. In their house if there was a storm their mom made them basically shut everything down. He said nothing about her being left on the couch and also mentioned basically nothing about the dad. Today, we are making a new plea for assistance to help us find out what happened to "Shelby's sweetheart." Maybe the girl was older by 2000 (somebody gave Asha a ‘fake’ photo and pretended it was their daughter that needed a friend/help etc). Submissions should outline a mystery and provide a link to a more detailed review of the case such as a Wiki article or news report. One thing that stuck out to me is that he said that he shut the light off when she got back in bed. In the call H. D. mentions that the next-door neighbour saw Asha Degree leaving her home. When I heard that Asha was (possibly) involved in church it reminded me of something that happened to me when I was Asha’s age: When I was 10 or 11 (1998/1999) I was ‘groomed’ by someone at my old church. Now that it’s very clear that she isn’t, what on earth could the significance of it be??! Another neighbor reported nothing suspicious, either. 20 years ago today, Asha Degree disappeared...never to be seen or heard from again. Reverend Mackie Turner, a neighbor who kept his six beagles in a dog lot behind the shed, said that his dogs normally barked if anyone approached but that he didn’t hear anything that night. Asha Jaquila Degree went missing from Shelby, North Carolina on 14th February 2000. it is thought that she packed her bookbag and, for reasons unknown, made the long 1.3 mile [2.1 km] trek from her home to the Highway 18. I assume they did their due diligence and showed the photo around Asha's school, but with a different school and all the spectators, maybe the girl was in that crowd. I just watched Cayleigh Elise's video on Asha Degree's dissapearance, and now I'm really curious to know what people think happened to her. Harold worked the second shift as a dock loader at PPG Industries in Shelby, while Iquilla worked at a Kawai Piano factory in nearby Lincolntown. He said it was more often him than Asha but they would be “whooped” is I think how he said it. At 2:30AM, he checked on Asha and O’Bryant, found them sleeping peacefully in their beds, and went to join Iquilla in their bedroom. Concerned that she would get run over, they sent a message over the CB radio for other truckers to be on the lookout, but they didn’t stop for her. “It was a small figure wearing light-colored clothing. On February 14, 2000, 9-year-old Asha Degree packed her backpack, left home and began walking along North Carolina Highway 18 in Shelby, NC. Harold, Iquilla, and O’Bryant picked Asha up early in the morning to go to church. Facebook Twitter Reddit Email. That night, Iquilla and Harold were interviewed by the SBI and quickly ruled out as suspects. While looking into Asha's case, I came across the case of a young black girl who was abducted from a small town in South Carolina. He explained some things (not a lot) about their home and how they slept etc. I have been following Asha’s case for a couple of years now. Afterwards, they went to cousin Shalonda Brown’s home, where Asha’s grandma gifted her a bottle of cologne and some Valentine’s Day candies. He said it was not for any reason, just how they slept. She was the star point guard for her school’s Little Bulldogs girls’ basketball team and also played with O’Bryant on the same softball team. 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