011 - The Vanishing Of Asha Degree

Trace Evidence

Steven Pacheco

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture, History

4.7 • 4.2K Ratings

🗓️ 30 July 2017

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

On the morning of February 14th, 2000, Asha Degree's parents awoke to find their nine year old daughter missing. Extensive investigation showed that Asha had packed her backpack, and left the home between the hours of 2:30am and 4:00am.

Several passing motorists spotted Asha on the side of rural Highway 18, just a mile from her house, shortly after 4am. In the days of searching following her disappearance, Police discovered several personal items and candy wrappers, but no sign of Asha.

Eighteen months later, Asha's backpack was found buried and double wrapped in garbage bags some 26 miles north of the last place she was seen. For seventeen years, the mystery of Asha Degree has haunted her family, and the suburb of Shelby, North Carolina.

Did Asha choose to run away, never to return? Did she fall victim to foul play during her travels? Was she lured out of her home by a friend who later betrayed her? Did a passing driver hit Asha and choose to dispose of her body? Join host Steven Pacheco as he explores this baffling case, and studies the unanswerable question: Where is Asha Degree?

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0:00.0	Are the first steps the most beautiful they'll ever take?
0:04.0	Life is blessed with a hundred once-in-a-lifetime moments
0:08.0	from their first holiday to their first birthday.
0:11.0	Special moments deserve a special camera.
0:14.0	With incredible autofocus, the new Canon EOS R100
0:18.0	makes once-in-a-lifetime last a lifetime.
0:22.0	Nothing preserves the feeling quite like a Canon camera.
0:25.0	Such Canon EOS R100 for life's most precious memories.
0:30.0	Nine-year-old Aisha Degree was born and raised in Shelby, North Carolina in August of 1990.
0:37.0	Shelby is a small suburb of Charlotte, sitting to the west of the larger city.
0:42.0	Aisha turned nine in the year 2000, and as of that year,
0:46.0	Shelby had a population of just under 20,000.
0:50.0	Aisha was described by friends and family as being a bright, shy, and sweet girl.
0:57.0	Her family brought her up in a sheltered home,
0:59.0	with Aisha and her brother O'Brien being raised in a situation which limited exposure to outside influences.
1:06.0	Besides school and church, Aisha had very little interaction with people outside of her own family.
1:12.0	Her parents, Harold and Iquilla, both worked,
1:15.0	and when they couldn't be home in time to take care of the children,
1:18.0	they either stayed with their aunt and grandmother just down the street from their own home,
1:22.0	or looked after each other.
1:24.0	Both children had keys to the family home,
1:27.0	and were able to let themselves in and out as necessary.
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