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Hey everyone and welcome back to Big Mad True Crime where we get Big Mad over True Crime.

I'm your host Heather Ashley and today's case is out of Shelby, North Carolina.

There's a good chance you've heard about the disappearance of Asia degree.

She's a nine-year-old girl who went missing from her home on February 14, 2000 and has never been found.

When it happened, Asia's name was all over the news, but as time went on and the trails went cold, there's been less and less coverage on her case.

It's been 22 years now, but her parents have never given up hope that their little girl is still out there somewhere.

Asia's case has become one of those true crime cases that the members of the elite squad known as the I'm gonna find out unit have taken under their wing.

They followed the case up down in sideways trying to figure out if they can find that one clue that's missing that might solve her case.

Today and next week, we're gonna go through everything we know, what questions those facts open up and what potential answers those questions might lead to.

With that, small talk sucks, so let's dive in.

As I mentioned earlier, nine-year-old Asia degree went missing on Valentine's Day in 2000.

But to understand her case a little better, let's talk about who exactly she was as a person and the days leading up to her disappearance.

Asia was a rule follower. She was the kind of kid that other parents could point to and say see she's listening, see she does her homework, see she minds her manners.

Based on the hundreds of articles I've read through, Asia was as well behaved as they come. Obviously she was a child and kids will be kids, but I haven't seen a single report that she ever got in trouble at school.

She rarely, if ever, missed a day and she got good grades and she didn't just get good grades because her parents wanted her to.

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