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Guaranteed Human.

School of Humans.

Helen God Murder Line actively investigates cold case murders.

In an effort to raise public awareness, invite witnesses to come forward, and present evidence

that could potentially be further investigated by law enforcement.

While we value insights from family and community members, their statements should not be

considered evidence and point to the challenges of verifying facts inherent in cold cases.

We remind listeners that everyone is presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.

Nothing in the podcast is intended to state or imply that anyone who has not been convicted of a crime is guilty of any wrongdoing.

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It was 3.45 in the morning on February 14, 2000, Valentine's Day, and a truck driver was

barreling down Highway 18 right outside Shelby, North Carolina. It was pouring with rain. There was a

huge storm hitting. The kind of rain where you have to focus hard to see. And through that heavy

rain, the driver saw something

outside his windshield. It was a black woman. At first, he thought that it was an adult, but as he

got closer, he realized that it was a little girl, and she was walking alone. So he slowed down

and turned around.

But when he pulled his vehicle up toward her to see if she needed help, the little girl ran

off the side of the road into the woods.

He didn't know that this little girl was nine-year-old Aisha Degree and that just a few miles

away on Oak Crest Drive, her family was asleep, totally unaware that she was gone.

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