MISSING: Asha Degree

Clues with Morgan Absher and Kaelyn Moore

PAVE Studios

True Crime

4.4 • 945 Ratings

🗓️ 10 September 2025

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

She was smart, cautious, and afraid of strangers. So why did 9-year-old Asha Degree leave her North Carolina home in the middle of the night and vanish forever? Now, 25 years later, Morgan and Kaelyn revisit the key evidence: the missing backpack, a mysterious green car, and a DNA match that took decades to uncover. With new suspects and secret texts surfacing, could this cold case finally be on the brink of justice?Episode Sponsors:Stop putting off those doctor’s appointments and go to https://www.Zocdoc.com/CLUES to find and instantly book a top-rated doctor today. Learn more and join using our link. Visit https://www.functionhealth.com/CLUES. Clues is a Crime House Original Podcast, powered by PAVE Studios. Listen wherever you get your podcasts. Don’t Miss out on all things Clues! YouTube: @CluesPod | @crimehousestudios Instagram: @cluespodcast | @Crimehouse TikTok: @Crimehouse Facebook: @crimehousestudios X: @crimehousemedia Clues is hosted by Morgan Absher & Kaelyn Moore Instagram: @morgsyabsher | @itskaelynmoore TikTok: @twohottakes | @heartstartspounding To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, Kulminati, it's Morgan and Kaelin. If you're loving clues, you need to check out
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0:33.0	Music This is crime house.
0:47.8	But then, seemingly out of the blue, there is a huge discovery.
0:53.9	26 miles inside of two garbage bags buried.
1:00.3	It almost feels like divine intervention in a way.
1:03.5	Music Hi friends. Welcome back to Clues, where we sneak past the crime scene tape to explore the key evidence behind some of the most gripping true crime cases.
1:23.6	I'm Kayla Moore and I'll be the one digging into the timelines, the backstories, and the court files related to these cases.
1:29.5	And I'm Morgan Apscher, your internet sleuth. I'm going through everything I can find online about these cases from Reddit forums to news articles and really pulling out all the strings that add up or don't.
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2:02.8	Today, we are talking about Asia Degree, a shy nine-year-old girl from North Carolina who went missing on Valentine's Day in 2000.
2:08.4	How it happened is very mysterious, but the why it happened is even more so.
2:14.8	For more than two decades, police have hunted for clues, unable to identify a single suspect,
2:20.3	until fresh eyes and new technology led to a startling discovery in 2024 that just might solve this cold case for good and finally bring Aisha home to her family.
2:27.1	More on the case and the clues that defined it right after this quick break.
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