Hi, crime junkies. I'm your host Ashley Flowers and I'm Brett and welcome to the first episode of 2019.

I hope you all had a wonderful New Year's Eve. I know I had a wonderful New Year's Eve at our crime junkie party.

I know Brick couldn't be there. It was insane. We had over 120 crime junkies come out and it wasn't just crime junkies from Indiana like I expected.

We had people fly in from California and Georgia and Vermont. So wild. Yeah, there is this time lapse, like one minute video of the party that everyone needs to go check out on our Instagram at crime junkie podcast.

But I truly had the best time ever. It was so amazing meeting these fans talking dancing the night away. I want to live in my sequin jumpsuit that I had made.

It was amazing. Yeah, you sent me a picture of yourself getting ready and I was like, how much fashion tape are you wearing?

Yeah, not fashion tape. It was fashion glue. I was glued into that jumpsuit. Oh my gosh, but you looked like a rock star. And speaking of rock star.

So even before the party, we're getting ready. New Year's Eve. And Brett, you called me crying. And do you want to tell people why?

Yeah, I was getting ready to go to the wedding that I had on New Year's Eve and I was just scrolling through Twitter. And I noticed that an amazing writer who is now my favorite writer, I think,

wrote a piece for Rolling Stone on the best true crime podcasts of 2018. And we were there.

Yeah, her name is Laura Barcella. She is my favorite person in the world right now. But we got named in Rolling Stone.

And it's not even that we got named. It's the company that we were in. Yeah, amazing, amazing shows that we love in a door.

Yeah, we look up to these people. It's like been a dream of ours to create anything that would be in like the realm of these other people.

But to see our names like right next to them is insane. Amazing. Yes, it was so flattering, so amazing.

We are so thankful to everybody who's been listening and sharing. The only reason we're in the top charts of iTunes right now is because of all of you telling your friends and family and getting the word out.

And we appreciate it so much. And actually one of the things that Laura mentioned in the article that we do and that we like to do is talk about under reported cases.

So I figured there is no better way to start 2019 than to tell you about the under reported case of a nine year old girl named Asia degree who went missing back in 2000.

This is one of the stranger disappearances of a young child. I think I've ever read about and there are a couple of online forums and YouTubers that have talked about this case.

I'm a little surprised it hasn't gotten more attention. So that's what we're aiming for here today. Our story takes place in February of 2000 in a small town called Shelby on the western outskirts of Charlotte, North Carolina.

The little girl we're talking about Asia is nine years old at the time and she lives at home with her 10 year old brother, a Bryant, her mom, Iquilla, and her dad, Harold.

Sunday, February 13th was a fairly unremarkable day for the degrees. That Sunday they went to church. They ate lunch at their aunt's house, had some candy that they'd gotten for Valentine's Day, which was just around the corner and they went home with their mom.

Their dad didn't go home that day and stay with them because he had to go work at his second job.

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