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S1 Ep38: Mystery on Highway 18: Asha Degree (Part 2)

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🗓️ 27 August 2021

⏱️ 94 minutes

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“She’s my baby, we just want her back”, a statement that seems so simple to most of us, but to the mother of nine year old Asha Degree, it was a simple plea made from a desperate heart. When you wake up and find that your small daughter has vanished into thin air, there isn’t much you can say, because there isn’t much that you know. In the United States, more than 99 percent of children reported usually make it home safe, so it wasn’t illogical to have hope that Asha would have been one of those children, but as the years passed, and no new evidence came to light, it became clear that Asha Degree was in that much smaller percentage of missing children, the ones that never do come home. Today on Crime Weekly, we are revisiting this case, and hoping that someone out there knows something that can bring peace to the family of Asha Degree, who to this day still searches for their daughter, and have not given up hope that she might still be alive.

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0:00.0

Hello everybody, welcome back to Crime Weekly.

0:16.6

I'm Stephanie Harlow.

0:17.8

And I'm Derek Lovacer.

0:18.8

So today we're continuing on with the ASHA degree case.

0:21.9

This is part two.

0:22.9

We're going to go for the rest of the evidence, the rest of the information, the rest of the

0:26.2

timeline.

0:27.3

And then in part three we're going to go over theories, which there are quite a bit of

0:31.8

plus some of our own personal theories and our own thoughts about this case.

0:35.6

So I do want to dive in.

0:37.8

There is still so much to go over and I'm excited to get Derek's perspective about what

0:42.7

else happened in this case and what else was found.

0:45.5

When we last left off, they were still searching for a nine year old ASHA degree in February

0:51.3

20th, 2000.

0:52.9

That was the sixth day of the search.

0:55.5

And although those who were still looking for ASHA, they obviously went and they gave

0:58.8

it their all.

1:00.1

They turned up empty handed and the ground search was called off at the end of the day,

1:05.4

indefinitely.

1:06.4

The spokesman for the Sheriff's Department, his name's Bob Roadcap, he announced that

1:10.7

the department had received more than 200 calls and a special department had been set up

1:16.1

to conduct follow-up interviews and pursue every tip.

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