Strangers, back in season two, I covered the truly baffling disappearance of 9-year-old Asia degree.

Last year in September, police announced some new information on the case.

So today, I'm bringing you the original episode plus the latest updates.

What would make a perfectly happy child leave home in the middle of the night, away from a loving family and into a wide world of dangers?

And what are those dangers to be met and to be toiled over by the loved ones left behind. The living mysteries of runaways are

hard to follow and even harder to simply fathom. Welcome to Strange and Unexplained with me,

Daisy Egan. I'm a writer and an actor who has a nine-year-old child and so had a very hard time

getting through the research for this episode. But here we are.

I have procrastinated as long as I can and I have put on my grown-up pants and will venture

forth with a clenched jaw and my shoulders up at my ears. It's going to take a lot of microdose

gummies and deep breathing to get through this one. On a cold mid-February night in 2000,

a little girl woke up, got dressed,

took her things, and walked out of her house,

never to be seen or heard from again.

The search for Asia degree continues to this day.

Thank you. Aisha Jaquilla degree was born on August 5th, 1990, to Harold and Aquila degree.

The degrees, including Asia's older brother O'Brien, lived in Shelby, North Carolina, just outside Charlotte. O'Brien was a year older than Asia, and the siblings shared a bedroom in the family's small apartment.

In 2000, nine-year-old Asia was in fourth grade at Falston Elementary.

She loved school.

By February of that year, she had only missed one day of school back in elementary. She loved school. By February of that year, she had only missed one day of school

back in September. She was an honors student and a competitive athlete. It was Asia's first year on

the school's basketball team, and she was already a valuable member. As point guard, she was the

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