The Trail Went Cold - Minisode 5 - Asha Degree

The Trail Went Cold

Robin Warder

True Crime, Tv & Film

4.5 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 2 November 2016

⏱️ 18 minutes

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February 14, 2000. Shelby, North Carolina. The parents of nine-year old Asha Degree wake up to discover that she has vanished from her bedroom. After she is reported missing, witnesses come forward to report having seen Asha walk down the highway earlier that morning. This seems to indicate that she voluntarily left her home in the middle of the night for unknown reasons. Eighteen months later, Asha’s book bag is found buried 26 miles away, but she is still nowhere to be found. In this week’s minisode of “The Trail Went Cold”, I examine one of the most baffling and unusual missing children’s cases of recent memory. Please check out the Charley Project profile page for Asha Degree, which contains her vital statistics, age-progressed photographs, and contact info for the proper authorities should you happen to have any information: http://charleyproject.org/case/asha-jaquilla-degree Additional Reading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Asha_Degree About Finding Shelby’s Sweetheart: Asha Jaquilla Degree https://www.wcnc.com/article/news/local/new-clues-in-asha-degrees-disappearance/214961800 The Trail Went Cold is produced and edited by Magill Foote. All music is composed by Vince Nitro.

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0:00.0	February 14th, 2000.
0:04.0	Shelby, North Carolina.
0:06.6	The parents of nine-year-old Aisha degree wake up to discover that she is missing from her bedroom.
0:12.3	They eventually learn that motorists saw Aisha walking
0:14.9	down the highway in the middle of the night, which indicates she left her home voluntarily
0:19.8	for unknown reasons. 18 months later, Aisha's bookbag is discovered 26 miles away, but she is
0:26.8	still nowhere to be found. After that, the trail went cold. Hello everyone and welcome to the latest minisode of the trail went cold.
0:57.0	I'm your host Robin Warder and today I will be covering the unsolved disappearance of nine-year-old Aisha degree, a case which has been
1:05.2	requested by numerous people these past few months, including a commenter named Lauren A,
1:11.3	and a listener all the way from Ireland named Yana.
1:15.0	Stories about missing children who have likely been abducted and murdered are very disturbing to cover,
1:20.0	and I've had fans of this podcast tell me they cannot stomach listening to the episodes about victimized children because they are parents themselves.
1:28.0	And that's a perfectly understandable reaction, but the disappearance of Asia degree is very strange and unusual.
1:35.0	She vanished from her home in the middle of the night and in cases like this
1:39.0	you'd ordinarily point to an abduction by an intruder or someone from the family being responsible.
1:45.0	But here, the evidence suggests that Aisha left her home voluntarily
1:50.0	and no one has any idea why.
1:52.0	I have previously featured this case in an article I wrote for listfirst.com
1:57.0	titled Ten Mysterious Disappearances with Bazaar Clues,
2:01.0	which was originally published in April of 2013.
2:05.0	But before we get started, just a quick reminder that the trail went cold is now a weekly
2:09.6	podcast, which alternates between our regular full-length episodes and 15- to 20-minute mini-soads like this one.
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