When a young girl vanishes into a dark and stormy night, her baffling disappearance becomes one of the most mysterious unsolved cases in North Carolina history.

Decades later, major investigative breakthroughs renew hope of the case finally being solved in this episode of Last Seen Alive.

Thanks for listening to Last Seen Alive. I'm your host Leah, crime analyst by day and true crime storyteller by night.

As always, I'm the co-host, Scott.

This is the revisited and enhanced edition of one of our early episodes with major investigative updates.

The original edition was recorded in 2021, and we've revisited and re-recorded an episode

on her case with the updates in 26. And revisiting Aisha's case is something I've really been looking

forward to because there have recently been some major investigative breakthroughs. We've got a lot of

new information. Yeah, I know between you and I, it's been very

difficult for us to not talk about this case, so there's going to be plenty of surprises for me,

and how we're almost treating this as if it's a completely new case because there's so much

new stuff from what you've been hinting at to me. There really is. This is not a brief episode,

but I promise there's no filler. Now, I was actually hoping that by the time this case came up

on our roster of early cases to revisit, it would be solved. It's not, not yet, but hopefully soon.

While this case is still under investigation, I assume that that's likely because investigators are

taking their time to piece together evidence and build a rock-solid case. So hopefully, it won't be long

before Aisha's family receives long-awaited answers and justice is served. Meanwhile, there's a great

deal of information publicly available on the latest developments in the investigation.

And while no one has been charged, investigators are not being secretive about who their suspects are, or even really what they believe, happened.

There's certainly a picture that's been painted for the public anyway, and we're going to get into those details today.

Asia Degree was last seen alive on February 14, 2000. She was nine years old at the time

and lived in Shelby, North Carolina. Shelby is a town of about 22,000 people located about an hour's

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