In 1997, 52-year-old diner owner Dorothy Wenzel was brutally murdered outside the West Wind Diner near Darien, Wisconsin. Within days, police arrested two teenagers and uncovered a planned robbery that ended in a deadly baseball bat attack. Nearly three decades later, confusion still surrounds how the case was solved. Among Monsters examines the crime, the confessions, the evidence, and the choices that turned an ordinary night at a small-town diner into tragedy.

On February 14, 2000, nine-year-old Asha Degree disappeared after leaving her North Carolina home in the middle of a cold, stormy night. Witnesses reported seeing her walking alone along Highway 18 before she vanished into the darkness. Eighteen months later, her backpack was discovered buried miles away. More than two decades later, new searches and forensic evidence have renewed attention on the case—but Asha is still missing. In this episode of Among Monsters, Jeremy Hanson examines the haunting timeline, the evidence left behind, and the unanswered question that remains: What happened to Asha Degree?