After Asha Degree vanished from Shelby, North Carolina, on February 14, 2000, searchers began looking along the route where motorists had reported seeing a young girl walking near Highway 18. The search quickly turned from a missing child report into one of North Carolina’s most haunting cold cases.

In this episode of Unsolved and Missing, we follow the first days of the search, the items reportedly found in a shed near where Asha was last seen, and the painful problem at the center of the case: the clues proved she may have passed through, but they did not reveal where she went next.

A few small objects were found. But the child who owned them was still gone.