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.