*** This episode was intentionally released on August 5th, which is what would have been Asha Degrees 30th Birthday*** On February 14th, 2000 A 9 year old girl named Asha Degree disappeared from Shelby, North Carolina. For reasons unknown, She had left home on her own sometime between 4 and 5 AM and was last seen walking in the dark on a narrow rural highway during a storm. A year and a half later a construction worker unearthed her book bag on the same highway over 20 miles from where she was last seen. Could the contents of her backpack hold the clues that can help solve her case? and does a new theory provide real answers as to where Asha was headed that morning 20 years ago and why she had to sneak out of her house to get there. Please email [email protected] for sponsorship and direct podcast episode inquiries.

*** IN RECOGNITION OF THE 19th ANNIVERSARY OF PATTI’S DISAPPEARANCE, THIS EPISODE HAS BEEN REMASTERED. This is also a teaser to a new episode with updates on this case which will be coming out soon***. It was supposed to be the beginning of a new chapter in single mother Patti Adkins life. Instead, what was intended to be a week long vacation with a man she was making a new life with, became a 19 year long missing persons case with more questions than answers. At the heart of this case is a man and his wife who have remained silent and denied any knowledge of Patti’s disappearance for far too long...

Resources used for researching this episode:

TV show Disappeared, Season 3 Episode 2 : "Secret Rendezvous"  Available on Apple iTunes

Crime Watch Daily 3 part series "Patti Adkins Vanishes Amid Alleged Affair"

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Granger Taylor was described by many people as being a mechanical genius, with an uncanny ability to restore machines many had written off as junk. Before he vanished, he left a letter for his parents informing them he was leaving for a 42 month interstellar voyage aboard a UFO, do clues found years later prove he is no longer with us...Or did he really go where no man has gone before? Please email [email protected] for sponsorship and direct podcast episode inquiries.

Every 40 seconds someone goes missing in America, that’s 2,300 people each day, and nearly 1 million each year. Each one of those disappearances has its own unique story- a story that needs to be heard. The THEY DISAPPEARED podcast will tell those stories - choosing from the most talked about cases to the lesser known cases, from the most complex and baffling, to those that are missing that one vital clue that can help solve them. So join me on this journey and together we may be able to bring closure to one or all of these cases.