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Degrees' home to support them. By day's end, all that had been found was a mitten, which Iquilla Degree said did not belong to her daughter, noting that no winter clothing had been taken from the house. Local news coverage prompted the two drivers who had seen Asha walking along the road early that morning, including the one whose attempt to approach her apparently prompted Asha to flee into the woods, to report the sightings to police.
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the bath, O'Bryant was in his bed; Asha was not, and
Iquilla was unable to find her in the house or in the family cars. She told Harold she could not find their daughter. He suggested Asha might have gone over to his mother's house across the street; when Iquilla called there, her sister-in-law said Asha was not there. "That's when I went into panic mode. I heard a car next door ... I put shoes on and ran outside." Iquilla called her mother, who told her to call the police.
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person's billboard for Asha along
Highway 18, near where she was last seen. It was originally held on February 14, but it was changed to February 7 in 2015 and February 6 in 2016, as Harold and Iquilla felt it was not fair to participants to make Valentine's Day a somber occasion. Pictures of Asha, both real and those showing
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of the person or persons responsible for her disappearance." A community group is offering an additional $ 20,000 reward. The FBI announced 15 months later, in May 2016, that their reinvestigation of the case had turned up a possible new lead. They disclosed that Asha may have been seen getting into a dark green early 1970s
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In 2005, Degree's image was featured on the work vehicles of two North
Carolina companies: Servpro, a water cleanup and restoration service, and Republic GDS, a waste pick up service. Republic GDS's area president, Drew Isenhour, stated, "We are doing this for one reason and one reason only, and that
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around Asha's age who has yet to be identified. It was the only trace of her found during the initial search. On
February 16, Iquilla realized that Asha's bedroom was missing her favorite clothing, including a pair of blue jeans with a red stripe. A week later the search was called off, after 9,000
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Iquilla awoke at 5:45 a.m. to get the children ready for school that morning. This involved drawing a bath for them because they had not been able to take one the night before due to the power outage. When she opened the children's room to wake them up before their 6:30 alarm and call them to
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Shortly afterwards, O'Bryant, then age 10, recalls hearing Asha's bed squeak. He did not further rouse himself, as he assumed she was merely changing positions in her sleep. Apparently around this time, Asha got out of bed, taking a bookbag she had previously packed with several sets of clothes and
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Degrees took steps to keep Asha's memory, and the case, alive in the public's mind. In 2008, they established a scholarship in her name for a deserving local student. They host an annual walk to raise awareness and money to fund their search. The walk starts at their home and ends at a missing
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called to the scene could not pick up Asha's scent. Iquilla went through the neighborhood calling Asha's name, which she said had awakened everyone by 7 a.m. Friends, family, and neighbors canceled their plans for the day to assist police in searching the vicinity while the pastor of their church,
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despite heavy rain and wind. Several passing motorists saw her; when one turned around at a point 1.3 miles (2.1 km) from her home and began to approach her, she left the roadside and ran into a wooded area. In the morning, her parents discovered her missing from her bedroom. She has not been
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had been invested in a search of the 2–3-mile-radius (3.2–4.8 km) of where she had last been seen, flyers had been posted all over the area, and 300 leads had been submitted that ranged from possible sightings to tips about abandoned houses and wells where Asha might have ended up. "We have
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On February 13, a Sunday, the children went to church from a relative's house and then returned home. Around 8 p.m. that night, both children went to bed in the room they shared. Almost an hour later, the power went out in the neighborhood after a nearby car accident. The power came back on at
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were closed on Friday, February 11, while the Degrees still had to work; the children spent the day at their aunt's house in the same neighborhood, from which they went to their youth basketball practices at their school. The following day, Asha's basketball team, on which she was a star
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From Iquilla's account of what Asha had taken with her, investigators believed she had planned and prepared for this departure over the several days preceding her disappearance. "She's not your typical runaway," observed SBI agent Bart Burpeau. Another expert, Ben Ermini of the
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An intensive search that began that day led to the location of some of her personal effects near where she was last seen. A year and a half later, her bookbag, still packed, was unearthed from a construction site along Highway 18 north of Shelby in
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interview. Iquilla said Asha handled this well; she was cautious, shy, and content mostly to stay within the limits her parents set. "She was scared to death of dogs," she recalled years later. "I never thought she would go out of the house."
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personal items, and left the house. Between 3:45 and 4:15 a.m., a truck driver and a motorist saw her walking south along Highway 18, wearing a long-sleeved white T-shirt and white pants, just north of its junction with
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because Asha was Black. "Missing white children get more attention. I don't understand why," she said. "I know if you ask them they will say it's not racial. Oh, really? I'm not going to argue because I have common sense."
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12:30 a.m., at which time Harold checked on his children and saw both Asha and O'Bryant asleep in their beds. He checked again shortly before he went to bed at 2:30 a.m. on February 14 and again saw them both.
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is to find Asha Degree. Then we can move forward and help other missing children as well." An age progressed photo of Degree, created by the FBI, was featured on 28 vehicles for a period of 30 to 60 days.
296:(SBI) got involved and put her on their respective databases of missing children. While the agencies were done searching in the area of her home and route, "we're following everything," Crawford insisted.
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never really had that first good, substantial lead," said county sheriff Dan Crawford at a news conference. He urged the media to keep the story alive.
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created by investigators to help the search, still decorate the Degree house. "I fully expect her to walk through the door," Iquilla says.
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time you turned on the TV there was some pedophile who had lured somebody's child away, via the Internet," Iquilla recalled in a 2013
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Banfield, Ashleigh; Shaylor, Jay; Netter, Sarah (September 9, 2010).
1635:"FBI Offering Reward of Up to $ 25,000 in Asha Degree Disappearance"
888:"Finding Asha: Leads still pouring in 18 years after child vanished"
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Manware, Melissa; Coto, Danica; Cimino, Karen (November 10, 2004).
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1812:"'Sheriff: Inmate fails to lead investigators to Asha Degree'"
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Chamer, Jeff A.; Marusak, Joe (September 13, 2024).
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Barr, Heather; Bretzius, Shana (February 17, 2000).
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183:amidst a generally rural area north of
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1810:Turbyfill, Diane (February 14, 2021).
1488:Correll, Christina (August 13, 2001).
1407:Chamer, Jeff A. (September 16, 2024).
1258:"Auto racer to aid in search for Asha"
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1463:"Analysis may link discovery to Asha"
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1519:"Asha bookbag results back from FBI"
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1461:Moore, Robert F. (August 6, 2001).
1322:. November 10, 2004. Archived from
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684:Soper, Aileen (February 15, 2000).
657:Soper, Aileen (February 28, 2000).
557:Burbeck, Tony (February 12, 2015).
408:Age progression of Degree to age 29
1548:Menster, Jennifer (May 25, 2005).
1084:"Painful mystery remains unsolved"
717:"15 years later and still missing"
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1608:White, Casey (February 7, 2015).
1577:Gaier, Kate (February 16, 2008).
1439:Statesville Record & Landmark
1434:"Police keep quiet about bookbag"
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376:and a T-shirt depicting the band
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2032:Cleveland County, North Carolina
1836:Lee, Hank (September 13, 2024).
1758:Wester, Jane (October 9, 2018).
1229:Soper, Aileen (August 5, 2000).
1202:Soper, Aileen (March 22, 2000).
1175:Soper, Aileen (March 14, 2000).
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702:(Full text via Newspapers.com.)
531:Federal Bureau of Investigation
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72:February 14, 2000 (aged 9)
1256:Soper, Aileen (May 18, 2001).
1043:Scott, Joy (August 10, 2001).
503:List of people who disappeared
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1686:Marusak, Joe (May 25, 2016).
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1717:. FBI. September 6, 2017
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226:Cleveland County Schools
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1693:The Charlotte Observer
1467:The Charlotte Observer
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1262:The Charlotte Observer
1235:The Charlotte Observer
1208:The Charlotte Observer
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326:The Oprah Winfrey Show
185:Shelby, North Carolina
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1998:35.34647°N 81.50738°W
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320:America's Most Wanted
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