Asha Degree was a nine-year old girl who went missing from her North Carolina home on Feb 14, 2000,

 Asha Degree was a nine-year old girl who went missing from her North Carolina home on Feb 14, 2000, and was never heard from again. The case is startling for many reasons, the most disturbing aspect of it being that she appears to have willingly left her bedroom on a rainy night around 3 AM to go outside for a yet to be explained cause. Asha had packed her black bookbag and Tweety purse with several items before leaving home, including a few pairs of clothes, her basketball uniform, a pair of shoes, her wallet, family photos and a house key.  Where was a 9-year old girl going with these items in the middle of the night?  Around 4 AM, two separate drivers saw a little girl in white shirt and pants walking down Highway 18. One of the motorists became concerned how “strange [it was that] such a small child would be out by herself at that hour,” especially due to the fact there was a heavy pouring rainstorm that night.  The driver tried to pull over to help the girl, but Asha seemed to have been upset by this and ran deep into the woods to avoid him. She was never seen again. All that was found of her afterwards were candy wrappers, a pencil, a marker and a Mickey Mouse hair bow in a shed close to the highway Asha had been seen walking down.  In 2001, Asha’s bookbag was dug up during construction work near Highway 18. The bag was wrapped in plastic, and had Asha’s name and phone number inside it. The FBI went on to DNA test the bag, but the results were kept secret. Her fate remains a mystery.- Excerpted from my longer piece on Asha Degree -- source link

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