A Dark and Stormy Night: The Disappearance of Asha Degree (part 2 - revised)

12/01/21 • 50 min

In the early morning hours of Valentine’s Day 2000, 9-year-old Asha Degree set out on foot, as a storm loomed, and her family presumably slept peacefully in their beds. She was allegedly spotted by motorists about a mile and a half from her home, a curious sight on the lonely and dark highway. Despite exhaustive searches, FBI involvement, and several clues, none of it has led to the whereabouts of Asha, nor has this question been answered: what would make a nine-year-old girl, who was afraid of storms, leave her home in the middle of a dark and stormy night?

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A Dark and Stormy Night: The Disappearance of Asha Degree (part 1 - revised)

Valentine’s Day 2000 began like any other day for Iquilla Degree. It was her 12 wedding anniversary, and while she and her husband, Harold, had plans to spend the day together, the kids still needed to go to school. When she entered the room shared by the couple’s two children, O’Bryant and Asha, only to discover O’Bryant, she had no idea that it was the beginning of an unending nightmare.

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