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DEAD PERSON HOLDS KEY? ASHA DEGREE, 9, DISAPPEARS FROM HOME IN MIDDLE OF NIGHT · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. Does a dead person hold
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  Speaker 1: the key?
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  Speaker 2: Have the answers to a little girl who goes missing
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  Speaker 2: in the middle of the night.
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  Speaker 1: I'm talking about a.
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  Speaker 2: Nine year old little girl de scrub In Sunshine, Asha Degree,
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  Speaker 2: who disappears from her home literally in the middle of
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  Speaker 2: the night. Nancy Grace, this is Crime Stories. Thank you
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  Speaker 2: for being with us.
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  Speaker 3: In the early hours of Valentine's Day. Why does a
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  Speaker 3: nine year old girl leave her home in the middle
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  Speaker 3: of a dark, stormy night?
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  Speaker 2: Why does a nine year old little girl leave home
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  Speaker 2: in the middle of the night.
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  Speaker 1: Now, when we hear.
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  Speaker 2: That happens, I immediately suspect the family because totistically, when
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  Speaker 2: a child goes missing in the.
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  Speaker 1: Middle of the night, you can look right at mommy or.
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  Speaker 2: Daddy or onto your uncle. But I don't believe that's
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  Speaker 2: the case. Here where is Ausha. She had never run
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  Speaker 2: away from home. She had great grades at school. She
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  Speaker 2: was this little star, a star on the basketball court,
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  Speaker 2: very shy everywhere, but the basketball court never gave anybody
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  Speaker 2: a minute's trouble. This little girl has a million dollar smile.
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  Speaker 2: I don't understand what happened to Usha? Joining me right now?
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  Speaker 2: Are two guys that have been on this case. It's
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  Speaker 2: right in their own backyard from the beginning. It's Donnie
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  Speaker 2: Peeler and Dale Champion. And if you're not familiar with them,
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  Speaker 2: I wish that you were, because they are the hosts
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  Speaker 2: of crack House Chronicles. Now, having been to plenty of
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  Speaker 2: crack houses myself as a prosecutor, I have mixed feelings
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  Speaker 2: about the title of your podcast, hosts of crack House
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  Speaker 2: Chronicles true crime podcast.
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  Speaker 1: But what I do like is what they're doing. First
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  Speaker 1: of all, listen to this.
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  Speaker 4: I remember it was roughly about two thirty in the morning.
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  Speaker 4: I seen her go to the bathroom. I remember I
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  Speaker 4: heard her go to the bathroom. She had to pajamas on,
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  Speaker 4: and she goes to the bathroom. I waited her to
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  Speaker 4: come back into the room. She got into bed. I
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  Speaker 4: cut the light off and I went to sleep.
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  Speaker 2: You're seeing a Bryant Degree on Facebook Live. He's talking
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  Speaker 2: about his sister Asha. What more do we know?
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  Speaker 5: The night before Valentine's Day is stormy and shelby. Around
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  Speaker 5: seven pm, the Degree's neighborhood loses power. Equila Degree normally
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  Speaker 5: bays the children before their eight pm bedtime. But with
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  Speaker 5: the power out, she decides to wake them up early
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  Speaker 5: tomorrow for baths before school. Harold Degree gets home from
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  Speaker 5: work around midnight and checks to make sure the children
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  Speaker 5: are asleep. Is still overcoming her fear of the darkened storms.
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  Speaker 5: Harold winds down in front of the TV and checks
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  Speaker 5: on the children again around two AM before going to
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  Speaker 5: bed himself.
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  Speaker 2: Just thinking about this nine year old little girl that
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  Speaker 2: is afraid of lightning and thunder outside, and the mom
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  Speaker 2: making sure they have their bats and they're in their
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  Speaker 2: pjs early on. I can't remember at this age I
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  Speaker 2: would have the children bathed and in their pjs when
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  Speaker 2: we ate supper at night. I'm just imagining little Asia
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  Speaker 2: being afraid of the storm. And listen, I want you
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  Speaker 2: to hear more of what her brother o'bryen says.
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  Speaker 6: So well.
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  Speaker 7: Mother used to knock on the wall to wake us up,
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  Speaker 7: and she was like, y'all get up. She was getting
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  Speaker 7: ready for work and whatnot? She said, or your sister,
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  Speaker 7: I said, she in the bed like you know, playing
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  Speaker 7: at the biddom as sleep. I ain't trying to get up.
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  Speaker 7: I thought my mom just couldn't see my sister like
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  Speaker 7: me and my sister used to sleep with the blanket
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  Speaker 7: poured over our head.
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  Speaker 1: Can't you just imagine that mom in the next room. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: get up, get up, get up.
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  Speaker 2: And there's always such a rush in the mornings when
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  Speaker 2: everybody's trying to go to work and go to school
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  Speaker 2: and get breakfast and make sure all the tea's across
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  Speaker 2: the eyes are dotted before they go out the door.
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  Speaker 2: And that's what was happening that morning. So the brother
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  Speaker 2: O'Brien says, yeah, yeah, she's here.
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  Speaker 1: They shared a.
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  Speaker 2: Room, as my twins did for many many years, as
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  Speaker 2: I did with my sister.
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  Speaker 1: But there is a very subtle but critical fact.
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  Speaker 8: Listen, I get up out of my bed half sleep. Okay, Mom,
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  Speaker 8: maybe she went. Maybe she went in there to eat
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  Speaker 8: breakfast or something. Maybe she woke up barely, because it
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  Speaker 8: wasn't new for us, like we woke up. Really I
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  Speaker 8: thought she was in there eating breakfast. At that point
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  Speaker 8: in time, it was like, what's going on? Like where's Asia,
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  Speaker 8: What's going on?
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  Speaker 2: Where's Asha? And we're still asking that tonight, where is
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  Speaker 2: nine year old Asia? And how oh could a dead
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  Speaker 2: person hold the key to her disappearance? This as in
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  Speaker 2: the last days more search warrants have been executed, and
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  Speaker 2: we see an older model green sedan being towed away.
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  Speaker 1: Now what is an older model Greeen sedan?
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  Speaker 9: There?
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  Speaker 2: It is have to do with Asia disappearing from her
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  Speaker 2: own bed in the middle.
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  Speaker 1: Of the night. Okay, I've got the cart way in
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  Speaker 1: front of the horse.
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  Speaker 2: So let's just start at the beginning, and I'm going
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  Speaker 2: to do that with Donnie Peeler and Deale Champion, who've
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  Speaker 2: been on this case the disappearance of Asia from day one.
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  Speaker 1: Gentlemen, thank you for being with us.
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  Speaker 2: I'll start with you, Donnie, tell me what you understand.
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  Speaker 2: Happened in the morning that her family realized she's not here.
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  Speaker 2: Where's Asha. Let's start right there.
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  Speaker 10: Asha disappeared, her mom got up to give them little bath,
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  Speaker 10: like le Bryant said, and she was gone. Was in
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  Speaker 10: the house, Quilla. The mother was walking the neighborhood calling
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  Speaker 10: for Asia, couldn't find her anywhere. That's when they called
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  Speaker 10: the authorities come in and help the foundation.
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  Speaker 2: Deal Champion joining us from Crackhouse Chronicles. How did you
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  Speaker 2: guys get involved in the case to start with?
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  Speaker 11: Well, that morning, actually going to work, we came down
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  Speaker 11: by the area not knowing what was going on, and
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  Speaker 11: got stopped in a roadblock and I thought it was
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  Speaker 11: like a general license check or something, but actually they
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  Speaker 11: were looking for the little girl. And that was really
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  Speaker 11: a shock to me because it was that morning, nothing
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  Speaker 11: going on. But later on we just kept wondering what
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  Speaker 11: was going on, and then when we started this, this
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  Speaker 11: is just our main, our main thing to find out
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  Speaker 11: what's going on with her and do as much as
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  Speaker 11: we could to figure out, you know, or just keep
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  Speaker 11: it in the news, you know.
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  Speaker 2: So you were actually Deal Champion partnered with Donnie peel
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  Speaker 2: Or on the case Deal Champion, You were actually stopped
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  Speaker 2: in a roadblock.
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  Speaker 12: Yes, ma'am.
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  Speaker 11: We were headed work. We had to be at work
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  Speaker 11: at seven and so I would come through there. It's
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  Speaker 11: probably a quarter two and uh. Yeah, the police were
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  Speaker 11: stopping everybody coming down to the Highway eighteen right there
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  Speaker 11: and checking the cars and asking if you had seen anything.
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  Speaker 11: They were looking for a little girls.
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  Speaker 1: So they told you why they pulled you over, right.
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  Speaker 11: Dal Yeah, they were having a roadblock. They stopped everybody
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  Speaker 11: it was coming down through there.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, what would they say? What did they say to
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  Speaker 1: you and they pulled you over?
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  Speaker 11: Well, they just stopped because and I was trying to
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  Speaker 11: dig to get my license out, and they go, no,
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  Speaker 11: we don't need that. We've had a girl disappeared this morning.
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  Speaker 11: And they were looking as they were talking to us,
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  Speaker 11: you know, of course they're looking in the back seats
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  Speaker 11: and stuff car. And they just said they wanted to
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  Speaker 11: know if we had saw anything or you know, while
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  Speaker 11: we were coming down the road on each side of
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  Speaker 11: the road or why not.
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  Speaker 2: In addition to Donnie Peeler and Deale Champion from Crackhouse Chronicles,
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  Speaker 2: True Crime special guest, Mark Davis is with US former
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  Speaker 2: sergeant supervisor and Patrol Division with Cleveland County Sheriffs.
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  Speaker 1: The third officer on.
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  Speaker 2: The scene, Mark Davis, thank you for making time for
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  Speaker 2: us tonight. Mark Davis, tell me what you recollect from
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  Speaker 2: the scene.
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  Speaker 12: You know, I got to call early that morning the
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  Speaker 12: parents said the child was missing. I sent two deputies
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  Speaker 12: initially to respond to the house and began our investigation.
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  Speaker 12: They called me shortly thereafter and said, you know, they
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  Speaker 12: had searched the house physically and we couldn't find the child.
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  Speaker 12: So I immediately started getting the resources on the ground
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  Speaker 12: that I needed to search for the child. And within
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  Speaker 12: an hour an hour and a half, I had over
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  Speaker 12: one hundred people on the ground starting in search.
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  Speaker 2: Mark Davis, what was your understanding as to have you
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  Speaker 2: know the first thing we have to do the first thing,
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  Speaker 2: and this is based on statistics. Has has nothing to
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  Speaker 2: do with the nature or character of the family. You know,
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  Speaker 2: doesn't matter if they are nuns and priests and virgins,
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  Speaker 2: or if they grew up in a crack house.
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  Speaker 1: It doesn't matter. You look first at the family.
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  Speaker 2: You look at them, you look at their stories, you
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  Speaker 2: separate them, you get their stories.
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  Speaker 1: Then you look at.
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  Speaker 2: The stories you overlay to see if they all match
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  Speaker 2: or if they generally match, because they're going to be
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  Speaker 2: different in a few minor inconsequential ways. You look at
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  Speaker 2: the scene, You look at the home, you look at
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  Speaker 2: the bed, you look at the door.
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  Speaker 1: Everything. You look to see if there's social media.
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  Speaker 2: If the if the child has a phone, or if
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  Speaker 2: they have social media, All of that matters. Do they
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  Speaker 2: take a bag or is the window open, is the
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  Speaker 2: window cracked? Has there been a forced entry? All of
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  Speaker 2: that place into your deduction. So tell me what was observed.
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  Speaker 2: I want to hear first about the demeanor of the family.
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  Speaker 12: The family, the mother and father was as what you
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  Speaker 12: would expect having a nine year old child missing. The
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  Speaker 12: mother was, you know, highly upset, you know, making phone calls,
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  Speaker 12: talking to neighbors, talking to people that lived around them,
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  Speaker 12: and family members involved getting everything going for us. They
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  Speaker 12: were very cool, co operative with law enforcement. The father
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  Speaker 12: you could tell her he had his own deep concerns
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  Speaker 12: about his daughter being missing. The household was I lived
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  Speaker 12: in household, but a clean household. I wouldn't mind sitting
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  Speaker 12: down in the house and having a meal. It was
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  Speaker 12: what you would expect for our house with two children.
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  Speaker 12: The parents cooperated with us fully that morning, which you know,
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  Speaker 12: but as you say, we always have things that we
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  Speaker 12: have to question, and we began questioning those parents, and
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  Speaker 12: you know you always look at the family first. But
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  Speaker 12: every time that we questioned everything that we went into
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  Speaker 12: that morning, the parents were cooperative. The parents were compliant,
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  Speaker 12: They assisted us every way they could. They wanted to
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  Speaker 12: find their little girl.
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  Speaker 2: Well, it tells me a lot straight out to Renow psychologist,
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  Speaker 2: TV radio trauma expert Karen Start, you can find her
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  Speaker 2: at Karen'star Karen with the Sea by the way. If
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  Speaker 2: you're looking for her, Karen Stark, as you and I
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  Speaker 2: both know you look at the family first, then you
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  Speaker 2: go out.
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  Speaker 1: You look at then the aunties, then the uncles, and.
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  Speaker 2: The cousins, and the grown cousins, then the neighbors, then
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  Speaker 2: the teachers.
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  Speaker 1: That's how it works.
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  Speaker 2: If you want to find this child alive, that's where
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  Speaker 2: you start, whether anybody likes it or not. But in
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  Speaker 2: every case where I've seen a child missing, you don't
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  Speaker 2: see mommy running up and down the street, banging on
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  Speaker 2: doors herself trying to find the child along with the dad,
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  Speaker 2: completely cooperative. That normally doesn't happen when we later find
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  Speaker 2: out the parents are responsible.
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  Speaker 1: So just at first blush, that tells me a lot.
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  Speaker 6: Karen Stark, Well, it tells you that our usual suspects,
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  Speaker 6: the people that would be closest to her, where everyone
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  Speaker 6: would look, they're not going to be the people that
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  Speaker 6: need to be found. They are the people that actually
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  Speaker 6: are concerned about what happened. They don't have answers. So
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  Speaker 6: it's really clear that we have to look someplace else
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  Speaker 6: because where is Asia. Nobody in the family has done anything,
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  Speaker 6: and she just disappeared in the middle of the night.
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  Speaker 2: This little girl seemingly disappears in the middle of the night.
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  Speaker 2: And let me understand something. Markin Davis, former sergeant supervisor
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  Speaker 2: in the Patrol Division, third officer on the scene, has
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  Speaker 2: one hundred guys on the ground within I would say
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  Speaker 2: an hour after this child is reported missing.
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  Speaker 1: He observed the parents.
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  Speaker 2: He observed their emotions near hysterical, the mom looking for her,
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  Speaker 2: and the father's deep concern the home was not awry.
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  Speaker 1: Their stories matched.
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  Speaker 2: Tell me something, Mark Davis, When you have all the
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  Speaker 2: guys looking for her, what exactly were they doing? Now
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  Speaker 2: we know what times you went to bed, and what
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  Speaker 2: time do the guys start their foot searches.
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  Speaker 12: Within a half hour of me being there, I had
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  Speaker 12: a one of our canine officers on the scene began
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  Speaker 12: to search with our canines. You know, we're doing you know,
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  Speaker 12: like you heard from Donnie and them. We're stopping cars
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  Speaker 12: on the main highway next to it. We're doing everything
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  Speaker 12: that we can to find this little girl. You know,
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  Speaker 12: the early hours are the most precious time, so we
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  Speaker 12: were frantically working. You know, we have a emergency services
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  Speaker 12: in our county that works with us closely. I had
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  Speaker 12: them get fire department rescue on the way with the
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  Speaker 12: search teams things like that, to have those people on
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  Speaker 12: the ground to help us. So, you know, we were
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  Speaker 12: cording it off the area. We were moving the search
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  Speaker 12: and zones out as you know, the limits as far
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  Speaker 12: as at least within a mile to start with, you know,
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  Speaker 12: the first mile of that area to you know, start
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  Speaker 12: you know, ground searchers for asia degree. You know, we
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  Speaker 12: we still didn't know our canine hit hit on a track,
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  Speaker 12: it went a direction and after a short while it
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  Speaker 12: lost the track. And but you know, I was trying
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  Speaker 12: to get all of my resources in place to search
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  Speaker 12: for her within that neighborhood.
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  Speaker 2: Joining me Rick Schaefer, former FBI Supervisory Special Agent Rick Schaefer. Normally,
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  Speaker 2: when a child goes missing, you hear me screaming about
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  Speaker 2: why didn't they issue an ambrelord?
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  Speaker 1: Why didn't they do this? That, this the other thing.
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  Speaker 2: I'm on them, you know, like a cheap suit. But
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  Speaker 2: Rick Schaeffer, I can't go there today. I can't rage
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  Speaker 2: at what was done wrong because everything Mark Davis is
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  Speaker 2: saying it happened. They got the canines out, they got
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  Speaker 2: one hundred guys going door to door doing grid searches. Immediately,
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  Speaker 2: he had guys out there pulling over cars, as you
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  Speaker 2: heard deal Champion saying, at six o'clock in the morning,
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  Speaker 2: six point thirty, trying.
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  Speaker 1: To find Asia.
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  Speaker 2: I can't think at this juncture in the search of
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  Speaker 2: anything else they could have done.
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  Speaker 1: They were doing it all.
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  Speaker 13: That's correct they did.
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  Speaker 1: It was commendable.
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  Speaker 13: When we arrived there, the police department, the Sheriff's department
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  Speaker 13: had literally cultivated an army of not only law enforcement,
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  Speaker 13: but neighbors and citizens that were searching areas, knocking on doors.
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  Speaker 13: It was a remarkable response in a very short period
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  Speaker 13: of time. When I talked to Sheriff Crawford at the time,
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  Speaker 13: he asked if we could provide any resources to help,
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  Speaker 13: and absolutely we said we would give him whatever we needed.
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  Speaker 13: We sent evidence response teams down there to help look
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  Speaker 13: inside the home. We had agents on the seat with
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  Speaker 13: the Sheriff's Department to help them conduct any interviews, searches.
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  Speaker 13: We provided every resource we could because it was unimaginable
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  Speaker 13: that this beautiful little nine year old girl ventured out
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  Speaker 13: of her house in the wee hours of the morning
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  Speaker 13: in a very difficult environment. It was cold and raining
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  Speaker 13: in February, and it was just unimaginable that she voluntarily
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  Speaker 13: left that house and took the risk by herself at
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  Speaker 13: nine years old to just venture out.
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  Speaker 3: A devoted father checks on his two children before going
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  Speaker 3: to sleep. By the morning, his daughter is gone.
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  Speaker 2: Joining us an All Star Panels trade bakeout to Dale Champion,
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  Speaker 2: Donnie Peel or Dale Champion.
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  Speaker 1: Is this real?
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  Speaker 2: Because I'm hearing not just one witness, but multiple witnesses,
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  Speaker 2: more than one witness not connected to each other, state
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  Speaker 2: they see a girl matching Asia's description walking along Highway eighteen?
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  Speaker 1: Is this true? Dale Champion?
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  Speaker 11: As far as we know it is true. There was
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  Speaker 11: a guy, his name was Jeff Ruth. He was a
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  Speaker 11: driver for Sundrop Incorporated, or Choice Drinks, and he said
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  Speaker 11: that he did see her and actually had turned his
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  Speaker 11: vehicle around, not once but twice to come back and
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  Speaker 11: actually see her. And there was a lawyer who's doing
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  Speaker 11: some stuff on this, and he said he's actually talked
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  Speaker 11: to Jeff and he the guy is one percent sure
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  Speaker 11: that he saw and even there was a moment where
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  Speaker 11: they locked eyes and this guy can't get it out
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  Speaker 11: of his head and.
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  Speaker 12: He knows it was her.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, you know what to Donnie Peeler, when you have
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  Speaker 2: more than one witness say the same thing, or Donnie Peeler,
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  Speaker 2: I'm sure you've learned on crackhouse chronicles. When a witness
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  Speaker 2: has a level of detail, a story that is rich
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  Speaker 2: in detail. For instance, that he actually locked eyes with
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  Speaker 2: the girl. That's a detail you don't usually hear from
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  Speaker 2: a liar. I mean you can, but details like that,
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  Speaker 2: details like I've never been able to get it out
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  Speaker 2: of my mind. Details like I turned back around and
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  Speaker 2: looked at her. I'm sure it was her. Those are
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  Speaker 2: details that enhance the credibility of the witness. And Donnie Peeler,
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  Speaker 2: I'm understanding more than one witness saw her. Is that
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  Speaker 2: correct to your understanding?
• 18:40
  Speaker 10: Oh? Absolutely, Nancy. There was another drug driver as a
• 18:43
  Speaker 10: father and son due of boy Blanton and Boyl, they
• 18:49
  Speaker 10: claimed that they had spotted it. A boyd Blator is
• 18:55
  Speaker 10: actually a former County Debbie. I would say he's the
• 19:00
  Speaker 10: credible what he saw that morning.
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: To Kathleen Murphy joining us now special guest out of
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: North Carolina Attorney Triangle, divorce lawyers who seen many, many
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: many custody disputes, custody kidnaps, children going missing. I don't
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: get any sense that the parents had anything at all
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: to do with this disappearance, based on many, many different
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: pieces of evidence, specifically and most thoroughly convincing more than
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: one eyewitness.
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: Stating they saw her on Highway eighteen that morning.
• 19:36
  Speaker 14: Well, one of the indicators is is this child been
• 19:40
  Speaker 14: kidnapped by one parent or another, and when the parents
• 19:43
  Speaker 14: are in separate homes, that increases the likelihood of that occurring.
• 19:46
  Speaker 14: That was not the case with these two parents. They
• 19:48
  Speaker 14: were in a dual family home, they had credibility when
• 19:52
  Speaker 14: they were answering the specific question separately, and so there's
• 19:56
  Speaker 14: absolutely no credible evidence that, in fact evidence to the
• 19:59
  Speaker 14: co trade that they were involved with her walking down
• 20:03
  Speaker 14: the road on eighteen and being seen by multiple witnesses.
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: Now, listen to what we learned about this witness.
• 20:09
  Speaker 15: There was a gentleman there that said he was on
• 20:11
  Speaker 15: his way to work that morning and he sees Asha
• 20:15
  Speaker 15: walking down the side of the road. He's sort of
• 20:17
  Speaker 15: in disbelief. You know, what's that small child doing on
• 20:20
  Speaker 15: the road this time in the morning. So he turned
• 20:22
  Speaker 15: around and proceeded back up eighteen at the slower pace
• 20:26
  Speaker 15: he came up, and you know, seeing the little girl
• 20:29
  Speaker 15: still walking south on eighteen and Rody's window down and
• 20:33
  Speaker 15: then said, hey, do you need help? And when you did,
• 20:37
  Speaker 15: she began to move down off the road. She didn't
• 20:39
  Speaker 15: really run, but she wouldn't letting grass grow under her
• 20:43
  Speaker 15: feet either.
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: You are hearing more elaboration by sergeants supervisor that morning,
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: Mark Davis as he's speaking on Craickhouse Chronicles. And you know,
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: Mark Davis, the way you put it right there, I
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: find it really interesting because when you first told me
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: that truck driver turned around, I wondered, well, what happened
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: when he turned around? Because if I were a little
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: girl on side of the road and somebody I didn't
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: know turned around and came back towards me, I'd take
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: off running.
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: And that sounds like what Asha.
• 21:13
  Speaker 12: Did pretty much. Yeah. I mean, you know, when he
• 21:17
  Speaker 12: approached her, she became suspicious, cautious and moved down off
• 21:23
  Speaker 12: the side of the road.
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: Okay, you know what I'm thinking about, Donnie Peeler and
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: Dale Champion.
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: You know, she was a.
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: Great little fireball on the basketball court, very shy at
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: school and outside of the home. Not shy at home,
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: but anywhere outside the home. Extremely shy, but an incredible
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: basketball player. I wonder if she was lured by somebody
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: saying they could make her a basketball star, a phenom,
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: but she couldn't tell her parents or they wouldn't let
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: her go. I'm just looking at every angle I can
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: imagine Dale Champion.
• 22:03
  Speaker 11: Yeah, that's the big question, Nancy. Why was she outside
• 22:06
  Speaker 11: the house to begin with for all this to happen?
• 22:09
  Speaker 11: And that's that's the thing we can't we can't get
• 22:11
  Speaker 11: a grasp on It's hard for us to wrap a
• 22:13
  Speaker 11: brain around something. Why would she be outside in the
• 22:15
  Speaker 11: first place? And we've looked at so many angles and
• 22:19
  Speaker 11: we still can't make sense of it.
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: So to you, Rick Schaeffer joining US former FBI special agent,
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: I know the FBI is now involved and as a
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: matter of fact, has recently executed search warrants. They made
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: it very clear, it was made clear, if there was a spokesperson,
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: that no human remains were found. But we've been told
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: that there is direct evidence linking the disappearance of Asia
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: Degree to the location at which they executed the search warrant.
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: So I'm just trying to figure out who knew this
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: child well enough to lure her from the home. She
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: didn't tell her brother, which is very surprising. She told nobody,
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: and then when a stranger came to pick her up,
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: came back towards her, she ran. So it's not like
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: she was trying to hitch a ride and get away
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: from home. She was going to meet somebody. If it
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: were just an issue of her running away, then she
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: would have hitched your ride.
• 23:21
  Speaker 13: That's correct, And we looked at it from a number
• 23:23
  Speaker 13: of different perspectives. I mean, when we first got there,
• 23:25
  Speaker 13: obviously we wanted to take a look at the family.
• 23:28
  Speaker 13: As you suggested, we did a very thorough search of
• 23:32
  Speaker 13: the house. We found no indication of anything that looked
• 23:36
  Speaker 13: like substance abuse or problems inside the home. The parents
• 23:42
  Speaker 13: acted accordingly. They were very upset. The mother was particularly
• 23:47
  Speaker 13: distraught as she had run through the neighborhood trying to
• 23:52
  Speaker 13: locate her daughter. We interviewed the son, I think he
• 23:56
  Speaker 13: was ten years old at the time, but you know,
• 23:58
  Speaker 13: obviously in the presence of a parent, to try and
• 24:00
  Speaker 13: see if we could garner any additional information. But he
• 24:05
  Speaker 13: indicated that he saw her as she went up to
• 24:07
  Speaker 13: go to the bathroom and then went back to sleep.
• 24:10
  Speaker 13: We were obviously perplexed over the fact that you have
• 24:13
  Speaker 13: this beautiful little girl at nine years old? What would
• 24:17
  Speaker 13: cause her to leave the house not in the middle
• 24:21
  Speaker 13: of the day, but in the middle of the night
• 24:24
  Speaker 13: and take off walking down the street.
• 24:27
  Speaker 3: A worried family frantically searches for their missing little girl,
• 24:32
  Speaker 3: who they last saw safe and sound sleeping in her room.
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: What does a late model green sedan have to do
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: with Asia's disappearance?
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: And what did candy rappers have to do with her disappearance?
• 24:44
  Speaker 10: Listen it was a couple days later candy wrappers were
• 24:47
  Speaker 10: found in a shad behind turn her upholstery, candy rappers,
• 24:53
  Speaker 10: a pencil marker.
• 24:54
  Speaker 11: And even a Mickey Mouse hairbow.
• 24:56
  Speaker 7: It was hers.
• 24:57
  Speaker 10: Students at False Familiminary school confirmed that those were the
• 25:01
  Speaker 10: same type of candy that were given out as Valentine.
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: Treats to the rest of the class. So those were
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: confirmed as her items were they?
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: Was it her Mickey Mouse a paraphernalia? Were those her
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: candy wrappers? Why was she and the shed eating candy
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: or was that just thrown in the shed? Later with
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: me an all Star panel, but first out to Donnie
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: Peeler and deal Champion what about it, Donnie Peeler, that stuff.
• 25:29
  Speaker 10: Found in that shed, Nancy, it could possibly be her stuff.
• 25:31
  Speaker 10: The kids at the school identified it possibly being stuff
• 25:35
  Speaker 10: that given them at school. But from my understanding too
• 25:41
  Speaker 10: that those sheds were right there at that upholstery stop too,
• 25:45
  Speaker 10: and some of that stuff could have fell out of
• 25:47
  Speaker 10: furniture there. That was always back in my mind. You know,
• 25:53
  Speaker 10: it's just crazy thing that she would be that far
• 25:56
  Speaker 10: off the road.
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: Another saying, Donnie Peeler could easily have been other children
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: playing in that shed after school.
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know that. We don't have a
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: DNA match.
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: We don't know how to link that back to her,
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: and I wonder where that shed is in relation to
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: where she was spotted on the road. Another question to you,
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: let me go to you, Donnie Dell Champion. Is it
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: true that, according to a report, I found Asha had
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: money and a wallet at school before she disappeared.
• 26:29
  Speaker 11: I do know that SHD is a couple hundred yards
• 26:32
  Speaker 11: off the road. It's not real close.
• 26:36
  Speaker 10: You can't even say it from the road hardly, Okay.
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: Straight out to Karen Stark joining us who has been
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: researching and studying the case.
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: Karen stark.
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: I'm almost convinced that she packed a few things in
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: that backpack.
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: What do we know.
• 26:51
  Speaker 6: She packed some of her favorite outfits. And if you
• 26:55
  Speaker 6: think about this, Nancy, it's pouring outside. This is a
• 26:59
  Speaker 6: shy little girl, very obedient. She does not put on
• 27:02
  Speaker 6: a rain coat protect herself from the rain. She packed
• 27:06
  Speaker 6: some of her favorite outfits, but nothing that will keep
• 27:09
  Speaker 6: her warm or sustain her. And then she walks out
• 27:12
  Speaker 6: in the rain. Totally uncharacteristic for this nine year old.
• 27:17
  Speaker 16: A complete mystery, completely and I've been looking for any
• 27:21
  Speaker 16: upheaval in her life or any signs that she was upset.
• 27:25
  Speaker 16: This is the only thing I found. Listen to her brother.
• 27:28
  Speaker 4: Only thing that she was even upset about at the
• 27:32
  Speaker 4: time that we knew was that she had lost her
• 27:35
  Speaker 4: championship basketball game. The championship games was that weekend. That Saturday.
• 27:40
  Speaker 4: She was one of the star players on her team.
• 27:43
  Speaker 4: Her team was in a dog fight of a game
• 27:46
  Speaker 4: and she ended up filing out, and she felt that
• 27:50
  Speaker 4: she let her teammates down. But by the time my
• 27:53
  Speaker 4: game started, which was like an hour or maybe a
• 27:56
  Speaker 4: hour or two hours later, like she had that genuine
• 28:02
  Speaker 4: smiled as she always wore.
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: So I'm trying to figure out Kathleen Murphy joining us
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: a high profile lawyer out of North Carolina triangle divorce.
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: What would that have to do, if anything, with her
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: getting a few of her favorite outfits and leaving in
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: the middle of the night, not telling the brother that
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: we just saw O'Brien, not telling her parents.
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: What could have lured her out? Was it in connection
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: to her basketball career?
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: Did someone tell this nine year old little girl they
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: could make her a basketball star.
• 28:38
  Speaker 14: I don't know the identity of the person in the
• 28:42
  Speaker 14: search warrant, and so once you know the identity of
• 28:45
  Speaker 14: the person in the search warrant, you may be able
• 28:47
  Speaker 14: to tie it to some connection with Asha. It could
• 28:51
  Speaker 14: be a connection with basketball, like you said. But I
• 28:54
  Speaker 14: have a seven year old grandson. He would never go
• 28:57
  Speaker 14: out in the ring. He would never go out in
• 29:00
  Speaker 14: the middle of the night, that seven to nine year
• 29:02
  Speaker 14: old age. It's very concerning why she would actually put
• 29:06
  Speaker 14: herself in the middle of nighttime rainstorms without any protection.
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: Crime stories with Nancy Grace.
• 29:24
  Speaker 9: They were making an access road right here, there's a
• 29:29
  Speaker 9: log cabin up on the hill and they were cutting
• 29:33
  Speaker 9: this access road going to that cabin and that's where
• 29:38
  Speaker 9: they found her book bag back in there.
• 29:41
  Speaker 17: More than a year later, pacious backpack turned up into
• 29:43
  Speaker 17: construction site thirty miles away. It raised new questions but
• 29:48
  Speaker 17: yielded few clues about the missing girls whereabouts.
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: A search was done in that area, same type of situation.
• 29:55
  Speaker 13: People were interviewed, evidence was collected and sent all and
• 29:59
  Speaker 13: until this day a she's still not been located.
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: We're getting that information from the FBI. Mark Davis with
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: a sergeant supervisor on the case at the time, Well,
• 30:07
  Speaker 2: can you tell me about the location of the book
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: bag and are we sure it's acious?
• 30:11
  Speaker 12: Yes, I know, it's been confirmed it was Asia's book bag.
• 30:16
  Speaker 12: They released some of the items and told to some
• 30:20
  Speaker 12: of the items once again, this is almost a year
• 30:24
  Speaker 12: into the investigation before they released what was some of
• 30:28
  Speaker 12: the items into the book bag, but it was confirmed
• 30:32
  Speaker 12: it was hers and it was north of where she
• 30:36
  Speaker 12: lived on High eighteen, approximately twenty to thirty miles away
• 30:42
  Speaker 12: good Gravy.
• 30:43
  Speaker 2: So somebody had to take her or her book bag
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: by vehicle by vehicle, and that's where the green sedan
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: may come in.
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: Listen.
• 30:56
  Speaker 17: Investigators published images of a car that may have picked
• 30:59
  Speaker 17: up a show. They believe it was a nineteen seventies
• 31:02
  Speaker 17: model Lincoln Continental Mark four or a Ford Thunderbird with
• 31:06
  Speaker 17: rust around the wheel. Wells investigators revealed two items found
• 31:10
  Speaker 17: anacious book bag, a Doctor SEUs children's book from her
• 31:13
  Speaker 17: school library Mcgelligan's pool and a new Kid's on the
• 31:17
  Speaker 17: Block concert T shirt which didn't belong to Asia.
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: Okay, that's a mind twister right there, Mark Davis. So
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: a school book at Doctor Seuss book from her school
• 31:27
  Speaker 2: from her school library, and a T shirt that did
• 31:30
  Speaker 2: not belong to her.
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: What do you make of it? Mark Davis?
• 31:33
  Speaker 12: It's one of those situations that you know, we couldn't
• 31:36
  Speaker 12: decipher it either. You know, you know, while I was
• 31:40
  Speaker 12: it there, there was a lot of things. There were
• 31:42
  Speaker 12: a lot of questions. This is far past the point
• 31:45
  Speaker 12: that I was in an investigation, involved in the investigation,
• 31:48
  Speaker 12: but you know, there was speculation on all of us
• 31:51
  Speaker 12: as far for as officers went. You know, what did
• 31:54
  Speaker 12: it mean? And as far as I know, that's never
• 31:58
  Speaker 12: really been answered.
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: Somebody gave her the T shirt because Rick Schaeffer joining
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: US former FBI special agent. If someone is luring her,
• 32:09
  Speaker 2: then I could understand somebody giving her a T shirt
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: that her parents don't even know about.
• 32:14
  Speaker 13: Well, that's correct. In fact, one of the things that
• 32:16
  Speaker 13: we looked at was through the Probation Parole office is
• 32:20
  Speaker 13: the current sexual offenders registry. It wasn't digitized in electronic
• 32:27
  Speaker 13: format it is now, but when we were provided it,
• 32:30
  Speaker 13: we started a pin map and we were shocked at
• 32:34
  Speaker 13: the number of people within a close proximity to Asia's
• 32:37
  Speaker 13: home that had been involved in being considered an individual
• 32:43
  Speaker 13: placed on the sexual offenders registry. And as a result
• 32:46
  Speaker 13: of that, we conducted numerous interviews with people that had
• 32:52
  Speaker 13: been convicted and had either relocated or currently living in
• 32:57
  Speaker 13: the Cleveland County area.
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: And back to the search.
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: In the last days, a search has gone down directly
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: connected to Asha's disappearance listen.
• 33:07
  Speaker 5: The Cleveland County Sheriff's Office has now confirmed that a
• 33:10
  Speaker 5: search of six to twenty one Cherryville Road is connected
• 33:12
  Speaker 5: to asia degree. Nearly fifty investigators with the Cleveland County Sheriffs,
• 33:16
  Speaker 5: the FBI Evidence Response Team, and North Carolina SBI agents
• 33:20
  Speaker 5: spend two days at the property with canines and multiple
• 33:23
  Speaker 5: items of interest or sees for testing. Investigators have not
• 33:26
  Speaker 5: revealed what those items are, but have said the search
• 33:29
  Speaker 5: warrants were obtained based on physical evidence directly connected to
• 33:32
  Speaker 5: Asha's disappearance and the green sedan.
• 33:34
  Speaker 18: Listen on the second day of the search at a
• 33:37
  Speaker 18: home on Cherryville Road, four miles from Asia degrees, home,
• 33:40
  Speaker 18: investigators moved to a second location, a home on the
• 33:42
  Speaker 18: corner of Cherryville and Rollingwood Drive. Agents are seen going
• 33:46
  Speaker 18: into the home and walking in and out of a
• 33:49
  Speaker 18: fenced area behind the home. Minutes later, a flatbed tow
• 33:52
  Speaker 18: truck arrives to the property. When it leaves, it's carrying
• 33:55
  Speaker 18: a green four door sedan with rust in the wheel
• 33:58
  Speaker 18: wells extreme similar to the car the FBI has been
• 34:02
  Speaker 18: looking for.
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: Dale Champion, joining us from crack House Chronicles along with
• 34:06
  Speaker 2: partner Donnie peel Or. Dale Champion tell me about this
• 34:09
  Speaker 2: recent FBI search and the vehicle.
• 34:11
  Speaker 11: Yeah, they came in I think it was Tuesday, and
• 34:13
  Speaker 11: they just fawned this place, come in and rumors were
• 34:17
  Speaker 11: find what was going on, and it was coming out
• 34:18
  Speaker 11: saying that it was about Asia. So everybody's just got
• 34:21
  Speaker 11: more hyped up. And then it kind of switched or
• 34:23
  Speaker 11: the rumors were saying other things. So we didn't know.
• 34:26
  Speaker 11: Then they put out the press release saying it was
• 34:28
  Speaker 11: definitely connected to Asia, and then they pulled this green
• 34:30
  Speaker 11: car out and after that everything got really tight. Lift
• 34:34
  Speaker 11: I think they put the gag on anybody around that
• 34:37
  Speaker 11: had anything to do with So it's been very quiet
• 34:39
  Speaker 11: ever since then. But I think they're supposed to release
• 34:42
  Speaker 11: the Daffi Davids on these search warrants this week, possibly today.
• 34:46
  Speaker 2: Joining us now Crime online dot Com investigative reporter Sydney Center, Sydney,
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: we now learn that there are updates in the case.
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: As we go to air, I'm learning about a search warrant.
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: What can you tell me, Nancy?
• 34:59
  Speaker 19: Yes, So we got hundreds of pages of documents relating
• 35:02
  Speaker 19: to eight search warrants tied to Asia degrees disappearance. Investigators
• 35:07
  Speaker 19: have released both the probable cause applications, the probable cause
• 35:13
  Speaker 19: applications for these search warrants and the returns. So we
• 35:17
  Speaker 19: now know that they are searching properties tied to Roy
• 35:21
  Speaker 19: and Connie Deadman, which seemingly have no connection to Ashia's disappearance.
• 35:28
  Speaker 19: So how they tied the Deadman's to Asia was her
• 35:32
  Speaker 19: backpack located about six miles south of Morganton, North Carolina.
• 35:37
  Speaker 19: This is nearly thirty miles away from Asia's home. That
• 35:40
  Speaker 19: backpack discovered a year.
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: Hold on sid you're talking about deadman's home, and isn't
• 35:47
  Speaker 2: that less than four miles from where Asia was last seen?
• 35:53
  Speaker 19: That is correct, Nancy, So their home, the property is
• 35:56
  Speaker 19: to properties that were searched. The dead Men's owned a
• 36:00
  Speaker 19: nursing home facility in Vale, North Carolina, and frequently took
• 36:05
  Speaker 19: patients up to Broughton Hospital in Morganton. So they frequently
• 36:10
  Speaker 19: traveled along Highway eighteen, passing Asia's home, passing.
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: Let me understand what you're saying said.
• 36:18
  Speaker 2: You're saying that the deadmans owned a nursing home and
• 36:22
  Speaker 2: they would take patients back and forth up Highway eighteen,
• 36:26
  Speaker 2: which is where a Sha was last seen walking right.
• 36:29
  Speaker 19: Correct, correct, and where her backpack was found just six
• 36:33
  Speaker 19: miles south of Morganton. So the real connection is that backpack.
• 36:38
  Speaker 19: That backpack was found under deep grass. Grass had grown
• 36:42
  Speaker 19: over it and appeared to have been there for a
• 36:44
  Speaker 19: very long time, and it was wrapped in two plastic trashjacks.
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: But what investigators have joseus be good.
• 36:51
  Speaker 2: Why would you wrap a kid's backpack and trash bags,
• 36:54
  Speaker 2: two of them.
• 36:56
  Speaker 19: Right, it seems like it was definitely a disposal of evidence.
• 36:59
  Speaker 19: They did not want to be caught with Asha's belongings.
• 37:02
  Speaker 19: So what investigators found in those trash bags were two hairs.
• 37:07
  Speaker 19: One of those hairs belonged to one of the dead
• 37:10
  Speaker 19: men's daughters. She was thirteen at the time. The other
• 37:14
  Speaker 19: hair belonged to a patient under the dead men's care.
• 37:18
  Speaker 2: Okay, so these hairs connect back to the dead men's
• 37:22
  Speaker 2: and they're on Asia's backpack.
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: I understand that.
• 37:26
  Speaker 2: Also, a neighbor said three rooms at the deadmon property
• 37:31
  Speaker 2: were padlocked. They were full of dead men's personal property.
• 37:36
  Speaker 2: I understand police have also sees cameras, journals, a trash bag,
• 37:42
  Speaker 2: children's clothing, and a rifle from the dead man home.
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: Is that true?
• 37:46
  Speaker 19: Yes, it's absolutely correct. And those journals were actually penned
• 37:50
  Speaker 19: by the dead men's daughters. So they had three daughters.
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: At the time.
• 37:54
  Speaker 19: The youngest, Annie was thirteen, and they had two other daughters,
• 37:58
  Speaker 19: Sarah and Lizzie, both sixteen years old at the time
• 38:01
  Speaker 19: of acious disappearance.
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  Speaker 2: That's where we're getting the word that a dead person
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  Speaker 2: may have the key to unlock the disappearance of Asia exactly.
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  Speaker 19: That is referring to Russell Underhill, that patient underneath the
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  Speaker 19: dead Men's care. So at the time Underhill did not
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  Speaker 19: actually reside in the dead Men's Vale, North Carolina rest home,
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  Speaker 19: but Connie Deadman did attend to him at the rest
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  Speaker 19: home he was at, and Roy Deadman was listed as
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  Speaker 19: his emergency contact. So it's kind of an odd connection.
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  Speaker 19: But the only connection between the dead Men's daughter, thirteen
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  Speaker 19: year old ann Aalie, and Russell Underhill is Roy and
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  Speaker 19: Connie Deadman, and they now are officially listed as suspects
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  Speaker 19: in Asia's case.
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  Speaker 1: They are denying any wrongdoing it all, of.
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  Speaker 2: Course, as does the lawyer for the dead patients. So
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  Speaker 2: let me just consolidate this her back Asia's backpack is
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  Speaker 2: found double wrapped in trash bags and dance undergrowth grown
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  Speaker 2: over with foliage in it. There is the hair that
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  Speaker 2: links back directly by DNA comparison to the dead Man's
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  Speaker 2: daughter and to one of the dead Men's patients and
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  Speaker 2: their nursing home who is now dead. Do I have
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  Speaker 2: it exactly?
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  Speaker 1: Wow, that's a bombshell, Sydney.
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  Speaker 19: Absolutely, Nancy, And it's unclear exactly where investigators are going
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  Speaker 19: with this. The Deadmen's have given multiple numerous statements to
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  Speaker 19: police and they've even passed polygraph tests, so it's very
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  Speaker 19: unclear what the connection is. But that Green nineteen seventies
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  Speaker 19: is sure that the FBI was looking for was towed
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  Speaker 19: from the dead Men's home, and this was a nineteen
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  Speaker 19: sixty four.
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: There was Franky Sydney.
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  Speaker 2: Other items receives, including a human tooth, yes, a.
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  Speaker 19: Plastic bag, and lots of explanations for that. That could
• 40:03
  Speaker 19: have been the first lost baby tooth. They have three daughters,
• 40:07
  Speaker 19: so there are lots of plausible explanations for that. But
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  Speaker 19: could it be tied to Asia.
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  Speaker 2: I just hate, hate what the parents have been going through.
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  Speaker 2: There is a forty five thousand dollars reward in connection
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  Speaker 2: with the location of nine year old Asia degree tip
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  Speaker 2: line seven.
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  Speaker 1: Zero four four eight four four.
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  Speaker 2: Eight two two repeat seven zero four four eight four
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  Speaker 2: four eight two two.
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  Speaker 1: We wait as just as unfalse. Goodbye friend,