She Packed Her Own Bag: The Asha Degree Disappearance
She Packed Her Own Bag: The Asha Degree Disappearance
In the predawn hours of February 14, 2000, nine-year-old Asha Degree left her family's home in Shelby, North Carolina, and walked alone down Highway 18 through a raging storm, carrying a bookbag she had packed in advance. Truck drivers saw her. One turned around to help, and watched her run into the woods. She has never been seen again. Why would a shy, cautious fourth-grader who was afraid of the dark leave her bed at 2:30 a.m.? And how did her bookbag end up buried 26 miles away, wrapped in trash bags, holding items that were never hers?…
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