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(NewsNation) — Authorities successful North Carolina conducted a caller search successful the 25-year-old missing persons lawsuit of Asha Degree connected Friday.
Degree was 9 years aged erstwhile she disappeared from her location successful Shelby, North Carolina, successful 2000. The probe has precocious seen a surge successful activity, with aggregate searches performed and tribunal documents revealing caller accusation astir suspects.
Friday's search successful Lincoln County, North Carolina, progressive some Lincoln County and Cleveland County instrumentality enforcement officials arsenic good arsenic agents from the FBI and the State Bureau of Investigation.
Cleveland County Sheriff Alan Norman told section media that helium would not beryllium releasing details connected the hunt but did accidental the existent spot proprietor consented and was not connected to the investigation.
Drone photos showed instrumentality enforcement agents searching an country that included respective aged buildings that appeared to beryllium successful a authorities of disrepair.
Disappearance of Asha Degree
Degree near her location successful the aboriginal greeting hours of Valentine's Day successful 2000. She took a backpack with immoderate of her belongings with her, and witnesses saw her walking alongside a road during an aggravated storm.
Her parents began searching for her erstwhile Degree's parent went to aftermath her astatine 6:30 a.m. and recovered she was not successful her bed. Two witnesses reported seeing Degree adjacent the road, including 1 who said they saw her tally into the adjacent woods.
A time later, candy wrappers and a hairsbreadth bow belonging to Degree were recovered successful a shed adjacent the woods. In 2001, her backpack and different items were recovered during a operation project, wrapped successful achromatic plastic.
The hunt for Asha Degree
In 2024, authorities searched respective properties and collected evidence that included a greenish 1964 AMC Rambler. Court documents associated with that hunt indicated that officials judge Degree was killed and her assemblage concealed.
A photograph of Asha Degree astatine property 9 (left) and an age-progressed photograph released 20 years aft she disappeared. (FBI)Police besides named members of a section household arsenic suspects. The Dedmon household includes Roy and Connie Dedmon and their daughters Lizzie Grace Dedmon Foster, Sarah Gwen Dedmon Caple and AnnaLee Victoria Dedmon Ramirez.
The 3 girls were teenagers astatine the time, and documents showed that portion officers believed they whitethorn person been involved, they would person required big assistance owed to their age.
Electronic grounds was besides seized, including substance messages betwixt the daughters with Foster saying it was her responsibility that each of this was happening.
Court documents besides amusement that a witnesser told constabulary that Foster had confessed to sidesplitting Degree astatine a enactment earlier Caple told her to halt talking.
Foster aboriginal declined to instrumentality a polygraph test, and Caple refused an interrogation with police.
