What Happened to Asha Degree? Uncovering the Details of Her Disappearance | Forensic Files

one of North Carolina's most infamous cases The Disappearance of Asia degree was the latest to
break the thing I want to know is like where did this come from did you have it all along and why wouldn't you have
released it sooner but now in 2025 that green car is more important than [Music]
ever hi crime dunkies I'm your host Ashley flowers and if you are watching this episode on YouTube you might notice
I have a special guest with me today uh this has been a wild couple of weeks when it comes to updates in cold cases
and one of North Carolina's most infamous cases The Disappearance of Asia degree was the latest to break and when
I hear cold cases in North Carolina there is one name that comes to mind hi everybody dilia de here host of
counterclock and park predators and proud North Carolina resident for most of my life thank God we have a resident
expert on call for all things North Carolina so let's not waste a single moment we have a lot to get
[Music] into all right it all starts on Valentine's Day morning in 2000 Asia degree is 9 years old and she's living
with her mom and dad iila and Harold and her 10-year-old brother O'Brien the family's apartment is in Shelby North
Carolina which is about an hour directly west of Charlotte if I've got that right
jilia yeah okay so the degrees go to church on Sunday February 13th they have lunch at one of Asia's aunt's houses
which is just down the street from their place and then they turn in for the day
at around like 8:30 p.m. Harold goes to work at a second job that he has and iila spent the evening with O'Brien and
Asia now normally iila would give her kids a bath that night but there had been some kind of car accident or like
crash near their home that had kind of I guess knocked out their p so their normal routine is basically just like
out the window for that night and so because of that iila had planned to just like do it all the next morning which
would be Monday February 14th which is of course Valentine's Day so overnight between the 13th and 14th sometime
between 12:30 and 2:30 Harold gets home from his second job and before he goes to bed he checks on his kids ASA and her
brother actually share rooms so he was able to peek in and lay eyes on both of them at the same time by 5:45 in the
morning iila is up for the day and she goes to start the kids bath like she planned do the whole morning routine
thing so they can get out the door for school by 6:30 but when she enters O'Brien in
asa's room she only sees O'Brien asleep under his covers asa's just gone so the family searches all over their house
they search in the cars they have like talking to family members who live nearby and they're getting frantic as
more and more time goes by and they can't find Asia after doing all of that that so they decide at around 6:30 a.m.
like okay now it's time to call the police the Cleveland County Sheriff's Office responds to that call by 6:40 in
the morning and right away they're using scent dogs and sending out more deputies
to look for Asia by 7 a.m. the degrees friends and neighbors are all awake and they learn what's going on and initially
investigators look for signs of forc Entry at the family's house you know like anything that might indicate an
intruder came in but there's just none of that in fact based on what Harold told the dispatcher which was that some
of Asia's things like her backpack and pocketbook and like shoes and stuff were missing they're also considering whether
there's a possibility she could have just walked away on her own but for some reason and a reason no one could really
explain her stuff is gone oh and I might have forgotten to mention this but all of the doors to the degree's house were
reported to have been locked when everyone woke up and interestingly ASA did have her own spare key in her book
bad so I think maybe that kind of also made people assume that she might have left on her own and then took her stuff
used her key to lock up otherwise why was everything like locked up like that right yeah I remember the key thing and
I don't think anyone disputes that she physically left on her own but I think the big question is why and I know there
was some coverage that said she'd fou out of a basketball game the Saturday night before she vanished but like like
that's hardly a reason to just like take off I mean I know that you're 9 years old but no I you know yeah I think
that's always been been a bit of a stretch like of an assumption at least in my mind and it's never been
definitively stated as the reason she left to your point she had a good home life as far as we know so I think that
people were just like looking for anything and that's like the biggest wrong thing in the world of a
9-year-old anyway fast forward a little bit and the next big thing that comes up
to investigators is that a motorist was apparently driving along Highway 18 which is this two-lane road near the
family's house and this motorist tells authorities that they saw a young girl who matches Asia's description walking
along that roadway sometime between 3:30 in the morning and 4:00 in the morning now where she is seen is like a mile
from her front door and she's headed into the town of Shelby but at the time it was like raining and storming which I
think is important and other than the fact that this motorist saw her it doesn't seem like they were able to
gather anything else and potentially because of the rain and the storm the only really big detail is that when ASA
is reported by this person she is not in her night gown that she'd been wearing when her mom put her to bed the night
before now she's actually said to have been wearing this long sleeve white shirt and pants so she's like dressed in
her normal like day clothes now there's another sighting of her by a truck driver who said that he made a u-turn to
try and see if she needed help but for some reason when he got closer to her and asked her if she was okay she just
like ran off into the tree line and that was was the last reported sighting of Asia ever that we knew about at the time
but then don't like 2 Days Later the cops find some of her stuff right yeah so that happens on the 17th authorities
who are still searching for her by the way like high and low they end up at this rural property off of Highway 18
and they end up talking to this lady there who tells them that on February 15th so that would have been the day
after Asia vanished this woman found a random Mickey Mouse hair bow a green marker and a pencil inside of a shed and
the items were just kind of like tossed right on the ground near the doorway of this shed and when law enforcement which
at this point by the way includes the FBI the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation when they come in and they
do their own search of this shed they find a bunch of candy wrappers that match some of the candy that Asia had
gotten for Valentine's Day weekend before she vanished but this doesn't lead them to Asia and they don't get
another Le for more than a year after that it's not until early August of 2001 that a contractor digging an access road
for a new house about 50 yards away from Highway 18 near this place called Burke
County which is more than 25 miles from the degree's home this guy finds a black
trash bag buried in the land that he's working at Buried buried and then when he takes that out inside that black
trash bag is another black trash bag and then inside of that bag is a kid's book
bag with asa's name and phone number written on it and I don't know if I'm remembering this correctly you might
know deia but I at the time feel like I remember me and B talking about how he like sees this buried thing again in
trash bag and trash and he doesn't do anything he ends up like telling his partner or wife or whoever at home yeah
like so his partner at the time was like wait a minute that's a big red flag like
you need to call the sheriff's office cuz they knew about asa's case and they knew like what was going on there was
this little girl missing even if there wasn't like a little girl missing like a kid's book bag buried in a bag in a bag
like yeah very strange why does it take the wife to like make a call but that's again we said that day one in the story
for another day So eventually the sheriff's office gets a gets their hands on this evidence they do call the police
and they do search the property themselves but they actually don't find much of anything else related to the
case but when they look inside the book bag that has asa's name on it they find a Dr Seuss book from her Elementary
School library and a New Kids on the Block concert T-shirt but the thing is they don't really say much about those
items at the time they don't say if they were hers in fact if I remember correctly I don't even think they tell
people right away no what was in it I think that comes out like to the public years later it does but they did send
the book bag and its contents off to the FBI's lab for forensic analysis and by 2003 some kind of results had come back
but the Sheriff's Office didn't release those publicly and clearly whatever it was that they got wasn't enough to solve
this case because it just languishes after that for another year and another and then the 10e anniversary comes and
goes then the 15th there's even a large reward that they end up offering but there are just no new leads yeah and I
think the reward actually got up to like $45,000 but like nothing and it really isn't until 2016 because that's when the
whole like the green car thing comes out right green car yes this becomes super important so in May of 2016 the FBI
released that they believed a girl matching Asia's description got into a dark green vehicle and I see like in
later reporting like pulled in or or like more more of a forcible action placed in by someone yeah they say that
that was seen on the morning she vanished and actually they specifically say that the car could be either an
early' 70s Lincoln Mark for or a Ford Thunderbird with like rust around the wheel wells very distinct very distinct
so we actually have photos of each car and as you can see they're super similar yeah they're both I would say kind of I
would describe them as like a two-door boatlike sedan and they do look very similar yeah right so it's the FBI's
information about the car sighting that really grabs everyone's attention because it comes so long after Asia
disappeared again there was like nothing in all those years it's almost like the
thing I want to know is like where did this come from did you have it all along and why wouldn't you have released it
sooner or if someone knew is coming forward why wasn't that part of the story yeah it's clearly something the
Sheriff's Office and the FBI discovered at some point in their investigation right like something LED them to blast
that out to the community about this car and the sighting and everything right and though that happened in 2016 like we
didn't know why or what it meant or if it led to anything but now in 2025 that green car is more important than
ever okay so after they released the car information like I said radio silent 4 years just nothing and then in early
September 2024 Everything Changes literally five months ago so news agencies in North
Carolina and I I'm really tied in with a lot of journalists still in North Carolina and they have been following
asa's case they notice that the Cleveland County Sheriff's Office the FBI the ncsbi have like descended on
some properties and they are up to something in Shelby there's a noticeable flurry of activity on these properties
in Cleveland County and also in a nearby County called Lincoln County and one of
the biggest things that emerges is that an older model green vehicle is seen being towed from one of those locations
and I actually dug up a clip from WBTV of this car so I want everyone to take a look and Ashley you can see it
too oh yeah this looks super similar to those other two green cards that the FBI
released back in 2016 which it makes total sense because like everything like according to the search warrants
everything that the law enforcement agencies were up to in September like this has to 100% be connected to Asia's
case so if you would like I had to go get the it was so funny that I also have to behind the scenes here I tked you I
was like you got to get these search warrants and you're like they you have to be like in the court system or they
mail them to you and I was like girl you got to have a friend you're like oh yeah
I'll just oh I have friends phone a friend I have friends for sure so what you find so according to the warrants
authorities visited and searched structures in land on a few properties in close proximity to one another in
Cleveland County like so they were on like similar Parcels or whatever they also went to a property in mecklinburg
County which is closer to Charlotte so more in the Charlotte area all of the properties in Cleveland County were
owned by a couple named Roy and Connie Deadman Roy and Connie have three daughters Lizzie Sarah and Anna Lee the
daughters are all adults now but back in February 2000 when Asia disappeared they
were teenagers so Lizzie's the oldest she was 16 Sarah was 15 and anal Le was 13 and the property in Charlotte that
was searched in 2024 was actually associated with the youngest Anna Le and the warrant state that investigators
were looking for like physical evidence specifically related to as disappearance
and this included a lot of things like photos kids clothing um They seized the Deadman's electronic devices like
notebooks business records their cell phones some of the daughters like personal journals a rifle and they were
also allowed to take any and all records for a man named Russell Bradley Underhill who was a tenant at one of the
family's homes in 2000 so the reason that any of these folks came on investigators radar in 2024 was because
they found with modern DNA testing the presid of Russell's DNA and a hair that was an identical genetic match to the
Deadman's youngest daughter Anna Lee and that was on Asia's shirt and from the trash bag that her book bag was found in
so that's probably all the stuff that they found in 2016 that they like we sent off to FBI we found something
couldn't do anything with it probably right and I looked at these two and it seems like the deadmond had zero
connection to asa's family right like as far as nobody they did not know one another they didn't go to the same
church or that kind of thing so the important thing being like there would be no reason for their daughter's DNA or
hair or their tenants DNA to be anywhere near on her stuff unless they had some kind of interaction with her yeah
exactly and at least according to the search warrants we have that's like the case right like so what's super
interesting is that in February 2000 Roy and Connie's friend this like russle Underhill guy he was having health
issues and being cared for by a place called called Cleveland healthc care and as a part of his care which like Roy was
in charge of because like he and his wife actually like owned another facility called Northbrook rest home
like Roy would sometimes send his eldest daughter Lizzy to transport patients like from that facility to like an area
hospital called Bron hospital so which is so weird to me because we don't again we don't have any context for how they
know him and they do seem like very intricately tied into his his healthc care she's a tenant is like emergency
contact like they're like clearly very close they're they're helping this man with his health Els so now in 2000 the
Deadman's house was about 6 minutes away from where Asia was last seen walking on
Highway 18 by those Witnesses and that road is what investigators say is like the most logical route for Lizzy Roy's
oldest daughter to have taken if she was making like one of those Hospital runs for her dad okay and the search warrant
also clarified that the vehicle she used for those trips was quote unreliable end
quote so what's like what's the implication there it being unreliable so I I think it's just saying like it's an
older car right like like it's not a brand new car um in car right yeah so the search warrant go on to explain that
Roy deadmond has 29 different Vehicles like registered in his name and three of those are green now when authorities
interviewed Sarah the middle daughter in September 2024 she told them that back when she was a teenager she drove a dark
green AMC Rambler that her dad had given to her in 1999 and the search warrants actually include a photo of that exact
car which everyone can see it's it's a black and white photo so it's hard to kind of tell there's like no color and
it's actually pretty similar looking to the two car images that the FBI released
in 2016 you know the Lincoln and the Thunderbird or whatever that they believe Asia was seen being put into or
pulled into and if you look kind of closely it even has like some front end damage that's pretty noticeable just saw
that and I I think it's like important to go into this car in a little bit more detail like just for a second so this is
a 1964 AMC Rambler so pretty old like which is what we keep coming back to and according to the search warrants it was
registered to Roy at an address that was searched by investigators now when it is
seized by law enforcement it is parked next to a house that Roy is renting to a tenant at the time and this was the part
that I thought was so weird I don't know that's connected to the car but more just like broader strangeness of
whatever was going on in this property that they got the car from so the home used to be occupied by his daughter
Sarah Sarah's the middle daughter but she had since moved and the guy who lives there tells investigators that in
the 5 years or so that he has been renting from Roy he says there are these three rooms in the house that are all
padlocked and he's been told not to go in them which like what yeah I would be like now I want to go in them more than
anything now that I'm renting from you but did you also like did you see that part about the hole yes yeah tell them
about the whole so around the same time that authorities like also like speaking
like with this tenant or whatever they speak with a woman named Laura deadmond who I think is related to Roy I mean
obviously they have the same last name but and she tells them that several years before this she saw Roy digging a
hole at that property that was like not just like a small hole like for like a fence post or something like this hole
was chest deep and that this is after what year after 2000 no this is after like 2016 this is like very like fairly
recently up until 2024 so like just a couple years before 2024 oh W okay so you guys are caught up in the car that
happens in September 2024 so there was a flurry of information at the end of 2024
asa's case was you guys were dming us about it we were like kind of holding to do an update cuz we thought something
bigger was going to happen it took a minute we weren't wrong so that search wraps up and authorities obviously have
the Rambler in their possession they also have fresh samples of Roy Connie and Anna's DNA it's also at this point
that investigators come right out and say that they no longer think Asia is just a missing person they now actually
believe that she was a victim of a homicide and that her body has been concealed this whole time but nowhere on
any of the Deadman's properties did investigators find a body or human remains nothing skeletal like all these
searches took place over the course of two days and nothing definitively connected to Asia like there were as far
as I know no more clothing or personal belongings nothing surfest yeah and I think like right after this an attorney
representing Roy and his family he like makes some public statements about how like that's a really important point you
know he's like hey this family has been named as suspects but they they deny any
and all involvement in what happened to he should agree right according to coverage by WBTV the family's attorney
this guy named David Teddy he holds this press conference and he asked the community not to spread rumors not to
jump to any conclusions about Roy or Connie or their daughters he states that the denmon family denies any involvement
in the case and also kind of eludes to Russell Underhill perhaps being the link between the deadmans their properties
and whatever happened to Asia which is like awfully convenient because according to the search warrants and
additional news coverage Russell died long ago all the way back in 2004 so it's not like he's around anymore to say
anything or defend himself right like it's kind of one of those things like are we really going to blame like the
dead guy who died just a couple years after she disappeared who like can no longer be questioned or investigated
yeah the same guy by the way who the deadmans were clearly like very involved with in seemingly like his Healthcare he
was in a healthcare facility and they're transporting him and I mean I know why this attorney said what he did to
reporters but it still feels like I don't know just like a little too convenient for me still anyway where
things get even more interesting so this is why we're doing this now on February
13th of this year that's when the Cleveland County Sheriff's Office executes three more search warrants for
the deadmond family specifically to investigate them for felony obstruction of justice and it is these documents
that I was like you know the 2024 search warrants were great but like these were
the ones we had to get our hands on if we were going to do this update episode because what these warrants reveal are
emails text messages cloud data and phone calls between Roy his daughters and one of their ex-husbands and some of
these communications are head turning to say the very least yeah I think that's like
just one way of describing it and so like looking through the warrants cuz I like went through all of them Page by
Page and they are specifically for the contents of Three Apple iPhones one that belongs to Lizzy another that belongs to
Roy and another that belongs to Sarah right and just to remind so for our listeners Lizzie is Roy's oldest
daughter Sarah is the middle anal would have been the youngest mhm so according to the search warrants when authorities
executed those searches in September at the family members homes and properties Lizzie spent a lot of time on her phone
while all of that was going on her sisters Sarah and Anna Lee called her then Roy called her and then Lizzie
called Roy and so the search warrants contain pages and pages of texts vilia you pulled some of the messages that
seemed to really stand out to investigators like I think we need to kind of go through these because this is
like yeah I think the Crux of everything yeah I did and so like there's a couple
exchanges but there is a text exchange between Anna Lee and Lizzy on September 10th 2024 where Anna Lee says I so sorry
I just said all that I am just in complete shock and then later that same day Sarah texted Lizzy they think it's
our shirt it's not her shirt her mom said it wasn't hers I don't remember that shirt I'm scared though dad is
probably going to be a huge suspect and I assume they mean that band t-shirt that they found in her backpack they say
that's what I have to assume they're referring to um because that's all we kind of know at this point so so the
next day September 11th 2024 Lizzy's ex-husband texted her that he was sorry like her family was going through the
situation and then a few hours after that Anna Lee texted Lizzy youngest texting oldest yeah Lizzy you don't need
to be talking to anyone I'm at the lawyer's office now they advise we should all not talk to them without
representation now Lizzie then texted her ex-husband this is going to get nothing
but worse I'm talking to my doctor at 5: to get something for my nerves I'm just
so worried so so worried I mean it's a nightmare that's going to keep getting worse I can see nothing good happening
anytime soon and I'm an optimist this they're so weird and it's why like when you read texts like you
know I think we should all keep the caveat of like yes they are texts they're just words on a page but at the
same time like it is like it's clear what they're talking about yeah it's clear what they're talking about yeah so
it's the next few messages that I think are the most interesting so this comes the day after the ones you just read and
this is from Sarah the middle daughter to Lizzy the oldest Sarah says I just talked to David Teddy who is the family
lawyer I just talked to David Teddy the theory is I did it accident covered it up and Lizzie later texts her
ex-husband again and says I feel so horrible so so horrible I don't know what to do I caused this yeah like on
their face these messages they don't sound or look great yeah and keep in mind like between a lot
of these texts there are phone calls back and forth between Sarah Lizzy lizz's ex-husband Anna Lee Roy like
they're all playing phone tag and after all of this it seems like everyone clams
up and they aren't talking to investigators anymore so after September 28th there's another string of messages
between Sarah and Lizzy and it starts with Lizzie saying I'm just so anxious about like what's going on behind the
scenes like what are they doing now what's going to happen to me since I wouldn't talk to them to which Sarah
replies I know girl I am a disaster I think if they come at you again you just go and be compliant that's what I'm
planning on doing and then Lizzie writes back I think so too honestly I mean I want to do what Dad says but damn to
which Sarah replies with and maybe we should have let you do what you originally wanted to
do but we don't know what that is now on February 10th authorities asked Lizzy to
take a polygraph which she does but according to what investigators put in their search warrant the results of that
test show signs of deception that same day investigators also visit Sarah and ask her for another interview but this
time she declines so at this point it's really Roy Sarah and Lizzy that law enforcement Fields pretty sure have
obstructed or at least at a minimum interfered with the investigation into asa's disappearance and likely death
like reading between the lines a little based off of some of the FBI and other law enforcement officials like previous
statements to me it's feeling more and more like maybe what happened to to Asia was some sort of accident maybe it was a
hit and run but it seems like then they're thinking it was allegedly covered up by Roy or Connie possibly
also the daughters question mark yeah like that's what I was going to say too it definitely feels like to me that
maybe something tragic happened back in 2000 but then like everything that's gone on since then is just very
suspicious I know and the thing I don't know I wish I knew more about that Cy that that someone has of like her going
into the green car was she going fighting was she conscious did it seem like she was unconscious do they know
and I also wonder this theory of an accident doesn't explain why she was on that road to begin with which I cannot
get over yeah I think it's like that question of again why did she leave her house if she left willingly like w like
was she lured like I don't know there's so many questions about her exiting her home like her safe place right and going
on this road the only thing that comes to mind for me is that we know Highway 18 was going towards Shelby it was in
the direction of her school um she took the bus on that that's that road yeah like she had her book bag the book
that's in her bag the Dr Seuss book is actually a library book from her school so you know that's in the bag it's like
is she is she going just like her on her own little like Adventure to have her own time and then is going to be back
before they have to go to school like there's just so many question marks around that for sure yeah I don't I
haven't seen anything put forward that she was like meeting up with someone or again we've got no connection between
her and this family so if if they're involved in some way an accident seems to be what like police are posing or at
least in the text messages what they think police are posing based on what their lawyer is saying and I think
that's why too they are trying so hard to connect the the routes between these family's homes the healthcare facilities
like that's a really really critical thing for law enforcement is figuring out like could they have been on that
road when why all those sorts of things did an accident happen yeah and the other big bombshell from these search
warrants it wasn't just the text messages there is someone who has a story that kind of
corroborates like this idea that it could be an accident and that these sisters were involved so this testimony
is from a local guy named Thad melanine who authorities interviewed on September
18th of 2024 and it's only in the most recent search warrants that that we were made aware of this interview so we
didn't have them in the September ones we just got them in February but according to the documents that tells
the sheriff's office that in the mid 2000s he was in his 20s at the time and hung out with
the Deadman sisters at bars and like House parties like on a pretty regular basis and at one particular house party
after Asia degree vanished he saw Lizzy the oldest sobbing like balling her eyes
out while seemingly pretty drunk and she's crying and he hears her make several statements admitting to killing
Asia but when Sarah her sister overhears her sister say this she immediately like
grabs lizz's head and tells her to quote shut the up now that reaction from Sarah
kind of caught that offu guard because he always knew Sarah to be very calm a very nice
person so this story is wild I don't know why we're learning the story like where was Thad in 2000 and to make sure
he wasn't lying investigators had him take a polygraph and he passed with flying colors no I know though
actually on polygraph test but like to me though it seems like somewhat notable that they were like let's double down on
this let's like make sure he you know passes this test to make sure he's not just like making this up and like trying
to draw attention to himself totally I don't think the a polygraph is the end all be all but like if the dude's not
lying the story he told is worth looking into and with everything else we're finding like it's making a lot of sense
agreed yeah so as of this recording no formal arrests have been made in the case and no human remains have been
found but like I feel like I've said this many times before this case seems to just keep evolving every day new
updates and maybe even possible arrests could come literally any second now even
by the time this episode gets out and that is a good thing because Asia's family has waited 25 agonizing years to
learn what really happened to her earlier this month um they told WBTV and reporter Ken lemon that like they're
always going to hold on to hope that like their baby girl will come home to them one day and asa's mom iquila told
the News Agency quote I believe she is still alive and until somebody can prove me wrong I'm still going to believe that
because I have hope end quote so if you have any information about The Disappearance of Asia degree or the
individuals we've discussed in this episode please please call the Cleveland County Sheriff's Office at 704
48447740338 [Music]

When nine-year-old Asha Degree vanished on Valentine’s Day in 2000, it devastated her family and small town of Shelby, North Carolina. After years of little to no new information, the case has broken wide open and authorities may be closer than ever to solving what they are now saying is a murder.

Ashley and Brit originally covered Asha’s case for Crime Junkie in 2019, but with all the new information that’s come out in February 2025, Ashley asked investigative journalist and North Carolina native Delia D’Ambra to join her to dive into the case with a fresh perspective.

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Asha Jaquilla Degree, a 9-year-old girl from Shelby, North Carolina, disappeared under mysterious circumstances in the early morning hours of February 14, 2000. After packing a bookbag and leaving her home during a storm, Asha was seen walking along Highway 18 before running into the woods when a motorist tried to approach her. Despite an extensive search and ongoing investigations led by the FBI, Asha has never been found. The case, initially thought to be a runaway situation, has since evolved into a homicide investigation with several theories and leads, including possible abduction. This tragic story continues to haunt her family, including her parents, Harold and Iquilla Degree, who have worked tirelessly to keep the search alive through annual walks and public appeals. Discover the chilling details of Asha’s disappearance and the relentless search for answers.

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Brief Summary

New evidence in Asia Degree's case links her disappearance to a green car and potential suspects from a nearby family.

Key points

The Disappearance of Asia Degree. Asia Degree vanished on Valentine's Day 2000, sparking a decades-long mystery.
New Evidence Emerges. In 2024, investigators search properties linked to a family with connections to Asia's case.
DNA Connection. Modern DNA testing links a tenant's DNA to Asia's belongings, raising new questions.
Investigation Takes a Dark Turn. Investigators now believe Asia was a victim of homicide, not just a missing person.
Family Denies Involvement. The attorney for Roy and his family publicly denies their involvement in Asia's case.
Shocking Text Messages. Text messages reveal the family's anxiety and possible involvement in Asia's disappearance.

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