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.Listen to Ashley and Brit’s original episode, MISSING: Asha Degree, wherever you get your podcasts!Want to watch this episode on video? Check out our Crime Junkie YouTube Channel! Source materials for this episode cannot be listed here due to character limitations. For a full list of sources, please visit: crimejunkiepodcast.com/update-asha-degree/Did you know you can listen to this episode ad-free? Join the Fan Club! Visit crimejunkie.app/library/ to view the current membership options and policies. Don’t miss out on all things Crime Junkie!Instagram: @crimejunkiepodcast | @audiochuckTwitter: @CrimeJunkiePod | @audiochuckTikTok: @crimejunkiepodcastFacebook: /CrimeJunkiePodcast | /audiochuckllcCrime Junkie is hosted by Ashley Flowers and Brit Prawat. Instagram: @ashleyflowers | @britprawatTwitter: @Ash_Flowers | @britprawatTikTok: @ashleyflowerscrimejunkieFacebook: /AshleyFlowers.AF Text Ashley at 317-733-7485 to talk all things true crime, get behind the scenes updates, and more!
Chapter 1: What updates have emerged in the Asha Degree case?
Hi, Crime Junkies. 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. 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 Asha 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. Delia DeAmbra here, host of Counter Clock 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. Because when this happened, I was feverishly texting you. I was like, you need to come tell this story. You need to get all the search warrants and like get on a plane and come to Indianapolis immediately. You were not in Indianapolis a day ago.
No. No, I was at home. And honestly, I think it was like within an hour of you sending me like that first text a couple days ago. You're asking me like, hey, come to Indy in February from Florida, which like for anything other than the Asian degree case, like, no, I would not do. But because it is this case, I knew like, OK, I got to get my hands on these search warrants. I'm totally down.
And guess what she did. So we are going to shake things up a bit today. Britt and I actually covered this case on Crime Junkie way back in January of 2019. But instead of the throwback to that episode, Delia and I are going to walk you through this case with fresh eyes and a whole new perspective. Because what has unfolded recently, I think kind of changes everything.
It really does. And I've known about this case probably, you know, she was nine years old when she disappeared on Valentine's Day in 2000. And so I've known about it for a long time. And it really is one of those cases where, you know, if you're local and it was locally known well, but like agencies and news outlets outside of the state of North Carolina really didn't cover it much until recently.
And everyone is talking about this, like Crime Juggies, you are blowing up our DMs. I hear you. And I am ready to jump right in because there's a ton of new information to cover. But I do want to tell people like how we got here a little bit and the reason I was like feverishly texting you because the timing of all this is a little wild.
Yeah, it is really wild because I was also just texting you like a week ago saying like, hey, I'm looking at maybe like what's the next thing for Counter Clock? Like what's the future season of Counter Clock or whatever? And so I had brought up to you, I was like, you know, is there a world in which I can do a missing persons case on CounterClock? I was like, I needed the actual time. I know.
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Chapter 2: Who is Delia D'Ambra and what is her connection to the case?
What's your address?
3404 Oakcrest Drive.
Is this an apartment?
Yeah.
And which apartment? Uh, apartment 3406. Okay, is she missing from 3404 or 3406? 3404, Amy. There's not an apartment number? It's 34, uh, no, no. It's not like an A or B? No, uh-uh. And what's your name? Harold Degree. Your phone number, Harold?
The next door neighbor said she went down the road and said that she was just a kid on the road. What's the child's name? Asha Degree.
What's her full name?
Asha Jaquilla Degree.
Can you spell that for me, please?
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