Asha Degree

Asha, age progressed

Asha Degree's disappearance on February 14, 2000 is one of the most baffling cases that's occurred in the last quarter of a century.

My psychic friend, Carly was visiting me for a few days when the news of Asha's disappearance hit the national news. It's almost unheard of that two psychics would both get the same psychic information and impressions. Yet that's what happened to Carly and I when we saw the TV coverage of Asha's disappearance.

Neither of us tried to get psychic information on Asha's disappearance, it just came out of the blue at us. It sometimes happens that way, like a movie decided to switch itself on in your head and it's going to play out whether you want to watch it or not.

I can't show you what played out in Carly's head that day because I wasn't in Carly's head. I can only show you what I got psychically and tell you that what Carly was getting was matching what I was getting, according to Carly herself.

The first thing I was shown was a very specific and detailed 'video' of a highway, with Asha walking down this highway in a torrential rain. I was then shown the number 18.

I took it to be either night time or the early morning hours as it was dark out.
It was also cold, I got goosebumps while seeing this.

The next thing I was shown was some kind of shed or small barn. What I remembered most vividly was seeing an old tractor parked in this shed.

Had Asha sought shelter from the storm there?

Two witnesses reported seeing Asha walking along Highway 18 in Shelby, NC. One of them, a truck driver named Jeff Ruppe turned his 18 wheeler around and went back to where he'd seen Asha as he wanted to make sure she was okay. He reported she was wearing a white dress, white tennis shoes and a backpack.

Asha never looked up at him, he says, and she looked like she knew where she was going.

When he approached her Asha dashed into the woods and

Asha walking down Hwy, 18 in the rain as I saw her

The shed some of Asha's belongings were found in. Note the tractor I'd seen.

Ruppe lost sight of her. Is this when Asha went to the shed?

Then I was psychically seeing Asha on Hwy 18 again. A dark colored car that was something similar to a 70's era Lincoln, T Bird or Cadillac was next to her. There were two people in the vehicle and one of them was foisting Asha into the back seat of this car. I was shown a man switching license plates on this car prior to their approaching Asha. During the abduction (?) the car had out-of-state New York tags on it as though trying to disguise the car because I sensed the two people in the car were Shelby residents or lived somewhere close to Shelby. After Asha had disappeared I saw the car license plates being switched back to North Carolina plates.

The car I'd seen looked something like this:

The investigators were looking for a car they said was similar to this one:

And this year (2025) this is they car they ended up seizing in a raid on a suspects home:

During the September searches of the Dedmon properties in Cleveland County, investigators seized a green 1964 AMC Rambler, which has “very similar features” to the vehicle Asha was allegedly pulled into, the warrants said.

(I should've been able to positively identify the car I saw as a Rambler had I not been seeing it in a torrential rain. I grew up in Kenosha where AMC manufactured Ramblers, my family owned Ramblers and I learned to drive stick shift on a Rambler. But there isn't a psychic alive, including myself, that is always 100% accurate with regards to what they receive psychically.) However, there was a 1973 model Rambler that was almost identical in style to a 70's T Bird.

What investigators apparently didn't know was that once inside the car, one of the abductors (?) changed Asha's clothing into some they'd brought along, that didn't belong to Asha. Another attempt to "disguise" her. Investigators later found more of Asha's belongings in her bookbag, including a New Kids On the Block tee shirt that Asha's mother said did not belong to Asha. This tee shirt mystified investigators as to how it got in Asha's bookbag along with other items that had not belonged to Asha.

Both Carly and I saw Asha being buried in the ground. However, we couldn't determine if that was past, present or future. We couldn't get any sense of timing with it apart from if Asha was still alive, she wouldn't be for long after her abduction.

On Sept. 10, 2024, a woman told investigators that “several years ago she saw Roy Lee Dedmon digging a chest-deep hole on the property of 601 Cherryville Road.”

The following day, a detective “observed a 6-8 inch dent in the ground where it was obvious that the ground had been disturbed” at the home they were searching. Investigators had just released that they suspected Asha had been murdered and her body "concealed" somewhere. No remains were found in that search.

I normally didn't contact law enforcement agencies offering to help them, I let them contact me if they wanted help. Cops detest the very idea of working with psychics. Not that I blame them generally speaking, I get where they're coming from. Novice psychics tend to get all excited when they first discover their abilities and even though their desire to help is genuine most of the time, they simply aren't experienced enough yet to be involved in police investigations. As a result, they end up contacting law enforcement in droves, giving investigators useless psychic information like "The body is near water."

The first 48 hours of any missing person investigation are critical so investigators can't be wasting that critical time chasing down ambiguous nonsense like "The body is near water."

But because both of us felt such a sense of urgency in the psychic information we were receiving and at Carly's insistence, I contacted the Shelby Sheriff's Office. However, I made the mistake of mentioning the word "psychic" so was hung up on before I could even tell them I was in law enforcement myself, working these kinds of cases. To this day I believe if they'd have at least listened to the information we had, very possibly Asha would still be alive today or at the very least, the guilty parties caught much sooner than 25 years later. We don't feel a sense of urgency in getting psychic information unless there is a sense of urgency involved.

Just recently, (2024) as yet unpublished warrants were issued by the investigating agencies that reveal for the first time investigators now believe that Asha (quote) "is a victim of homicide, her body concealed".
Suspects named in the warrants are Roy Lee Demond and his wife, Connie Demond - both residents of Shelby.

The Demonds own several properties and a raid was conducted on five of these properties. Evidence collected included a car, journals, cameras, film, a black trash bag, a human tooth in a Ziploc bag, children's clothing and computers and laptops.

"The Cleveland County Sheriff's Office, the FBI, and the SBI are currently executing a court authorized search warrant at a property on Cherryville Road in Shelby," said a Facebook post by Cleveland County Sheriff's Office. "Cleveland County deputies, the FBI's Evidence Response Team, and SBI agents, including specially trained K9s arrived this morning and will likely be on the scene for most of the day. The search warrants are not publicly available at this time. More information will be released when appropriate."

Law enforcement has remained tightlipped and has not confirmed the nature of the investigation. However, Roy Lee Dedman and his ex-wife were reported to be the only suspects in the case at that time. Search warrants did say that 80 year old Dedmon did not appear to have any ties with the missing girl or her family.

But the plot had yet to thicken...

In 2025, new search warrants have been released, revealing further details and potential confessions in the case of Asha Degree's disappearance.

The warrants allege that one of the current suspects, Lizzie Dedmon Foster, admitted to killing Asha Degree.

The warrants also include text messages and other evidence linking the Dedmon family to the case.

Lizzie Grace Dedmon Foster, was 16 when Degree went missing. In September 2024, a man told Cleveland County police that he attended a house party in the mid-2000s with Lizzie and her younger sister, Sarah Dedmon. He claimed Lizzie was extremely intoxicated and crying when she said, “I killed Asha Degree” — leading her younger sister to grab her head and tell her to “shut the f**k up,” according to the Shelby Star.

The man reportedly passed a polygraph test regarding his statements to police. Lizzie initially refused to speak to investigators, but she did take a polygraph test which indicated she was being deceptive in regard to Asha's disappearance.

Sarah reportedly told police she would take a polygraph test at a later date. At some point, she allegedly told police that her father gave her a vehicle resembling the one Degree was last seen in.

Weeks earlier, police had obtained a search warrant for Lizzie Cemond's iCloud account. Detectives claimed they discovered messages in which Sarah and Lizzie talked about a shirt.

“They think it’s our shirt. It’s not her shirt,” Sarah allegedly wrote. “Dad is probably going to be a huge suspect.”

I would guess she was referring to the New Kids On the Block tee shirt found in Asha's bookbag.

In documents, police indicated that the text messages may be evidence of felony obstruction. They also stated that if the three Dedmon girls abducted and killed Degree, assistance from their parents was “necessary in the execution and/or concealment of the crime".

The Demond girls were only 13, 14 and 16 at the time of Asha's disappearance. And the two individuals I saw as being connected to that car were adults.

How and/or why would three girls 13, 14 and 16 be abducting an 8 year old?
I've learned nothing is impossible in these Illuminati abduction cases...but even that one is a stretch!

Then I remembered the car towed from the Demond property and the damage to the left front end of that car...

If we're to believe the man who reported Lizzie was drunk as a skunk and passed a polygraph that he was being truthful, then Lizzie and Sarah were apparently partiers and Lizzie wasn't immune to getting very plastered at those parties. There was a torrential rain the morning Asha disappeared and at least one of the Demond sisters was old enough to drive. Had these girls left one of those parties highly intoxicated and given the reduced visibility in a torrential rain accidentally hit Asha as she walked down Hwy. 18? As investigators suspected, if this is what happened and the Demond family panicked, then adults would've been needed to help the girls cover this up.

Sarah had told investigators the car they seized was one her father had given her. The question in my mind becomes how did Sarah's car get that front end damage to it? Is that why Lizzie confessed at that party that she had killed Asha? Is that why the issued search warrants stated Roy Demond did not appear to have any ties with Asha or her family, yet was still named as a suspect? Perhaps on obstruction of justice charges if the girls' parents helped them cover up an accident that had killed Asha?

If we look at it in this hypothetical light the cell phone conversations between Sarah and Lizzie begin to make a whole lot more sense, especially with regard to the New Kids On the Block tee shirt discovered, that hadn't belonged to Asha and my seeing those involved changing Asha's clothes in the car into clothes they'd brought along.

“They think it’s our shirt. It’s not her shirt,” Sarah allegedly wrote. “Dad is probably going to be a huge suspect.”

Two of the sisters were 13 and 14 at the time, the age where girls go gaga over cute guys, especially teen heart throbs like New Kids On the Block. So from an age appropriate standpoint, that mystery tee shirt that didn't belong to Asha could very well have belonged to Lizzie or her younger sister and been the clothes I saw Asha being changed into.

Dad would only be a huge suspect if he'd helped them cover up whatever happened that his daughters were involved in and that's a federal obstruction of justice charge right there for which a warrant would be issued.

From a DNA standpoint the Demonds were involved. Degree’s backpack was discovered buried more than 30 miles from where she was last reportedly seen about 17 months after she went missing. The girl’s belongings were “wrapped in two sealed black plastic garbage bags” and were found along Highway 18 near Morganton. Two of the items in the backpack “returned evidentiary results,” linking DNA to AnnaLee Dedmon Ramirez (Roy Dedmon's youngest daughter) and a man named Russell Underhill, now deceased. According to the documents, a DNA sample of a hair stem taken from Degree’s undershirt appeared to match Dedmon Ramirez’s DNA. Dedmon Ramirez was 13 years old at the time Degree went missing.

This tells me it was likely Demond Ramirez's tee shirt that had been put on Asha. Note too that investigators seized a black garbage bag from the Demond property raid, which means they were trying to match that black garbage bag with the black garbage bags they'd found Asha's backpack and belongings wrapped in.

I was curious about this Roy Lee Demond so did some digging and what I found alarmed me.

He was named in an animal abuse case in 2012. The case attracted attention from the community and animal advocates. The horse, Baby, was seized by animal control officers after it was found emaciated and near death in a barn on Cherryville Road. The charges were later dropped after a judge ordered the suppression of evidence.

Psychopathy often goes hand-in-hand with animal abuse. Why was the case later dropped by a judge who ordered suppression of evidence? I could find no information on this whatsoever, which I can't say surprised me. Until proven otherwise, I won't put a cover up in Asha's case outside the realm of possibility.

In addition, Demond owned a Christian school. The Illuminati hate Christians and want all Christians dead.
This may be nothing more than coincidence but again, prove to me it is just coincidence. He also owned a nursing care facility of some kind, which is where the tie to the now deceased Russell Underhill comes into play. Underhill had been a resident of that facility at the time of Asha's disappearance and knew Demond. That his DNA was also identified on Asha's backpack and belongings potentially places him as being involved in Asha's disappearance.

There are other potential Illuminati markers as well.

Asha disappeared on February 14th, Valentine's Day. While Valentine's Day isn't a traditional satanic holiday, based on the Roman festival of the same name, Lupercalia falls on February 15. In keeping with the ancient tradition, February 13th and 14th are observed as feast days leading up to the actual holiday. What we are translating this to in TST is a "hail yourself" day. This idea offers a parallel to the "others-centered" traditions of Sol Invictus.

And there's the one question absolutely no one has been able to answer about Asha's disappearance at 4 a.m. in a torrential storm given the following:

According to the Degrees, Asha was absolutely terrified of the dark. That being the case, why would she leave her home at 4 a.m. in the dark to wander down Hwy. 18?
Just hours before her disappearance, Asha's parents had had to calm her down as she was afraid of the storm that was taking place at the time. Why then would she go out in that same storm that just hours before she'd been so afraid of?
By the family's description, Asha was a shy, timid kid who was afraid of a lot of stuff, even dogs. She would never venture far from their apartment, even with her brother for this reason.
There was no reason for Asha to run away from home. She was in a close family that loved her and had never abused her in any way whatsoever. She was an exceptional student in school. She was an active and regular member of her church. Not to mention 9 year old kids are too young to typically be runaways. Nor had Asha even attempted to run away before.

So what in the sam hill had caused this well adjusted little girl to pack her bookbag and leave the house at 4 a.m. in the dark she was terrified of, to be seen walking down Hwy. 18 in a torrential storm she was also afraid of?

Well, knowing this cult as I do I have a theory on that one.

The day before in school, her class had been read the story The Whipping Boy.

The book tells the story of a prince and a commoner child who receives lashes on the royal's behalf every time he does something wrong. The children run away in the story, and the book covers their adventures. Both boys return safely to the kingdom at the story's end. It is not known if the book served as a catalyst for Asha's disappearance.

The Illuminati view themselves as "royals" and everyone else being beneath them or "commoners". As such, they feel they have the right to do whatever they wish to "commoners", including physical torture and death.
Stories like this are used by the Illuminati and CIA to mind control program children. The Wizard of Oz is another such story. The moral of The Whipping Boy is "Do what we say and you won't be punished. And if you try to escape us, you'll just end up returning to our 'kingdom'.

Was Asha under mind control the morning she left her house? If she was, this would certainly go a long way toward explaining why she'd left the house at 4 a.m. in a raging storm to walk down Highway 18, seemingly without rhyme or reason. It would explain a couple of other things as well.

Why would a little girl going out to walk along a highway in the pouring rain, put on a WHITE dress and white tennis shoes? Think Illuminati color symbology here...and a good little church-going Christian girl like Asha.

Secondly, The truck driver who drove back to make sure Asha was okay when he spotted her walking down Hwy, 18 said she never even looked up at him. I'm sorry, but if you're walking down a highway in a torrential downpour at 4 a.m. and a 10 wheel truck pulls off the road near you to check on you, are you going to look up at that 10 wheel truck? I sure as hell would be to make sure it wasn't about to hit me if nothing else! Yet Asha didn't, which is extremely odd except in one context.

Here's what a person in a mind controlled state can look like. You'll probably recognize this guy...

This trance state is the one a person is in when they are actually mind control programming you. Given Asha had just been exposed to The Whipping Boy child mind control programming the day before she disappeared, she very well could have been in one of these trances, they continuing her programming of her that night and the next morning as she walked down the highway. If she was in one of these trances, she would do exactly as her programmers were instructing her to do, without Asha being the least bit aware of what was happening to her. And if she had been in one of these programming trance states, she would not have looked up at the semi driver who'd approached her and her programming handlers would've instructed her to run into the woods away from that semi driver as Asha had.

This mind control programming isn't science fiction, folks. The CIA and government have been using it for decades, they attempted it on both my late husband and I.

You can look up the U.S. patents on this voice-to-skull mind control technology that incorporates a hypnotic state into it as noted on the diagram above and as you saw in the Clinton trance video.
I'll even make it easy for you to look up: 40 Mind Control Patents

If a mind control programmer had instructed Asha to pack her bookbag, put on a WHITE dress and shoes, walk out of her house at 4 a.m. (without a raincoat) into both the dark and the storm Asha was terrified of, to run away from the truck driver who was looking out for her welfare, then Asha would have done so without a moment's hesitation and without even being cognizant of doing it.

It's the only thing I can think of that would explain Asha so inexplicably leaving her house the way she did.
If you have any other plausible explanation I'd love to hear it.

This case has so many potential twists and turns in it that it's impossible at this point to draw any definite conclusions other than if no one has heard from Asha in a quarter of a century, it's not likely she's still among the living.

There aren't enough connections to say definitively "Yup, another Illuminati abduction!" and there's the fact that supposedly there's a confession from one of the Demond girls to killing Asha and that killing having been covered up. Or it may be a combination of both!

Unfortunately, we're not going to know until investigators open their case file and share what information they have with us fully.