Nine-year-old vanished forever after walking out of home into thunderstorm

Asha Degree was nine years old when she packed her rucksack and disappeared into a thunderstorm in Shelby, North Carolina, on Valentine's Day 2000. She was last seen heading into a nearby wooded area.

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