Cleveland County Valentine Podcast

02/13/2026

Tomorrow makes 26 years since Asha Degree’s disappearance.

This Valentine's Day marks 26 years since 9-year-old Asha Degree disappeared. The Cleveland County Sheriff's Office, the FBI, and the SBI continue to tirelessly investigate this case. It is difficult to explain the massive amount of resources dedicated over the years and still to this day to find "Shelby's Sweetheart." You may be able to help us and give her family the answers they deserve. If you have information directly related to our investigation, call the Cleveland County Sheriff's Office at 704-484-4822. There is a combined reward up to $100,000. We will never stop searching for Asha.

01/25/2026

Cleveland County Valentine Podcast

PSA🗣️: Asha Degree’s case was administratively closed, then later reopened in 2001.

While recent developments have led some to conclude the case is “solved,” it has never been officially solved.

Asha is still missing.

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01/02/2026

Hoping 2026 finally brings justice for Dee Dee Dawkins too.

12/28/2025

🚨 EPISODE 13 — FINAL EPISODE OF 2025 🚨
Rural Justice: Power, Politics & Policing

In the Season 1 finale of Cleveland County Valentine Podcast, we discuss how power, politics, and rural policing structures has shaped the investigation— and silenced accountability.

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📞 If you have any information regarding the Asha Degree case, please contact the FBI at (704) 672-6100. There is a $100,000 reward being offered for information.

Podcast Episode · Cleveland County Valentine · 12/28/2025 · 41m

12/05/2025

Episode 13 Coming Soon!

“Rural Justice – Power, Politics & Policing”

11/19/2025

On the morning of February 14, 2000, shortly after 6:40 AM, Shelby Rescue deployed K-9 search dogs to track Asha Degree’s movements.

This cold, wet, weather created ideal scent conditions. Scent stays low, settles into the grass, and is easier for dogs to follow.

🔎 What the search dogs found:
Asha’s scent was tracked from her home and then abruptly stopped two houses down (WCNC). When a K-9 loses a trail this suddenly, it can mean the person:

• entered a vehicle, or
• was lifted or carried

No further trail was detected of Asha past that location.

10/12/2025

09/25/2025

📍 Shelby, NC — February 17, 2000

It didn’t take long.

Just 72 hours after 9-year-old Asha Degree vanished into the dark and stormy night, Sheriff Crawford went on record, with what most of us already feared.

So why, 25 years later, has no one been held accountable?

Why does it feel like we’ve gotten further from the truth, not closer?

👇 Comment down below if you remember the day Asha Degree went missing.

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06/06/2025

WSOC Charlotte now reports detectives believe Asha Degree was abducted after leaving her Shelby home on Valentine’s Day 2000 — a dramatic shift from the long-pushed “runaway after a basketball game” theory.

Why the change now? And what does it mean for the people who insisted otherwise for decades?

🎙️ Cleveland County Valentine Investigation Continues…

https://www.wsoctv.com/news/local/reward-increases-asha-degree-case-25-years-after-vanishing/5U6LJZKIRZERFEU6OAQ6VVU2GU/

05/24/2025

The Cleveland County Sheriff’s Office has increased the reward to $75,000 for information leading to the whereabouts of missing 9-year-old Asha Degree.

Someone knows what happened to her.

05/18/2025

🚨EPISODE 12: Someone Everybody Knows — Out Now🚨

In this episode, I’m joined by Dr. Chandra Cleveland—a former sheriff’s deputy with over 40 years in law enforcement and founder of SHE Investigations—as she revisits the Asha Degree case through a seasoned investigative lens.

Dr. Cleveland shares new insight into what she believes happened the night Asha vanished… and who she may have trusted enough to follow. Her take might surprise you.

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If Asha didn’t leave home alone… who came to get her?

Podcast Episode · Cleveland County Valentine · 05/17/2025 · 1h 5m