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in my head listeners of True Crime garage come here to give strength to the victims
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and nothing breaks your heart more than a child victim and parents of that child
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unfortunately that is what we have here today A missing little girl a case that refuses to go cold due to
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the efforts of the girl's family the hard work of law enforcement agencies both local and federal and the
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commitment of a tight-knit community the missing little one that we are talking about this week is Asia degree she
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vanished on a cold rainy night 21 years ago she was just nine years old but the case has other reasons for not going
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cold because just as strange as Aisha's disappearance are the leads and tips that have come in over the years we have
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discussed many missing persons cases here in the garage one thing we continually see when a
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child goes missing is that hope can never fade because unfortunately too often hope is
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all they have Aisha's mother does not watch the news as stories of abused children and murdered women haunt her
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in 2013 she told then Charlotte Observer Reporter Mandy Locke quote God won't let
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me believe she's dead in Aisha's case every few years there's another solid lead that presents some
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Hope For answers but with this glimmer of hope and these rays of positivity there's still a lot
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of Darkness there are the nightmares that visit the families mercilessly for the parents
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it's the overwhelming hurt of closing your eyes and imagining your loved one trapped hungry and cold the relatives
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look at everyone suspiciously even stopping to examine the faces of children who do not seem to resemble
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their parents for these people cannot trust anyone anymore they know someone took their child
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maybe even someone they know is responsible maybe someone they trusted before they
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lost the ability to do so could it be that someone in the beginning of the case who tried to help the family took
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the little one it's the reoccurring haunting and nagging fears that naturally creep into
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the minds of the family did someone follow the child home was it a neighbor who watched and waited
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for the perfect time to snatch the child it's the forever heightened sense of one's surroundings
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it's the staring at a driver trying to memorize the make and model of a suspicious vehicle that for some reason
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or other squealed its tires it's your heart jumping every time the phone rings it's the looking into the eyes of the
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unknown man at the diner looking for what something anything some kind of breadcrumb that
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will lead you to embrace that loved one once again it's these things to beat you up tear you down and can
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drive you to insanity maybe it's one's faith in God themselves or something that they simply cannot
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explain that keeps hope alive asha's mother says she ignores the speculation that her daughter is dead
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she believes if that were true God would quote Give Me A Sign and prepare me the disappearances of children like Asia
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degree are often considered to be lost causes after 72 hours the odds of finding a Child Alive are low
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but for the parents the child are alive Frozen in time and just out of their reach
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officials at the national Center for missing and exploited children point to cases like JC Dugard Jamie Kloss
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and of course the unforgettable Rescue of the three young ladies in Ohio in 2013.
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and say these examples should bring a Resurgence of energy to Old cases Lena Holmes a family advocacy specialist at
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the center says we hope these cases can be a reminder that kids are still out there it reinforces the need for
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vigilance if you see something funny or suspicious reach out it could mean everything
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