Asha Degree was just nine years old in the fourth grade when she disappeared from Shelby, North Carolina. In the early morning hours of Valentine’s Day on February 14, 2000, for reasons unknown, Degree left her home. According to the FBI website, “Around 2:30 a.m., Asha Degree’s father checked up on her and her older brother in the room they shared. Both were sound…
The Disappearance of Donna Barnhill
Donna Barnhill was just 13 years old at the time of her disappearance when she left her family’s residence in Lexington, North Carolina, to go to a nearby friend’s home. Barnhill vanished on the afternoon of March 18, 1981, and 44 years later, her family and friends are still looking for answers. A billboard on…
The 1993 Be-Lo Grocery Store Murders
On Sunday, June 6, 1993, a black male was hidden inside an eastern North Carolina grocery store in Windsor, North Carolina. Around 6:15 p.m. that evening, the culprit, who was already hiding in the store, waiting for it to close, took six hostages after employees closed for the night. The man took everyone to the…
The 2001 Cold Case of Judy Rawlings
Judy Carol Rawlings was born in 1985, near Asheboro, North Carolina. The 16-year-old left her home in early October 2001 for a doctor’s appointment in nearby Greensboro around 7:30 a.m., but she never returned. According to the cold cases listed on the Randolph County website, a local had given her a ride on a four-wheeler…
The Cold Case of Rhonda Hinson
In Late December of 1981, Rhonda Hinson of Valdese, just nineteen years old at the time, was fatally shot inside her car in Burke County, North Carolina, while traveling towards Valdese on I-40 West to the Mineral Springs Mountain Road exit. Hinson was reportedly leaving a Christmas Party that she had attended earlier that night….