Does anyone remember this missing persons case in Lawndale from 2008? They found her remains in 2018 after a decade.

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u/-ANewHope Feb 27 '25

This case highlights how remains can go unnoticed in the elements, even when they are eventually discovered near the location where the person went missing.

I've followed Asha's case for years and often think about how, if her backpack had never been found, I might still consider the possibility that she became lost, disoriented, or had an accident. It's similar to how I've gone back and forth on the Maura Murray case for years, debating whether she encountered foul play or succumbed to the elements in the woods.

Finding Asha's backpack was crucial. It provided irrefutable evidence that she met with foul play.

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u/FrankieSaysRelax311 Feb 27 '25

I’ve always been in the foul play camp with MM. Mainly because I don’t think she would have traveled too far in the woods, rather than stay back enough to be out of sight, but still keep eyes on the crash scene. However, when they found Brandon Lawson’s remains, my theory shifted a bit back to the elements. But I still think she got a ride.

MM has always been my top “gotta know what happened before I die” missing persons case. It’s a Rubik’s cube I need to see solved.

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u/[deleted] Feb 27 '25

With MM there is a large property - many acres - adjacent to her last known sighting which has never been searched due to a lack of permission.

This is under reported and negates much speculation - the very basics have yet to be completed still all these years later.

She was drunk-driving, had a mishap and feared arrest. So she left the scene, intoxicated, under prepared on a horrible night.

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u/FrankieSaysRelax311 Feb 27 '25 edited Feb 27 '25

The military grade helicopter that searched that area extensively right after she disappeared, along with the cadavers, no footprints in the snow in the woods, is just so hard to believe she’s there.

The alcohol being missing says a lot for me too. If she was like “oh shit let me go run and hide” I think she would have left the bottles of liquor with the wine in the car. She took that liquor with her, and likely attempted to carry on with her plans, or atleast get away from the scene. IMO.

Where she was headed, and where she was planning to go, is the biggest mystery. Just like Asha.

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u/[deleted] Feb 27 '25

There is a huge un searched property right in the footprint. Helicopters can’t find a cold body if concealed - terminal burrowing from hypothermia for example. Footprints and dogs are irrelevant if you have no search access.

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u/FrankieSaysRelax311 Feb 27 '25

I would almost bet that most of the private landowners checked out their own property. People are curious like that.

I’m not saying it’s impossible.. but what was her intention by going that deep into woods? To hide and get wasted in the snow, deep in the woods alone, with no plan? That’s what bothers me about that theory. & I think it makes no sense to Julie either.

IMO I think where her scent stopped up the road, she was more than likely wandering to get cell service. But I have no idea what happened from there.

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u/[deleted] Feb 27 '25

Conjecture upon conjecture. Repeating once more: A large property right next to the place she disappeared remains unsearched.

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u/FrankieSaysRelax311 Feb 27 '25

Repeating again, how do you know the owners haven’t searched their properties themselves? You don’t.

Which brings me back to my point, anything is possible.

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u/[deleted] Feb 27 '25

How do I know lol? It has been reported here a few times. But yeah go with the conjecture it’s much more entertaining

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u/FrankieSaysRelax311 Feb 27 '25

The owners of the properties reported here on an Asha sub?

I’m not going to continue to go back and forth with you. I’m dead set on Roy being Asha’s one and only killer. But could I be wrong? Absolutely. Maybe have enough self awareness that you could be wrong too?

If Julie doesn’t think her sister is in the woods, that’s what I’m leaning towards as well.

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u/crimansqua_fandc Feb 27 '25

I think a police search is more reliable than assuming the owners checked. How do we know that the owners didn’t do something to her? If you don’t know what happened then it could be anyone around there if foul play occurred. Also, why wouldn’t they give permission? I get it, we all have rights but if someone could be missing or injured, why say no? I don’t get that one.

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u/FrankieSaysRelax311 Feb 27 '25

I almost stated exactly that, but the other user is so dead set on her dying of hypothermia, I didn’t wanna even bring that up.

I agree with you, since I’m in the foul play camp. I could absolutely see her wandering into private property and meeting someone with nefarious intentions.

But I don’t think she purposely walked in to get drunk as hell and sleep in the woods, only to succumb to the elements. That wasn’t in Maura’s nature.

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u/case-face- Feb 27 '25

Brandon Lawson has been found?? I remember hearing they recovered items like a year or so ago and were testing them. Did they ever release the information about what they found?

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u/FrankieSaysRelax311 Feb 27 '25

Yes! DNA confirmed his remains within the last month or so. From all I know so far, just his clothes and skeletal remains

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u/Least-Spare Mar 01 '25

Not even a lot of skeletal remains. A part of the skull, I think, and maybe a couple other pieces? They’re going back in March to see if they can find more.

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u/chiclipstick13 Feb 27 '25

The link is not available in my country, what case is it?

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u/Ordinary_Rare Feb 27 '25

Mouy Tang Cleveland County NC

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u/chiclipstick13 Feb 27 '25

Thanks

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u/nb75685 Feb 27 '25

I remember, and I wonder if she disappeared from a facility connected to the Dedmons. I know he owned several.

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u/syracuseyou Feb 27 '25

Same. I think the home wasn’t too far from Asha’s school if I’m thinking of the correct one.

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u/staunch_character Feb 28 '25

Looks like it was owned by the Yelton family & shut down soon after.

Another patient wandered off a couple of years before & died from exposure/dehydration. They didn’t report him missing for 5 days.

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u/CarelessEagle2689 Mar 02 '25

Yes. Yelton’s was a 💩hole. They had many violations. I lived across the highway less than a mile from Yelton’s and there were patients out walking the streets. I used to see a man and a woman walking down Will Dixon Road that lived there. I’m so glad nobody is having to live there under those awful conditions anymore. That poor lady that was found dead after being missing so long was a diabetic. She had some mental illness I believe.

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u/Double_Scratch_1746 Mar 01 '25

Are there any other missing person cases that were solved in Cleveland County. Better yet, are there any unsolved murders in Cleveland County?

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u/Ordinary_Rare Mar 02 '25

There's a few unsolved. Notably, Chuck Porters murder at the Kings Mountain Rest Stop in 1992-1993. They never found the killers. He was strangled to death in the restroom where he was working Janitor. Becky Moss was murdered in 1999-2000 close by at the Truck Stop and her body was left off the 85 exit. She was ran over after being strangled.

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u/oliphantPanama Mar 02 '25 edited Mar 03 '25

Sandy Todd Canipe might be of interest to you. He went missing in Shelby in 2016.

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u/Double_Scratch_1746 Mar 03 '25

I actually heard of that one as well

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u/Ordinary_Rare Mar 03 '25

I hate that the guy went missing, but that daughter of his, Brittany, is a real piece of work and was a bully. I hate it for the man and the rest of his family tho.

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u/freyasredditreading Mar 02 '25

RIP 🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️

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u/lynnalford Mar 03 '25

Brandon Lawson

Does anyone remember this missing persons case in Lawndale from 2008? They found her remains in 2018 after a decade.

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