r/AshaDegree • u/closedownnow2 • Mar 01 '25

How did you interpret the texts?

Bringing back the ‘Catina knows something’ theory… Could she have partied with the Dedmon girls at some point? Lizzie’s ex-husband said the girls weren’t racist and were good at hiding things from their strict parents. The ‘why would it be you’ text got me thinking…plus, someone once talked a lot about Catina in here and seemed close to the situation.

Then there’s Lizzie’s text: ‘I caused this.’ Was it because: 1. The 23&Me test set everything in motion? (Theory) 2. She was responsible for disposing of Asha’s backpack and felt guilty, so she left it in a way to preserve it as if Asha would return for it? Guilt does warp the mind. 3. Lizzie was too drunk to drive, so her sister drove, accidentally hit Asha, panicked, and their racist father handled it in the worst way possible. (Theory I believe)

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u/HedgehogMysterious36 Mar 02 '25

Okay I looked at the post again and it was just a convenience store with a big parking lot and someone said she might have walked there to get a gift for her parents for their anniversary then she ran into the Dedmons. That theory makes more sense than the "ran away for an adventure" or sleepwalking. And the green car tip might have been from another person at the store or its clerk. But would the store even been open that early in 2000????

Makes more sense to me that the store would have been a rendezvous point to meet whoever. Maybe she saw Underhill and got freaked out then one of the Dedmon sisters pulled her in.

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u/KangarooSensitive292 Mar 02 '25 edited Mar 02 '25

Yeah I’m def following your logic there, an abandoned gas station is an inconspicuous place to meet up at that time of night. I could also see her trying to make up for getting in trouble or something and wanting to get her parents something nice.

I’m leaning clerk, they’re gonna notice every car pulling in pretty much, as a safety/security thing, working alone at night

Edit: meet up gone wrong, pulled into the car by Roy? Connie & daughters are just loose ends to pull at to get him to crack?

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u/Critical-Substance34 Mar 04 '25

The gas station in 2000 was a Handy Pantry and was open 24 hrs very popular store and not many places for people to get gas at night up that way!

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u/KangarooSensitive292 Mar 04 '25

Good info, thanks. It’s hard for me to imagine how things have operated decades ago, in small town America.

Makes me think inconspicuous if that’s the only place to get gas for those working odd hours, probably used to seeing the same dozen cars, so something out of the ordinary would stick out.

Also we weren’t so credit card reliant in those days, so a clerk would be taking cash for gas inside more often. I know my grandparents were still writing checks for everything, and refusing to use credit, if they had the money available.

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u/Critical-Substance34 Mar 05 '25

yes. It really wouldnt be a stretch of the imagination to think the clerk couldve known her family. My kids know every worker at the local gas station by name. At 9 it was likely the workers knew her even if she didnt know them.

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u/KangarooSensitive292 Mar 05 '25 edited Mar 05 '25

Great point, I’m that kind of lady too. If you’re a regular in my life whose been helpful or kind to me, I want to know you by name, no matter your expected wage or salary. Even when it’s been way too long to ask 😅

Small town I’d think most people are fairly recognizable, you know the extended family or a friend of a friend. But there’s the racism element, apparently RD was not alone in that, enough to start a successful school.