Anonymous wrote:Based on the other evidence (car, DNA, other witnesses) it sounds like this family definitely was involved. But there's nothing particularly damning in those text messages that I see.

Didn’t they make the DNA connection through a DNA sharing databank? I interpreted the “it was my fault” to her doing a 23 and Me. Her DNA would understandably be all over things the family owned (like the car) so I wonder if they’re even involved at all, and if it was just the dad.

Based on the other evidence (car, DNA, other witnesses) it sounds like this family definitely was involved. But there's nothing particularly damning in those text messages that I see.

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Anonymous wrote:Any possibility the Dedmon sisters lured her out and she was going to meet them?

I’ve wondered this as well, but how would they have even known each other? What’s the connection? Do you happen to know?

I believe she was groomed by someone and lured out. It may have been the Dedmon sister(s), or it may have been someone else and the Dedmon family is an unfortunate coincidence. I know someone who was groomed as a child and everyone was none the wiser until that person confessed their story in their 40s. I mean, that’s the whole point of grooming someone: others don’t know.

I don't know if Asha and the Dedmon girls knew each other, it just seems so implausible that whoever killed her is not also the reason she was out walking alone at like 3 AM.

I agree. If not for that hair on the NKOTB shirt, there would be no connection at all. I just can’t imagine she would have been close enough to be groomed by THESE girls but nobody knew they knew each other, and nobody has come forward in all these years to say otherwise.

What was she doing out that night? My mind can’t fathom it.

I know everyone says she was scared of the dark, but everyone is scared of something until one day they’re brave enough to overcome their fears. I mean, I would shriek and go ballistic at the sight of a spider on the wall, demanding someone else kill it NOW! But then one day while home alone, suddenly there was a spider and nobody to kill it, so I mustered up the courage, and it wasn’t that bad.

Maybe she WAS scared of the dark, but perhaps there was something she wanted MORE than she wanted to be afraid of the dark:

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Anonymous wrote:Any possibility the Dedmon sisters lured her out and she was going to meet them?

I’ve wondered this as well, but how would they have even known each other? What’s the connection? Do you happen to know?

I believe she was groomed by someone and lured out. It may have been the Dedmon sister(s), or it may have been someone else and the Dedmon family is an unfortunate coincidence. I know someone who was groomed as a child and everyone was none the wiser until that person confessed their story in their 40s. I mean, that’s the whole point of grooming someone: others don’t know.

I don't know if Asha and the Dedmon girls knew each other, it just seems so implausible that whoever killed her is not also the reason she was out walking alone at like 3 AM.

I agree. If not for that hair on the NKOTB shirt, there would be no connection at all. I just can’t imagine she would have been close enough to be groomed by THESE girls but nobody knew they knew each other, and nobody has come forward in all these years to say otherwise.

What was she doing out that night? My mind can’t fathom it.

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Anonymous wrote:Any possibility the Dedmon sisters lured her out and she was going to meet them?

I’ve wondered this as well, but how would they have even known each other? What’s the connection? Do you happen to know?

I believe she was groomed by someone and lured out. It may have been the Dedmon sister(s), or it may have been someone else and the Dedmon family is an unfortunate coincidence. I know someone who was groomed as a child and everyone was none the wiser until that person confessed their story in their 40s. I mean, that’s the whole point of grooming someone: others don’t know.

I don't know if Asha and the Dedmon girls knew each other, it just seems so implausible that whoever killed her is not also the reason she was out walking alone at like 3 AM.

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Anonymous wrote:Any possibility the Dedmon sisters lured her out and she was going to meet them?

What would be their motive?

If they did it for their father (racial and/or nefarious purposes?), then the text messages make sense (“it’s my fault”), and the person who saw her being pulled into the car on the side of the road makes sense (maybe something like “start walking and we will meet you”.)

Did Dedmon use his daughters to lure this poor girl from her bed in the middle of the night?

Anonymous wrote:Any possibility the Dedmon sisters lured her out and she was going to meet them?

What would be their motive?

Anonymous wrote:OMG. This is one of my "pet" cases - nothing about the case makes any sense. Obviously it would be terribly sad for her family to have official confirmation that she's dead, but at least it's *some* closure...?

Me too.

Like everyone I have a ton of these pet cases I follow. Glad for closure, mostly.

Anonymous wrote:Any possibility the Dedmon sisters lured her out and she was going to meet them?

I’ve wondered this as well, but how would they have even known each other? What’s the connection? Do you happen to know?

I believe she was groomed by someone and lured out. It may have been the Dedmon sister(s), or it may have been someone else and the Dedmon family is an unfortunate coincidence. I know someone who was groomed as a child and everyone was none the wiser until that person confessed their story in their 40s. I mean, that’s the whole point of grooming someone: others don’t know.

Any possibility the Dedmon sisters lured her out and she was going to meet them?

Anonymous wrote:I’ve followed this case off and on for years and always assumed that somebody groomed her and lured her out of the house and then killed her. If it was a random car accident WHY was this little girl out on the highway in the dead of night in a rainstorm to begin with?

Yes, where was she headed?

I’ve followed this case off and on for years and always assumed that somebody groomed her and lured her out of the house and then killed her. If it was a random car accident WHY was this little girl out on the highway in the dead of night in a rainstorm to begin with?

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Anonymous wrote:So the working theory seems to be that one of the teenage daughters was driving her parents’ car in the middle of the night, hit Asha by accident, panicked and her parents covered it up? Why were any of these kids out in the middle of the night with no adults??

It’s weird. I read some of the texts as suggesting that’s not what happened (“why would it be you?”), but then the same sister is worried this is all her fault/people are mad at her… I wonder what actually happened. Seems like the dad did more than cover it up from the texts… but why would it be Lizzie’s fault if it’s as simple as the dad being responsible?

It’s horrible to imagine but I wonder if one of the teens hit her and she was badly injured, but not instantly killed, and they took her home to get help/call 911 but that’s not what the dad did?

I read all of the texts and the daughters are clearly indicating that it's the father they are really protecting. Yet one of the daughters confessed that she'd killed Asha at a party. I think the theory that the daughter either injured or for some other reason brought Asha to the father and he killed her is the one that best fits the evidence that is public.

I only started really reading about this case once the texts were released. I remember there was a lot of ugly stuff directed at the parents and it felt off to me. The r / unreseolvedmysteries (not unsolvedmysteries) has some very good posts as well. I hope so much that the truth comes out and Asha's family will finally know what happened to her.

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Anonymous wrote:So the working theory seems to be that one of the teenage daughters was driving her parents’ car in the middle of the night, hit Asha by accident, panicked and her parents covered it up? Why were any of these kids out in the middle of the night with no adults??

It’s weird. I read some of the texts as suggesting that’s not what happened (“why would it be you?”), but then the same sister is worried this is all her fault/people are mad at her… I wonder what actually happened. Seems like the dad did more than cover it up from the texts… but why would it be Lizzie’s fault if it’s as simple as the dad being responsible?

It’s horrible to imagine but I wonder if one of the teens hit her and she was badly injured, but not instantly killed, and they took her home to get help/call 911 but that’s not what the dad did?

Anonymous wrote:So the working theory seems to be that one of the teenage daughters was driving her parents’ car in the middle of the night, hit Asha by accident, panicked and her parents covered it up? Why were any of these kids out in the middle of the night with no adults??

It’s weird. I read some of the texts as suggesting that’s not what happened (“why would it be you?”), but then the same sister is worried this is all her fault/people are mad at her… I wonder what actually happened. Seems like the dad did more than cover it up from the texts… but why would it be Lizzie’s fault if it’s as simple as the dad being responsible?