Roy Dedmon Both Daughters AnnaLee Victoria And Sarah Gwen In Trouble With Asha Degree Case
Investigators listed Roy Dedmon and several others, including his daughter AnnaLee Victoria Dedmon Ramirez, as potential connections to Asha Jaquilla Degree’s case from February 2000.
The search warrant documents, executed at several locations, showed that DNA evidence links items belonging to Asha Degree to Anne Lee Dedmon Ramirez and a man named Russell Bradley Underhill.
Highlights
- Investigator traced the DNA to Roy Dedmon’s daughter, AnnaLee Victoria Dedmon Ramirez, who was 13 when Degree went missing.
- Roy Dedmon, another daughter, Sarah, revealed that when she was 16, her father gave her an AMC Rambler to drive.
- An eyewitness reported seeing Asha Degree pulled into a green 1970s Lincoln Thunderbird or a similar car.
Underhill, found motionless in Lincoln County in 2004, is also connected to the Shelby NC case.
The warrants list several seized items, including a car, journals, cameras, film, a black trash bag, a human tooth in a Ziploc bag, children’s clothing, and computers.
The Dedmon family has three daughters—Sarah Gwen Dedmon Caple, Lizzie Grace Dedmon Foster, and AnnaLee Victoria Dedmon Ramirez—who were teenagers when Asha disappeared.
Laboratory tests showed that the DNA from a hair sample found on Asha Degree’s undershirt is very similar to the DNA of AnnaLee Victoria Dedmon Ramirez.
DNA Was Traced Back To Roy Dedmon’s Daughter AnnaLee Victoria Dedmon Ramirez
Seventeen months after Degree vanished, her backpack, packed in two sealed black trash bags, was found along Highway 18 near Morganton.
Investigators found DNA from a hair on a shirt that belonged to Degree, which was discovered in a trash bag with other items in Burke County in 2001.
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They traced this DNA to one of the Dedmon’s daughters, AnnaLee Victoria Dedmon Ramirez, who was 13 when Degree went missing.
In the evidence, they also found DNA from another person linked to the Dedmon family.
In February 2000, two other Dedmon sisters were 15 and 16.
The search warrant application says that Sarah, the couple’s daughter, was interviewed at home.
She revealed that when she was 16, her father gave her an AMC Rambler to drive.
The documents also mention that an eyewitness reported seeing Asha Degree pulled into a green 1970s Lincoln Thunderbird or a similar car.
The 1964 AMC Rambler, recently seized from 601 Cherryville Road, closely resembles that description.
This Rambler is dark green and has damage to the front.
A man who has lived at the property for five years told investigators that three rooms in the house are locked with padlocks.
He said Dedmon told him these rooms contain personal items.
Investigators now think that Degree was k*lled and her body was hidden.
They believe that, given the ages of the Dedmon sisters, the involvement of their parents, Roy and Connie Dedmon, would have been hiding the cr*me.
Lizzie Grace Dedmon Foster Used To Drive A Car, Which Was Mentioned In The Case
In May 2023, investigators talked to a Cleveland County Social Services employee.
The employee confirmed that Underhill lived at Cleveland Health Care and remembered that Roy Dedmon was involved in his care in February 2000.
Roy Lee Dedmon, the suspect in the case, opened a segregationist school in the late 1960s.
He was also in court on animal abuse charges after a horse “was found emaciated and sick in a barn on his property on Cherryville Road”. Charges were dropped. https://t.co/sKuhoLNpzs pic.twitter.com/pXyXMpwsCH
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They said Roy Dedmon would have his 16 or 17-year-old daughter, Lizzie Grace Dedmon Foster, drive an old car to take patients to and from Broughton Hospital in Morganton.
The records showed that in 1994, Connie was an administrator at Cleveland Health Care and had made notes on how to give Underhill’s medication.
Additional Information
- When Cleveland Health Care shut down in 2002, Russell Bradley Underhill moved to Northbrook Rest Home in Vale.
- The Dedmon couple has run Northbrook Rest Home since 1985.
