The documents also reveal text messages between the Dedmon family when investigators searched their properties.

The warrants uncovered text messages that could point to a suspect in the disappearance of Asha Degree 25 years ago.

February 2025 marks 25 years since Asha Degree, known as Shelby’s Sweetheart, disappeared on Valentine’s Day. The search for Degree -- who was just 9 years old at the time she went missing from her North Carolina home -- has remained active through the years.

Just days after the 25th anniversary of Asha Degree's disappearance, new search warrants released Tuesday reveal details in the case, including text messages between members of the Dedmon family and reports of one of the Dedmon's, while at a party 20 years ago, to confessing to killing the child.