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33: MURDER: Asia and Ashton Brown

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🗓️ 25 March 2024

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

On February 22, 2015, 22-year-old Asia Brown and her two-year-old son, Ashton, were reported missing to the Greensboro, North Carolina police. The following day, they were discovered in the trunk of Asia’s car, which had been set on fire in a secluded area owned by the City. Due to the extent of the damage to Asia and Ashton’s bodies, a cause of death couldn’t be determined, however, investigators are positive they were murdered.

It’s been just over nine years since Asia and Ashton were killed, and investigators are still searching for the person responsible…

Asia Brown was last seen at around 3:20 pm on February 20, 2015 at the AutoZone store on Randleman Road in Greensboro, North Carolina. Three days later, her recently purchased 2005 black Buick LaCrosse was found burned in a wooded area off Thurston Avenue, a service road near the bank of South Buffalo Creek. Asia and her two-year-old son, Ashton, were discovered inside the trunk.

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On February 22-22-year-old Asia Brown and her two-year-old son Ashton were reported missing to the

0:16.6

Greensboro Police Department.

0:19.1

The following day, they had been discovered in the trunk of Asia's car, which had been set on fire in a secluded area owned by the city.

0:27.0

Due to the extent of the damage to Asia and Ashton's bodies, a cause of death could not be determined. However, investigators

0:34.8

are positive they were murdered. It's been just over nine years since Asia and

0:39.0

Ashton Brown were killed and investigators are still searching for the person responsible. I'm going to be here. Hey everyone.

1:04.7

Welcome. Hey everyone welcome back to Detective Perspective. My name is Derek Lovasser. I'm a licensed private investigator and former police detective.

1:21.0

Each week I'll be covering an unsolved case in story format.

1:25.1

I'll then give you my perspective on the investigation

1:28.1

and provide contact information for the individuals or organizations connected to the case so that if you have any tips

1:35.1

you can contact them directly and maybe you can help solve the case.

1:39.2

So if you're someone who's interested in true crime specifically unsolved cases and you would like to hear my

1:44.1

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1:54.0

Okay, so for today's case, Asia and Ashton Brown,

1:57.8

as you will see, we do have some evidence of Asia's whereabouts right before she kind of dropped off the radar.

2:06.5

There are some questions about Ashton and whether or not he was there with her, but we will

2:10.4

get into that.

2:12.0

But overall this case is just like any other case where we cover very

2:15.1

tragic and it's clearly affected her family from what I understand they've done

2:20.9

no media interviews regarding this case, probably because it's too hard for them to talk about.

2:28.0

And as far as the investigation itself, it seems like the police department for the most part has dotted their eyes and crossed their teas

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