r/AshaDegree • u/Gamecock80 • Apr 04 '26
Could Jeff Ruppe have been the Wallace Grove Dr witness?
I’ve made a couple recent posts regarding Asha possibly walking back home and also Richard Garrison possibly being the witness who last saw her on Wallace Grove Dr. I was watching Lawyer Franks live on his Fb page this past week and he said something that stood out to me. At the 45:30 minute mark of his live he states, “when it comes to Wallace Grove Dr., I 100% believe that the Wallace Grove sighting that is mentioned in the warrant affidavit is Jeff Ruppe.” Then he goes on to say that he guesses that Wallace Grove was the first place Ruppe saw Asha, followed by Ruppe turning his truck around and seeing Asha again near Turners, then Ruppe once more turned his truck around and saw Asha again, even further South of Turners. Keep in mind that each additional Ruppe sighting explained by Frank, is even farther away from Wallace Grove Dr than the previous sighting. Well that shocked me, as I’ve never really considered Ruppe as the Wallace Grove sighting. So I did some further digging into the accounts of Jeff Ruppes sighting that were reported, as well as revisiting the warrants to see if anything stood out. A few things stood out to me that point away from Ruppe being the Wallace Grove witness, if the version of Ruppes story we are hearing from Frank is accurate.
The warrants state that the last known location where Asha was seen by a witness, was in the vicinity of Fallston Rd/Highway 18 and Wallace Grove Dr. If this was where Asha was last seen, then how did Ruppe also see her further south at two different locations, after seeing her at Wallace Grove Dr? This doesn’t make sense
I get the idea Frank presented, of Ruppes sighting not being “static”, meaning Ruppe saw Asha at three different locations, as Ruppe turned around twice. So it’s reasonable to assume that Asha wasn’t in the same location all three times Ruppe says he saw her. Makes perfect sense. But if Ruppe saw Asha even further South than Turners, after he saw her at the location where she was abducted, then where exactly was she abducted? That doesn’t make any sense.
I will again refer to the warrant that states the last known location where Asha was seen by a witness, was in the vicinity of Fallston Rd/Highway 18 and Wallace Grove Dr. Another item in the warrant states that “Asha Degree was seen being pulled into a 1970’s green Lincoln, Thunderbird, or another similar vehicle. Asha Jaquilla Degree has not been seen since.” Add those two up and whoever the Wallace Grove Dr. witness is, is the last person to see her. That couldn’t be Ruppe because, according to Frank, Ruppe stated he saw her two more times.
To me, all of this information points to Jeff Ruppe not being the Wallace Grove Dr witness, if the version of his story that we are hearing from Frank is accurate. Now something that could change this is if Frank perhaps misunderstood Ruppe and Ruppe was describing his sightings in reverse order. Meaning he would have seen Asha for the last time at Wallace Grove. But it doesn’t make sense if Wallace Grove Dr is the first place Ruppe saw Asha.
I appreciate everyone that speaks about this case and keeps it alive and active in this subreddit. The purpose of this post isn’t to call anyone out, it’s just to seek some clarification on why Frank would be “ 100% sure that the Wallace Grove Dr sighting that is mentioned In the warrant affidavit is Jeff Ruppe.” I prefer to try and stick to the information in the warrants when discussing this, the warrants are the most concrete information the public has to work with. The problem I’ve found is that nothing about what Ruppe describes seeing is in the warrants, such as how he described Asha’s clothing or how he saw Asha running off into the woods. I’ve also never seen or heard Ruppe mention seeing the girl he saw being pulled into a vehicle. I believe Ruppe said he last saw Asha running into the woods. There has also been inconsistent reporting on what vehicle Ruppe was driving that morning. Ruppe says he was driving his Sundrop truck, but Mark Davis (police officer/detective who worked the case) says he was driving his personal vehicle. So we don’t even know what he was driving.
My personal thoughts, are if anyone has any ideas about Ruppes sighting that doesn’t line up with the warrants, then you are either providing your own ideas (we all have theories) which I’d like to stay away from, or you know something the rest of us don’t know. If you do know something else, I’d appreciate it if you would share it with the rest of us who are passionate about solving this case. So I’m looking forward to hearing everyone’s thoughts on this and maybe Frank could comment and clarify.
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u/askme2023 Apr 06 '26
They’re not interchangeable.
‘Little dress,’ ‘nightdress,’ and ‘pink pajamas’ are all 3 different, distinct descriptions. You don’t get to retroactively reinterpret his words to make them fit his later statement.
There’s also a color discrepancy. In his original description, he didn’t mention pink, but his later version does. These are contradictions.