Hello and welcome to Real Crime Profile. This is Kathy Canning Mello, retired FBI agent and profiler. And here with me is my dear friend and co-host. Hi, it's Jim Clemente,

retired FBI profiler, former New York City Prosecutor, Right, producer of Criminal Minds, and Bluebeard

on Audible. And also, co-host of FBI Profilers' Criminal Archives with Kathy Canning Mello.

Yes, on Audible, which you're so excited about.

Yeah.

So, Kathy, we have a case that unfortunately brings back memories of a number of cases that we

have worked over the course of our career at the BAU.

Why don't you introduce the case?

So the case we're going to discuss today, Jim, is the case of Melody Buzzard.

She's a missing nine-year-old girl.

She was reported missing on October 14th by her school, who said that she had extended absences.

And she was apparently enrolled in a remote school program, which makes it even more

difficult, I think, to try to ascertain exactly where she was and when she locked in.

She was supposedly being homeschooled, but she's supposed to check in all the time.

And she hasn't checked in.

Nobody's actually seen her there for over a year.

Yeah, it's really sad.

And it's her mother, Ashley Buzzard, who has been sort of isolating her from the rest of the world.

And recently, Melody's grandmother has sort of stepped forward

and started talking about the strange behavior of Ashley Buzzard. Yeah. In fact, she has tried to,

the paternal grandparents had tried to gain custody of Melody recently, which makes all of these circumstances more disturbing,

right? All of a sudden, now she's missing. And the investigating agency is the Santa Barbara

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