#595: Tragic Update
Real Crime Profile
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🗓️ 10 January 2026
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Kathy and Jim discuss the tragic conclusion to the melody Buzzard case
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| 0:48.4 | Okay. Hello and welcome to Real Crime Profile. |
| 0:51.7 | This is Kathy Canning Mello, retired FBI profiler. |
| 0:57.0 | And with me is Jim Clement to retired FBI profiler, former New York City Prosecutor, and Ride, producer, Criminal Minds, and Bluebeard on Audible. And also, |
| 1:00.5 | FBI Profilers, Criminal Archives. |
| 1:05.2 | On Audible. |
| 1:07.4 | Yeah. So that was one of our favorite projects projects because we got to talk about 15 of our most heart wrenching and some successful, some very difficult cases. |
| 1:25.1 | Right. Yeah. Lots of interesting behavior to discuss. So we took some deep dives on |
| 1:30.8 | those offenders, so it was good. Yeah. But today we have a continuing saga, unfortunately, |
| 1:39.1 | more information about a Melody Buzzard case. |
| 1:54.2 | Yeah, I think our instincts, criminal minds, instincts, and our experience were right on, sadly, in this case. And our expectation that this was going to be a false allegation of child abduction or a missing child case that turns out to be a |
| 2:03.2 | homicide committed by Melody's mother, Ashley. Yeah. If you listened to our earlier episode |
| 2:10.3 | about this case, Ashley Buzzard rented a car with her daughter in tow. They both were wearing wigs and Melody was wearing a hoodie and looked like she was trying |
| 2:22.4 | to disguise herself or she was trying to be disguised. |
| 2:25.5 | And they rented a car and they drove almost constantly for three days. |
| 2:30.7 | Yes. |
| 2:31.3 | Yeah. |
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