Buzzard & D4VD/Celeste Rivas-Hernandez: Two Disturbing Cases and No Arrests
Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski | True Crime News & Commentary
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🗓️ 2 December 2025
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
In the Buzzard case, witness Tyler Brewer describes a home filled with paranoia: shifting stories about handing Melodee to strangers at a zoo, deleted accounts, talk of fake plates, accusations of undercover cops — and a pillow dressed in Melodee’s clothes surrounded by torn missing-poster photos. Ashlee’s erratic behavior continues, and Melodee is still missing.
In the Celeste Rivas-Hernandez case, her decomposed, partially dismembered remains were found in the frunk of a Tesla tied to D4vd. Early reporting pointed to freezing; LAPD later clarified the body wasn’t frozen upon discovery. The autopsy is sealed. A grand jury is active. And yet — no arrests.
Two cases. Two women gone. Two investigations struggling to move forward.
Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer joins us to cut through the noise, explain the investigative roadblocks, and break down what needs to happen next.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Hidden Killers Live with Tony Burski, Stacey Cole, and Todd Michaels. |
| 0:09.6 | Well, there was no Thanksgiving arrest for Ashley Buzzard. |
| 0:13.4 | She was spending it free, and God knows where her daughter is actually at Melody Buzzard. |
| 0:20.1 | But we now have firsthand accounts from the only person who's been inside that house since |
| 0:24.9 | nine-year-old Melody Buzzard vanished. |
| 0:26.7 | And what he says happened in there is so disturbing, so chaotic, so psychologically fractured, |
| 0:33.8 | that it changes the entire tone of the case. |
| 0:36.3 | According to Tyler Brewer, Ashley Buzzard told him she handed Melody, her daughter. |
| 0:42.2 | To a couple, she met at a zoo. |
| 0:44.4 | Stranger, she couldn't name, couldn't call, couldn't locate. |
| 0:49.4 | She said they kept changing meeting spots across multiple states because they were paranoid about being followed. |
| 0:56.5 | Then moments later, she snapped. |
| 0:58.5 | How do you know I left her in Utah, she said, her own story collapsing inside itself. |
| 1:04.0 | He says she showed him a pillow dressed in Melody's hoodie in pants surrounded by photos |
| 1:09.9 | ripped from missing posters, a shrine to a |
| 1:13.2 | missing child. He says she accused him of being undercover police, claimed her house was bugged, |
| 1:18.8 | deleted her Amazon bank and email accounts, told him how to order fake license plate, and then |
| 1:23.7 | joked, at least I'm not out partying when being compared to Casey Anthony. |
| 1:28.8 | Her daughter is missing. This is the behavior she's been exhibiting. And the system, |
| 1:34.8 | apparently, still can't intervene. So we're going to dig into this again and go straight to |
| 1:40.1 | someone who knows exactly how investigators evaluate a story this fractured, this unstable, |
| 1:46.0 | and this dangerous. Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffendaffer is with us to help break |
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