This is Hidden Killers Live with Tony Bruske, Stacey Cole, and Todd Michaels.

Where is Melody Buzzard? That is the question that authorities, family, anyone interested in this case, are still asking.

Ashley Buzzard, now arrested.

It's a case that really when it comes down to it,

when you really start to examine what's going on here,

it's a mental health crisis.

One with legs, one with a driver's license,

one with agency to move and to explore the crisis as if it were reality.

That's what we're going to be exploring here.

Shavon, Scott, psychotherapist and author joining us to break down this case and trying to grab your book over here.

It's like we'll hold it up.

Here we go.

Your memoir, Nightbird out right now.

And also the minds of mass killers available

wherever books are sold. Shavon, let's start here. This didn't start the day Melody went missing.

Family had sounded alarms for years, reports that she hadn't been seen by some relatives

for a very long time. Questions about schooling, paperwork, the home, the living conditions described as

squalor. And then there's wigs. There's a road trip. There's a swapped license plate and finally

no child on the return trip. When you add all of this up, this looks like a very long runway

to crisis that everyone

could see and no one could stop. I want to start there about all this, all of this, where people

could see it, the family could see it, others could see it, but the way our system works,

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