Hey everyone, I'm Ashley Banfield and this is Drop Dead series and we have big breaking news in the search for nine-year-old Melody Buzzard, that little girl from California, who now as of November 24th has been missing for 46 days.

And when I say big breaking news, I mean I have a lot of new

information on this case, exclusive information straight from the source. Melody hasn't been seen

since October 9th. She was spotted on surveillance video with her mom, Ashley Buzzard. And the very next day,

Ashley Buzzard came home from that road trip she took.

She came home to Lompoc, California alone. No melody. No explanation. And for a month and a half,

she has refused to give investigators a straight answer about where her daughter is.

And since then, she's been packing boxes and moving

things out of their home and acting really erratically when anybody asks about melody, like

Tyler Brewer, like he did, a friend of Ashley's and a local paralegal who has visited her five times in the first week of November.

He says he wanted to help in the search for this little missing girl or failing that.

He wanted to learn what had happened to Melody Buzzard.

And that he did when he says Ashley confided in him where she left Melody and with whom.

That last meeting that he had with Ashley Buzzard was on November 6th.

But as soon as she revealed that information to him,

Tyler Brewer says Ashley turned confrontational, pulled a box cutter,

and refused to let him leave that home.

This led to an arrest of Ashley, but then a dismissal of the charges against her.

Her ankle monitor was then promptly removed, and no sooner did that happen than Ashley began packing more boxes and appliances into a U-Haul truck.

She has not been charged, nor has she been arrested in her daughter's missing case.

But she seems to be under constant surveillance, which brings me back to Tyler Brewer.

And what Ashley Buzzard said to him in that confrontational moment inside her home

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