FBI Raids Home of Missing 9-Year-Old Melodee Buzzard, Mom Trashes Missing Posters

Drop Dead Serious With Ashleigh Banfield

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4.6 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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The FBI has raided the home of Ashlee Buzzard, the mother of missing 9-year-old Melodee Buzzard, in Lompoc, California. Agents searched the house with K-9 units, a storage locker, and a rental car connected to the case. Hours earlier, a neighbor captured shocking video of Ashlee tearing down her daughter’s missing posters. Police confirm she has been escorted to an undisclosed location as the search for Melodee continues.

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, I'm Ashley Banfield and this is Drop Dead serious and the shoe just dropped.
0:09.8	The shoe just dropped in California and Ashley Buzzard can't hide anymore.
0:15.6	She cannot stonewall the police anymore about her missing nine-year-old girl, Melody.
0:20.7	I have some big news to show you
0:22.7	and some really unsettling video. It turns out this mother doesn't seem to want to find
0:29.7	this little girl because she's been ripping down the signs of her missing posters for her
0:35.2	girl. Police also showed up with guns. At least we think they're police.
0:39.1	Be interested to hear what you think when you see the video. We have been talking about Melody
0:43.5	Buzzard for weeks now. She's that little nine-year-old California girl who for all intents and
0:48.7	purposes is missing. Her school district says she's missing. Her extended family, they say she's missing.
0:56.9	The only person who doesn't seem to say she's missing is her mother Ashley, Ashley Buzzard.
1:03.5	In fact, Ashley's not saying anything at all. Even when child protective services and the police
1:10.5	show up at her door demanding to know where the little girl is, crickets.
1:15.2	The last anybody saw Melody, the little girl was October 7th at a car rental agency with her mom.
1:22.5	They were headed on a road trip to Nebraska, police say.
1:26.1	But after three days, Ashley returned home from that road trip
1:30.1	by way of coming through Kansas, and Melody, her little girl, no longer with her. And now suddenly
1:37.3	there's breaking news in the case out of Lompoc, California. The FBI has just blocked off the home
1:43.6	of Ashley and Melody Buzzard. I'm recording this
1:47.6	podcast the day before Halloween on October 30th, 2025, and FBI agents have been searching at that
1:54.2	house for hours. And they brought a dog with them, too, a canine to help look for evidence. I can't
1:59.9	tell you if it's a canine
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