FBI Tears Up Concrete, Seizes Evidence Bags from Mom’s Home in Melodee Buzzard Case

Drop Dead Serious With Ashleigh Banfield

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🗓️ 1 November 2025

⏱️ 20 minutes

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The FBI has executed three major search warrants in the case of missing 9-year-old Melodee Buzzard, tearing up carpet, drywall, and even concrete from her mother Ashlee Buzzard’s home in Lompoc, California. Agents were seen carrying out large evidence bags, while separate searches were conducted at a storage unit and the rental car Melodee was last seen in. Former FBI agent Jennifer Coffindaffer joins Ashleigh Banfield to break down what these new searches could mean and what the removal of carpet and concrete might reveal.

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0:45.8	Hey everyone. I'm Ashley Banfield and this is Drop Dead Serious. I'm recording this on Halloween night. So happy Halloween. I hope you had a good one. I was busy working because I really
0:51.9	wanted to bring this to you. It's important and it's timely and it has to do with
0:58.1	Halloween because honest to God, I have no idea what Halloween night is like in Lompoc, California.
1:04.9	That's a ways up the coast from Santa Barbara, but I can guess and I'm damn sure I know that 9-year-old Melody Buzzard ought to be a part of it.
1:14.1	She ought to be hitting the neighborhood streets with a gaggle of all her little girlfriends
1:17.5	wearing costumes that no doubt they picked out in the summer.
1:22.1	And she ought to be collecting a ton of free candy that is going to give her and her friends all cavities and tummy aches
1:27.9	for days. This is like the epitome of a fourth graders night to remember, but Melody is having
1:34.7	none of that. Or if she is, she's having it a long way away from her home and police would
1:40.0	really like to know where. And as you know, if you've been following my coverage, this little
1:45.8	girl's whereabouts can't be verified beyond an outbound leg of a cross-country road trip
1:51.5	that was made with her mom. And that happened earlier this month. She was seen on surveillance
1:56.9	video at a car rental office near the family's home on October 7th, the Daily
2:01.5	Mail newspaper said that she was also seen on security cameras at pit stops that were made
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