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Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski | True Crime News & Commentary

Inside the Buzzard Case: A Missing Child, A Mother’s Chaos, and Zero Answers

Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski | True Crime News & Commentary

True Crime Today

News, True Crime, News Commentary

3.3907 Ratings

🗓️ 2 December 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Tonight on Hidden Killers, we’re digging into the unraveling story surrounding nine-year-old Melodee Buzzard — and the disturbing firsthand account from the only person who’s been inside Ashlee Buzzard’s home since Melodee vanished.

According to witness Tyler Brewer, Ashlee claimed she handed her daughter to strangers she met at a zoo. No names. No contacts. Constantly shifting meeting spots across multiple states. Then, moments later, she snapped, “How do you know I left her in Utah?” Her story collapsing inside itself.

Brewer describes paranoia, accusations he was undercover, fears of being tracked, deleting accounts, talk of fake plates — and inside the home, a pillow dressed in Melodee’s clothes surrounded by torn missing-poster photos. A shrine to a missing child.

Her daughter is gone.
This is the behavior she’s exhibiting.
And still — no detainment, no mental-health hold, no arrest.

Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer joins us to break down what this behavior means, why law enforcement can’t force cooperation, and what investigators actually need to move this case forward.

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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.

0:56.4

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 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

1:52.0

all of this down. Jen, you know, when I heard that interview with Ashley Banfield the other day

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