Is Melodee Buzzard Still Alive? Ashlee Buzzard’s Arrest Reveals Shocking New Clues

Drop Dead Serious With Ashleigh Banfield

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🗓️ 11 November 2025

⏱️ 17 minutes

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According to a new criminal complaint, Ashlee allegedly trapped a man named Tyler S. Brewer inside her Lompoc home after he confronted her about Melodee’s whereabouts. That confrontation, and what Ashlee told him before things spiraled, could be the biggest clue yet that Melodee is alive. In this episode, Ashleigh Banfield uncovers what happened inside that house, what the court documents reveal, and how Ashlee’s own childhood, as a nine-year-old girl once featured in a newspaper story about escaping an abusive father, mirrors her daughter’s story in haunting ways.

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, I'm Ashley Banfield and this is Drop Dead Serious and we have more breaking news in the Melody Buzzard case.
0:12.6	She's the missing nine-year-old girl from Lompoc, California, who was last seen on October 9th near the Colorado, Utah border.
0:20.1	Her mother, Ashley Buzzard, was arrested on
0:23.3	Friday and charged with felony false imprisonment. Police have said the arrest is not directly
0:28.8	related to Melody's disappearance, but tonight we're finally learning what it is related to,
0:34.2	and I'm recording this on Monday, November 10th. And what we found out is pretty
0:38.9	surprising. And it's downright shocking. The criminal complaint accuses Ashley Buzzard, the mom,
0:46.7	of, quote, violating the personal liberty of a man named Tyler S. Brewer. I know. It's a name
0:53.8	that hadn't surfaced in this case before. I hadn't
0:56.3	heard it, so I'm all ears. The complaint said the crime happened last Thursday, November 6th, in Lompoke,
1:03.4	where Ashley and Melody live. Ashley was arrested the very next day. And as it turns out, Tyler
1:09.6	does have something to do with Ashley's
1:12.6	missing daughter, Melody, not directly, but he's definitely connected to the story. On my News
1:17.9	Nation Show Banfield, we learned that Tyler was a friend of Ashley's and was trying to help her.
1:24.7	He was over at her house trying to find out where little Melody was, and that's when
1:28.9	Ashley snapped, he said. Apparently, she told Tyler where Melody was, and what happened next
1:37.9	was the reason for the criminal charges of false imprisonment. And I'll explain what happened to
1:43.4	Tyler in just a moment.
1:44.5	But also today, we learned a lot more about Ashley's background and her upbringing in a shocking
1:51.0	twist that honestly no one saw coming. Long before Ashley Buzzard was the tight-lipped mother of a
1:58.1	missing nine-year-old girl, a mother now locked up on this totally bizarre
2:02.9	false imprisonment charge. She, too, was a nine-year-old girl on the margins, surrounded by
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