Melodee Buzzard. Celeste Rivas. Two Cases Nobody Can Explain
Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski | True Crime News & Commentary
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🗓️ 18 November 2025
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Nine-year-old Melodee is missing. Her mother, Ashlee — the last adult with her — spent days traveling across state lines in disguises, swapping licenses, behaving erratically, and allegedly holding a man in her home while threatening him with a blade. Every red flag possible is waving, yet she’s free on an ankle monitor. No cooperation. No answers. No urgency from the bench.
Fourteen-year-old Celeste was found in the frunk of a Tesla registered to musician D4vd — sealed inside a plastic bag, far into decomposition — and months later the medical examiner still can’t confirm cause or manner of death. No homicide charge. No negligence charge. Nothing but a misdemeanor for body concealment. And the silence around the investigation is deafening.
Two different cities. Two different sets of facts. But the same disturbing theme: a system that acts confused at the exact moment when clarity is most needed.
Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer joins us to break down why these cases are stalling, why their outcomes remain so unclear, and why families and the public feel like they’re shouting into a void while the clock keeps ticking.
If you’re watching these cases and wondering how either situation makes sense — you’re not alone. Let’s dig in.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Hidden Killers Live with Tony Brewski, Stacey Cole, and Todd Michaels. |
| 0:09.4 | This case isn't just raised red flags. It kind of lights the whole field on fire. A nine-year-old girl, Melody Buzzard, is missing. |
| 0:18.2 | And the last adult seen with her, her mother, Ashley. She's walked out of jail |
| 0:23.7 | with nothing more than an ankle monitor. This is a woman who can't give investigators a single |
| 0:29.0 | verifiable explanation for where her daughter is. A woman who took that child on a multi-state |
| 0:35.3 | trip in wigs and swapped plates. |
| 0:38.3 | A woman who allegedly told a man she knew where the child was, |
| 0:42.3 | then locked him in her house and threatened him with a box cutter. |
| 0:46.3 | And somehow, she's out. |
| 0:48.3 | The public is furious, investigators are stuck, |
| 0:51.3 | and the system once again is acting like all of this is perfectly normal |
| 0:55.3 | procedure well according to the rules of procedure it actually is because that's how our system works |
| 1:00.6 | even though this is not normal it's outrageous so jennifer cough and deffer is with us retired FBI |
| 1:06.4 | special agent to help us understand how something like this even happens and what investigators |
| 1:11.3 | are really seeing behind the scenes, while the one person who holds the answers is free to walk |
| 1:17.5 | away. Let's start with this and call it what it is. Insane. We have a missing nine-year-old. |
| 1:24.0 | The last adult seen with her can't provide a verifiable explanation for where she is. |
| 1:29.4 | How is that not enough to hold someone accountable? Hold someone back from being free. How does |
| 1:37.2 | it not trigger every alarm in this system? Help me understand what is going on here, Jen. |
| 1:43.5 | Well, it is shocking that at this point, we cannot levy some sort of obstruction |
| 1:48.7 | charge. |
| 1:49.9 | I mean, that's what we have here. |
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