Hey everyone. I'm Ashley Banfield and this is Drop Dead Serious. I know it's different.

It's a very different backdrop. I am at my mom's place in Florida. She has the nicest living room.

And so there may be a few things that you're going to see in this podcast. I think the sun has gone

down by now, but you might see a tiny little white dog

flying through the background and jumping up on the furniture.

Her name is Kelty.

She's extremely cute, and she may bark.

So now that we have that out of the way, I have been missing you.

I took a little vacation, but I had to jump back in because of this

horrifying news about the discovery of Little Melody Buzzard. When that happened over the

holidays, my heart sank. I kind of expected it. I think you did too. Look, we've all been

following this case for quite some time since October. I want to bring you up to date on everything, especially if you've been in the holidays and

you've missed some things.

Melody is of course this adorable little nine-year-old girl from Lompoc, California.

She went missing back in October and now sadly we know what happened to her.

We all thought maybe she would come back alive.

Maybe she'd be found not because of her mother.

Mom was no help, but we all just had it in the back of our minds that maybe there's

just something out there and she's okay.

Maybe she's being held by someone or mom may have sold her or whatever.

We just kind of thought she'd be okay. She was not okay. She was never okay. Melody's remains,

Melody's body, was found in Utah. And that mother of hers, Ashley Buzzard, has been arrested

...