Hey everyone, I'm Ashley Banfield and this is Drop Dead Serious.

Every time we hear from the Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Office, the search for nine-year-old

Melody Buzzard gets more specific and more disturbing.

And now we have huge news because the investigation has taken another wild turn.

A brand new photo just released shows that Melody is with her mom, Ashley Buzzard, inside that car rental office near their home in Lompoc, California.

Remember, this was back on October 7th,

the day a bizarre cross-country road trip began to Nebraska? We had previously seen a picture of

Young Melody from that visit, but now the aperture has widened, and now we can see her mom Ashley, too. And now I get it. Now I get why the police said we think that young Melody's wearing a wig. I wasn't sure. She's wearing a hoodie, and she has very long curly hair. So I thought, well, why would they say that? But they did say, because her mom is known to wear wigs. And I thought, well, that's a stretch too.

There's something they're not telling us.

And now the photo tells me everything.

Both of them are apparently wearing wigs because look at Ashley.

Look at this picture.

I mean, that is definitely not her hair, right?

So now we get, she's got this like like, insane wig on, so it is not out of the ordinary to be saying that the daughter does too, right? They're clearly trying to disguise their

appearances in this rental office. Police are now also confirming that Melody was last seen alive

as late as October 9th.

October 9th.

Originally we thought October 7th, right?

The last time we'd seen her was at that car rental agency.

We figured that was it.

Some newspapers had said they thought that they had signed post and markers and all the rest, you know, along that journey.

But now it's the police

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