Missing 9-Year-Old Seen in Wig Before Vanishing | The Melodee Buzzard Case

Drop Dead Serious With Ashleigh Banfield

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🗓️ 25 October 2025

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Nine-year-old Melodee Buzzard has vanished from Lompoc, California, and the FBI is now leading the search. Melodee's mother will not cooperate with investigators. Now, BRAND NEW surveillance footage shows Melodee at a car rental office, possibly wearing a wig to hide her identity, before her mother, Ashlee Buzzard, returned home without her. In this episode of Drop Dead Serious, Ashleigh Banfield breaks down the new video evidence, the FBI’s growing investigation, and why Melodee’s mother refuses to speak.

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0:00.0	Hey everybody. I'm Ashley Banfield and this is Drop Dead Serious and I've got something really
0:10.2	kind of fun to announce. I don't know what you're doing on Sunday at 5 o'clock Eastern. That's October
0:17.4	the 26th, but I would like to have a chat with you. I'm actually going to have
0:22.8	a session that's called and Ask Me Anything, where basically you guys can throw questions at me
0:29.0	about anything about the podcasts we do, about investigations, about me and my life and my fam and
0:35.0	all sorts of stuff, and I answer them for you during this session.
0:39.2	I'm super excited about it. And I really can't wait to meet a lot of you. So all you need to do is go to
0:45.1	the Drop Dead Series YouTube homepage. And there you'll see the scheduled live stream.
0:49.9	You do have to be a member in order to click on this live stream. So if you want to be a member of the Drop Dead Serious Club, there's a link in the description
0:57.6	of this podcast.
0:58.6	So click on that and that'll take you to the membership and you can join there if you
1:04.0	want to be part of this little Gab Fest on Sunday, 5 p.m.
1:08.6	Eastern.
1:09.1	Again, I'm really looking forward to meeting a lot of you,
1:11.3	and I'm really looking forward to just a two-way conversation instead of a one-way conversation.
1:16.0	So I hope to see you there. But let me start with the story for this episode.
1:20.9	A nine-year-old girl vanishes from California and the one person who should be doing everything in her power to help find
1:31.3	this little girl is refusing to say a word. She's a little girl with a million-dollar smile,
1:37.7	and her name is Melody Buzzard. And now the FBI has joined the effort to find her.
1:44.8	Again, she's just nine.
1:46.5	She's from Lombok, California, and according to investigators,
1:50.5	she may have been driven across the country by her mother, Ashley Buzzard.
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