Mother Suspected Of Murder After Body Of 9-Year-Old Melodee Buzzard Found: Crime Alert Recap Saturday 12.27.2025
Crime Stories with Nancy Grace
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🗓️ 27 December 2025
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A man and woman discovered Melodee’s body while taking pictures in Wayne County, Utah, Santa Barbara County Sheriff Bill Brown said at a Tuesday news conference.
A grandmother shopping for Christas gifts at Barnes & Noble is stabbed to death by a deranged madman who just arrived in town. He claimed he killed her because, "she was the closest person to him."
A state trooper in Delaware is killed while working an overtime shift at the DMV after stepping into gunfire to protect others. Santa Claus is pulled over for speeding on an Ohio road, not in his sleigh, but a silver Ford Escape. Drew Nelson reports.
A man from Michigan has been arrested after security footage revealed him trying to persuade children at a residence in northern Scott County to let him in by falsely claiming their parents were injured outside.
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| 0:42.4 | I'm Nicole Parton, Ashley Buzzard, appeared in the Department 9 of the Santa Barbara County Superior Court in Santa Maria today for her arraignment after her daughter's body was discovered in Utah. |
| 0:54.0 | Represented by a public defender, Adrian Galvin, Ashley pleaded not guilty and rejected all additional |
| 0:59.8 | allegations, which elicited a strong reaction from those in the audience with obvious gasp and crying |
| 1:07.0 | from the attendees. |
| 1:08.4 | Galvin also requested a gag order to prevent the Santa Barbara |
| 1:11.6 | County Sheriff's Office from disclosing any evidence or materials that are not publicly available. |
| 1:17.1 | Judge John McGregor approved the motion and scheduled Ashley's trial for January 7th. |
| 1:22.7 | Melody's paternal grandmother, Lily Deinas, expressed her deep distress over the situation but said she will wait patiently for the legal process to unfold. |
| 1:32.8 | Dennis is also cautioning the public about donating to any GoFundMe campaign, saying the family has not asked for any financial support. |
| 1:41.8 | Residents of Ashley's Vanderberg Village neighborhood have voiced their confusion |
| 1:45.7 | and frustration over the not guilty plea and said they were feeling like Ashley was receiving |
| 1:51.1 | preferred treatment. However, they are relieved that now the mother is behind bars. A man and a woman |
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