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Surviving the Survivor: #BestGuests in True Crime

Press Conference: Ashlee Buzzard Arrested After 9 Year Old Daughter Melodee Found Dead

Surviving the Survivor: #BestGuests in True Crime

Big Pond Podcasts

News, True Crime, Society & Culture

4.61.2K Ratings

🗓️ 24 December 2025

⏱️ 89 minutes

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0:00.0

Breaking news tonight after two months of unanswered questions, a tragic breakthrough in the disappearance of nine-year-old Melody Buzzard.

0:11.7

You know, the little girl who was being kept by her mother, taken on a road trip, forced to wear a wig as far as we know.

0:21.9

Authorities are now reporting that her body was found in early December in Utah,

0:28.5

and now Melody's mother, Ashley Buzzard, is in custody as investigators are preparing

0:35.7

to reveal some major developments regarding the case.

0:40.4

What does it mean for the timeline of events?

0:42.9

Dardy's are saying she quite possibly was dead weeks prior.

0:48.2

She was last seen on October 9th.

0:51.2

The big question is what happened to this poor little girl. Welcome to the global

0:56.0

phenomenon, surviving the survivor, where we bring you the best guests in all of true crime.

1:02.6

Here's your host, Emmy award-winning journalist Joel Waldman. What's up, SDS Nation? Welcome

1:08.3

to Surviving the Survivor. This is the show that brings you the very best guests in all of true crime and not the show that we wanted to bring you today.

1:16.0

But at 5 p.m. Eastern, two Pacific authorities in Santa Barbara County at the sheriff's office there are set to bring us a news conference with the latest developments regarding little nine-year-old

1:29.5

Melody Buzzard and the news is not good.

1:32.3

Apparently, she is no longer with us, the mother, the prime suspect.

1:37.4

She has been re-arrested yet again.

1:41.4

And this time, it looks like she might not be leaving the Santa Barbara Sheriff's

1:46.8

office here to help us break this down.

1:49.9

Retired Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department homicide detective,

1:54.3

Detective Phil Ramos, and from Los Angeles, criminal defense attorney,

1:59.8

Philip Dubay, who was on to discuss the Reiner

2:04.3

murders and is back here and happy to have him. Phil Ramos, we had you on when this was going on

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