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The President. I'm Vidipolitan, the subject of my investigation, the disappearance of 9-year-old Melody Buzzard, a girl who went on a road trip with mom but never came home.

Here's the story.

Nine-year-old Melody Buzzard vanished without a trace after leaving California with her mother Ashley.

What began as a quiet road trip from Santa Barbara County turned into a mystery that has gripped the nation.

Investigators say Ashley rented a car and drove halfway across the country to Nebraska.

But somewhere along the way, Melody disappeared.

Days later, Ashley was back home alone and now she's refusing to cooperate.

Detectives are retracing every mile of that haunting drive, collecting surveillance footage, questioning witnesses who saw the pair together before Melody was gone.

Search teams are scouring highways, fields, and rest stops for any sign of the missing nine-year-old what happened on that

cross-country journey and why won't her mother help find her own child and when

they took that cross-country trip Ashley buzzard rented a car it wasn't her

personal vehicle it was a rental.

And in this case, if a crime was committed,

that rental car could be a crime scene.

Let's bring in Court TV Field reporter, Cody Thomas,

looking into the story for us.

Cody, what do we know about that rental car?

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