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Where is Melody Buzzard? The 9-year-old girl went missing in early October from United StatesDuring a “road trip” with her mother, Ashley Buzzard, who returned alone. The mother has since refused to cooperate with law enforcement and say where the child is.
On October 14, it was the girl’s school district that raised the alarm. For two years, Melody Buzzard commutes to school from her family’s home in Lompoc, California. But the little girl has not been coming to pick up her homework for some time, according to her referral establishment, which was worried about her “prolonged absence”. ABC News reports.
A wig worn by a little girl
Immediately, Santa Barbara County officials began searching for the 9-year-old girl. Investigators discovered that the child and her mother, Ashley Buzzard, went on a road trip on October 7. That day, mother and daughter went to a car rental agency.
In video surveillance footage released by the Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Office, “Melody is wearing a sweatshirt with a pulled-up hoodie and appears to have a darker and sleeker wig than her natural hair,” the sheriff’s office said. According to comments reported by ABC News. According to investigators, “the wig may have been used to alter her appearance.”
If these elements are interesting, it is because they are the last proof of life for the melody. She was alone when her mother, Ashley Buzzard, returned to the same agency three days later, on October 10, to return the rental car. There is no trace of the 9-year-old girl. Interrogated by the police, the mother refuses to “cooperate” and say where Melody is.
During their investigation, investigators recap a mother and daughter’s “road trip.” On October 7, after picking up a rental car in a white Chevrolet Malibu, Ashley and Melody Buzzard left “Lompoc” in California and drove “into the Nebraska area by way of Kansas.” Video surveillance footage shows the mother and her family near the Colorado-Utah border on Oct. 9, sheriff’s spokeswoman Raquel Zick told ABC News.
License plate changed
According to investigators, Ashley Buzzard then took another route, starting in Green River (Utah), crossing Panguitch (Utah), northwestern Arizona and Prim (Nevada) before reaching Rancho Cucamonga, California.
But a disturbing element is that the mother “changed the number plate” during the trip. Leaving the car rental agency with a California license plate, she put on a New York license plate on Oct. 8, before returning the car with the original plates on Oct. 10, according to Raquel Zick. According to a sheriff’s spokesman, “the license plate was altered to avoid investigation.” “I have no other plausible reason,” he said.
So what happened to Melody Buzzard, who hasn’t been found in four weeks? For the moment, there has been no response from investigators, who remain “absolutely dynamic,” according to the sheriff’s office.
Arrested for kidnapping
This Friday, Nov. 7, Ashley Buzzard, Melody’s mother, was arrested by authorities for another case unrelated to her daughter’s disappearance, Santa Barbara police said. She was arrested under an arrest warrant for kidnapping.
“Investigators have been made aware of a recent incident in which Ashley prevented the victim from leaving a location against their will, which constitutes false imprisonment.” The Santa Barbara Sheriff’s Office said in a statement.
Authorities said the arrest was made “as part of a disappearance investigation” but was not related to the ongoing search for Melody. “No further details will be released at this time to impede the ongoing investigation,” the sheriff’s office said. Ashley Buzzard was booked into the Santa Maria Jail with her bond set at $100,000.
