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Melodee Buzzard's Mom Arrested, +This Week’s Recap: Mullins/Stines, Jake Haro, & More · True Crime with Gavin Fish

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As I was getting ready for tonight's live on our Friday
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night recap, I was checking the news on stories that we have
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been following and sure enough, there is an update as of about
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an hour ago in the Melody Buzzard case.
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We're going to start with that tonight and then we're going to
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hop into all the other stuff. Stick with us.
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This video contains mature themes and discussions intended
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only for adult audiences. Viewer discretion is advised.
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All righty guys, you know what today is?
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Today is November 7th. I love November 7th.
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November 7th is one of my favorite days of the year
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because it is the day that my friend, I've told you guys this
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story so many times. It was so important to me in my
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life when I was 1414 years old. Is that right?
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15 years old. January of 1990, I just turned
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14 years old. That's right.
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Anyway, when I was 14 years old, my best friend Danny died.
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Today is his birthday and he would be 50 today.
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And I've spent the whole day thinking about him and it's been
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a beautiful day. Going down memory lane of those
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few years. We we met when we were 12.
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It was just, it was just a couple years.
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Well, no, we were eleven couple years that we were thick as
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thieves and before he passed away.
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Anyway, it's been a terrific day, Terrific, terrific day.
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And I hope it's been a good one for you where you are as well.
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And also check in with me and tell me where you're from.
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Looks like we've we've already got North Carolina in the house.
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Let me see if this is working here.
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Yep, North Carolina in the house.
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Let's see where the rest of y'all are from while I dig in
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first, let's see story of the day.
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Let's bring it on over here, shall we?
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This from CNN and this was just published about an hour ago.
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Mother of missing California girl Melody Buzzard, arrested on
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charge, unrelated to daughter's disappearance, which is
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interesting, very interesting. I don't think it's unrelated.
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I think the relation is that they wanted her behind bars and
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look, they told us that little Melody was wearing a wig.
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They believe that she was wearing a wig in the rental car
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place. That looks like Enterprise to
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me. Not sure.
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But anyway, it looks to me like Ashley Buzzard is also wearing a
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wig that day. This says this is a screenshot
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from a video released by the Santa Barbara County Sheriff's
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Office showing Melody Buzzard and Ashley Buzzard in a
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surveillance video. The mother of nine year old
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California girl who vanished during their road trip last
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month was arrested Friday. OIDIA today on a felony charge
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of false imprisonment, but it's not directly related to the
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search for her daughter. Officials said investigators
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were looking into the disappearance of Ashley
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Buzzard's daughter Melody when they learned the mother had
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recently prevented A victim from leaving a location against their
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will. The Santa Barbara County
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Sheriff's Office said in a news release.
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Let's actually let's go to that release.
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Let's just go to the release and and read it.
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Here we go. Lompoc, CA sheriff's detectives
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have arrested 40 year old Ashley Buzzard.
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Let me see if I can zoom in on that just a little bit more for
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you guys to see. On charges unrelated to the
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ongoing search for her missing 9 year old daughter, Melody
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Buzzard, detectives learned in a recent incident where Ashley
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prevented A victim from leaving a location against their will,
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which constitutes false imprisonment.
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This crime is not connected to the ongoing search for Melody.
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However, detectives are unable to fully outline the crime as it
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would impede their ongoing investigation.
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Ah, there is a connection. Hold on.
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Let's read between the lines here.
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OK? This crime is not connected to
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the ongoing search for Melody. However, detectives are unable
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to fully outline the crime as it would impede their ongoing
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investigation. That that implies a connection.
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Am I? I don't think I'm wrong here.
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I don't think I'm wrong here. OK On Friday, November 7th,
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2025, OIDIA detectives arrested Ashley on a warrant for a felony
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charge of false imprisonment. She will be booked at the
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Northern Branch Jail with bail set at $100,000.
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Her booking photo does not meet the criteria for public release
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and will not be distributed. OK.
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Although this arrest occurred during the course of a missing
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person investigation, it is not directly related.
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That's a good qualifier, right? They're not directly related,
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tangentially related, sort of related, coincidentally or
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circumstantially related maybe to Melody's disappearance.
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Sheriff's detectives remain fully focused on locating Melody
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and confirming her safety. Members of the public who have
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seen Melody or may have information about her
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whereabouts are urged to contact the Sheriff's Office through any
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of the following methods. Detectives are at 805-681-4150.
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The anonymous tip line is at 805-681-4171.
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Oh, Gavin. Wow.
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Low energy today, guys. It's been a long day.
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It's been a good day though. Good day.
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Online tips can be sent through sbsheriff.org.
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Whack home, whack anonymous dash tip.
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And that is the actual release. But let's see what, Let's see if
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there's any. Investigators shed little light
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on the recent incident, declined to provide details on the victim
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of the false imprisonment cases. They continue to investigate
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Melody's whereabouts. That's typical.
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They're not going to tell us who the victim is.
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The arrest comes about a week after the FBI served search
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warrants at Buzzard's home and a storage locker, as well as the
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rental car that Melody was last seen in.
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I, I think, did I miss that? Let's go back and read this.
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This is from the 30th. Hang on a second.
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Let's let's bring up, let me just bring up this photo real
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quick while I, while I take a look at something real quick.
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So when we talked about Melody, that was on the 27th.
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OK, so this we haven't, we haven't covered this on the
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channel. Let's let's go back over here.
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OK, so this was October 30th. Sheriff's detectives are sharing
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an update on their investigation into missing at risk 9 year old
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Melody Buzzard on Thursday the 30th of October.
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Sheriff's detectives along. Man, it's every time I take a
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deep breath. Goodness.
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Sheriff's detectives, along with the FBI, served follow up search
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warrants at the home of Ashley and Melody Buzzard on the 500
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block of Mars Ave., as well as a storage locker and the rental
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car that Melody was last seen in.
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In anticipation of the need for access to the residents during
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the search for an extended time, detectives escorted Ashley to an
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alternate location that would not interfere with their ability
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to conduct a thorough search. This case remains a missing
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person investigation. There have been no arrests made
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in the case. Quote, we appreciate the FBI's
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assistance in today's searches, said Sheriff's Lieutenant Chris
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Gotchall from the Criminal Investigation Division.
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He added, in cases like this, every detail matters, and it is
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invaluable to have additional resources and specialized
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expertise. Collaboration with our federal
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partners allows us to ensure that we're using every tool
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available to help bring resolution to the case.
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OK, yeah. The search for Melody has
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captured national attention as investigators shared
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surveillance images of the child.
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And I think like, yeah, these these were the images that
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originally came out. They just showed melody.
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In fact, some of us were like, is that Melody or is that
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Ashley? Right.
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Let me finish this. At the car rental agency began
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scrutinizing the Cross State road trip and described her
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mother as being uncooperative. And of course, we now have these
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photos bringing you back over here where we can see that that
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is a little melody right there. And this is Ashley Buzzard at
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the Enterprise counter. Let's see is there.
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There's one other photo right here, which looks like it's a
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screen grab from just prior to like this photo, I think.
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Yeah, just prior to that. In fact, her hands are still on
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her purse. So that's what we got.
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Now, what does this mean? I mean, will Ashley Buzzard be
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able to get a $100,000 bond or make a $100,000 bail?
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That that I think that's a, that's a good question.
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Let's see what you guys are saying.
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Let's bring up, let's bring up little Melody while we talk.
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Let's see. All right, First off, let's go
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so kind of y'all to say happy birthday to Danny.
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That's awfully sweetie, you guys.
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Thank you very much Let's see now where you guys are from.
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We got another happy birthday. We've got Seal Beach See, I like
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I love Seal Beach, North Carolina, Western Mass, Wales.
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You know, I once had a business trip in Bristol and they because
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of fog, they diverted our plane to Cardiff.
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That made me so happy because I got to spend the day in Cardiff,
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just just downtown Cardiff. I had like lunch or whatever
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before I, I think I, I think I took a bus over to Bristol.
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Anyway, every time I, I went back to Bristol from then on
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out, I would go over to Cardiff and spend a little time in
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Wales. So welcome Jess Rolls, Kentucky,
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Illinois, Jacksonville, FL, Western New York, Lake Tahoe,
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California. Those are that's those are my
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stomping grounds right there. That that is, I grew up in the
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Sacramento area. Lake Tahoe is where we would go
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to play. That's where we'd go to like the
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cabin and all that fun stuff, right?
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That's good stuff. Another North Carolina, Seattle,
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Houston, Colorado, Washington State, Greetings from the
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Canadian prairies, more Western New York, Colona, British
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Columbia, Daytona Beach, Nevada. Also also stomping grounds of
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the fish family. We lived in Reno for a while,
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live in Missouri, but in Michigan right now.
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North Carolina, Alabama, or as my Alabama and friend here in
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Pennsylvania calls it, Alabama, Chickamauga, GA, Florida, holy
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cow, Saskatchewan, we got so many people.
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Happy birthday to Danny, got Michigan again, more Texas,
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Tupelo, so cool. Hand of Ike says my best friend
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from school died 2 1/2 years ago.
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Thankfully I still have fantastic memories.
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Richard was a star. I sure he was.
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I as you know, I've lost a couple of high school buddies
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too, and it's been kind of tough.
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Anyway, here we go. Kentucky, Indiana, Ohio, Erie,
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PA, Western PA in the house, Northwestern PA, Saskatchewan,
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Kentucky. Holy cow, we OK, awesome.
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Chicago. And we got a first timer from
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Chicago. Pretty awesome.
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OK, let's see what you guys are saying about Melody's mom,
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Ashley. I think they're trying to hold
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her until they can build a strong case where Melody is.
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Yeah, I, I think you're right. I think that any opportunity
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that they had to arrest Ashley Buzzard, they took that
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opportunity. The question is, will she make
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bail and what will be the conditions of of bail?
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Does she have to wear an ankle monitor, for example?
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We got more Chicago, Bangor, ME, Ontario, Toronto specifically.
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Maybe holding Melody against their will beforehand.
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No, it was something different. They said, Kel, and I'm sure you
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said that before we before we got into it.
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Shay says. I'm just so mixed up a tree fell
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on my house. But thank you for all of your
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hard work. House is OK.
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I'm OK. Well, I am glad, Shay.
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Holy cow, Philly, PA, you're in the house.
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Awesome boombox, Benny Gavin, you probably need some more
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calories, dude. Yesterday was a 2000 calorie day
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and today was a higher calorie count as well.
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We're changing things up. Don't worry.
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I'm not doing like these 500 calorie days, 800 calorie days
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that I'm doing the occasional 1000 calorie day still.
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But, yeah, I am getting more calories in me, and I'm almost
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halfway to my goal. By the way, today's just been a
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really tiring day. Maybe maybe we need to move my
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live streams a couple hours forward.
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I don't know. Maybe.
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Melissa says. I wonder if they found something
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in that search that prompted this arrest.
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Yeah, I mean, that is, that is entirely possible.
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Let's bring Melody back up. Oh, my goodness.
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Look at that little child. There just aren't that many
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pictures of her. Look at how beautiful.
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Oh my goodness, so adorable. I love little girls.
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You know, when we were expecting our first child, I, I was just
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talking about this with somebody at church on Sunday because they
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are expecting their first child. They're expecting a girl.
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When we are expecting our first, everybody would ask me, do you
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want a boy or a girl? Of course every guy wants a guy,
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a boy, right? But nay, I wanted a girl, the
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oldest sibling in my family, the oldest of my siblings is a girl.
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She is the best. She is the best.
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Great way to start a family. My snuggly, my one and only
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Kimberly is the oldest of nine. Great way to start a family.
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So I was just like I was hoping. I wasn't telling anybody I was I
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was telling them, oh, I'll just, we'll just be happy with a
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healthy child. But I was wanting a daughter and
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sure enough got my wish. And then this is the latest
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photo that we have of Melody that I have anyway, other than
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the screen grabs the. But this is like 2 years old.
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So, yeah, maybe Melissa, maybe they found something they're
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like, can't get an arrest on this.
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It certainly is certainly is building our case.
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But let's see if we can find some reason to arrest her.
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Yeah. Patty says sorry for my loss as
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a 14 year old. Glad your day went well.
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Thank you. It was Danny's death was a loss
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for so many of us, including his four brothers and sisters, his
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parents, his nurses, his friends.
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And you know, when I was talking with my buddy Candy V on Quantum
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Mixtape, he was asking me, I can't remember the prompt, but
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but we were talking about dreams.
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And I don't think a week has gone by in 35 years that I have
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not dreamt of Danny and it, and it's been different because he's
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been different through time. Like I can recognize that it's
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Danny, but he's my age when I see him, very seldomly do I
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dream of back when we were 11/12/13, fourteen years old.
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Sometimes I do, but most of the times it's like conversations
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with Danny and and we and he is growing in age along with me,
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but I always recognize him, right?
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It's it's been that that's been a blessing.
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That has been a real blessing. Let's see what else.
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Got some Arkansas, we got some Tampa.
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Got some Minnesota, Kentucky, Texas, another Texas, Delaware,
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Toronto. Holy cow, we got so many people.
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Saint George, St. George, UT on a mission in New
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York City. Awesome.
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Awesome. My dad is from southern Utah.
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He was born in. Oh, dude, I'm just.
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I just blanked. All I can think now is Carson
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City. That is Nevada.
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It is not. I'm totally blinking.
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But he grew up in Tokerville and then Saint George, then when he
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was 14, moved to northern Utah. Pretty cool.
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OK. Gina Rae Gavin.
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I hope this doesn't turn out like baby Gabrielle.
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His mother, Elizabeth Johnson, spent years in prison, and she
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has never said where baby Gabrielle is to this day.
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Yeah, Well, and we're going to talk a little bit about Emmanuel
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Harrow, right? This is 1 where we still don't
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know where he is. So, yeah, I I hope so, too, Kel
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says. Well done.
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That's impressive commitment to your diet.
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I wish I had that discipline, but I love chocolate too much.
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Chocolate is a glorious thing. It is true.
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Was Melody, Melody's mother running from her ex
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relationship? I don't know.
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I don't know. Let's see Cooler by the lake now
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that she has been arrested. The speedy trial clock is
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ticking. I hope they found something
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substantial. Great comments, everybody.
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Great, great, great comments. Thank you very much.
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OK, I've got my notes of all the cases that we're going to talk
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about today right here there. I'm sure you guys really enjoyed
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that. Ah, OK.
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We're going to move over to the case of Judge Kevin Mullins.
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As you guys know, last night we had Elizabeth Jones on and it
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was more kind of a tea spilling segment with with Elizabeth.
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Lots of stuff going on down there in Letcher County.
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It's a small community. People have all sorts of
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feelings. But as you know, Mickey Stein's
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daughter Lila has taken to TikTok.
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And this is maybe a little bit, I wouldn't call it the source,
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but it has maybe stirred feelings.
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People are people are feeling a certain kind of way, right?
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And but I think it's wonderful. I her first video, I was a
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little I was a little, I wouldn't say offended.
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You can't offend me. I'm not an offendable person.
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It's I don't take offense to anything, but I was a little
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like Perl clutchy about it. Oh my goodness gracious me.
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She's talking about me when she was kind of, she kind of went
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after people talking heads like me on YouTube making a living
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off of talking about a case that is so important to her.
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Now we have to remember this young woman's 18 years old.
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She was 17 when it happened. She has every right to feel the
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way that she feels. She and because we live in this
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great nation of ours that where we value freedom of expression,
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freedom of speech, lots of freedoms that are not enjoyed
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all over the world, we have to applaud.
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I, I do anyway. I have to applaud her for aunt.
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I should say I have to allow her and I do applaud her for kind of
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kind of taken to the old proverbial airwaves.
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Now she did this video yesterday that we didn't get to be.
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I don't think it had been posted yet when Elizabeth and I were
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talking, and I find this super interesting, so let's have a
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listen. We believe there are some
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inappropriate videos, text messages and other pieces of
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evidence that could really help my dad.
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OK, I'm going to stop and then we're going to start over.
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In this case, Judge Mullins has been accused.
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It all started. It all started with this guy,
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Ben Fields, who was a sheriff's deputy of Mickey Stein's, the
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man who went into the judge's chambers and shot the judge
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dead, right? So, I mean, there's no, there's
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no disputing that there. This is the man who did the
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killing now, but it all started with this guy, guy named Ben
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Fields, who was Sheriff Stein's deputy, who pleaded guilty to.
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Basically, it's SA for sure. It's 100% SA.
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What he was doing, He was leveraging his power as the
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county's supervisor, The guy who put on ankle monitors for, for
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probationers and parolees, people in the jail, and he would
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leverage that power to get sexual favors from people.
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And he pleaded guilty to it. Of course, the there is an
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ongoing lawsuit that was filed on behalf of Sabrina Adkins and
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the late Jennifer Hill suing Mr. Fields and at at the time Mr.
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Steins for they basically were alleging that they either knew
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that this was going on that Mister Stein's knew that this
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was going on, or he should have known what was going on.
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Now he then went on in and killed the judge after four days
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after deposition. So he is no longer the sheriff
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and the the judge is dead and there is a new sheriff in that
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new Sheriff's Office is the new sheriff is being sued in this
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lawsuit. Any who one of the allegations
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that Sabrina Adkins made was that she had seen a videotape of
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Judge Mullins in his chambers having sex with and I should
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call it what it is SA ING a person who a female inmate from
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the jail and that it was well known throughout Letcher County
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that this kind of stuff was going on.
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Later on, a woman named Ty Adams said that she had a relation, a
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sexual relationship with Judge Mullins from the time she was 16
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years old. And Elizabeth from Hillbilly
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Crime, shout out to Elizabeth who comes on the show every week
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or two and she's awesome. You guys should go and subscribe
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to Hillbilly Crime if you haven't already.
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According to Elizabeth, she gets she gets people reaching out to
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her all the time saying, oh, yeah, I had that relationship
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or, oh, yeah, I've seen that video.
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So when Lila here is talking about, we believe that there are
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there are materials that would help my dad's case.
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I believe that's what she's talking about.
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All right, let me start again. It's only a minute and 10
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seconds long. Here we go.
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We believe there are some inappropriate videos, text
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messages, and other pieces of evidence that could really help
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my dad. If you live near, or if you live
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far and my dad has ever helped you in any way, now would be the
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time to reconsider and maybe show him some kindness.
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If you have anything at all, you can send it directly to Joel.
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I can't tell if she's saying Joe or Joel, and when Elizabeth says
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it, I don't know if it's Joe or Joel.
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So let me just look it up. Let me just see if I can find.
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Let me see if I can find anything.
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It might be Joel. I can't tell Joel Cotton, Joel,
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Joel Cotton. So she's saying if you have any
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of these, give them to Joel. He is the private investigator
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working on behalf of the defense.
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I according to what people told me, I don't know Mr. Cotton.
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I have not talked to him. Dad has spent most of his life
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helping others. It didn't matter what time it
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was or how much it costed. He's done it again and again and
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now it's time for us to show up for him.
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I know that some of you may have jobs now and families and you
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want to stay private. That is completely OK.
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But I just want you to know you can do it completely
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anonymously. What matters is doing the right
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thing and bringing the truth to life.
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Isaiah 4110 says if you're not for I'm with you.
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Be not dismayed. I'm your God, I will strengthen
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you. And I think our strength not
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only comes from God, but from people who are willing to stand
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up for what's right. So that is the video from Miss
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Lila Steins, I think. I mean, I'm now kind of
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defaulting over to my whole paternal like protection mode of
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this young woman like she's doing she's working on behalf of
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her dad and I think that she's doing a good job.
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I think if let me see if I can her TikTok account now she has
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seven almost 18,000 followers, 75,000 likes.
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She's yeah, she's she's doing, she's, she's doing her thing and
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I'm, I'm happy for her. OK, so that is our update on
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Lila Stein's. Let's here I can just bring this
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picture up. Let's see what y'all are saying
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about about the case real quick, Matthew West says.
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Do you think Kevin Mullins had something to his inner circle
29:26
about Mickey? Well, my suspicion is that
29:34
Mickey Stein's had knowledge of what was going on.
29:40
I don't know that he was participating in it.
29:42
He was. He had a pretty darn good
29:47
reputation down there. So I don't know that he was
29:50
participating in it. Maybe.
29:51
I mean, there are people that have accused him of
29:53
participating in it. So do I think Kevin Mullins had
29:59
something about Mickey? Possibly.
30:06
It's possible. I don't know.
30:10
Matthew has said maybe Mickey had heard they were going to get
30:12
him if he didn't play ball. Well, according to his according
30:17
to his attorneys, the husband and wife duo of Jeremy and
30:25
Carrie Bartley, Mickey was more concerned with with the safety
30:33
of his wife and daughter than with his own safety.
30:38
So I don't know. I don't know, one man's trash
30:44
says I admire her. I do too.
30:46
I think she's pretty awesome, Kel says.
30:50
I think it's sweet how much she loves her dad.
30:52
Me too. It's pretty cool.
31:00
Yeah. So I see somebody has lost a
31:05
visual, but I think, I think, I think we're working OK.
31:08
I think we're working OK. So that's our update on, or a
31:12
recap anyway, of the Kevin Mullins murder at the hand of
31:18
Mickey Steins. I, I think what's open in court
31:22
right now is the question of whether or not there will be a
31:27
change of venue. Elizabeth seems to think that
31:29
there will be. It's weird for the prosecution
31:33
to ask for a change of venue. And that is an indication to me
31:36
that they think that they they need that in order to get an
31:42
impartial jury. Of course, the defense is like,
31:45
we want, we want a local jury, Kell says.
31:55
Kevin, I think you're right about Lila wanting to talk to
31:57
Elizabeth and not having courage yet.
31:59
I don't think she was being negative about Elizabeth
32:01
particularly. Lila might feel intimidated.
32:05
I Yeah, she might. She might.
32:13
One of the one of the things that you learn while being
32:18
employed as a reporter is that you have to get over your fear
32:22
of talking to people. You just have to be able to
32:25
approach people no matter who they are.
32:28
And I feel like if I had been at that basketball game and Lila
32:32
Stein's was 6 feet from me up, up, one or two rows behind me, I
32:37
would have gone up there and said hello, introduced myself,
32:39
asked her if she wanted to talk. She may have told me to kick
32:42
rocks and leave her alone. And I don't know.
32:45
I don't want to talk to anybody right now.
32:47
And that would have been OK. I mean, I've had tons of people
32:50
tell me in all sorts of different ways, both kind and
32:54
not to get lost. And I'm happy to do that.
32:58
But I usually go up and talk to him.
33:00
Now, Elizabeth, kind of new to this, right?
33:04
Plus she's kind of persona non grata in Letcher County because
33:08
of because she's kind of spilling the tea on everybody.
33:11
And and I applaud her for it. But yeah, I think I think she
33:18
should have and I think maybe she should still reach out to
33:21
Lila and say I'd love to talk. Maybe I'll reach out to Lila,
33:26
see if she wants to talk. I think she's doing great.
33:29
I think she's doing great. All right, let's let's move
33:32
along, shall we, to just a very brief update in the Cada Scott
33:38
case. Hold on, Where are we?
33:40
Cada Scott? Cada Scott, There we go.
33:46
Let me bring you over to just a very quick update.
33:50
This is from yesterday. This is from six ABC.
33:55
I'm partial to six ABC because my buddy Annie works there.
33:59
She's amazing. Funeral plans are announced for
34:04
Kata Scott after Philadelphia woman's body found behind vacant
34:07
school Guests are asked to wear shades of pink.
34:10
This is short. The community has shown an
34:13
outpouring of support since Kata Scott's disappearance, which is
34:16
why her funeral will be open to the public.
34:18
Funeral plans are now set for Kata Scott.
34:21
Police found the 23 year old Philadelphia woman's behind a
34:24
vacant school in the city's Germantown section on October
34:27
18th. She had been missing for two
34:30
weeks. Yeah, this is.
34:32
I mean, we've covered this case. We had a very good conversation
34:35
with Joseph Scott Morgan. If you haven't seen that one,
34:37
let me just show it to you real quick.
34:44
Let me just show you. I think if we go here, yeah, we
34:53
had a nice long conversation with Joseph Scott Morgan about
34:56
the Kata Scott case. It's titled What Really Happened
34:58
to Kata Scott with forensic expert Joseph Scott Morgan.
35:01
So go and check that out. Let me get back to where I was.
35:08
I'm so easily distracted. OK.
35:12
Officials have charged 21 year old Keon King.
35:16
This is Mr. King in Kata Scott's murder.
35:22
The community, it goes on to say, has shown an outpouring of
35:25
support since her disappearance, which is why her funeral will be
35:28
open to the public. It takes place Saturday, 10 AM.
35:32
Mount Airy Church of God in Christ on what a Gaunt Ave. in
35:39
Philadelphia. Let me see if we can find that
35:41
for you, Philly folk. Villa.
35:51
Let's go to a map. So yeah, it's just off of
35:58
Stenton Ave. and Ogontz Ave. Where is that area?
36:06
Philly. So yeah, north of north of
36:09
Philadelphia. And I mean, can we see what the
36:13
church looks like? We can.
36:16
Let's go down here a little bit. It's hard to see that tree is in
36:21
the way. More trees.
36:24
There we go. There is the church where her
36:27
funeral will be held. That looks like a nice, big
36:30
venue. And I just wanted to put it out
36:33
there for those of you who are in Philadelphia.
36:35
If you wanted to attend the funeral, It is tomorrow, 10 AM
36:41
at the Mount Airy Church of God in Christ on Agonte Ave. there
36:45
at the corner of Stanton. Yeah.
36:49
So other than that, I don't have any other court updates or
36:53
anything like that. OK, let's head over, shall we,
36:58
to this case, which is just a heartbreaking case, But just in
37:06
the spirit of recapping what we have covered this week, just a
37:12
quick recap that Jay Caro has pleaded guilty.
37:18
That happened back in October. He was sentenced a few days ago
37:22
to 25 years to life and murder, 25 years to life, plus like a
37:29
little bit more for the murder of his son.
37:32
My question, and this actually was a very good question that
37:36
was raised over in the tank. If you guys are in on Facebook,
37:42
you're always invited to join us in the tank.
37:45
There was a great post by Pat Burt Long, who is one of our
37:50
active folks over in the tank. She used to be an admin but
37:53
couldn't continue on. Her post says It seems that even
37:57
though Jake Harrow has pleaded guilty in the murder of baby
37:59
Emmanuel, the mom Rebecca Harrow, whereas Rebecca here is
38:03
Rebecca is still sticking to her not guilty Ola story.
38:11
Ola meaning she says that she was changing the baby's diaper.
38:15
She heard hears somebody say Ola.
38:17
She looks up, gets smacked, knocked unconscious.
38:20
She comes too later and the baby is nowhere to be found.
38:22
That was her story. Pat is calling it the Ola story.
38:28
Is she blind to the truth or does she have a master plan?
38:30
I think master plan. I think that since no body has
38:35
been found, she is holding out for a plea deal.
38:38
Well, I think plea deals are definitely on the table here.
38:41
They don't need her to testify against Jake because he pleaded
38:44
guilty. She knows the truth but wants a
38:46
sweet deal before she cops a plea.
38:48
Let's see what the state does. Will they offer a deal or do
38:52
they have enough evidence to go to trial and get a guilty
38:54
verdict? I think they probably do have
38:57
enough evidence to go to trial and get a guilty verdict.
38:59
However, they don't want to do that.
39:02
The system is not set up for that.
39:04
The system is set up to make pleas and I think that is what
39:10
they're going to do. In fact, actually, Zafke says
39:16
enough evidence. What does that matter for a plea
39:18
deal? Florida had more than enough.
39:19
Let me bring you back. In the Maddie Soto case, I
39:22
refused to refer to cases by defendants names.
39:24
Good for her, but that scumbag got to plea.
39:28
Yeah, because prosecutors want to plea.
39:30
They just want to plea. Every law school teaches them to
39:33
plea. So then Rhonda said, obviously,
39:38
since he plead, plead guilty, her story can't be true.
39:41
I won't be surprised if she goes for some type of battered women
39:44
defense. Possible, possible, possible.
39:47
So that's what I've been wondering about.
39:49
Jake. Rebecca Haro.
39:51
Of course, Jake, in the spirit of a recap here, he got 25 to
39:57
life. Then he got another 180 days for
40:06
filing a false police report in his prior abuse case which was
40:09
against his other daughter. He got an additional 6 year term
40:13
and another eight months for being a felon in possession of a
40:17
firearm. They all run consecutively.
40:20
So what are we at 31? Plus 631 1/2 + 8.
40:26
So 3232 and two months to life with 551 days of time served.
40:36
Now Rebecca is due in court next on January 21st.
40:40
That is a settlement conference. We will see by then what she
40:46
decides to do. I don't know.
40:49
Let's see what you guys think. I kind of let's go.
40:52
Let me, Lynette is saying, did I turn my volume up?
41:01
You can actually hear me? No, it's at the it's at the same
41:04
spot that I always do. Same spot.
41:08
I don't know, Bay Area here. Good, good, good, good.
41:15
Nate says they better not offer any deal.
41:18
I wouldn't hold your breath, Nate.
41:21
I mean, I'm with you, but I wouldn't hold your breath, Kel
41:27
says. He's so sweet.
41:28
I don't understand how people can do that to people.
41:30
I mean, look at that child. He is a sweet little guy.
41:38
Let's see, Terry says. They seem to be headed possibly
41:46
lower charges on mom. During his sentencing, there was
41:51
a filing on behalf of the mother.
41:53
It was enough to keep her case going forward.
41:55
Right now, I don't know what that filing was.
41:58
I'll have to take a look at that.
42:01
Janice's battered defense does make sense.
42:03
And and it does. It does make sense.
42:06
It's it's possible. Yeah.
42:08
I mean, I'm not saying she's not culpable, that she shouldn't
42:12
have some kind of punishment for it, but but yeah, I do think
42:21
that there is some, I guess what's the word I'm looking for?
42:29
I, I, I do think that there is some validity to a defense like
42:33
that. Kel says he should never get out
42:43
for being such an evil dill hole.
42:47
Get your dill hole mugs. Everybody get your dill hole
42:50
mugs. It comes with its definition on
42:53
this side as well. Get him at gavinfish.com.
42:56
By the way, the other one that I have is just one more episode
43:01
which has my logo on it. So if you if you want to support
43:06
me that way, which I would deeply appreciate.
43:13
Terry says if he did place the child in open land, hard to tell
43:16
where. Yeah.
43:17
Rest in peace, baby Emmanuel. The finally happened while judge
43:29
was sentencing him. It was brought out at his
43:32
hearing in the middle of it. OK, I'll have to look that up,
43:34
see if I can get get that get that little piece of info.
43:40
OK. The last thing that I would like
43:42
to recap from this week involves the Suzanne Morphew case.
43:50
All right, Suzanne Morphew, of course, went missing.
43:54
Seems like that's a, it's a bit of a, a theme going on.
43:59
And in fact, I mean, other than Kevin Mullins, Melody Buzzard
44:06
went missing, Kada Scott went missing, Emmanuel Harrow went
44:09
missing, Suzanne Morphew went missing.
44:14
Her body was later discovered miles and miles away, long after
44:20
Barry was arrested, charged. And then the first go around the
44:30
like, the prosecutors so colossally hosed up that she was
44:34
disbarred and Mr. Morphew went free.
44:37
We've covered this case pretty extensively here on the channel.
44:41
And then recently he was rearrested and and is facing
44:48
charges in the murder of his wife.
44:52
Now, the weird thing about this case to me, guys, and this is so
44:56
weird, is that Suzanne and Barry's daughters appear to be
45:04
solidly on Barry Morphew's side. And it's just so strange to me
45:11
because the evidence seems so cut and dry.
45:16
It seem, I mean, it is circumstantial, not tons of
45:20
direct evidence, but you don't need direct evidence to get a
45:23
conviction on this. That circumstantial evidence is
45:26
piled like a mountain against him.
45:30
The bam, the, oh, the affairs, the cell phone being turned off
45:36
that I mean, him changing his work plans.
45:39
There's just so much, right? But the thing that we covered
45:45
this week was this document right here, which was an order
45:54
granting the defendant's unopposed motion to cease
45:58
unmonitored live stream of court proceedings.
46:00
Now this happened. Let me just go back here.
46:03
Following a September 2nd, 2025 status conference, it came to my
46:07
attention, This is the judge writing that an individual with
46:10
a YouTube channel called JLR Investigates posted a recording
46:13
of the status conference, including the admonition that
46:15
there shall be no recording made.
46:18
JLR Investigates. Unlawful recording included
46:20
comments from some of his 17,000 plus people who viewed the
46:25
unlawful recording. Some of the commentary,
46:27
including from JLR, takes issue with the constitutional
46:30
requirement that the defendant is presumed innocent until
46:33
proven otherwise, propounds several conspiracy theories
46:36
concerning this case, and threatens violence against me,
46:39
the judge, attorneys for both sides, and others, including
46:42
several victims, both. JLR Investigates.
46:45
Oh, but JLR Investigates is not the only YouTube channel that
46:48
unlawfully recorded and then posted live stream hearings on
46:50
the matter. And I am not fishing for
46:53
sympathy here, but this whole thing where they threatened
46:57
violence, I mean, I, I got several messages through my
47:05
website, through e-mail seeking to intimidate me just for making
47:12
a video talking about this this week.
47:15
It's it's beyond ridiculous. Now, I'm not completely aware of
47:21
Mr. Investigates. That's I guess what I've decided
47:24
to call him. Isn't Jonathan Lee something I
47:28
should call him by his actual name because it's not cool.
47:32
Let's see, JLR investigates is what's his name, Jonathan Lee
47:45
Riches. So Mr. Riches, I should say I
47:52
I'm not completely familiar with his his shtick and I I don't
47:58
mean to be putting him down. That's not my intention there.
48:01
Just like I have my shtick. Everybody has a shtick, right?
48:06
But it does seem, I mean, Dang, 477,000 subscribers and he's
48:12
putting out like 3 videos a day. This guy is a beast.
48:15
But and, and so, yeah, I would, I would love to, to kind of be
48:21
like him in that aspect. But one of the things about his
48:27
shtick is that he does seem to just be willing to put anything
48:32
out there, whether it is corroborated or not.
48:34
He's willing to ride the ride. The lightning man, he is on the
48:38
line and just just right at crossing it, just so close to
48:45
crossing it all the time. And in this case, I think he
48:48
did. I think he crossed it and he
48:50
ruined it for all of us who would like to report on the
48:55
case. Because when we get down just a
48:58
little further here into this order, the Colorado judicial
49:04
system does not have the technological capability to
49:08
monitor participation live streaming, let alone the staff
49:11
to then check various social media outlets to ensure no
49:13
violations, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
49:16
And it would be unfair and perhaps unconstitutional to
49:19
proceed with citations for contempt of court against only
49:22
those individuals like JLR investigators investigates whose
49:27
true identities can be known. So therefore, the defendants
49:31
unopposed motion to cease unmonitored live stream of court
49:34
proceedings is hereby granted. And that sucks because the rest
49:37
of us with you know who who follow a stricter ethic now
49:46
cannot without going to great effort report on this case at
49:54
least directly from court. I mean, I, I probably can, I
50:00
probably should fact those of you who are watching that are on
50:03
Slack, will you guys help me remember I should apply to be a
50:08
reporter that gets access to those live streams to the Webex
50:11
link, which I am I'd be happy to to report from.
50:17
So that is that is the update or I guess the recap on the Suzanne
50:25
Morphe case. Let's see what you guys are
50:26
saying over here. Rocks and raccoons with Auntie
50:36
Jan stopping by. Just say hello.
50:38
Thank you very much. She says.
50:40
I agree with you about the daughters, but if you were in
50:42
their shoes, would you want to believe your dad was a monster?
50:46
Well, yeah. The power of belief is.
50:50
Is Oh, well, this is terrific English, Gavin.
50:53
Good sentence structure. The power of belief is powerful,
51:01
I should say, profound, right? Yeah.
51:05
Maybe they just refuse to believe it.
51:07
Maybe they haven't looked at the evidence.
51:09
Maybe their dad has told him stories.
51:11
Maybe, maybe, maybe they just believe what he's saying.
51:15
I person now, of course, he is innocent until proven guilty in
51:19
a court of law. He has.
51:21
He has that. We have to assume that.
51:27
So allegedly, if he's guilty, maybe he's just good at spinning
51:33
a story. I don't know.
51:36
I don't know. Let's see, the SBSO released a
51:44
new map. Let me see.
52:01
We're talking about in the. Yeah, yeah, I can, I can circle
52:06
back around to that. Let's let's circle back around
52:09
to it. Is this when did they release
52:17
this? November 3rd?
52:18
OK yeah, let's let's circle back around to Melanie Buzzard real
52:20
quick. Santa Barbara County Sheriff's
52:23
detectives are sharing additional information, A and a
52:26
route map and photo that includes Ashley Buzzard in their
52:29
ongoing search for missing at risk 9 year old Melody Buzzard.
52:33
Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Office began investigating blah
52:37
blah blah blah blah. Well, no, I shouldn't yadda
52:40
yadda. This Santa Barbara County
52:42
Sheriff's Office began investigating on the 14th of
52:44
October when a school administrator reported Melody's
52:47
prolonged absence. Deputies attempted to locate
52:50
Melody and her mother Ashley at their residence in Lompoc, CA,
52:54
but we're only able to speak with Ashley, who provided no
52:57
verifiable explanation for Melody's whereabouts.
53:00
A search of the residence confirmed that Melody was not
53:04
there. Ashley has remained
53:05
uncooperative and is not confirmed to Melody's location
53:08
or welfare. Through their investigations,
53:10
detectives have confirmed that Ashley left California with
53:13
Melody in a white 2024 Chevy Malibu, initially bearing
53:17
California license plate 9 MNG One O 1 October.
53:21
On October 7th, detectives believe that Ashley and Melody
53:24
traveled as far as Nebraska, with a return trip that included
53:28
Kansas. Beginning October 8th, 2025, the
53:33
Malibu was observed with a New York license plate Weird HCG
53:38
9677. It is unknown when the plate was
53:42
installed or whether additional plates were used at other times
53:45
during travel. Wow, holy cow she is.
53:50
She is trying to cover her tracks.
53:52
That's what it looks like to me. The New York plate seen on the
53:56
car does not belong to the vehicle or to Ashley.
53:59
Investigators believed believe it was used as a false or switch
54:04
plate to avoid detection. When the vehicle was returned to
54:07
the rental agency in Lompoc, CA, the assigned California plate
54:10
was on the vehicle. Oh my goodness.
54:14
Detectives have now confirmed the melody was last seen along
54:17
the return route along the return route via video
54:21
surveillance on October 9th in the region between the Colorado
54:25
Utah border. Wow.
54:31
Investigators are working to fill gaps in the timeline for
54:34
that date and are working with law enforcement agencies in
54:37
Colorado, Utah, Arizona, Nevada, and Southern California for
54:40
assistance in reaching the members of their communities.
54:44
Investigators believe the Malibu traveled through the following
54:47
areas on or about October 9th. Green River, UT.
54:52
So this is kind of southeastern Utah.
54:56
Panguitch, Utah. Getting closer down there
54:59
towards Saint George, northwest Arizona, Prim, Nevada, Rancho
55:05
Cucamonga, CA. The Sheriff's Office is sharing
55:08
a map of the vehicle's stops and urges anyone in those
55:11
communities to check surveillance and report relevant
55:14
information. Detectives are seeking anyone
55:17
who may have had contact with Ashley or Melody at any point
55:21
from October 9th to the 10th, 2025 or any video footage from
55:25
the route of travel. So let's take a look at this.
55:28
So this is the 9th and 10th starting in Green River, going
55:32
down through Panguitch, back up and down to Saint George, down
55:36
to Prim, which is right on the border of, I mean that it's
55:40
basic. Prim is like a gas station right
55:43
there. It looks like she didn't travel
55:46
through Las Vegas. So we're on at this point.
55:49
We're on. I think that's US 15 right there
55:56
and I think it continues to be US15 all the way down into the
55:59
Los Angeles basin. Of course, this isn't a map that
56:04
let me, let me give me a second here.
56:09
Let me open up a map real quick. Utah map.
56:23
Yeah. So that is US15 going South
56:32
through Saint George. So when if they were up in
56:35
Panguitch, they were on Utah 89 and then up here in the Green
56:43
River, that's OK. So that's US 70 crossing down on
56:48
89 through Panguitch, then over to Saint George, back on the
56:52
I-15I-15, down transiting through Las Vegas into Prim, and
56:59
then it's still I-15 all the way down through Barstow into looks
57:07
like into the Inland Empire, where then she probably took 210
57:13
across. So if you are on I-15 and and
57:19
Utah 89 and I70, yeah, if you're in those areas, she stopped
57:29
Green River, she stopped in Panguitch, she stopped I think
57:33
in Saint George. Let's go back to Yep, she
57:38
stopped in Prim and down into Rancho Cucamonga.
57:46
So see if if you have any surveillance, maybe you were
57:49
driving, maybe you have a dash Cam.
57:52
Look for it. Look, look, look for it.
57:54
OK. And then lastly this, they did
57:58
release that pictures. Investigators are sharing
58:01
additional surveillance images of Ashley and Melody that were
58:04
captured at a rental car location in Lompoc at the start
58:08
of the road trip on October 7th. Both Ashley and Melody appear to
58:11
be wearing wigs with melodies appearing darker and straighter
58:14
than her natural hair. Melody Buzzard is described as a
58:17
nine year old female, approximately four, 660 lbs,
58:21
with brown curly hair and brown eyes.
58:23
Detectives are asking anyone who's seen Melody or has
58:26
information about her whereabouts to contact the
58:28
Sheriff's Office through one of the following methods.
58:30
I'm going to read this again. Detectives are at 805-681-4150.
58:36
The anonymous tip line is 805-681-4171.
58:41
I swear that anonymous tip line makes me yawn.
58:45
That is where I yawn. It's funny.
58:47
And then online tips at sbsheriff.org Whack home whack
58:51
anonymous hyphen tip. And detectives will continue to
58:55
provide updates as new information becomes available
58:57
that does not compromise the investigation.
59:00
I want to see if there are any others that we are missing.
59:13
This was the one from today. Oh here is some video footage.
59:28
Doesn't seem to be playing for me though.
59:36
OK, Yeah, OK, so same kind of thing.
59:46
Same kind of thing. Goodness sake, this case, man.
59:49
All right, let's see if there's any other comments before we
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call it a night. Joanne Marie says these types of
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shenanigans like JLR has done spoils up for people like
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Ghisla, too. Yeah, all of us, all of us are
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completely. It's messed up.
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Shouldn't be doing that stuff. We love Ghisla, by the way.
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Let's see if there's anything else.
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Nope. Looks like you guys are done.
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