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BIZARRE DISAPPEARANCE OF GIRL MELODEE, 9, FAMILY WORRIED · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy Grace.
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  Speaker 2: The bizarre disappearance of a little girl, Melody, just nine
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  Speaker 2: years old. Melody has not been seen in a year,
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  Speaker 2: but only just reported missing. I'm Nancy Grace. This is
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  Speaker 2: Crime Stories. I want to thank you for being with us.
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  Speaker 3: Little Melody Buzzer, just nine years old, lived a quiet
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  Speaker 3: life in Santa Barbara with her mother until one day
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  Speaker 3: she simply vanished.
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  Speaker 1: Joining us tonight, an all star panel to make.
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  Speaker 2: Sense of what we know about missing Melody nine years old.
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  Speaker 2: Control room. Yes, show me her photo. Look at this
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  Speaker 2: gorgeous little girl.
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  Speaker 1: Look at that smile, Look at that beautiful curly hair.
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  Speaker 2: How could she be gone a year and just reported missing?
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  Speaker 1: Or was she? Before? I go to our paw.
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  Speaker 2: I want to go to a special guest joining us tonight.
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  Speaker 2: It's Elizabeth Messa. This is Melody's aunt, Ms Messa.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you so much for being with us.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, thank you so much.
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  Speaker 5: For having me.
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  Speaker 2: I'm so grateful that someone in Melody's family is speaking
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  Speaker 2: out on her. Behalf. We there she is. I recognize
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  Speaker 2: that outfit. That's a Dorothy outfit from Wizard of Oz.
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  Speaker 1: Must be a little Halloween.
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  Speaker 2: Or a costume party of some sort Look at this
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  Speaker 2: little girl. Guys, have you've seen her? Tip line? Eight
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  Speaker 2: zero five six eight one four one five oh repeat
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  Speaker 2: eight zero five six eight one four one five oh
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  Speaker 2: straight back out to Elizabeth Messa joining us.
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  Speaker 1: This is Melody's aunt, Ms. Messa. How can this be?
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  Speaker 2: I don't understand how a child cannot be seen for
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  Speaker 2: a year and only just being reported missing?
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  Speaker 1: But what is that accurate? Isn't it true? Melody was homeschooled.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, when we found out last Tuesday, the investigator reached
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  Speaker 4: out and was asking questions and you know, about her whereabouts.
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  Speaker 4: So to hear that she was missing was completely mind blowing.
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  Speaker 4: And to find out she was homeschooled by the mom
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  Speaker 4: and the last time anybody seen her was a year
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  Speaker 4: and then it turned out to be two months ago
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  Speaker 4: was the last time that the school had seen her.
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  Speaker 4: So the timeline was very sketchy. And mom is not
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  Speaker 4: giving any information at all.
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  Speaker 2: Speaking of mom, are you or is anyone within the
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  Speaker 2: family in touch with the mom?
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  Speaker 4: So she answered the door for my niece Krina, which
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  Speaker 4: is Melody's sister on her dead side. She opened the
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  Speaker 4: door and answered very little questions, but as far as
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  Speaker 4: anybody else knows. She will not answer anybody. She will
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  Speaker 4: not answer the door. She will not answer questions.
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  Speaker 2: Now, what do you mean she answered the door, but
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  Speaker 2: she wouldn't answer question.
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  Speaker 4: I know it sounds weird, Nancy, but she stood there,
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  Speaker 4: very stoic, with a very stone look on her face.
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  Speaker 4: And my niece asked her, where's malady, if she's okay?
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  Speaker 4: And she said why now? Why now? And my niece said, well,
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  Speaker 4: we didn't We couldn't get a hold of you. We
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  Speaker 4: had no address, we had no phone number. And she said, well,
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  Speaker 4: there's a reason for that. And my niece just kept
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  Speaker 4: asking her, Malady, okay, are you okay? And she said,
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  Speaker 4: I hope you and your kids are well, and she
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  Speaker 4: shut the door.
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  Speaker 2: So you got nothing out of her. Guys, we're showing
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  Speaker 2: you shots of Melody right now. She's been missing. We
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  Speaker 2: don't know how long. We're not sure she actually is missing,
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  Speaker 2: but I do know this again, guys with me family
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  Speaker 2: member Elizabeth Messa joining us.
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  Speaker 1: This is her aunt.
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  Speaker 2: A staffer at her elementary school realized that Melody had
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  Speaker 2: not been there. Well, she's homeschooled, but they have these
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  Speaker 2: little programs that the homeschool children take part in right,
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  Speaker 2: and so the school doesn't see her every day like
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  Speaker 2: you would a school a child enrolled in regular school.
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  Speaker 2: But when Melody had missed several of these get togethers
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  Speaker 2: with homeschool children, you know, like field trips to the
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  Speaker 2: planetarium or the zoo, the staffers at the elementary school
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  Speaker 2: got concerned.
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  Speaker 1: And that is when it all came bubbling up.
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  Speaker 2: So to you, miss Mason again, thank you for being
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  Speaker 2: with us because we've tried really hard to get in
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  Speaker 2: touch with family members. Wendy, do you first realize Melody
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  Speaker 2: was missing?
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  Speaker 4: So we first realized or found out last Tuesday, that
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  Speaker 4: was the fourteenth, when the CBS investigator called me asking
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  Speaker 4: if I know her whereabout? And I had asked him
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  Speaker 4: if my niece okay, and he told me, I can't
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  Speaker 4: answer that because it's an open investigation, and he said,
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  Speaker 4: we're just looking for her whereabouts. And I gave him
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  Speaker 4: all the information that I knew and I let him
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  Speaker 4: know that the last time physically we've seen her the
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  Speaker 4: family was about four and a half years ago when
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  Speaker 4: her mom brought her to my mother in law's house
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  Speaker 4: for us to see her. And at that time, Nancy,
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  Speaker 4: she was acting very strange. She had shaved her head down,
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  Speaker 4: I mean, she had like a buzz cut and she
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  Speaker 4: had a hoodie on. The mom Ashley did and she
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  Speaker 4: was seem very strange. And my mother in law had
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  Speaker 4: told her, if you have you don't want to leave
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  Speaker 4: her here, she could stay here because she was playing
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  Speaker 4: with my kids. And Ashley looked and she said, I
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  Speaker 4: can't do this, and she grabbed her and they left
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  Speaker 4: and that was the last time that.
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  Speaker 1: We've seen her. And isn't it true, Miss Mays.
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  Speaker 2: So you guys have a really big family, a big
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  Speaker 2: loving family, and everybody wants to take care of Melody,
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  Speaker 2: but the mom wouldn't let you.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, that's correct. My my husband, his family is very large,
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  Speaker 4: I mean, and so loving and opening. And Karina is
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  Speaker 4: her sister. Like I said, on her dad's side, her
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  Speaker 4: dad passed away nine years ago in a tragic motorcycle accident.
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  Speaker 4: And she's always want to talking about Rubel.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, my brother in law, Raby, Melody's dad, Rubyel died
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  Speaker 2: in a motorcycle crash and that was twenty sixteen.
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  Speaker 1: So it's just her and the mom. Now, was Melody
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  Speaker 1: always homeschooled?
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  Speaker 4: Well, we just on that out Nancy. We had no
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  Speaker 4: contact with her the last Like I said, the last time,
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  Speaker 4: we were informed that she was removed from the mother's care,
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  Speaker 4: and we all tried to you know, like get her.
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  Speaker 4: You know, she could be with me, she could be
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  Speaker 4: with you know, whoever they would allow her to be.
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  Speaker 4: And then she was finally able to be placed with
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  Speaker 4: my brother in law and sister in law, and they
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  Speaker 4: had her for quite some time. I don't know exactly
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  Speaker 4: how long, and then the state came back and they
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  Speaker 4: removed her and they told us that she was going
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  Speaker 4: to be adopted by the family that had had her
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  Speaker 4: before or something like.
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  Speaker 5: It was just so off.
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  Speaker 4: They wouldn't give information either. And then we didn't hear
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  Speaker 4: from her.
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  Speaker 1: We was hold on just a moment.
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  Speaker 2: Joining me right now is Sidney Sumner, Crime Stories investigative reporter. Now,
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  Speaker 2: let me understand, Sydney, she was going to certain classes
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  Speaker 2: at the elementary school, but I also have that would
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  Speaker 2: be Buena Vista. But I also have information that she
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  Speaker 2: had been home schooled but would go to optional in
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  Speaker 2: person classes and activities. Can you clear it up very quickly, Sydney.
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  Speaker 5: Right, So this is all from the same school district.
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  Speaker 5: The long talk unified school district. So Melody was enrolled
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  Speaker 5: at Buenavista Elementary for a year first grade and then
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  Speaker 5: a year after that. She was then enrolled in this
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  Speaker 5: independent study, a homeschool program through the Mission Valley Independent
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  Speaker 5: Study Program. So this is backed by the school district,
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  Speaker 5: and this is what she's been in for the last
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  Speaker 5: two years. So she was enrolled two years ago for
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  Speaker 5: the twenty four to twenty five school year, and that
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  Speaker 5: newest fighting that we've just heard about, she re enrolled
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  Speaker 5: in that program in August in The administrator who enrolled
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  Speaker 5: her in that program again saw Melody in August when
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  Speaker 5: they enrolled for this homeschool program.
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  Speaker 2: So if the administrator saw Melody at the beginning of August,
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  Speaker 2: we've now narrowed the gap to August, September, October, three months,
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  Speaker 2: three months. But according to others, she has not been
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  Speaker 2: seeing by anyone.
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  Speaker 1: Else for a year, but she.
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  Speaker 2: Did show up according to the school administrator. The straight
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  Speaker 2: back out to Melody's aunt, Elizabeth Mesa, what was Melody's
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  Speaker 2: demeanor when you last saw her?
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  Speaker 4: All that how many seen her? She was so happy,
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  Speaker 4: she was playful, she was just so excited to be
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  Speaker 4: around family, and she was just smiling and just so excited.
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  Speaker 4: It was great to have her around, and her beautiful
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  Speaker 4: smile just lit up the room, and she was just
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  Speaker 4: a happy, loving child.
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  Speaker 2: Now we've been told that Melody was kind of passed
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  Speaker 2: off to live with a friend, but no, one can't
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  Speaker 2: confirm whether that's true or not.
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  Speaker 1: Do you know anything about that, miss Maysa. Yeah, that's
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  Speaker 1: what we.
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  Speaker 4: Were told, that she was with a friend, but we
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  Speaker 4: can't get any information on what friends. You know, We
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  Speaker 4: just the mom didn't have much friends when I knew her,
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  Speaker 4: when she was living with my mother in law. She
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  Speaker 4: never mentioned any friends. It was she had a daughter
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  Speaker 4: that was taken away and given to the father, and
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  Speaker 4: I mean.
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  Speaker 6: She just had us and that was it.
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  Speaker 4: She has a mom.
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  Speaker 2: Are you telling me Melody's mother has had another child
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  Speaker 2: taken away?
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  Speaker 4: Yes, h a daughter, another daughter was taken away and
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  Speaker 4: given to the father to be raised.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, So was she taken the other child taken away
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  Speaker 2: by the state or was she just given away to
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  Speaker 2: the family notes.
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  Speaker 6: My knowledge from what.
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  Speaker 4: Ashley had told me when I was talking to her,
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  Speaker 4: is that they the state took her, took her and
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  Speaker 4: gave her to the father she was removed from her custody.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, was that a different dad? Was that Rubyl or
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  Speaker 1: a different dad?
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  Speaker 4: No, that's a different Yeah, yeah, that's a different dad.
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  Speaker 2: Gotcha because I know Rubyl passed away in twenty sixteen.
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  Speaker 2: One other question, is it true that Melody's mom crashed
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  Speaker 2: her car with Melody.
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  Speaker 1: In the car?
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  Speaker 4: Yes, yes, she sure did.
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  Speaker 2: And so here's this little girl alone with a mom who,
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  Speaker 2: according to some sources, intentionally crashed her car with the
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  Speaker 2: baby in it. Do you think that car crash was intentional?
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  Speaker 4: Oh? Absolutely, yeah, absolutely, she was very erratic and just emotional,
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  Speaker 4: and yeah, she crushed it on purpose.
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  Speaker 2: Where is Melody tonight? What is your message if she
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  Speaker 2: can hear you, Elizabeth.
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  Speaker 4: Malady, just want to let her know that we love her.
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  Speaker 4: She has a lot of family and uncles, cousins, grandma's sister,
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  Speaker 4: that we love her and we just want her home
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  Speaker 4: and she is loved and it is okay, and we
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  Speaker 4: just want her home safe.
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  Speaker 3: Melody had no longer attended elementary school, but was homeschooled
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  Speaker 3: by her mother in Lompoc, California, but concerns escalated when
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  Speaker 3: her former school alerted authorities flagging a prolonged and unexplained.
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  Speaker 1: Absence tonight, Where is this little girl?
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  Speaker 2: According to some report, she has not been seen since
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  Speaker 2: she was a little over seven years old. Where is Melody?
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  Speaker 2: Please help us find this girl. We just spoke to
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  Speaker 2: her aunt and the news is distressing. This child has
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  Speaker 2: been homeschooled through Mission Valley Independent School program, but the
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  Speaker 2: problem with that in this case is that she began
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  Speaker 2: missing the optional visits, the in person classes and activities.
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  Speaker 2: Where is she? Why did the school have to report
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  Speaker 2: her missing? But tonight, where is Melody?
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  Speaker 1: Listen?
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  Speaker 3: Buena Vista Elementary School alerts authorities. Melody Buzzard has not
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  Speaker 3: been seen for some time, causing concern among staff. Melody
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  Speaker 3: enrolled in a homeschool program that also hosts optional in
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  Speaker 3: person classes and activities. The last time anyone saw Melody
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  Speaker 3: at one of those events was more than a year ago.
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  Speaker 2: Joining us tonight, Special guest Raquel Zick, PIO Public Information Officer,
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  Speaker 2: Santa Barbara County Sheriffs, Raquel, thank you for being with us.
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  Speaker 1: Raquel. What's the latest?
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  Speaker 7: So what investigators are sharing today is that they've located
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  Speaker 7: information that shows that Ashley was with Melody as recently
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  Speaker 7: as October seventh, and that they may have driven from
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  Speaker 7: the Lompoc area as far as the state of Nebraska.
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  Speaker 7: We understand that she had rented a vehicle, a white
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  Speaker 7: Chevy Malibu, and we are providing that license played information
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  Speaker 7: to the public in case anybody saw Melody or Ashley
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  Speaker 7: together in that vehicle. We do also want to point
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  Speaker 7: out that it is a rental car that is no
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  Speaker 7: longer in Ashley's possession.
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  Speaker 8: We know that the trip was from Lompoc to around
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  Speaker 8: an America area. We're not sure you know that Melody
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  Speaker 8: where Melody may or may not have been along portions
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  Speaker 8: of that trip, but we do know that that's where
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  Speaker 8: the trip started.
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  Speaker 9: To and then return back to Lompok.
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  Speaker 7: We are seeing a lot of people that are showing
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  Speaker 7: up at the residence, especially people who are kind of concerned,
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  Speaker 7: you know, wanting to conduct their own searches and their
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  Speaker 7: own investigations, and we really want to encourage the public
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  Speaker 7: to just kind of share information with law enforcement as
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  Speaker 7: opposed to conducting your own investigation and just kind of
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  Speaker 7: warned that you know that some of the stuff could
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  Speaker 7: possibly impede our investigation or interfere and we know that
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  Speaker 7: the public is very adamant and passionate about helping to
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  Speaker 7: locate Melody, and we very much appreciate that, but we're
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  Speaker 7: again encouraging people not to have that result in a
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  Speaker 7: community led investigation.
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  Speaker 2: Raquel, what is Santa Barbara Sheriff's doing to find Melody?
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  Speaker 7: Detectives did already conduct a thorough search of the family's residents,
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  Speaker 7: and that was before we issued the initial press release,
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  Speaker 7: so we've already been through the through the residents.
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  Speaker 1: As a result of.
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  Speaker 7: That search, we are we are continuing in a search
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  Speaker 7: for a missing person. This is not a homicide case.
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  Speaker 7: The hope and the goal is that we find Melody
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  Speaker 7: alive and that we can ensure safety.
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  Speaker 2: Joining me now an all star panel to make sense
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  Speaker 2: of what we have just learned to Doctor Bethany Marshall,
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  Speaker 2: psychoanalyst out of LA, author of deal Breaker. You can
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  Speaker 2: see her on Peacock and find her at doctor Bethanymarshall
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  Speaker 2: dot com.
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  Speaker 1: Doctor Bethany, here's my concern.
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  Speaker 2: If the mom allegedly crashed her car intentionally with the
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  Speaker 2: child in it, that's a concern. Why is a child
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  Speaker 2: still there? How many times is it going to happen?
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  Speaker 1: Where the child.
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  Speaker 2: Stays in a home where there is a danger, and
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  Speaker 2: then the child goes missing and we can't find her.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, what do you make of it, doctor Bethany.
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  Speaker 6: You know, not only that, but apparently the child was
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  Speaker 6: placed in another family, loving family home, relative homes, but
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  Speaker 6: then was taken back out again. And what is that
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  Speaker 6: all about the fact that a family member knocked on
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  Speaker 6: the door and then the mother said why are you
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  Speaker 6: here just now or something? Sad effect tells me just
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  Speaker 6: how sort of self referential and self centered the mother
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  Speaker 6: is lost in her own world. It makes me wonder
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  Speaker 6: about impulsivity aggression. To me, Nancy, what is most important
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  Speaker 6: in all of this is the mother's lack of empathy
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  Speaker 6: towards the missing child.
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  Speaker 2: Well, following up on what you're saying, doctor Bethany Marshall,
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  Speaker 2: the aunt and the niece have tried to.
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  Speaker 1: Speak to her.
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  Speaker 2: The Santa Barbara sheriffs have tried to speak with her,
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  Speaker 2: and she won't talk about the child. I mean, come on,
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  Speaker 2: doctor Bethany, you have to tell me to stop talking
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  Speaker 2: about the twins.
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  Speaker 1: And that's the way it is with most moms that
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  Speaker 1: I know.
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  Speaker 2: But when you can't get the mom to say anything
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  Speaker 2: about the child.
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  Speaker 1: That's a concern, you know.
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  Speaker 6: Think about what moms do.
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  Speaker 1: For their kids.
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  Speaker 6: Not only did they talk about them, they show pictures
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  Speaker 6: of them, They dress them up, they take them to playdates.
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  Speaker 6: But they foster relationships between their child and other family members.
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  Speaker 6: I always think of that as a primary role of
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  Speaker 6: a mother or as a parent. Dad's too. And so
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  Speaker 6: when the little girl is at grandma's house playing with
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  Speaker 6: her cousins and then the mother snatches are and takes
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  Speaker 6: her away, didn't a mother who either wanted the child
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  Speaker 6: all to herself, didn't want to share, or didn't want
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  Speaker 6: this little girl to give out information to other kids.
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  Speaker 2: Many people, many agencies trying to find out where is Melody.
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  Speaker 10: We haven't seen her in over four years due too
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  Speaker 10: the mother not allowing their family to see her.
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  Speaker 3: Santa Barbara Sheriff's attempt a welfare check, but find no
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  Speaker 3: one at Ashley Buzzard's home on Mars Avenue Vandenberg Village.
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  Speaker 3: Officers returned the next day, finally making contact with Melody's mom.
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  Speaker 3: Melody is not at home and according to Sheriff's, Buzzard
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  Speaker 3: can not provide a clear explanation of Melody's whereabouts joining.
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  Speaker 2: Me investigative reporter out of la with Crimeonline dot Com
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  Speaker 2: Alexis Terzchuk, Alexis, this is giving me a horrible flashback
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  Speaker 2: that Samy just heard from our friends a KSB.
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  Speaker 1: Why listen, Alexis.
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  Speaker 11: On November twenty sixth, twenty nineteen, police go to Lori
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  Speaker 11: Vallo's Rexford townhome to conduct a welfare check on her son, Jjvallo.
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  Speaker 11: JJ's grandparents, Kay and Larry Woodcock, are concerned as they
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  Speaker 11: have not heard from.
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  Speaker 1: JJ in months.
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  Speaker 11: Valo tells the officers JJ is safe in Arizona, staying
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  Speaker 11: with a friend, Melanie Gibbs, who also has a son
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  Speaker 11: with autism. The next day, police returned to serve a
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  Speaker 11: warrant and discovered that Valo and Chad Davell moved out
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  Speaker 11: and left town. Melanie Gibbs later contacts police to tell
• 19:54
  Speaker 11: them JJ was never with.
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: Her crime stories with Nancy Grace, Alexis Tereschuk. You and
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: I lived through the cult, mom, Luri Valo saga the
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: debacle where the children were missing, and I know you
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: recall us. Following Nate Eaton from Idaho News dot Com
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: chasing Loriivalo to the ends of the earth trying to
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: find the children. At that point we could see his
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: hand in the picture and he was yelling, where are
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: the children? Where she had followed her to Hawaii? Remember that?
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: And when they first started looking for a Jj and Tylee.
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: They went back the next they couldn't get a good answer.
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: They went back with the warrant the next day and
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: Colt mom Lauri Valo had cleared out and the children
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: were dead.
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: They had been dead.
• 20:54
  Speaker 12: And I think that's what everybody is fearing here, because
• 20:56
  Speaker 12: when the mom, and all the cases that you and
• 20:58
  Speaker 12: I have covered, when the parents has lost a child,
• 21:01
  Speaker 12: a child has been taken there missing, they immediately call
• 21:04
  Speaker 12: the police. They do everything they can to help find her.
• 21:07
  Speaker 12: They start Facebook pages, they ask anybody that's ever known
• 21:11
  Speaker 12: her to share anything that is not happening here. Melody's
• 21:15
  Speaker 12: mom is not sharing any information about her.
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: And as her.
• 21:20
  Speaker 12: Relative said, she's not even answering the doors. She won't
• 21:22
  Speaker 12: let people in. Your child was missing, you'd invite people in,
• 21:25
  Speaker 12: you'd say, look, here's her toy. Is there a dog
• 21:28
  Speaker 12: that could follow her scent somewhere around our house? None
• 21:32
  Speaker 12: of that is happening here. She is not doing anything
• 21:35
  Speaker 12: to share any information about her daughter.
• 21:38
  Speaker 5: Laurie Nate with these Didaho News, can you tell me
• 21:40
  Speaker 5: where your kids are?
• 21:42
  Speaker 9: Where are your kids?
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: Your comment? They've been missing for four months. You have
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: nothing to say. You're over here in Hawaii. Where are
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: your children?
• 21:52
  Speaker 13: JJ was not seen again until June ninth of twenty twenty,
• 21:56
  Speaker 13: when he was also found in a shallow grave on
• 21:59
  Speaker 13: the defending property. JJ was found wrapped in garbage bags
• 22:03
  Speaker 13: with duck tape around him. He had duct tape around
• 22:05
  Speaker 13: his head. He had duct tape around his arms, taping
• 22:09
  Speaker 13: them into a position like this. That's how the defendant's
• 22:11
  Speaker 13: little boy was found.
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: First.
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: That was from East Idaho News, and that was Prosecutor
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: Lindsay A. Blake in her opening statement in the case
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: against Colt. Mom Laurie Valo again joining us an all
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: star panel in addition to Alexis Tereschuk and Little Melody's aunt.
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: You know to Rhonda de Care joining us. You know
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: her well. She's the founder of Missing an Action Network.
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: It's an advocacy program for families of missing people, and
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: she has conducted many many searches for missing children.
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: Randa, thank you for being with us.
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: It's never good when mommy won't say where the baby is.
• 22:55
  Speaker 14: Right and we've seen it too many times, and other
• 22:58
  Speaker 14: people having to report your child missing.
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: Never it doesn't ever end up good.
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: In this case, I'm trying to figure out to Bill Garcia,
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: our Bill Garcia Investigative Services, where we need to go
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: with this bill. What now I'd start with a search
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: one in mommy's place. That's the first place i'd start.
• 23:17
  Speaker 15: Well, I happened to be on the ground over the
• 23:19
  Speaker 15: last couple of days trying to get acclimated to the
• 23:23
  Speaker 15: area and to learn any possible leads, and I did
• 23:30
  Speaker 15: canvas to neighborhood. I spoke to a neighbor who had
• 23:36
  Speaker 15: first hand experience that's actually seen the child. She claims
• 23:40
  Speaker 15: within the last thirty days. Law enforcement has that information.
• 23:45
  Speaker 15: They have their security camera footage from that time period,
• 23:51
  Speaker 15: as long as others. One thing I found is there's
• 23:54
  Speaker 15: a lot of security cameras in that area. This particular
• 23:59
  Speaker 15: witness to seeing the child has two different security systems
• 24:05
  Speaker 15: and they actually shine right onto the neighbors on Ashley's property.
• 24:13
  Speaker 15: So my suspicion right now, the most important information is
• 24:19
  Speaker 15: that camera fuidage, because that would that would indicate when
• 24:24
  Speaker 15: she was last seen, whether she was seen, taken in
• 24:27
  Speaker 15: the vehicle or not. I also learned some other items
• 24:32
  Speaker 15: that were kind of disturbing. For instance, they spent a
• 24:37
  Speaker 15: lot of time at home, no visitors. Apparently, according to
• 24:43
  Speaker 15: this witness, actually did not have a vehicle, and the
• 24:47
  Speaker 15: vehicle that was last seen was actually a rental vehicle.
• 24:51
  Speaker 15: So that's another important clue the follow because now law
• 24:55
  Speaker 15: enforcement can get a search a search warrant for that
• 24:59
  Speaker 15: vehicle so that they can track GPS as they can
• 25:03
  Speaker 15: with telephones and license plate reather cameras. There's not really
• 25:10
  Speaker 15: any indicators.
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: You'll got a question for you.
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: You say that she doesn't have a car in the
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: last car that she did have was a rental car.
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: How long ago was that?
• 25:20
  Speaker 9: That was within the week.
• 25:22
  Speaker 15: Apparently she returned it on either Thursday or Friday. There's
• 25:27
  Speaker 15: also a possibility it may have been taken and impounded
• 25:32
  Speaker 15: for evidence or to search for evidence, but we don't
• 25:36
  Speaker 15: know when she actually obtained it. But she has not
• 25:39
  Speaker 15: had a vehicle in quite some time, according to a neighbor.
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: Well right there, that's a very strong lead, Bill Garcia,
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: because unlike you know, a lot of cars. We never
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: know if there's a NAB system in them, a satellite system,
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: but if you've got a rental car, then we know
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: there's going to be a NAB system in there. I'm
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: just trying to figure out about this. As you said,
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: a potential siding within the last thirty days.
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: Tell me about that.
• 26:08
  Speaker 15: Basically, the witness is a very close neighbor. She didn't
• 26:14
  Speaker 15: want to go on camera, she didn't want to have
• 26:16
  Speaker 15: her name used, but she has been in contact with
• 26:20
  Speaker 15: law enforcement. She says some disturbing things. For instance, when
• 26:26
  Speaker 15: actually would come out of the house to go to
• 26:28
  Speaker 15: the garage, because there is no interior door from the
• 26:33
  Speaker 15: house into the garage, Ashley would come out the front door.
• 26:37
  Speaker 15: She would lock the security door behind her, go into
• 26:41
  Speaker 15: the garage, do whatever she was going to do, laundry
• 26:44
  Speaker 15: or what have you, and then walk back into the
• 26:47
  Speaker 15: house having to unlock the door, indicating that the child
• 26:52
  Speaker 15: was actually in the house the entire time. And this
• 26:56
  Speaker 15: happens numerous times.
• 27:00
  Speaker 9: Things that were interesting is.
• 27:03
  Speaker 15: No yelling, no loud noises, No visitors had their food
• 27:09
  Speaker 15: or the groceries delivered by Walmart directly.
• 27:13
  Speaker 9: To the home.
• 27:15
  Speaker 15: What concerns me the most right now is that law
• 27:18
  Speaker 15: enforcement needs to be on top of these devices to
• 27:23
  Speaker 15: be able to track where she has been. Since she
• 27:27
  Speaker 15: didn't have her own vehicle, there's going to be limited
• 27:30
  Speaker 15: times when she had a rental vehicle, so it will
• 27:33
  Speaker 15: be somewhat easier to track those periods, as well as
• 27:39
  Speaker 15: her telephone if she had it active or with her. Yesterday,
• 27:44
  Speaker 15: when I tried to contact Ashley, the neighbor who I
• 27:47
  Speaker 15: had been talking to extensively said, oh, she's there, And
• 27:53
  Speaker 15: as I walked up to the house, I noticed that
• 27:56
  Speaker 15: the garage door was open. The neighbors said that roage
• 28:00
  Speaker 15: stores have been opened for the last three days. There's
• 28:04
  Speaker 15: numerous boxes throughout the garage that appeared to be open
• 28:07
  Speaker 15: in disarray according to the neighbor that was searched by
• 28:12
  Speaker 15: law enforcement. But she has not been seen in the
• 28:16
  Speaker 15: last three days. And this is by a neighbor that
• 28:18
  Speaker 15: I believe is keeping a close eye on the situation.
• 28:22
  Speaker 15: So without getting some kind of direct indication from acially
• 28:28
  Speaker 15: of where Melody should be, it's going to be much
• 28:31
  Speaker 15: more difficult. But again, law enforcement needs to get on
• 28:34
  Speaker 15: top of those devices and get some kind of a.
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: Time Okay, Bill question you stated that there is a
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: potential signing in the last three days.
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: Is that what you said?
• 28:45
  Speaker 9: Thirty days in the last thirty days.
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: Thirty three zero?
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: Okay, I heard thirty on one occasion three on another occasion.
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: When she was spotted thirty days ago.
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: Are we sure it was her?
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: What was she doing and where was she?
• 29:01
  Speaker 15: She would have been in the front yard according to
• 29:03
  Speaker 15: the neighbor, they're not. The neighbor's not sure if they
• 29:07
  Speaker 15: actually left in the rental vehicle, but they would have
• 29:10
  Speaker 15: had a vehicle. Not unsure if it was that same
• 29:13
  Speaker 15: rental vehicle or a different one. So she was seen
• 29:16
  Speaker 15: in the front yard. According to this neighbor, the child
• 29:20
  Speaker 15: was rarely seen outdoors when she was She was with
• 29:23
  Speaker 15: her mother. She didn't seem to play with any of
• 29:26
  Speaker 15: the neighborhood kids, didn't seem to have any kind of
• 29:28
  Speaker 15: reaction with anybody outside of her mother.
• 29:33
  Speaker 10: She has a beautiful smile. She's very very friendly, very loving,
• 29:38
  Speaker 10: very welcoming. She loved to be around her family.
• 29:42
  Speaker 11: Melody Buzzard is just six months old when her father
• 29:45
  Speaker 11: passes away in a car crash. Melody is described as
• 29:48
  Speaker 11: a very sweet and loving little girl who loves spending
• 29:51
  Speaker 11: time with her cousins and flashing her beautiful smile. Melody's
• 29:54
  Speaker 11: father's family hasn't seen the little girl in years.
• 29:58
  Speaker 3: According to a California educ Asian spokesperson for mother had
• 30:01
  Speaker 3: never filed the legally required homeschooling paperwork when officers arrived
• 30:06
  Speaker 3: at their home and they discovered Melody hadn't been seen
• 30:10
  Speaker 3: or heard from in a year.
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: Joining us tonight, high profile lawyer Lauren Johnson, Norris Defense
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: attorney specializing in juvenile and CPS cases. Lauren, thank you
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: for being with us, Lauren. When you are homeschooling a child,
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: doesn't the state have some duty to keep up with
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: what's happening.
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: Absolutely.
• 30:35
  Speaker 16: Not only does the school have an obligation to make
• 30:38
  Speaker 16: sure that the right paperwork is filed and that the
• 30:40
  Speaker 16: child is participating in the curriculum, but if this was
• 30:44
  Speaker 16: a CPS supervised case, that court needs to know that
• 30:47
  Speaker 16: that child is receiving the educational needs and their rights
• 30:51
  Speaker 16: are being protected by their parents. So all of this
• 30:53
  Speaker 16: should have been supervised by government. It just should have
• 30:56
  Speaker 16: been monitored.
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: I'm just thinking about this program.
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: That the school offers, and that is I'm sure you're
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: familiar with that. Lauren Johnson Norris. Homeschooled children have optional
• 31:10
  Speaker 2: opportunities to go on trips with the school, participate in
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: certain classes at the school.
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: It seems that she was doing that a year ago,
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: but then kind of fell out. And I'm trying.
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: To understand how carefully the state monitors homeschooled children. For instance,
• 31:33
  Speaker 2: the Terpin family. Remember all the Terpin children, I think
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: there were nine of them, and outwardly they would be
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: photoed in matching T shirts at events, but at home
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: they were starved and beaten and locked in their room
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: and tortured. They were actually handcuffed, and they were home schooled.
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: So exactly what is the state supposed to be doing
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: to monitor these children who are just home along with mom.
• 32:05
  Speaker 16: Well, I think that it depends because first, if there
• 32:08
  Speaker 16: is an open case, then there are social workers, and
• 32:11
  Speaker 16: there are attorneys, and there's a judge who's supervising the
• 32:14
  Speaker 16: entire situation. Those social workers are supposed to check in
• 32:17
  Speaker 16: on a monthly basis when a child is placed with
• 32:20
  Speaker 16: their parent, and they are supposed to be fully investigating,
• 32:23
  Speaker 16: checking into the home and reporting back to a judge
• 32:26
  Speaker 16: what is occurring. Well, we don't know here is whether
• 32:28
  Speaker 16: there was an open case or not, but I assure
• 32:31
  Speaker 16: you that law enforcement is filing what it needs to
• 32:34
  Speaker 16: do to open any case that has existed for this
• 32:37
  Speaker 16: child with this parent, to get the background and find
• 32:40
  Speaker 16: out what's going on. If the case is closed and
• 32:43
  Speaker 16: a parent just has their legal right to parent and
• 32:46
  Speaker 16: make educational decisions, then no one else is going to
• 32:49
  Speaker 16: keep a close eye except the school. And it appears
• 32:52
  Speaker 16: that this school means fortunately somebody brought something forward because
• 32:57
  Speaker 16: they hadn't seen this child in a year, and I think.
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: They have a right.
• 33:00
  Speaker 16: You know, they have to do that because they also
• 33:02
  Speaker 16: rely on that for state funding. But maybe someone out
• 33:05
  Speaker 16: a concern and that's why they brought it forward. At
• 33:08
  Speaker 16: the same time, Yeah, why isn't she on these trips?
• 33:11
  Speaker 16: Why isn't she participating? Did they check in and make
• 33:13
  Speaker 16: sure they got the information?
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: Crime stores with Nancy Grace?
• 33:27
  Speaker 11: Mars Avenue residents say Ashley Buzzard largely keeps to herself.
• 33:31
  Speaker 11: Hearing the news of Melody's disappearance, Buzzard's next door neighbor,
• 33:34
  Speaker 11: Casey Monreal, checks her surveillance cameras, believing they may have
• 33:38
  Speaker 11: captured Melody recently, but there was no sign of the
• 33:40
  Speaker 11: little girl at the home in a long time since
• 33:43
  Speaker 11: the report. Police and CPS are frequently parked outside Buzzard's
• 33:47
  Speaker 11: home and canvassing the neighborhood for footage.
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: That's something that she raised the red flag when you've
• 33:52
  Speaker 2: got CPS parked outside your house. Chop Protective Services Alexis
• 33:56
  Speaker 2: Teresha joining us Crime online dot Com investigative.
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: Reporter al exists. So the neighbor thought she may.
• 34:04
  Speaker 2: Have seen Melody in the last thirty days, but the
• 34:06
  Speaker 2: surveillance video seems to indicate otherwise. What more do you
• 34:12
  Speaker 2: know about the case, Alexis Well, I do.
• 34:15
  Speaker 12: Know that the FBI has been brought in to work
• 34:18
  Speaker 12: on this case. When the FBI is brought in, it's
• 34:21
  Speaker 12: not because this little girl is hanging out in a friend's
• 34:24
  Speaker 12: house or CPS has her at a secret house and
• 34:27
  Speaker 12: they don't know about it. There is a big concern
• 34:29
  Speaker 12: that there is a fear for this child's life. The
• 34:32
  Speaker 12: FBI is looking for her, they're trying to find her.
• 34:34
  Speaker 12: She was Her mom brought her to the school in
• 34:38
  Speaker 12: person in August to sign up for her independent studies
• 34:43
  Speaker 12: as they call it. California at homeschooling and that's it.
• 34:46
  Speaker 12: She hasn't been seen since she hasn't been No one
• 34:49
  Speaker 12: has seen her. And as the man said, who's been
• 34:51
  Speaker 12: talking to neighbors. They used to maybe see her, but
• 34:54
  Speaker 12: it's been a very long time. And with a child,
• 34:57
  Speaker 12: you take them to the dentis, you take them to
• 35:00
  Speaker 12: the doctor, you take them to McDonald's, you do anything
• 35:04
  Speaker 12: in public with your child. And nobody has seen her.
• 35:06
  Speaker 12: She has not been anywhere.
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: I want to go to Sydney Sounder now, following on
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: what alexis Terachuk just told us, what can you tell
• 35:13
  Speaker 2: me about a large suitcase and a box?
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: Sidney smer Well.
• 35:17
  Speaker 5: Earlier, Aunt Elizabeth was telling us about Karina trying to
• 35:21
  Speaker 5: make contact with Melody's mom, Ashley. When Karina was trying
• 35:26
  Speaker 5: to make that contact, trying to check on Ashley see
• 35:29
  Speaker 5: if she was okay, would tell her anything more about Melody.
• 35:33
  Speaker 5: You see Ashley coming in and out of the garage
• 35:36
  Speaker 5: back into the house, and she's carrying a very large
• 35:40
  Speaker 5: pink suitcase and there's also a box taped up at
• 35:44
  Speaker 5: her front door. We heard from Bill Garcia that doc
• 35:47
  Speaker 5: garage is stacked with boxes. It kind of looks like
• 35:51
  Speaker 5: miss Buzzard maybe trying to leave Pound.
• 35:54
  Speaker 11: In November, a process server acting on behalf of Crown
• 35:57
  Speaker 11: Asset Management, noted he received no answer at Buzzard's home,
• 36:01
  Speaker 11: which appears vacant, but maintained his notes say there are
• 36:05
  Speaker 11: no decorations at the front door and the garage is empty.
• 36:08
  Speaker 11: Neighbors confirmed the home has been vacant for nearly three months.
• 36:12
  Speaker 11: Last month, when Crown tries again, the server tells the
• 36:15
  Speaker 11: court they could not locate Buzzard in Lompoc.
• 36:18
  Speaker 2: Well from one of understanding, Bill Garcia, the home may
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: look vacant, but she's in their locked away.
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: Bill, is that right?
• 36:29
  Speaker 15: That's what I'm being told by one particular neighbor who
• 36:33
  Speaker 15: has a very good advantage point on the house, and
• 36:37
  Speaker 15: she is concerned from Melody as well. And I didn't
• 36:42
  Speaker 15: get a good read from the visit the fact that
• 36:45
  Speaker 15: the garage store has been opened for at least three
• 36:49
  Speaker 15: days in that disarray. I took several photographs of the
• 36:54
  Speaker 15: homes exterior, of the contents of the garage from advantage
• 36:59
  Speaker 15: point and again try to contact Ashley.
• 37:04
  Speaker 9: I have the ability of had.
• 37:07
  Speaker 15: The ability to get some of these types of subjects
• 37:10
  Speaker 15: to actually confide in me. And I've been able to
• 37:14
  Speaker 15: solve some missing person's cases in that effect.
• 37:18
  Speaker 2: And I go back to that one photo real quickly. Please,
• 37:23
  Speaker 2: this is a shot that we obtained. It looks to
• 37:27
  Speaker 2: be the girl and her mom. But this photo is old,
• 37:34
  Speaker 2: isn't that right, Sydney?
• 37:36
  Speaker 5: Yes, the photo is two years old at least.
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 37:40
  Speaker 2: This is the home, there's the mom, there's the daughter
• 37:45
  Speaker 2: at the door. You see her. This is two years
• 37:49
  Speaker 2: old tonight? Where is Melody?
• 37:53
  Speaker 9: Ashley?
• 37:54
  Speaker 3: Buzzard is facing legal scrutiny over unpaid debts. The mom
• 37:57
  Speaker 3: is taken to court in December and May for sums
• 37:59
  Speaker 3: o decay capital one the December case claiming she owed
• 38:02
  Speaker 3: nearly three thousand dollars. Discover Bank also sought forty two
• 38:06
  Speaker 3: hundred dollars from Buzzard in a now dismiss twenty twenty
• 38:09
  Speaker 3: four case. Crown Assessment Management has twice failed to serve
• 38:13
  Speaker 3: Buzzer for unpaid debts.
• 38:15
  Speaker 2: To doctor Bethany Marshall, joining a psychoanalyst out of La
• 38:19
  Speaker 2: Doctor Bethany money problems way in when you've got a
• 38:23
  Speaker 2: mom already stressed and then these crushing money problems, What
• 38:30
  Speaker 2: effect does that have on raising your child?
• 38:34
  Speaker 6: Well? Interestingly, Nancy, money problems reduce a person's capacity for
• 38:39
  Speaker 6: critical thinking, for problem solving, for looking to the future,
• 38:43
  Speaker 6: for providing for others. So what it means to me
• 38:47
  Speaker 6: is that she may have become more low functioning. And
• 38:51
  Speaker 6: if she was less able to care for the child,
• 38:54
  Speaker 6: and that child would be capable of telling other people
• 38:57
  Speaker 6: about that, that would motivate her to cut the child
• 39:01
  Speaker 6: off from outside people. Now, what I think is so
• 39:05
  Speaker 6: interesting about what Bill said about the mother locking the
• 39:09
  Speaker 6: door behind her every time she leaves the house. She
• 39:13
  Speaker 6: is sequentially incrementally isolating that child from the world. And
• 39:19
  Speaker 6: you and I know, Nancy, that is a sign of abuse.
• 39:22
  Speaker 6: Now I'm not saying the mother is an abuser. I
• 39:25
  Speaker 6: don't know who she is, but I'm saying that when anybody,
• 39:29
  Speaker 6: whether it's a husband or wife, a child, a parent,
• 39:32
  Speaker 6: isolates a loved one from community, from others, they are
• 39:38
  Speaker 6: doing it for a reason. And what I wonder with
• 39:41
  Speaker 6: the shaved head the response when the relative came to
• 39:44
  Speaker 6: the door, if there was an increasing paranoia or this
• 39:48
  Speaker 6: would be the profile of somebody who has become increasingly
• 39:52
  Speaker 6: paranoid cutting themselves and the child off, and what that
• 39:57
  Speaker 6: paranoia meant in terms of her relationship with the child,
• 40:01
  Speaker 6: run how she treated the child.
• 40:03
  Speaker 2: Rhonda Takiera joining me, founder of Missing An Action network
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  Speaker 2: for Missing Persons Families.
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  Speaker 1: Rnda again, thanks for being with us tonight, Ronda. What
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  Speaker 1: do we do now?
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  Speaker 14: We have to find out what happened? We have to
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  Speaker 14: talk to any friends, any neighbors, exactly what everybody's doing
• 40:21
  Speaker 14: getting the word out trying to look for her. We
• 40:25
  Speaker 14: have seen this happen so many times with so many children,
• 40:28
  Speaker 14: and it doesn't take us very long to figure out
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  Speaker 14: that something bad happening. So right now. You would think
• 40:34
  Speaker 14: if there was a friend or a neighbor, or anybody
• 40:38
  Speaker 14: in a grocery store that had seen her, that they
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  Speaker 14: would have already come forward. So it's getting.
• 40:44
  Speaker 2: Very concerning, Alex's to Reschut, what do we know that
• 40:48
  Speaker 2: LA law enforcement is doing?
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  Speaker 12: They I believe had a search wart in the home.
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  Speaker 12: They didn't find anything that would give them any clue.
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  Speaker 12: But now the mom is not participating, Alex.
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  Speaker 2: To Reshut, You're right, they did this, They reformed this
• 41:01
  Speaker 2: search on the home. There was no melody, There.
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  Speaker 12: Was no melody. And there wasn't a glaring sign of
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  Speaker 12: a crime. They didn't find blood, they didn't find anything.
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  Speaker 12: They just didn't find melody, and there was nothing for
• 41:15
  Speaker 12: them to do. There was nothing that showed that there
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  Speaker 12: had been something that happened to her traumatically in the home.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, let me follow up with Lauren Johnson Norris, a
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  Speaker 2: high profile lawyer out of Orange County. Lauren, when the
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  Speaker 2: cops execute search, weren't your home, They don't see your child.
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  Speaker 2: They ask you where the child is, and you don't
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  Speaker 2: give an answer. What They're just supposed to walk away
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  Speaker 2: and suck their thumb. I mean, where's the child? If
• 41:43
  Speaker 2: the mom won't tell and the dad died in a crash,
• 41:47
  Speaker 2: what are they supposed to do?
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  Speaker 5: Well?
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  Speaker 16: I know, it's really frustrating for all of us and
• 41:51
  Speaker 16: for law enforcement. The search warrant likely listed certain items
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  Speaker 16: that were within the scope of the search warrant that
• 41:57
  Speaker 16: they could look for. It doesn't over ride the person's
• 42:00
  Speaker 16: Fit Amendment right to not speak to police. Switch it
• 42:03
  Speaker 16: appears she is exercising, but sure, it's frustrating and not
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  Speaker 16: be able to get the information from the one person
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  Speaker 16: who likely has that information. That's why law enforcement will
• 42:13
  Speaker 16: need to continue to do its job, seek the juvenile
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  Speaker 16: court records to find more information about other placements where
• 42:20
  Speaker 16: the child could be, other contacts that the mother may have,
• 42:23
  Speaker 16: and seek all the evidence they can within the realm
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  Speaker 16: of the law.
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  Speaker 2: If you know or think you know anything about the
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  Speaker 2: location of.
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  Speaker 1: This now we hope nine year old little girl Melody.
• 42:35
  Speaker 2: Please dial eight zero five six four one five oh.
• 42:40
  Speaker 2: Repeat eight zero one six' eight one four one five.
• 42:44
  Speaker 2: Oh we remember An american. Hero Lieutenant Nathan, Cass Riverside
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  Speaker 2: County sheriff's shot in the line of duty after twenty
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  Speaker 2: five years IN la law, enforcement leaving behind grieving wife three.
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  Speaker 2: Children I'm American, Hero Lieutenant Nathan. Cass Nancy grace signing
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  Speaker 2: off goodbye.
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  Speaker 4: Friend