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Eerie Disguise: Missing Melodee Buzzard Seen in Wig Before Vanishing | Crime Alert 6AM 10.27.25 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Alert, I Messy Grace Breaking Crime News out straight
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  Speaker 1: out to Nicole Parton.
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  Speaker 2: For the latest Nancy An update to the troubling case
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  Speaker 2: out of California, as authorities continued to search for a
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  Speaker 2: missing nine year old girl, Melody Buzzard, who hasn't been
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  Speaker 2: seen in weeks. It all began when a school administrator
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  Speaker 2: reported Melody missing after she hadn't shown up for class
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  Speaker 2: in months. Deputies went to her home, but while her mother,
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  Speaker 2: Ashley Buzzard, was there, Melody was not. Now investigators are
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  Speaker 2: trying to piece together a disturbing timeline. Surveillance photos from
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  Speaker 2: October seven showed Melody wearing a wig and a hooded sweatshirt,
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  Speaker 2: possibly to disguise her identity, at a local car rental agency.
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  Speaker 2: That same day, her mother rented a white Chevy Malibu
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  Speaker 2: and began a cross country trip from California to Nebraska,
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  Speaker 2: with a stop in Kansas. But when Ashley returned to
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  Speaker 2: California on October ten, Melody was no longer with her.
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  Speaker 2: Authorities say Ashley has been uncooperative throughout the investigation, with
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  Speaker 2: only outdated photos and limited information. Detectives are working with
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  Speaker 2: a narrow three day window to determine where Melody may
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  Speaker 2: have gone missing and where she might be now. Santa
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  Speaker 2: Barbara County Sheriff Bill Brown says they're hopeful that Melody
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  Speaker 2: could be with someone, perhaps a relative or friend, who
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  Speaker 2: doesn't realize she's missing. Family members held a vigil Friday
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  Speaker 2: near the home where Melody was last seen. Her grandmother,
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  Speaker 2: Lily Dean's, shared a heartfelt message. If she's listening, we
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  Speaker 2: love you, We're here for you, we can help. We
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  Speaker 2: want you to be happy. Call me. The numbers are
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  Speaker 2: on the TV that you can call and I will
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  Speaker 2: come pick you up. Melody's father died in a motorcycle
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  Speaker 2: crash when she was just six months old. Her aunt,
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  Speaker 2: who hasn't seen her in four years, told News Nation
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  Speaker 2: that the surveillance photo those new photos release definitely remind
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  Speaker 2: me of her dad.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, we haven't seen her in four and a
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  Speaker 3: half years, so what we know her as, I mean,
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  Speaker 3: she was just a little four year old girl when
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  Speaker 3: we had known her. But that knows definitely, you know,
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  Speaker 3: reminds me of her dad's So yeah, it does look
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  Speaker 3: like her.
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  Speaker 2: The FBI has released a missing poster describing Melody as
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  Speaker 2: between four and four six feet tall, weighing about sixty
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  Speaker 2: to one hundred pounds. The search is now entering its
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  Speaker 2: second week, and authorities are urging the public to come
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  Speaker 2: forward with any information. Sheriff Brown says, we remain determined
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  Speaker 2: to bring her home safely. If you have any information
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  Speaker 2: about Melody Buzzards whereabouts, contact the Santa Barbara County Sheriff's
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  Speaker 2: Office or your local FBI field office.
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  Speaker 4: Nicole, thank you. More Primate Justice News after this.
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  Speaker 2: At least one person is dead and six others are
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  Speaker 2: injured following a shooting during a homecoming celebration at a
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  Speaker 2: college in Pennsylvania. The incident happened around nine thirty pm
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  Speaker 2: local time on Saturday, October twenty five, outside the International
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  Speaker 2: Cultural Center at Lincoln University. As reported by Chester County
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  Speaker 2: District Attorney Christopher Sarobe, the shooting transpired during a post
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  Speaker 2: game gathering at the venue. According to Lincoln University's police
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  Speaker 2: Chief Mark Partey. He described the scene as chaotic, with
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  Speaker 2: attendees scattered in panic. Among the seven victims who were
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  Speaker 2: hit by gunfire, one has unfortunately died from their injuries.
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  Speaker 2: A suspect has been arrested and found with the firearm
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  Speaker 2: but no charges have been filed as of now. Sir
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  Speaker 2: Robi mentioned that it is likely there may have been
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  Speaker 2: multiple shooters involved, though no further details regarding additional suspects
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  Speaker 2: have been disclosed. He emphasized that it does not appear
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  Speaker 2: to have been a premeditated attack, where proceeding under the
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  Speaker 2: assumption that this was not a deliberate attempt to cause
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  Speaker 2: mass harm on a college campus. In response to the incident,
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  Speaker 2: Lincoln University announced it via Instagram that counseling services would
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  Speaker 2: be available for students and staff at ten am on Sunday.
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  Speaker 2: The Chester County District Attorney has advised the public to
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  Speaker 2: steer clear of the university area in the aftermath of
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  Speaker 2: the shooting and say the investigation is ongoing. Students would
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  Speaker 2: be updated on Monday morning.
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  Speaker 4: Aiden Klune, nineteen, leaves's California home April twenty six to
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  Speaker 4: drive to Utah, then doubles back to a hotel in Nevada.
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  Speaker 4: Kloon spends the night there and checks out early in
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  Speaker 4: the morning. That's the last time Kloon ever seen. Nevada
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  Speaker 4: Police FI kloons truck abandoned on the highway near the
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  Speaker 4: Cherry Creek Mountains with his belongings still inside police fallow
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  Speaker 4: plumes tracks into the mountains for ten miles before rain
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  Speaker 4: and snow erode the path. Kloon's family says the team
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  Speaker 4: was struggling with depression amidst the pandemic. Now missing three years.
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  Speaker 4: If you have information about teen Aiden Klune, please contact
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  Speaker 4: Cinema Sheriffs seven oh seven five six five twenty five
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  Speaker 4: sixty nine.
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  Speaker 1: where we do our best to find missing people, especially children,
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  Speaker 1: and help solve unsolved homicides. With this crime Alart, I'm
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  Speaker 1: Nancy Grace