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MELODEE, 9, MISSING, MOMMY: 'NO COMMENT,' WALKS FREE WITH ANKLE MONITOR · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. Mommy disguises, missing Melody just
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Speaker 1: nine years old, and a bizarre series of wigs on
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Speaker 1: a very odd cross country road trip. Mommy comes home,
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Speaker 1: No Melody. I'm Nancy Grace. This is Crime Stories. I
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Speaker 1: want to thank you for being with us. Where is
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Speaker 1: this little girl?
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Speaker 2: Timeline was very sketchy and mom is not giving any
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Speaker 2: information at all.
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Speaker 1: Where is Melody? Please help us find this girl. Mommy
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Speaker 1: being completely uncooperative in the search for Melody. Why is
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Speaker 1: there any good reason Mommy can't tell us where her
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Speaker 1: nine year old little girl is before I bring you
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Speaker 1: up today on this bizarre cross country road trip and
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Speaker 1: the changing of the wigs and the outfits and the disguises.
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Speaker 1: Mommy changing the license plates on a rental car during
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Speaker 1: that cross country trip with her child. Who does that?
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Speaker 1: I want to take you straight into a court room.
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Speaker 1: In the last hours this has gone down. Mommy Ashley
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Speaker 1: Buzzard in court on criminal charges this round friends at
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Speaker 1: Court TV, but they were not charges in relation to
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Speaker 1: her missing little girl. And yes, Melody nine years old
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Speaker 1: is missing. Straight out to Anne Emerson, senior investigative reporter,
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Speaker 1: criminally obsessed on YouTube and star of Unsolved South Carolina,
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Speaker 1: The murdog murders, money and mystery, and thank you for
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Speaker 1: being with us. Why isn't mommy charged with her disappearing child?
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Speaker 1: Why is she charged on some other false imprisonment? What happened.
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Speaker 3: Right now?
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Speaker 4: We were so surprised when that false imprisonment charge came in.
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Speaker 4: It looks like somebody had gone to the house to
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Speaker 4: try and talk to her. From what he's told us
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Speaker 4: that we now know the man who says he was
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Speaker 4: the one that filed this criminal complaint.
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Speaker 1: Well, Anne Emerson, you're absolutely correct. His name is Tyler Brewer.
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Speaker 1: And apparently he goes over to Buzzard that's actually Buzzard
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Speaker 1: Melody's mother's home, to offer to help look for Melody,
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Speaker 1: and they get into it, and apparently Ashley Buzzer tells
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Speaker 1: him some story about where Melody is, then thinks better
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Speaker 1: of it and holds him in her home, locks the doors,
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Speaker 1: and holds him with a box cutter. Listen.
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Speaker 5: After weeks of refusing to give any information about her
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Speaker 5: daughter's whereabouts, Ashley Buzzard is taken into custody, but the
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Speaker 5: arrest on a charge of false imprisonment isn't related.
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Speaker 1: To Melody.
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Speaker 5: A friend of Buzzard's, Tyler Brewer, stopped by Buzzard's home
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Speaker 5: to offer help locating Melody. Brewer claims Buzzard told him
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Speaker 5: exactly where and with whom she left Melody in Utah.
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Speaker 6: Brewer tells police he doesn't trust the information Buzzard gave
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Speaker 6: him about Melody. Brewer says Buzzard is visibly distressed after
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Speaker 6: divulging Melody's location, screws her eyes shut and makes fists
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Speaker 6: over and over. Buzzard allegedly produced a box cutter and
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Speaker 6: secured her front door with four locks standing in front
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Speaker 6: of it to prevent Brewer from leaving. When Brewer does
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Speaker 6: manage to escape, he goes straight to police.
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Speaker 1: Who does that to a guy, this guy, Tyler Brewer,
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Speaker 1: who's coming to try to help find Melody? And what
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Speaker 1: did she tell him about Melody's location? Of course, now
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Speaker 1: he thinks she could have been lying, And why lie
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Speaker 1: about your daughter's whereabouts? This as a specter, was Melo sold?
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Speaker 1: We know she actually Buzzared is in a lot of debt,
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Speaker 1: thousands and thousands of dollars a debt. We know she
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Speaker 1: needs money, she doesn't have a job. She's in debt.
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Speaker 1: She takes Melody on a cross country bizarre road trip
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Speaker 1: and comes back without her. Has Melody been sold? Has
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Speaker 1: Melody a nine year old little girl been trafficked? Is
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Speaker 1: Melody still alive? Why let's take a look at her
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Speaker 1: in court again? Because when you see her in court,
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Speaker 1: there's Ashley Buzzer standing with her lawyer and that's a
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Speaker 1: friend friends at court TV. Why didn't anybody ask her
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Speaker 1: where's Melody? And why does she look like that? Let's
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Speaker 1: see how she looked at a rental a car rental
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Speaker 1: business where she was renting a car. Hey, is that her? Yes?
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Speaker 1: It is? And she is done up. Let me tell
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Speaker 1: you look at that head full of fake hair, Okay,
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Speaker 1: the false eyelashes, the makeup, the outfit completely uncharacteristic of
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Speaker 1: Ashley Buzzard. Why the change in appearance? And why there
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Speaker 1: you go? Can you do you see those go go
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Speaker 1: boots she's got going on right there? Why is her
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Speaker 1: daughter following recalcitrantly behind her wearing a wig? It's just
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Speaker 1: it's too much for me. Straight out to Lauren Johnson Norris,
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Speaker 1: joining US high profile defense attorney specializing in juvenile and
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Speaker 1: CPS cases. You can find her. She's the founder of
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Speaker 1: the Johnson Criminal Law Group. Lauren, she's in court, she's
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Speaker 1: in the clutches of law enforcement, she's in front of
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Speaker 1: a judge. Did nobody say, hey, where's Melody?
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Speaker 4: Well?
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Speaker 7: I'm sure absolutely, and understand the frustration about wanting to
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Speaker 7: ask that question. But when a defendant is in court,
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Speaker 7: they won't be speaking. Your attorney speaks for them, and
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Speaker 7: her attorney would have asserted the Fifth Amendment privilege against
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Speaker 7: self incrimination to protect her rights so that she doesn't
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Speaker 7: say something that could land her in jail.
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Speaker 1: You know, I really appreciate what you're saying, Lauren Johnson Norris.
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Speaker 1: But if you notice, there's not a jury there, so
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Speaker 1: her asserting. As we all know, trial lawyers know, if
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Speaker 1: you know the defendant is going to assert the Fifth
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Speaker 1: Amendment right to remain silent. If you know they're going
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Speaker 1: to do that, you cannot continue to ask them that
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Speaker 1: in front of a jury. You can't do it if
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Speaker 1: they's already advanced their Fifth Amendment right. But there's not
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Speaker 1: a jury, So why didn't the prosecutor ask why didn't
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Speaker 1: the judge ask? Am I the only one that wants
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Speaker 1: to know where is Melody? You're so concerned that by
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Speaker 1: asserting her Fifth Amendment right to remain silent, it could
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Speaker 1: somehow prejudice a jury. There is no jury, Lauren, Well, of.
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Speaker 7: Course there's no jury at her raiment, but we know
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Speaker 7: that anything that she can say can incriminate her, and potentially,
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Speaker 7: if she's placed under oath, anything that she says, of course,
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Speaker 7: could be used in a case. So well, everyone may
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Speaker 7: want to ask if the fifth sure, But if she
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Speaker 7: searts the fifth, we know she's not going to be
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Speaker 7: speaking right, so she wouldn't be saying anything at all.
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Speaker 7: A judge would rather, a prosecutor would have to give
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Speaker 7: immunity to her to get that information. Now, we don't
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Speaker 7: know if that has been discussed between the prosecution and
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Speaker 7: the defense about just locating Melody and seeing where she
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Speaker 7: is to get that information. But I am sure that
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Speaker 7: the law enforcement investigation is going on behind the scenes.
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Speaker 7: We just don't see it on TV.
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Speaker 1: Okay, guys, So she's there in court. You see Actley
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Speaker 1: Buzzard in court with a defense lawyer there. That means
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Speaker 1: there's a prosecutor, that means there's a judge, there's law
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Speaker 1: enforcement standing right, they're staring at her shooting diggers right
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Speaker 1: at or this is from our friends at Court TV.
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Speaker 1: And nobody says, hey, where's Melody. Maybe she'll answer, maybe
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Speaker 1: she won't, Maybe she'll assert her Fifth Amendment right to
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Speaker 1: remain silent. But nobody even asked, guys, where was Melody
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Speaker 1: taken on that road trip? Joining us tonight a special guest.
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Speaker 1: It is the Santa Barbara Sheriff's PIO Public Information Officer
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Speaker 1: Raquel Zick. Raquel a three day road trip? What have
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Speaker 1: you learned?
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Speaker 3: Detectives learned that there was a three day road trip
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Speaker 3: that began on October seventh, and it went as far
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Speaker 3: out as Nebraska down into Kansas before it before the
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Speaker 3: return trip that ended in Lompope. We do know on
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Speaker 3: that return trip that Ashley did come back to Lompope
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Speaker 3: without Melody.
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Speaker 1: To Sidney Sumner Crime Stories investigative reporter, Raquel will be
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Speaker 1: right back with you, Sidney, Lompope. Where is Lompoke.
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Speaker 8: Southwest of Vandenburg Village where Ashley and Melody lived together
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Speaker 8: at that home on Mars Avenue, So that's the main
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Speaker 8: city center. Vandenburg Village is very small, so you would
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Speaker 8: head into Lompoke for shopping things of that nature.
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Speaker 1: So sid where exactly did she go?
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Speaker 8: Well, from Mompoke, it looks like she made a really
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Speaker 8: big loop, driving east all the way to Nebraska, then
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Speaker 8: driving south into Kansas, and then coming back to California
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Speaker 8: back to Lompoke through Utah and Colorado.
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Speaker 1: Wow, a circuitous route. Take a look at that. Now?
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Speaker 1: Can we establish was Melody with her the entire time?
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Speaker 1: We now know that she stopped at a gas station,
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Speaker 1: the Junction gas Station. Listen, it was really really freaking weird.
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Speaker 2: She just like opened the door at the store and
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Speaker 2: then said, did you guys know you have a whole
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Speaker 2: bunch of kittens out here?
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Speaker 6: So gas stations in Panguage and Circleville could not provide
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Speaker 6: surveillance footage, finding it taped over two days prior. An
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Speaker 6: employee at the pit stop in Junction, Utah is convinced
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Speaker 6: she had a brief interaction with Ashley Buzzard. Employees say
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Speaker 6: Ashley did not purchase anything, but told her about cats
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Speaker 6: hanging around the store. The employee says Buzzard left with
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Speaker 6: a woman in her late twenties to mid thirties with
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Speaker 6: purple hair, driving in a white car with California plates.
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Speaker 1: From our friends at KUTV and there's more. I kind
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Speaker 1: of walked towards the door, going what the crap was that?
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Speaker 2: When they left and noticed that they had a California
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Speaker 2: license plate.
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Speaker 1: There's a lot of nature, a lot of woods around here,
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Speaker 1: so it's like, if this is where she was the
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Speaker 1: day before she got home, Like, who knows? You know there,
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Speaker 1: anything could happen. KUTV straight out to IRV Brandt. You
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Speaker 1: know him well, former Senior Inspector US Marshall Service International
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Speaker 1: Investigations Branch. What is that He's gone all around the
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Speaker 1: world looking for missing people and bad guys. IRV Brandt
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Speaker 1: is also the author of a series of books about
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Speaker 1: Jack Solo g I wonder who that could be patterned after?
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Speaker 1: IRV Brandt? Did you hear what the gas station attendants
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Speaker 1: are saying. They're convinced they saw Ashley Buzzard. They are
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Speaker 1: convinced she had melody with her. They state that she
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Speaker 1: had poked her head in and when she about kittens,
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Speaker 1: and when she left, it was so odd, her behavior
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Speaker 1: was so odd. They actually said, what the crawd was that?
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Speaker 1: And they even looked out and saw she had a
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Speaker 1: California car tag? What could have happened that made them curious,
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Speaker 1: curious enough to go. I mean, you know, how many
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Speaker 1: times have you seen something you thought was odd and
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Speaker 1: you look to check the tag.
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Speaker 9: Well, the gas station attendance, and I agree with you, Nancy,
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Speaker 9: that it is very odd. But when you're talking about
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Speaker 9: that area of the country where you're going into Utah
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Speaker 9: and Colorado, I'm pretty familiar with it. There's not a
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Speaker 9: lot out there, and there's not a lot of people
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Speaker 9: coming through, and the people that tend to live and
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Speaker 9: work there look at people they don't know hard and
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Speaker 9: something about that struck those people as unusual.
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Speaker 1: Straight out to Anne Emerson, senior investigative reporter, criminally obsessed.
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Speaker 1: And what I find significant, and I'm circling back in
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Speaker 1: a moment to Sydney regarding the timeline, is when this
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Speaker 1: gas station attendant saw and they're convinced they saw the
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Speaker 1: mom Ashley buzzard, they did not see Melody. What do
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Speaker 1: you know about this interaction? Well, it was so bizarre.
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Speaker 4: I think that that's why this gas station attendant remembered
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Speaker 4: what she thought she saw. First of all, remember Ashley's
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Speaker 4: wearing a wig and it looks weird, So I think
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Speaker 4: there was a part of it that was like, why
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Speaker 4: is this woman coming in with this wig talking about
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Speaker 4: these kittens outside? So she kind of leans out and
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Speaker 4: she was actually on the phone, I think right after
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Speaker 4: or d during this interaction with her husband, and that's
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Speaker 4: why she could recollect it. She looks out and she
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Speaker 4: sees in the car someone with purple hair, is what
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Speaker 4: she said. Now, we asked very specifically. Our partners at
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Speaker 4: KUTV were sent down to this area to talk to
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Speaker 4: them about this, and she said she thought the woman
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Speaker 4: in the car was in her twenties or thirties, and
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Speaker 4: that was a huge red flag to all of us
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Speaker 4: that something had possibly happened between that Colorado Utah border
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Speaker 4: and now we're just down the road on Route eighty nine.
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Speaker 4: What's going on? And that really was very concerning, But
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Speaker 4: we don't know for sure, right we don't know for
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Speaker 4: sure if Melody looked older for some reason, but a
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Speaker 4: nine year old looking like a twenty to thirty year old,
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Speaker 4: it was just too much for me to believe.
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Speaker 1: To Sidney Sumner, Crime Stories investigative reporter Anne Emerson is
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Speaker 1: spot on and she's identified a very critical moment in
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Speaker 1: this road trip. So the mom, we believe Ashley Buzzard
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Speaker 1: goes to this gas station and where is the gas station?
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Speaker 1: Quickly Sydney Junction, Utah Junction, Utah. They see who they
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Speaker 1: believe to be this woman, the mother Ashley Buzzard. She
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Speaker 1: comes in, she doesn't buy anything, but she asked them
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Speaker 1: about kittens cats outside the gas station. It sticks in
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Speaker 1: the attendant's memory. She was on the phone with her
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Speaker 1: husband and must have recounted what just happened. They look
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Speaker 1: out for some reason, their suspicion is roused. They look out,
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Speaker 1: they see the white rental car, They see that it
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Speaker 1: now has California plates, and they see what they believe
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Speaker 1: to be a woman in her twenties to thirties with
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Speaker 1: purple hair in the car with the mom. Do I
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Speaker 1: understand it correctly, Sidney?
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Speaker 2: Yes, That is the.
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Speaker 8: Gas station attendant's account of what happened. And she didn't
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Speaker 8: really get a good look at that passenger in the car,
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Speaker 8: so she claimed that this woman with the purple hair
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Speaker 8: looked to be in her late twenties to maybe her
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Speaker 8: early thirties, but she didn't have an interaction with anyone
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Speaker 8: outside of Ashley, and this was weird. Ashley poked her
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Speaker 8: head in the door, said hey, do you know there's
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Speaker 8: a bunch of kittens out here, and walked off, got
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Speaker 8: back in her car and took off. So it was
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Speaker 8: kind of a weird interaction. But yeah, she didn't get
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Speaker 8: a good look at that pass in the car, and
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Speaker 8: the car did have California plates, which matches what she rented.
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Speaker 8: So that car, that rental car, was assigned a California
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Speaker 8: plate when she left. We know at some point during
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Speaker 8: the drive she switched to a New York license plate,
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Speaker 8: but by the time that she was back in Junction, Utah,
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Speaker 8: that car had California plates.
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Speaker 1: Again, was that melody in the car wearing another bizarre
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Speaker 1: wig courtesy of mommy? Or was that truly an adult female?
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Speaker 1: And you got to look at it, IRV Brandt from
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Speaker 1: the perspective of the gas station attendant. If the gas
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Speaker 1: station attendant saw the California tags, I originally thought that
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Speaker 1: means she sees the car leaving. But in California you
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Speaker 1: have to have a tag on the front and the
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Speaker 1: back of your car, so she could have seen the
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Speaker 1: car coming toward her. So we've got to get a description,
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Speaker 1: a good description as best as she can give of
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Speaker 1: the woman or child with a purple wig on.
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Speaker 9: That's correct, Nancy, I mean, this is a This is
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Speaker 9: a very important piece of the investigation and it needs
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Speaker 9: to be locked down as closely as it can. If
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Speaker 9: she didn't actually see the you know, the passenger in
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Speaker 9: the car other than the purple hair, you know, it
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Speaker 9: could have been of any age. We just need they
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Speaker 9: need to make sure of you know what she's saying.
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Speaker 1: Straight back Ount too. Special guests joining us the Santa
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Speaker 1: Barbara Shares Pio is Raquel Zick Raquel. This sighting, what
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Speaker 1: do you make of it?
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Speaker 3: We do have a confirmed sighting as recent as October ninth,
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Speaker 3: which would have been on the route back, and that
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Speaker 3: would have been on the Colorado side of the Colorado
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Speaker 3: Utah border. This trip was taken in a white red
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Speaker 3: vehicle from a rental agency in Longpoke, and we do
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Speaker 3: know that somewhere along the along the route, the California
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Speaker 3: license plate was switched out to a New York license plate. Additionally,
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Speaker 3: we know that Ashley and Melody did wear wigs along
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Speaker 3: this trip, and those two things coupled together lead us
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Speaker 3: to believe that this was done to avoid detection along
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Speaker 3: that trip.
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Speaker 1: Joining us now a special guest. It's Elizabeth Mesa. This
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Speaker 1: is Melody's aunt. Is you will recall Melody's father passed
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Speaker 1: away in a vehicle accident on a motorcycle. This is
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Speaker 1: Melody's aunt on her father's side, her paternal aunt. Elizabeth,
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Speaker 1: thank you for being with us tonight. I am stunned
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Speaker 1: that the mom walks out of court and no one
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Speaker 1: presses her for information on where is Melody.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, this whole thing is pretty shocking and it's very
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Speaker 2: very heartbreaking that there's no force to tell her where,
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Speaker 2: tells where Melody is. We're still in the dark, absolutely
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Speaker 2: with no information whatsoever. And she walks out so Caroly
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Speaker 2: is so nonchalant like it's not a big deal.
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Speaker 1: Like it's no big deal at all. And Elizabeth. I
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Speaker 1: also heard where her attorney was asked, well is Ashley
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Speaker 1: Buzzard concerned about Melody's welfare? And her lawyer? Buzzard's lawyer says,
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Speaker 1: I can't comment. How can you not comment on whether
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Speaker 1: a mom is concerned about her nine year old little girl.
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Speaker 2: I don't understand it at all. I have try to
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Speaker 2: wrap my mind around this whole thing, and you know,
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Speaker 2: try to give empathy and try to put myself in
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Speaker 2: her shoes. I just can't. There's just there's something up
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Speaker 2: there that's not right in her mind. And for her
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Speaker 2: not to have any concern for her daughter whatsoever is
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Speaker 2: absolutely disgusting.
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Speaker 1: When did you learn that Ashley Buzzard had walked out
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Speaker 1: of court and nobody made her answer where is your daughter?
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Speaker 1: I mean they didn't even put the question to her.
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Speaker 1: If she needed to take the Fifth Amendment right to
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Speaker 1: remain silent, she could have, but nobody even bothered to
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Speaker 1: ask her in court.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I was at work and I had people, My
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Speaker 2: mother in law and a family friend was there in
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Speaker 2: the court, and then many news stations were there and
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Speaker 2: I was contacted and my stomach just completely jobbed. I
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Speaker 2: felt sick. It was just where's the justice for Melody?
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Speaker 2: Where is Melody? That's just a question, And she just
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Speaker 2: walked right past with not even a care. Don't like,
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Speaker 2: it doesn't even bother her that we're asking.
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Speaker 1: This crime stories with Nancy Grace aside from the disastrous
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Speaker 1: court hearing where a judge let her walk free with
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Speaker 1: an ankle monitor, I mean, this woman clearly knows how
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Speaker 1: to plut how to change the car tags, the license
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Speaker 1: plates on cars. You think she can't beat an ankle
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Speaker 1: monitor for Pete's sake. To me, that was an insult.
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Speaker 1: It was an insult on top of injury.
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Speaker 2: I agree, it's definitely a slap in the face an
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Speaker 2: ankle monitor. She went through travel through the Midwest, changing
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Speaker 2: license plates in disguise, but yet you're going to give
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Speaker 2: her an ankle monitor that she wasn't a flight risk.
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Speaker 2: I mean, she's concealing her daughter's identity and not let
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Speaker 2: not cooperating on the police, but letter free. It doesn't
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Speaker 2: make any sense.
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Speaker 1: I've got a question when you said that she went
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Speaker 1: across the country, which she did that has been documented
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Speaker 1: in disguise. I find that very odd that you put
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Speaker 1: your nine year old little girl in a series of
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Speaker 1: wigs when you go in and out of a step. Okay,
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Speaker 1: there she is right there. There is buzzard with little Melody,
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Speaker 1: and she's got her daughter. That's the rental car location.
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Speaker 1: She's in a wig and she's got her daughter in
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Speaker 1: a wig. Why would you do that? And I also
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Speaker 1: find it interesting that you say Melody just kind of
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Speaker 1: walking behind her. I don't like the looks of that either.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I noticed the body language between the two of
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Speaker 2: them is very off. When they're at the rental place.
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Speaker 2: They it doesn't seem like a normal nine year old.
22:45
Speaker 2: I mean she's just standing there with her arms crossed,
22:48
Speaker 2: just with like this, I mean, poor child. She's in
22:51
Speaker 2: a wig with a hoodie on. Mom's in full disguise.
22:55
Speaker 2: Like why, you know, that's the question, why why are
22:59
Speaker 2: you doing this to her? She should be out plane,
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Speaker 2: she should be wearing a disguise, should be her last worry.
23:05
Speaker 1: You know another thing that's scaring me, Elizabeth, is that
23:09
Speaker 1: I know Ashley Buzzard has run through a lot of money,
23:13
Speaker 1: thousands and thousands of dollars. She owes people. She needs money,
23:18
Speaker 1: she's broke. She takes a rental car in disguise across
23:23
Speaker 1: the country, hours and hours and hours of driving. She
23:27
Speaker 1: changes the plates on the car. Who does that? Then
23:32
Speaker 1: she changes the plates back when she returns home without Melody.
23:39
Speaker 1: She needs money. She went in disguise, she changed the
23:42
Speaker 1: car plates. Have you considered the very disturbing fact that
23:47
Speaker 1: Melody was sold or trafficked at nine years old?
23:52
Speaker 2: Of course, that's a thought, you know, something that you
23:55
Speaker 2: definitely don't want to think of. But yeah, I mean
23:58
Speaker 2: that's definitely a thought because none of this makes sense,
24:03
Speaker 2: you know. I mean that's definitely nothing that we hope for.
24:06
Speaker 2: We hope that she's safe and that we could get
24:08
Speaker 2: her back, but I mean it doesn't make sense. None
24:11
Speaker 2: of this makes sense. And like you said, she owes
24:13
Speaker 2: thousands of dollars to people, but yet she I mean,
24:17
Speaker 2: she doesn't have a job, she's on a fixed income
24:21
Speaker 2: on housing. What is she spending all this money on?
24:24
Speaker 2: Why did she need all those credit cards? I mean,
24:26
Speaker 2: she doesn't have a vehicle. There's just so many wonders
24:29
Speaker 2: on what's going on.
24:31
Speaker 1: Where is she getting money?
24:33
Speaker 2: Best, well, she's on housing and she receives Social Security benefits.
24:40
Speaker 2: But other than that, I mean, she doesn't have a job.
24:43
Speaker 2: I don't know where she's getting her money to rent
24:47
Speaker 2: cars that I mean, ranting a car to drive across
24:51
Speaker 2: the Midwest isn't cheap. And then the food and the gas.
24:54
Speaker 2: I mean, she can't get that much money on through
24:59
Speaker 2: the government. I mean, they don't give you that much money,
25:01
Speaker 2: so she has to be doing something else. I don't know.
25:05
Speaker 2: I try sitting here thinking and I'm just completely mind
25:09
Speaker 2: blown over everything. At a loss for words.
25:13
Speaker 1: Has anyone been able to confront her about where is Melody?
25:19
Speaker 2: No? I mean not. We've attempted to. We went over there.
25:24
Speaker 2: We've been trying to talk to her. We personally the
25:28
Speaker 2: family have had no success with that. After my niece
25:33
Speaker 2: was able to talk to her that one time, and
25:35
Speaker 2: then no, she doesn't correspond with us whatsoever.
25:41
Speaker 1: Does she have a cell phone, Lizabeth?
25:44
Speaker 2: I mean she has to have a cell phone because
25:47
Speaker 2: she's ordering all these packages, so she has to have
25:51
Speaker 2: some type of electronical device. I mean she has to.
25:55
Speaker 1: So here we go, we know she's got a cell phone,
25:58
Speaker 1: which leaves me too. Has the phone been pained? That
26:03
Speaker 1: will give me a direct route of where she's been
26:06
Speaker 1: unless she's shut it off. But there's one thing she
26:08
Speaker 1: cannot shut off, and that is the satellite the NAV
26:12
Speaker 1: system on rental cars. If that rental car had a
26:15
Speaker 1: NAV system, which I believe that it did, so that
26:19
Speaker 1: is a simple matter to track where she went on
26:22
Speaker 1: that nav system. Question. Have you or anyone within your
26:27
Speaker 1: family been in touch with L eight law enforcement?
26:31
Speaker 2: I mean several phone calls trying to get a hold
26:35
Speaker 2: of the detective. I emailed and I asked him to please,
26:41
Speaker 2: if you're not going to call me back, please get
26:43
Speaker 2: in touch with my mother in law because she was
26:45
Speaker 2: very upset and she wanted to answers, and thankfully he did.
26:49
Speaker 2: He reached out to her. I'm not sure of his name,
26:52
Speaker 2: but he reached out to her about a week or
26:55
Speaker 2: so ago, and he just let her know that they're
26:58
Speaker 2: still working on the case. They don't have any new information,
27:01
Speaker 2: and they would keep us updated. And I mean, we
27:05
Speaker 2: know just as little information as y'all do. We get
27:08
Speaker 2: the information after it hits the news, so we don't
27:13
Speaker 2: know anything else. We don't know anything more than everybody
27:18
Speaker 2: else knows. So it's pretty frustrating because they don't let
27:21
Speaker 2: us know when they're going to be doing things, you know.
27:23
Speaker 2: So it's just frustrating. The whole thing is frustrating. It
27:28
Speaker 2: doesn't make any sense to me. I just keep, you know, wondering,
27:31
Speaker 2: is Melody okay? Does she need anything? You know? I mean,
27:35
Speaker 2: I just think of my own kids and knowing that
27:37
Speaker 2: they're in school and they're playing with their friends and
27:40
Speaker 2: Thanksgivings coming up, and it's just heartbreaking. It's absolutely heartbreaking.
27:46
Speaker 1: I've got such a bad feeling in the pit of
27:49
Speaker 1: my stomach was beeth. We're in a catch twenty two.
27:53
Speaker 1: Law enforcement is because they're trying to find Melody, just
27:57
Speaker 1: like you are, but they don't have any proof of
28:00
Speaker 1: any wrongdoing, so they cannot arrest Buzzard until they get
28:06
Speaker 1: some kind of proof. And every minute counts. If Melody
28:11
Speaker 1: is still alive and there is a strong possibility she is,
28:15
Speaker 1: how long will she be alive and how long until
28:18
Speaker 1: she is lost in some web of trafficking? You know,
28:21
Speaker 1: children are sold, then they're sold, then they're moved, Then
28:24
Speaker 1: they're moved, they go to place to place to place
28:26
Speaker 1: to place to where you can't find them. That could
28:29
Speaker 1: be happening right now tonight as we're talking. She could
28:33
Speaker 1: be in some person's car, in the back of the
28:36
Speaker 1: car getting taken across the country to some other location,
28:40
Speaker 1: to some other person that wants a little girl her
28:46
Speaker 1: age for nothing good. That could be happening right now
28:51
Speaker 1: and the mom's not talking. I have another question for you, Elizabeth.
28:56
Speaker 1: Did you ever know Buzzard to dress up in all
29:01
Speaker 1: of these wigs or to dress her child up in wigs?
29:05
Speaker 1: Or is that specifically for this road trip.
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Speaker 2: No, I've never seen her in so much makeup or
29:13
Speaker 2: dressed the way she was. Never she was always just
29:18
Speaker 2: in like jeans and a T shirt, you know, I mean,
29:21
Speaker 2: never in full makeup like this ever. Never seen her
29:25
Speaker 2: in a wig. She always had her natural hair which
29:27
Speaker 2: was shoulder like, mid back, maybe very curly. But this
29:34
Speaker 2: whole costume to Sky, this is all new. I mean
29:38
Speaker 2: I wouldn't have recognized her if I've seen her on
29:40
Speaker 2: the street. I mean, this is just a total new character.
29:45
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean she is decked out with a full
29:48
Speaker 1: on wig, fall eyelashes, either a leather or pleathan jacket,
29:55
Speaker 1: tis matching boots, the works. She's put a lot of
29:59
Speaker 1: time into that look she's got going on right there, Lizabeth,
30:02
Speaker 1: Is she hold back up in her home now?
30:05
Speaker 2: Yes, she returns last night.
30:08
Speaker 1: This is just killing me that we can't get anything
30:11
Speaker 1: out of her, and under our constitution we can't make
30:14
Speaker 1: her answer questions. Lizabeth, what is your message to Melody
30:20
Speaker 1: tonight if she can hear you.
30:23
Speaker 2: I just want to let Melodie know that she has
30:25
Speaker 2: a lot of family that loves her. She has her
30:29
Speaker 2: grandma or her sister, aunt's uncles, cousins. We're all here
30:33
Speaker 2: for her and we love her very much and we
30:36
Speaker 2: just want her home safe.
30:38
Speaker 1: Joining us tonight. Melody's paternal aunt who has been trying
30:44
Speaker 1: and trying for weeks on end to find nine year
30:49
Speaker 1: old Melody. Where is Melody? How could she be gone
30:56
Speaker 1: a year and just reported missing.
30:59
Speaker 6: Or was she without getting some kind of direct indication
31:03
Speaker 6: promocially of where Melody should be? It's going to be
31:07
Speaker 6: much more difficult.
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Speaker 1: Mommy. Just in court on another serious criminal charge, and
31:14
Speaker 1: that would be false imprisonment by use of a box
31:17
Speaker 1: cutter on a guy that shows up offering to help
31:20
Speaker 1: find Melody, not a stranger, someone she knows, a guy
31:24
Speaker 1: named Tyler Brewer, and apparently law enforcement believe him because
31:27
Speaker 1: they issue a formal charge and Nobody asks Ashley Buzzard,
31:33
Speaker 1: where's Melody, bringing up the chilling possibility that this little
31:38
Speaker 1: girl has been sold or trafficked Straight back out to
31:44
Speaker 1: Santa Barbara Sheriff's Pio over kel Zick. What happened to
31:50
Speaker 1: the renal vehicle and the changing of plates?
31:53
Speaker 3: Yeah, so we know that the vehicle left the rental
31:55
Speaker 3: agency bearying a California plate that was assigned to that vehicle.
31:58
Speaker 3: We know that somewhere along the along the route that
32:01
Speaker 3: was switched out to a New York plate that did
32:03
Speaker 3: not belong to Ashley, and it does not belonged to
32:05
Speaker 3: the vehicle. And then before it was returned back to
32:10
Speaker 3: the rental agency of Lompoque, the California plate was replaced.
32:14
Speaker 3: So it's a little challenging. It's more challenging to track
32:17
Speaker 3: that vehicle as it goes through states because we're not
32:20
Speaker 3: sure what license plate we're looking as looking at associated
32:23
Speaker 3: with this white sedan. And additionally, it's hard to tell
32:27
Speaker 3: how many times or if that plate was switched back
32:31
Speaker 3: and forth.
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Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy Grace joining me now a veteran
32:45
Speaker 1: defense attorney. You know him well, Greg Morse, criminal defense
32:48
Speaker 1: attorney out of Palm Beach, founder of Morse Legal and
32:53
Speaker 1: author of They Untested on Amazon. Greg, when you have
32:58
Speaker 1: a client that changes the car tags on her car,
33:04
Speaker 1: I mean when you go on a road trip, do
33:07
Speaker 1: you take time to change the tags? And think about it?
33:10
Speaker 1: In California, you have a front and a back tag.
33:13
Speaker 1: That's a lot of work.
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Speaker 10: Why well, Nancy, you're looking at these innocuous actions of
33:19
Speaker 10: the mom and trying to impute that she sold her daughter,
33:23
Speaker 10: she got rid of her into sex, slavery. But these
33:27
Speaker 10: are just unconnected actions by someone. They don't prove anything.
33:32
Speaker 10: They're clearly not enough to arrest, so they're meaningless in
33:35
Speaker 10: and of themselves. And she's doing the right thing by
33:38
Speaker 10: not talking to the police, because they manipulate and they
33:41
Speaker 10: change statements and they put more meaning on things than
33:44
Speaker 10: maybe the information cause for to lead to a conclusion
33:47
Speaker 10: that she did something wrong. They're now releasing her on
33:50
Speaker 10: house arrest for which seems like a nonsense charge or
33:53
Speaker 10: false imprisonment unrelated. You know, they're leveraging the law enforcement
33:58
Speaker 10: and unrelated to keep her close for this investigation into
34:02
Speaker 10: her daughter. She may be distraught. She is broken down
34:06
Speaker 10: and very emotional, so she's probably not thinking right anyway,
34:10
Speaker 10: cause her daughter's missing and the information that's out there
34:12
Speaker 10: now doesn't prove anything.
34:14
Speaker 1: Her daughter's missing because she took her on her bizarre
34:16
Speaker 1: road trip and made her we wear wigs the whole
34:19
Speaker 1: way along. And now suddenly she's gone to Doctor Bethany
34:23
Speaker 1: Marshall joining US psychoanalyst, author of deal Breakers. You can
34:28
Speaker 1: see here now on Peacock and you can find her
34:30
Speaker 1: at Dodor Bethany Marshall dot com. Doctor Bethany Marshall in
34:34
Speaker 1: all of your travels, which are extensive. Her parents are
34:36
Speaker 1: missionaries all over the world, and she went along. Have
34:40
Speaker 1: you ever seen or seen a video of a snake charmer?
34:45
Speaker 1: The snake charmer plays the musical instrument and goes back
34:49
Speaker 1: and forth, and suddenly the very poisonous snake. They're both
34:53
Speaker 1: going symbiotically like this, and you start falling under each
34:57
Speaker 1: other's trance, right, and as the music stops, the snake bite. Somebody, Okay,
35:03
Speaker 1: that is what Greg Morris just did. Did you hear
35:07
Speaker 1: what he said? The mother's distraught? Really, I didn't see
35:11
Speaker 1: her crying. Let's see a shot of that court TV
35:13
Speaker 1: video of mommy in court. She's standing there just as
35:18
Speaker 1: cold as a block of ice. And oh, by the way, Bethany,
35:22
Speaker 1: after this this wee on court TV. Somebody asked the lawyer, hey,
35:27
Speaker 1: is your client worried about melody? The lawyer said, quote,
35:32
Speaker 1: I can't comment. I'm worried about melody. Why isn't the
35:37
Speaker 1: mother worried about melody? You know what? You're the shrink
35:41
Speaker 1: hit me, Well.
35:42
Speaker 11: The mother's more worried about about kittens than about melody. Apparently,
35:47
Speaker 11: here's what concerns me. The mother is end quite a
35:49
Speaker 11: bit of debt. She and her daughter look so sexualized
35:53
Speaker 11: in terms of their appearance. The mother is sexualizing the daughter.
35:57
Speaker 11: Does somebody at a convenience store actually thinks a nine
36:00
Speaker 11: year old is between twenty and thirty years of age?
36:03
Speaker 11: That means the mother is putting makeup, the purple wig.
36:07
Speaker 11: All of that with this tells me. And also all
36:10
Speaker 11: the changing of the tags and the license plates. This mother,
36:14
Speaker 11: I do not believe is sophisticated enough to do that
36:17
Speaker 11: on her own.
36:18
Speaker 1: But this is not a.
36:19
Speaker 11: Highly functioning mother. So it tells me somebody might be
36:22
Speaker 11: coaching her, telling her.
36:24
Speaker 1: How because you plase put Bethany up.
36:28
Speaker 11: And I think she's being coached.
36:29
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I just I'm hearing static right now, you
36:35
Speaker 1: said this is not a highly functioning mother. Pause. Right,
36:40
Speaker 1: This mother knows enough to get a rental car to
36:44
Speaker 1: change out the tags throughout her cross country road trip
36:48
Speaker 1: with her little girl, who goes missing to change outfits,
36:51
Speaker 1: put on disguises, and come back without her and fend
36:55
Speaker 1: off authorities who are questioning her about where is Melody?
36:58
Speaker 1: And you say she's not high functioning. I disagree.
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Speaker 11: I Nancy. I do not think she is high functioning.
37:07
Speaker 11: I think she's being coached.
37:09
Speaker 1: Let me remind everyone that the mother that just sticks
37:13
Speaker 1: in my mouth, the mother in this case, Ashley Buzzard,
37:17
Speaker 1: has not been charged and has not been named as
37:20
Speaker 1: a person of interest in Melody's disappearance. She just happens RNDA,
37:26
Speaker 1: the care founder of Missing an American network. She just
37:30
Speaker 1: happens to be the last one known to be with
37:32
Speaker 1: Melody on a hundreds and hundreds of miles road trip,
37:38
Speaker 1: just the two of them, a mommy and me moment,
37:41
Speaker 1: and she comes back without her daughter. I won't tell
37:43
Speaker 1: anybody where she is. How disturbed are you? RNDA? Of
37:48
Speaker 1: course just came to the forefront during the Chandra Levy case.
37:51
Speaker 1: If you remember that where Chandra Levy went missing from
37:55
Speaker 1: her high rise in DC and the Ritzy high Rise
38:00
Speaker 1: would video would tape over their surveillance. So we don't
38:05
Speaker 1: really know what time Shandra left her home. We don't
38:08
Speaker 1: know if she was dressed to go out to a
38:10
Speaker 1: dinner party or to go jogging, or to go back
38:12
Speaker 1: to work to the office, no idea. We don't know
38:14
Speaker 1: who was with her. We know nothing because every seventy two,
38:19
Speaker 1: they tape over it, just like the gas station. I
38:24
Speaker 1: considering pushing legislation to disallow that. But therefore we don't
38:30
Speaker 1: have the video of that gas station. At least we
38:34
Speaker 1: have the eyewitness accounts. But I want to hear your take, Rhonda.
38:39
Speaker 12: Well, look, I believe that we would be in a
38:42
Speaker 12: much better place if we had a better photograph of Melody,
38:46
Speaker 12: and the gas station would have been able to provide
38:48
Speaker 12: that if she was in that vehicle with her mom.
38:52
Speaker 12: I feel like the whole communities along that route could
38:57
Speaker 12: be looking out or could be looking through all of
39:00
Speaker 12: their videos to see where else that vehicle was seen.
39:04
Speaker 12: And I hope that the investigators are out there speaking
39:07
Speaker 12: with every single establishment along that road to see what
39:12
Speaker 12: they can find out, and hopefully they will come up
39:15
Speaker 12: with more videos so that we can actually see who
39:18
Speaker 12: we're supposed to be looking for.
39:20
Speaker 1: Two. IRV Brandt, author of Solo Shot, Curse of the Bluestone,
39:23
Speaker 1: and much more on Amazon. But for my purposes, IRV
39:28
Speaker 1: Brandt has been with the US government going all around
39:31
Speaker 1: the country hunting down tracking down bad guys and missing people. IRV,
39:38
Speaker 1: what do we do.
39:40
Speaker 9: Now, Well, Nancy, it's a complex investigation in the sense
39:48
Speaker 9: it covers so much territory between California and Nebraska than
39:54
Speaker 9: the route back. But having said that, it's not comp
40:00
Speaker 9: lux and what they're looking for, and they will have
40:03
Speaker 9: the manpower. The FBI is assisting California, all the other
40:09
Speaker 9: states will join in, and any other federal agencies that
40:13
Speaker 9: they deem necessary. They will track that route as best
40:18
Speaker 9: they can. They will interview all the witnesses that they
40:23
Speaker 9: can find. Uh for the last time that.
40:26
Speaker 1: Child was seen to Greg Morri's veteran trial lawyer joining
40:31
Speaker 1: us out of Palm Beach, why didn't anybody ask her
40:36
Speaker 1: in court? Where's Melody?
40:41
Speaker 10: Well, she has a lawyer, so she's not going to
40:44
Speaker 10: She can't compel her to testify against herself. So rightfully,
40:49
Speaker 10: so regardless of what's going on around her fault. No,
40:55
Speaker 10: I don't know if she would be or not. But again,
40:58
Speaker 10: you're going to tell someone that's being looked at for
41:00
Speaker 10: a crime. You're going to tell someone that was charged
41:03
Speaker 10: with an unrelated crime, do not speak with anyone or
41:06
Speaker 10: the police. That's good sound advice. That's criminal defense law
41:10
Speaker 10: one oh one. She has a Fifth Amendment right and
41:13
Speaker 10: she's exercising it. There's nothing wrong with that, you know yourself.
41:16
Speaker 10: It can't be used against her in court if she
41:18
Speaker 10: is ultimately arrested in the future for something involving her daughter.
41:23
Speaker 10: But right now there's not much other than the police
41:26
Speaker 10: began an investigation. Here's the last point of the daughter.
41:30
Speaker 10: They use this nonsense, false imprisonment to get her into
41:33
Speaker 10: custody to see if that would provide leverage. But the
41:36
Speaker 10: only thing that did probably was get her a lawyer,
41:39
Speaker 10: probably court appointed, since she doesn't seem to have much money,
41:42
Speaker 10: and he or she's going to tell her, Hey, don't
41:44
Speaker 10: talk to anybody, no matter what they asked, even if
41:47
Speaker 10: you want to help. She may want to help, you
41:49
Speaker 10: may want to talk, but she's not. And that's sound
41:51
Speaker 10: advice right now.
41:52
Speaker 1: That's right, doctor Bethany. She wants to help so much.
41:55
Speaker 1: She stood there in court and didn't say a word
41:58
Speaker 1: and is being un cooperative and not helping police find melody.
42:03
Speaker 1: That's how much she wants to help, doctor Bethany Marshall.
42:08
Speaker 1: What do you think.
42:10
Speaker 11: I think that the fact that she took her daughter
42:13
Speaker 11: out of school and was homeschooling her was red flag
42:17
Speaker 11: number one, cutting the daughter off from relatives, a loving grandmother, aunts, uncles,
42:23
Speaker 11: red flag number two, running up debt, dressing her daughter
42:27
Speaker 11: up in this manner and taking her across the country.
42:30
Speaker 11: But most notably Nancy. When you interview somebody and you
42:34
Speaker 11: wonder if there's homicide or sex trafficking or something like that,
42:38
Speaker 11: what you really look for is whether or not there
42:40
Speaker 11: is empathy towards the lost child. There's no empathy. She's not,
42:46
Speaker 11: you know, Nancy. According to one report, she was taking
42:49
Speaker 11: down missing children missing Melody Buzzard photos. That's not lack
42:56
Speaker 11: of empathy. Even that's malice, that's destruction, that's getting in
43:00
Speaker 11: the way of the investigation. This mother, I think, does
43:04
Speaker 11: not want this daughter to be found for some reason,
43:08
Speaker 11: because if the daughter's found and the daughter talks about
43:11
Speaker 11: what happened, there's a lot of hell that could rain
43:14
Speaker 11: down on this mother.
43:16
Speaker 1: And Emerson, is that true? And seeing your investigative reporter
43:19
Speaker 1: criminally obsessed? Is the mom Ashley Buzzard accused of tearing
43:23
Speaker 1: down missing persons posters?
43:26
Speaker 4: Absolutely, We've got it on video, like she was seen
43:30
Speaker 4: by a ser like actually like a little surveillance camera.
43:34
Speaker 4: It's out there of her going in her front yard
43:38
Speaker 4: and These are community members who have been extremely concerned.
43:42
Speaker 4: There are plenty of neighbors who have been speaking out
43:44
Speaker 4: about this, and they've been watching this house for a
43:47
Speaker 4: while and they watched her go in the front yard,
43:52
Speaker 4: see these signs and start pulling them up out of
43:55
Speaker 4: her yard because for whatever reason, she didn't feel like
43:59
Speaker 4: they needed to have those signs in front of her yard.
44:02
Speaker 4: Another thing about these neighbors is that they have been
44:06
Speaker 4: watching strange behavior. I mean, I asked, have you seen her?
44:13
Speaker 4: Have you ever seen Melody in a in a in
44:16
Speaker 4: a wig or in a disguise before? And they were like, well,
44:19
Speaker 4: I don't know about the wig, but I do know
44:21
Speaker 4: every time she goes out she keeps her covered up
44:23
Speaker 4: with a hoodie. What so this has been this behavior
44:27
Speaker 4: has for whatever reason, if there's a mental health issue,
44:31
Speaker 4: which we've heard a lot about of course, or some
44:34
Speaker 4: reason that she would feel like she needs to keep
44:36
Speaker 4: her hidden, there are there are definitely signs that have
44:40
Speaker 4: been going on, according to the neighbors, for more than
44:42
Speaker 4: a minute.
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Speaker 1: To Rhonda Decayr joining us Missing an American Network. What now, Well, we.
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Speaker 12: Are sponsoring six billboards throughout California, Nevada, and Utah, in
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Speaker 12: order to help the public know who to look for
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Speaker 12: and who.
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Speaker 1: To call if they see her.
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Speaker 12: I have been asking everybody in those communities to print
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Speaker 12: out posters and hang them up so people that aren't
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Speaker 12: watching TV or on social media, so that they know
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Speaker 12: that there is this little girl missing and she possibly
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Speaker 12: was in their communities, and if they saw anything, to
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Speaker 12: contact the authorities. And I have also put it out
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Speaker 12: there that if any businesses want me to send them
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Speaker 12: flyers that they can hand out, that I will mail
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Speaker 12: flyers to anybody along that route or anywhere where they
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Speaker 12: were to locate her.
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Speaker 1: The search for nine year old Melody is happening now.
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Speaker 1: The state is trying desperately to find her. Law enforcement
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Speaker 1: across multiple jurisdictions are working night and day to find
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Speaker 1: this little girl and hopefully bring her home. If you
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Speaker 1: know or think you know anything at all about missing Melody,
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Speaker 1: age nine, please call Santa Barbara County Sheriffs eight and
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Speaker 1: zero five six eight one four one five zero repeat
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Speaker 1: eight zero five six eight one four one five zero. Tonight,
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Speaker 1: we remember an American hero, Officer Michael Chandler, big Stone Gap, PD, Virginia,
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Speaker 1: just twenty nine shot and killed in the line of duty,
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Speaker 1: leaving behind a grieving wife Natasha, and daughter Cameron, American
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Speaker 1: hero Officer Michael Candler, Nancy Gray signing off goodbye friend,