A Southern California mom rented a automotive this month and drove her 9-year-old daughter midway to Nebraska.
Three days later she returned house alone, and has since refused to reply questions concerning the lady’s whereabouts.
Now, Ashlee Buzzard’s highway journey has grow to be the central focus of the FBI’s and Santa Barbara County Sheriff Workplace’s seek for her lacking daughter, Melodee.
Authorities consider Buzzard left the Lompoc space together with her daughter on Oct. 7, drove to Nebraska and returned to her Vandenberg Village house on Oct. 10, passing by means of Kansas alongside the best way. The three-day journey would have crossed round 3,000 miles and required round 48 hours of driving, in line with Google Maps.
Sheriff’s detectives are persevering with their seek for Melodee Buzzard.
(Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Workplace)
On Friday, the Sheriff’s Workplace launched new surveillance digicam photographs of Melodee that had been captured at a California automotive rental enterprise on Oct. 7.
“Within the picture, Melodee is carrying a hooded sweatshirt with the hood pulled up and what seems to be a wig that’s darker and straighter than her pure hair,” the workplace stated. “Investigators consider the wig might have been used to change her look.”
Authorities say Buzzard, who was additionally identified to put on wigs, rented a white Chevrolet Malibu with the license plate 9MNG101.
Anybody who might have seen her or her daughter throughout their journey is requested to contact the Sheriff’s Workplace.
Sheriff’s detectives launched an up to date timeline and not too long ago obtained surveillance photos as they proceed their seek for lacking 9-year-old Melodee Buzzard.
(Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Workplace)
“Our detectives are following each lead on this case. We proceed to hunt data from the general public that would assist us discover Melodee,” Santa Barbara County Sheriff Invoice Brown stated in a press release. “We stay decided to deliver her house safely.”
Melodee was found lacking on Oct. 14 after the Lompoc Unified College District contacted the Sheriff’s Workplace to report the lady’s extended absence from her unbiased research program. Detectives visited her house that day, however Melodee was nowhere to be seen and Buzzard refused to cooperate with their investigation, in line with the Sheriff’s Workplace.
Buzzard has not responded to The Occasions’ requests for remark.
Initially, the Sheriff’s Workplace was unable to verify any sightings of Melodee throughout the previous yr. The FBI joined the investigation on Oct. 18 and two days later the Sheriff’s Workplace confirmed that Melodee was seen as not too long ago as Oct. 7.
She is described as 4’6” tall, weighing about 60 kilos, with brown hair and brown eyes.
A poster with the phrase, “The place is Melodee,” hangs exterior the Vandenberg Village house the place her mom Ashlee Buzzard lives.
(Courtesy of Lizabeth Meza)
Kinfolk on Melodee’s father’s aspect declare that Buzzard has refused to allow them to go to the lady. Melodee’s father, Rubiell Meza, died in a 2016 bike accident shortly after she was born.
“She hasn’t allow us to see her for a number of years,” Melodee’s aunt Bridgett Truitt informed native information station KEYT. “And all of us have tried. However we by no means stopped fascinated with her or loving her or praying for her.”
Meza’s household is holding a vigil for Melodee exterior of her Vandenberg Village house on Friday night to hope for her protected return. Votive candles and posters of Melodee have been arrange on the road during the last week.
“I’m horrified for my little niece, I can’t think about what she’s gone by means of,” Melodee’s aunt Vicky Shade informed The Occasions. “This doesn’t sound good. I simply wish to know if she’s OK. We have to discover her.”
Anybody with data is requested to contact the Sheriff’s Workplace at (805) 681-4150. Suggestions will also be left anonymously at (805) 681-4171 or at SBSheriff.org.
