CA MELODEE BUZZARD: Missing from Vandenberg Village, CA - 9 Oct 2025 - Age 9 (2 Viewers)

https://ktla.com/news/california/california-authorities-launch-search-for-girl-who-hasnt-been-seen-in-at-least-1-year/

California authorities launch search for girl who hasn’t been seen in at least 1 year​

Authorities in Santa Barbara County launched a search for a 9-year-old girl who has not been seen in a year, and who has not been seen in a photograph in two.

The Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Office began searching for Melodee Buzzard on Tuesday after a school administrator reported she hadn’t been at school in quite some time.

Deputies attempted to contact Melodee and her mother, Ashlee Buzzard, at their home in Lompoc, but the elementary school student was not there, and “no clear explanation was provided for her whereabouts.”

Although the missing persons case is only one-day-old, detectives have been unable to confirm a single recent sighting in about a year. The most recent photograph they were able to locate was taken at least two years ago, officials said.

The Sheriff’s Office is urging anyone with information about Melodee, potential sightings or contact in the past year, to come forward.

“Even small details may be critical in helping investigators ensure her safety,” the Sheriff’s Office wrote in a news release.


Media - MELODEE BUZZARD: Missing from Vandenberg Village, CA - 2024 - Age 9

 

[Guess Who]

This is from way back 10 years ago

Out-of-date tags: 23 percent of California drivers register late

Eyewitness News found a sampling of local cars and trucks with late tags and discovered it will cost those drivers more -- in ways they may not realize.

bakersfieldnow.com

 

[GrandmaBear]

Does he actually own that car though? We don't know.

I am sure he is supposed to have it registered in CA, but so many don't if they have somewhere else they can register it because of taxes and fees. They have had many politicians get caught doing this even there.

Look at the D4VD case. He had his registered in Texas, just for one example.

Take a stroll down nearly any street in CA on street view and you will see plenty of out of state plates on many newer cars and you know most of those people live in CA. The costs make's it worth it, evidently.

Well he himself is talking about his OK plates in the interview so yeah, I'd assume it's his and he is the one who hasn't switched it to CA.

Believe me, I'd resist most things CA myself... Highest state sales tax or one of them, ridiculous trucking regulations, solar panels on housing and so very much more.

 

[GrandmaBear]

I've been thinking about how she told him she knew people were comparing her to Casey Anthony... Now it's posssible he or someone told her that... He didn't say that but who knows... LE could have also told her that when trying to question her, etc... My thought was she'd been online.. I have seen it said in comments and YT chats... If she is so paranoid though about being tapped by LE and things like that, odd she'd go online.... He said the one day she was deleting her accounts and such like Amazon and so on... So that means she was online then.... What is she doing in that house though if she isn't going online...? Reading books or watching TV...

I'm just trying to trigger some thoughts...

I wonder if she likes the "fame"... I was under the impression she doesn't and hates the attention, the news, the interest, the posters... But I wonder...

Clearly she isn't close to anyone it would seem because she had to give him keys to her storage locker and home to clear them out if she ended up in jail...

She doesn't trust her own family it sounds like as she said she'd rather see MB in foster care or a group home than with them... What else would she do to keep MB from the families...

She is packing up, etc. but where will she go...

She said she had a shopping addiction...

Why is she worried about cops seeing her online shopping activity and bank info, etc...

Of course if she has mental issues who knows what or how she thinks... But on the face of it, it would seem she has something to hide to worry about those things...

The part that worried me the most is that it sounds like she will go to jail before telling where MB is... That doesn't bode well...

Not helping, I thought maybe "talking" some of this out would bring some thoughts but it isn't...

That trip... Claims of a couple at a zoo... I wonder if they can go back in her say Uber history to see if and when she went to a zoo or IF she ever did in the recent past months, etc... IF such is even true, doubtful...

She claimed this couple directed that trip and they kept moving the meeting place which is why she drove here and then there and so on. It ALMOST fits as she did take a long trip and MB was with her on the way back, for part of it at least...She said the couple was paranoid about the govt. but reportedly she is as well and that's odd...

I too keep thinking of cults or religion and the cases we've seen relating to UT, ID, etc... We have no indication there is anything like that in her life though but what does she DO? She doesn't work apparently, she claims she is not a partier, seems to have no friends, isn't close to family, isn't raising MB now anyhow... Has a shopping addiction... She is always made up when she leaves the house... I mean it isn't hard to stay home if you are on the computer, order your groceries in, watch TV, read, and so on but if she's paranoid about them knowing what she does...

You know, I'd think her introverted but hearing her voice on the recording with Tyler i wouldn't call her shy or awkward at all... Not dumb by any means...

I'll stop. I was hoping to trigger some thoughts but it isn't working... I woke up thinking about it all so...

 

[Kimster]

Yes, at 18. Older daughter wouldn't be the same dad so there'd be no social plus she was taken away from her so no, she couldn't collect for the older one.

He said 22, give or take, thereabouts.

It's a fed payt. not a state payt, not that it matters but yes, if MB is dead, it is fraud to keep collecting if she knows that.

IF Ashlee receives disability for a mental illness, she could get SSI for minor kids, too. But Destiny is way too old for Ashlee to receive it. Plus, didn’t I read that somebody else raised Destiny, for the most part?

 

[Kimster]

Or not being looked after by her like now and for the last 6 weeks. We don't know it wasn't the same Dad do we? How do we know that Destiny was taken away? I must have missed those bits. A lot to take in.

Thanks for watching and putting the detail on here.

Destiny is not mentioned in Melodee’s dad’s obit. Due to that fact, and the fact that there is a huge age gap between them, I imagine Destiny has a different father.

 

[Guess Who]

Destiny is not mentioned in Melodee’s dad’s obit. Due to that fact, and the fact that there is a huge age gap between them, I imagine Destiny has a different father.

That is my assumption, too. She would have had D at about 18 and M at about 31.

 

[GrandmaBear]

IF Ashlee receives disability for a mental illness, she could get SSI for minor kids, too. But Destiny is way too old for Ashlee to receive it. Plus, didn’t I read that somebody else raised Destiny, for the most part?

Yes, correct. To all of this. It was said she didn't raise Destiny, she was taken away from her.