The Road Trip No One Understands: The Melodee Buzzard Case
Update: 2025-11-04
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Security footage: a nine-year-old in a gray hoodie and wig beside her mother at a Lompoc rental-car counter.
Three days later, the mother returns — alone.
In this Hidden Killers round-table, Tony Brueski and the team dissect the road-trip timeline that has investigators racing from California to Nebraska and Kansas.
Why disguise a child?
Why drive 1,500 miles and come home without her?
And why hasn’t Ashlee Buzzard been charged?
We’ll walk through the digital trail — credit-card pings, cell data, GPS logs, and OnStar records — the forensic bread crumbs the FBI is now reconstructing minute by minute.
We’ll also examine what investigators look for in recovered vehicles, why restraint in arrests sometimes protects a case, and how public pressure can derail careful forensic work.
This isn’t speculation — it’s a forensic autopsy of a mystery still unfolding.
#HiddenKillers #MelodeeBuzzard #AshleeBuzzard #TonyBrueski #FBI #TrueCrimePodcast #MissingPerson #Lompoc #Nebraska #ForensicInvestigation #DigitalForensics #GroupDiscussion
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Three days later, the mother returns — alone.
In this Hidden Killers round-table, Tony Brueski and the team dissect the road-trip timeline that has investigators racing from California to Nebraska and Kansas.
Why disguise a child?
Why drive 1,500 miles and come home without her?
And why hasn’t Ashlee Buzzard been charged?
We’ll walk through the digital trail — credit-card pings, cell data, GPS logs, and OnStar records — the forensic bread crumbs the FBI is now reconstructing minute by minute.
We’ll also examine what investigators look for in recovered vehicles, why restraint in arrests sometimes protects a case, and how public pressure can derail careful forensic work.
This isn’t speculation — it’s a forensic autopsy of a mystery still unfolding.
#HiddenKillers #MelodeeBuzzard #AshleeBuzzard #TonyBrueski #FBI #TrueCrimePodcast #MissingPerson #Lompoc #Nebraska #ForensicInvestigation #DigitalForensics #GroupDiscussion
Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video?
Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod
Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/
Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod
X Twitter https://x.com/tonybpod
Listen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872
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