9-Year-Old Melodee Buzzard Vanished on a Secret Cross-Country Trip – She’s Still Missing

9-year-old Melodee Buzzard has been missing since October 9, 2025.

Melodee is 4’6”, 60 pounds, with brown eyes and curly brown hair (often hidden under wigs or hoods during the trip). The most widely circulated photo of her is already over 2 years old.

She was last confirmed seen on October 9 traveling with her mother, Ashlee Buzzard, in a white 2024 Chevrolet Malibu along the Utah-Colorado line (Green River / Panguitch area). After that afternoon, Melodee vanished from all footage. The car was returned to Lompoc, California on October 10 — without Melodee.

Critical 72-hour window: October 9 – morning of October 10
Route: California → Nevada → Utah → Colorado → Kansas → Nebraska and back

If you have ANY dash-cam, Ring, gas-station, motel, or truck-stop footage from October 7–10, 2025 along this route — or if you remember seeing a woman constantly changing wigs with a quiet little girl — please contact:
Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Office
(805) 681-4171 | detective@sbsheriff.org
FBI Tip Line: 1-800-CALL-FBI (1-800-225-5324)
Or submit anonymously online: tips.fbi.gov

Even the smallest detail could be the one that brings Melodee home.
Please watch until the end, share this video everywhere, and keep Melodee’s face in front of as many eyes as possible.

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SOURCES

https://www.fbi.gov/missingmelodeebuzzard

https://www.fbi.gov/video-repository/melodee-buzzard-surveillance-footage-100725.mp4/view

Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Office — Official Releases

https://www.sbsheriff.org/sheriffs-detectives-share-updated-timeline-and-image-in-search-for-missing-9-year-old-melodee-buzzard/

https://www.sbsheriff.org/detectives-share-update-in-search-for-missing-at-risk-child/

ABC News — National Coverage

https://abcnews.go.com/US/santa-barbara-authorities-search-missing-girl/story?id=126576325

https://abcnews.go.com/US/ashlee-buzzard-false-imprisonment-charge-dropped-daughter-melodee-missing/story?id=127705811

The Independent (Santa Barbara)

https://www.independent.com/2025/10/16/a-9-year-old-lompoc-child-is-missing/

https://www.independent.com/2025/10/20/missing-lompoc-girl-melodee-buzzard-9-last-seen-october-7/

Los Angeles Times

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-10-17/where-is-melodee-buzzard-missing-california-girl

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-10-20/where-is-melodee-mother-of-missing-california-girl-may-have-driven-her-to-nebraska

ABC7 Los Angeles (KABC)

https://abc7.com/post/melodee-buzzard-new-surveillance-video-shows-missing-santa-barbara-county-girl-mother-rental-car-agency/18126116/

EdHat Santa Barbara

https://www.edhat.com/news/santa-barbara-county-sheriff-seeks-public-help-for-missing-child/

Fox News

https://www.foxnews.com/us/melodee-buzzard-mom-plotted-cut-off-missing-9-year-old-from-entire-world-grandma-says

KCRA Sacramento

https://www.kcra.com/article/california-missing-9-year-old-girl/69100891

https://www.kcra.com/article/search-melodee-buzzard-mother-arrested/69308256

CBS Los Angeles

https://www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/news/mother-missing-melodee-buzzard-released-from-custody-gps-monitor/