Found Deceased CA - Melodee Buzzard, 9, Vandenberg Village, 14 Oct 2025 *Mother arrested*

[Spectrix]

This is all just my opinion and speculation but I believe she must’ve been suffering some sort of psychosis and paranoia. As a mother of girls, we find it impossible to comprehend shooting your own daughter. But what if she thought the daughter was the devil or some sort of evil? Or was she ‘saving’ her from this world?

While we don't have much to go off, there was a brief glimpse into Ashlee's mental state when an old acquaintance of hers (Tyler Brewer) inserted himself into the situation offering his 'help', and Ashlee called him out on his behaviour.

There's an audio recording of part of their conversation - starting around 3 minutes into this video.
For context, it appears that Tyler had plans on reporting to the police and the press, and Ashlee saw through his charade and confronted him. IMO she doesn't sound psychotic or paranoid, she sounds sharp as a tack.

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[FromGermany1]

tonight’s show;

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[tlcya]

some of the evidence:

Detectives learned Buzzard switched the rental car’s license plates to New York plates and backed into gas stations to avoid security cameras.
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Detectives served follow-up search warrants Oct. 30 at the family home, a storage locker and the rental car. An expended cartridge case was recovered from the residence, and a live round of similar ammunition was found in the vehicle.
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Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives matched the cartridge cases found at the Utah crime scene to the single case recovered from the Buzzard residence
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DNA from the remains was a familial match to Ashlee Buzzard.
Mother faces murder charge after Melodee Buzzard found dead

Sheriff Bill Brown said "cold-blooded and criminally sophisticated premeditation and heartlessness ... went into planning" the crime and "ruthlessness ... went into actually committing the crime."
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The sheriff said Ashlee Buzzard made deliberate efforts to prevent detectives from finding Melodee.
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Authorities claimed Ashlee Buzzard wore wigs and swapped license plates during the trip.
Ashlee Buzzard arrested in murder of daughter Melodee: 'Cold-blooded'

“Maternal filicide is rare and always difficult to comprehend,” Brown said. “But this level of criminal activity is particularly shocking.”
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Surveillance footage showed mother and daughter at the rental office — both wearing wigs in an apparent bid to conceal their identities, Brown said.
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Buzzard swapped license plates and deliberately avoided surveillance cameras during the pair’s multistate road trip,
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/12/24/california-girl-melodee-buzzard-killing-utah/

 

[tlcya]

MOO the level of planning shows an awareness of guilt and extreme measures to avoid accountability. This isn't some mother who in the throes of psychosis snapped decided to kill her child to protect her from demons or some other delusional threat. This was premediated murder that involved much aforethought and planning ahead. She then followed through and executed her plan and her child.

Ashlee Buzzard may well have mental health issues but I am not ready to say those issues are responsible for her actions.