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

[cherrymeg]

Thank you for the information, much appreciated.

Ashlee's Mom stated she is bipolar. Do you have an opinion as to whether that could relate to her choice to murder Melodee?

Bipolar could maybe explain AB’s paranoia and maybe her treatment or music her child. She was driving around wearing a wig changing license plates. If she had killed her daughter in the home that could be a moment of insanity. She could plan and drive and rent a car she is sane enough to be held accountable for her actions. Jmo. This seemed planned her mental health might have played a role in why this happened or why she isolated her daughter from regular school and family. I feel like her appearance in court looks calculated. She is drying to look older than she is. She killed her kid and seemed pretty cold about it.

 

[cherrymeg]

Quite possibly. Or was she waiting for the perfect quiet location and no one else around? I don't think we will ever really know truth but it's very obvious a lot of planning went into it.

She planned this but how did she see it ending. Was she planning on leaving the country or state or trying to disappear? Eventually you hope someone would ask where her daughter was.

 

[Spectrix]

If you cross state lines with your child is that a crime.

What crime would that be, exactly? There must be an awful lot of criminals who happen to live near state borders

I was wondering if this would be an FBI case. If there was planning in one state and murder in another, also she was a kid that was reported missing. I was hoping she wasn’t dead and her mom was just hiding her somewhere.

The California Sheriffs Dept seems to think that it's appropriate for California State to handle the case as they allege that the crime was premeditated there. There may be some misdemeanours in Utah, Nebraska or Colorado if Ashlee was swapping licence plates but it's next to meaningless if she is going to be put into jail for life without parole anyway.

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