CA CA - Melodee Buzzard, 9, Vandenberg Village, 14 Oct 2025

[Jo in Calif]

Video of hearing.

 

[Knox]

https://www.facebook.com/ksbynews/posts/pfbid04qUDdSi9GE8UtNsX7cEJA81vXr9RFZnJAgfEzANXhJB58bZ1cXwz7rbfBVKg35x8l

Do we know her attorney's name?

 

[Gigglingtoes]

I doubt she slept much, but I think that's typical if you are Bipolar and in a manic phase?

Or on a good one

 

[Jo in Calif]

https://www.facebook.com/ksbynews/posts/pfbid04qUDdSi9GE8UtNsX7cEJA81vXr9RFZnJAgfEzANXhJB58bZ1cXwz7rbfBVKg35x8l

Do we know her attorney's name?

Vandenberg Village woman Ashlee Buzzard, left, appears in court Wednesday with her attorney, Public Defender Adrian Galvan

Judge Releases Ashlee Buzzard From Jail Custody with Monitoring | Local News | Noozhawk

A Santa Maria Superior Court judge granted a defense request to release Ashlee Buzzard from jail custody Wednesday morning, but ordered that she must wear

www.noozhawk.com

 

[Eli9]

Vandenberg Village woman Ashlee Buzzard, left, appears in court Wednesday with her attorney, Public Defender Adrian Galvan

Judge Releases Ashlee Buzzard From Jail Custody with Monitoring | Local News | Noozhawk

A Santa Maria Superior Court judge granted a defense request to release Ashlee Buzzard from jail custody Wednesday morning, but ordered that she must wear

www.noozhawk.com

JMO. her public defender seems like he hasn't got his teeth yet. Basically handed the judge the ankle monitor aspect. IMO

 

[Megnut]

Jumping off your post because the thumbnail has the released still of Melodee--

Perhaps LE's video is much clearer, and granted my cellphone screen is very small, I feel like maybe that's Melodee's real hair under the hood. I see volume alongside her face, potentially curls.

Did I miss a photo that shows an obvious wig?

Either way, it seems pretty obvious Ashlee didn't want Melodee's hair to show. I can imagine that Melodee's hair drew constant compliments -- and Ashlee had good (bad) reason to not want Melodee to be memorable...

Surprised she didn't chop it off.

I do wonder what Melodee's life with her mother was like. Does she have real memories of life when her father was alive? Sounds like things were growing progressively more isolated with her mom. Did Melodee have any frame of reference for normal/not normal? Imagine trying to process any of it at such a young age...

Please let her be safe somewhere.

JMO

 

[Fromeaster]

She put on a wig as she left the courthouse.

 

[Knox]

JMO. her public defender seems like he hasn't got his teeth yet. Basically handed the judge the ankle monitor aspect. IMO

Just watched a video he made talking about ICE issues as it relates to his clients. Said he’s been in the Public Defenders office for fourteen years, so he’s not a newbie.

Looking at that another way, it got his client out of jail - in the face of the DA’s objections which were extraordinary valid given her actions.

 

[Unalienable Rights]

I do wonder what Melodee's life with her mother was like. Does she have real memories of life when her father was alive? Sounds like things were growing progressively more isolated with her mom. Did Melodee have any frame of reference for normal/not normal? Imagine trying to process any of it at such a young age...

BBM

Melodee was 6-months old when her father died -- I think it's safe to say that she doesn't have memories of life when he was alive.

 

[Megnut]

BBM

Melodee was 6-months old when her father died -- I think it's safe to say that she doesn't have memories of life when he was alive.

Thank you for setting me straight on that.

Let me adjust my question -- has her life been periodically stable? I just can't imagine what her life has been like.

JMO

 

[Gigglingtoes]

Jumping off your post because the thumbnail has the released still of Melodee--

Perhaps LE's video is much clearer, and granted my cellphone screen is very small, I feel like maybe that's Melodee's real hair under the hood. I see volume alongside her face, potentially curls.

Did I miss a photo that shows an obvious wig?

Either way, it seems pretty obvious Ashlee didn't want Melodee's hair to show. I can imagine that Melodee's hair drew constant compliments -- and Ashlee had good (bad) reason to not want Melodee to be memorable...

Surprised she didn't chop it off.

I do wonder what Melodee's life with her mother was like. Does she have real memories of life when her father was alive? Sounds like things were growing progressively more isolated with her mom. Did Melodee have any frame of reference for normal/not normal? Imagine trying to process any of it at such a young age...

Please let her be safe somewhere.

JMO

A neighbor said Ashlee wouldn’t even let her play with her son at the park when Melodee was so excited to. She tomd
The neighbor that Melodee didn’t get along with other kids. She was autistic. I think we’ve seen the autistic label with many other abusive parents. So I think she was a controlling mother who isolated her daughter for more control and her daughter deserved better.

 

[Gigglingtoes]

And the source was the video today with Vinny P. And the local reporter that was posted.

 

[sunspun]

She put on a wig as she left the courthouse.

Looks like she changed clothes too before walking out into the public! Or were those jail clothes she was wearing in the court photo? They didn't look like it to me, but why would she have been in her own clothes in court that day... didn't she go straight from jail to court, all while in custody (and I would assume inmate clothes)? But the court pic looks like street clothes to me, but different from the clothes she walked out onto the street in!

Confusing. I guess they wouldn't allow her to wear the wig in court. So her real hair is short, curly, reddish-blonde?

 

[Fromeaster]

Looks like she changed clothes too before walking out into the public! Or were those jail clothes she was wearing in the court photo? They didn't look like it to me, but why would she have been in her own clothes in court that day... didn't she go straight from jail to court, all while in custody (and I would assume inmate clothes)? But the court pic looks like street clothes to me, but different from the clothes she walked out onto the street in!

Confusing. I guess they wouldn't allow her to wear the wig in court. So her real hair is short, curly, reddish-blonde?

She left wearing the same clothes she was arrested in, but during the hearing she was wearing a gray sweater and no wig.

 

[Winterhike]

A neighbor said Ashlee wouldn’t even let her play with her son at the park when Melodee was so excited to. She tomd
The neighbor that Melodee didn’t get along with other kids. She was autistic. I think we’ve seen the autistic label with many other abusive parents. So I think she was a controlling mother who isolated her daughter for more control and her daughter deserved better.

I am still spotty on when/if Melodee attended school in person, but I think the most widely distributed photo is a school photo. I sure wish we could know observations from the teachers and other adults who worked with Melodee. They'd certainly know if she had autistic traits.

 

[Knox]

A neighbor said Ashlee wouldn’t even let her play with her son at the park when Melodee was so excited to. She tomd
The neighbor that Melodee didn’t get along with other kids. She was autistic. I think we’ve seen the autistic label with many other abusive parents. So I think she was a controlling mother who isolated her daughter for more control and her daughter deserved better.

I was pretty shocked when I heard that. Did she really believe Melodee was autistic? IMO, that’s very interesting. Paternal family said she loved being around and playing with her cousins. The video of her carving the pumpkin, she joyfully played in the goopy innards. The photos we’ve seen, she’s a little shining light, playing to the camera.

 

[sunspun]

She left wearing the same clothes she was arrested in, but during the hearing she was wearing a gray sweater and no wig.

That's what I thought! So I wonder why she wasn't wearing a jail uniform in court, and where'd she get the grey sweater?? You don't usually get to bring a change of clothes with you into jail...

 

[Knox]

She put on a wig as she left the courthouse.

Anyone know if Lori was in court today?

 

[Fromeaster]

That's what I thought! So I wonder why she wasn't wearing a jail uniform in court, and where'd she get the grey sweater?? You don't usually get to bring a change of clothes with you into jail...

Apparently someone gave it to her to look more solid during the court hearing. Maybe someone from law enforcement. It seems to me that everyone is trying to be gentle with her so that she starts talking.It looks like office clothes are cardigan and pants.

 

[Winterhike]

This reference to autism is making me think a lot of thoughts. What if Melodee is autistic or otherwise on the spectrum OR Ashlee is just convinced that she is, and the Utah connection is that she left her in some kind of program? Or what Ashlee thinks is a treatment/therapeutic situation for her (even if it isn't, which seems apparent at this point because any real or reputable place would have spoken up by now). There are a ton of therapeutic (and also "therapeutic") programs for teens and young people in rural Utah.

Probably just a rabbit hole, but none of this makes sense, so...

I'm also still wondering about that tiny airport.