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Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. Mommy disguises, missing Melody just

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Speaker 1: nine years old, and a bizarre series of wigs on

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Speaker 1: a very odd cross country road trip. Mommy comes home,

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Speaker 1: No Melody. I'm Nancy Grace. This is Crime Stories. I

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Speaker 1: want to thank you for being with us. Where is

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Speaker 2: Timeline was very sketchy and mom is not giving any

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Speaker 1: Where is Melody? Please help us find this girl. Mommy

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Speaker 1: being completely uncooperative in the search for Melody. Why is

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Speaker 1: there any good reason Mommy can't tell us where her

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Speaker 1: nine year old little girl is before I bring you

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Speaker 1: up today on this bizarre cross country road trip and

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Speaker 1: the changing of the wigs and the outfits and the disguises.

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Speaker 1: Mommy changing the license plates on a rental car during

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Speaker 1: that cross country trip with her child. Who does that?

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Speaker 1: I want to take you straight into a court room.

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Speaker 1: In the last hours this has gone down. Mommy Ashley

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Speaker 1: Buzzard in court on criminal charges this round friends at

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Speaker 1: Court TV, but they were not charges in relation to

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Speaker 1: her missing little girl. And yes, Melody nine years old

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Speaker 1: is missing. Straight out to Anne Emerson, senior investigative reporter,

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Speaker 1: criminally obsessed on YouTube and star of Unsolved South Carolina,

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Speaker 1: The murdog murders, money and mystery, and thank you for

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Speaker 1: being with us. Why isn't mommy charged with her disappearing child?

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Speaker 1: Why is she charged on some other false imprisonment? What happened.

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Speaker 3: Right now?

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Speaker 4: We were so surprised when that false imprisonment charge came in.

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Speaker 4: It looks like somebody had gone to the house to

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Speaker 4: the one that filed this criminal complaint.

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Speaker 1: Well, Anne Emerson, you're absolutely correct. His name is Tyler Brewer.

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Speaker 1: And apparently he goes over to Buzzard that's actually Buzzard

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Speaker 1: Melody's mother's home, to offer to help look for Melody,

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Speaker 1: and they get into it, and apparently Ashley Buzzer tells

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Speaker 5: After weeks of refusing to give any information about her

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Speaker 5: daughter's whereabouts, Ashley Buzzard is taken into custody, but the

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Speaker 1: To Melody.

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Speaker 5: A friend of Buzzard's, Tyler Brewer, stopped by Buzzard's home

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Speaker 5: to offer help locating Melody. Brewer claims Buzzard told him

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Speaker 6: Brewer tells police he doesn't trust the information Buzzard gave

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Speaker 6: over and over. Buzzard allegedly produced a box cutter and

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Speaker 6: of it to prevent Brewer from leaving. When Brewer does

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Speaker 1: Who does that to a guy, this guy, Tyler Brewer,

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Speaker 1: who's coming to try to help find Melody? And what

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Speaker 1: did she tell him about Melody's location? Of course, now

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Speaker 1: he thinks she could have been lying, And why lie

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Speaker 1: We know she actually Buzzared is in a lot of debt,

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Speaker 1: She takes Melody on a cross country bizarre road trip

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Speaker 1: Melody still alive? Why let's take a look at her

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Speaker 1: in court again? Because when you see her in court,

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Speaker 1: there's Ashley Buzzer standing with her lawyer and that's a

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Speaker 1: friend friends at court TV. Why didn't anybody ask her

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Speaker 1: where's Melody? And why does she look like that? Let's

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Speaker 1: It is? And she is done up. Let me tell

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Speaker 1: you look at that head full of fake hair, Okay,

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Speaker 1: the false eyelashes, the makeup, the outfit completely uncharacteristic of

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Speaker 1: Ashley Buzzard. Why the change in appearance? And why there

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Speaker 1: boots she's got going on right there? Why is her

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Speaker 1: it's too much for me. Straight out to Lauren Johnson Norris,

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Speaker 1: joining US high profile defense attorney specializing in juvenile and

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Speaker 1: the Johnson Criminal Law Group. Lauren, she's in court, she's

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Speaker 1: a judge. Did nobody say, hey, where's Melody?

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Speaker 7: I'm sure absolutely, and understand the frustration about wanting to

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Speaker 1: You know, I really appreciate what you're saying, Lauren Johnson Norris.

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Speaker 1: But if you notice, there's not a jury there, so

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Speaker 1: her asserting. As we all know, trial lawyers know, if

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Speaker 1: you know the defendant is going to assert the Fifth

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Speaker 1: Amendment right to remain silent. If you know they're going

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Speaker 1: they's already advanced their Fifth Amendment right. But there's not

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Speaker 1: a jury, So why didn't the prosecutor ask why didn't

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Speaker 1: to know where is Melody? You're so concerned that by

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Speaker 1: somehow prejudice a jury. There is no jury, Lauren, Well, of.

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Speaker 7: Course there's no jury at her raiment, but we know

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Speaker 7: A judge would rather, a prosecutor would have to give

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Speaker 7: immunity to her to get that information. Now, we don't

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Speaker 7: the defense about just locating Melody and seeing where she

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Speaker 7: is to get that information. But I am sure that

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Speaker 7: We just don't see it on TV.

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Speaker 1: Okay, guys, So she's there in court. You see Actley

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Speaker 1: Buzzard in court with a defense lawyer there. That means

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Speaker 1: And nobody says, hey, where's Melody. Maybe she'll answer, maybe

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Speaker 1: remain silent. But nobody even asked, guys, where was Melody

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Speaker 1: taken on that road trip? Joining us tonight a special guest.

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Speaker 1: It is the Santa Barbara Sheriff's PIO Public Information Officer

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Speaker 1: Raquel Zick. Raquel a three day road trip? What have

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Speaker 1: you learned?

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Speaker 3: Detectives learned that there was a three day road trip

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Speaker 3: that began on October seventh, and it went as far

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Speaker 3: out as Nebraska down into Kansas before it before the

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Speaker 3: return trip that ended in Lompope. We do know on

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Speaker 3: that return trip that Ashley did come back to Lompope

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Speaker 1: To Sidney Sumner Crime Stories investigative reporter, Raquel will be

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Speaker 1: right back with you, Sidney, Lompope. Where is Lompoke.

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Speaker 8: Southwest of Vandenburg Village where Ashley and Melody lived together

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Speaker 8: at that home on Mars Avenue, So that's the main

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Speaker 8: city center. Vandenburg Village is very small, so you would

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Speaker 8: head into Lompoke for shopping things of that nature.

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Speaker 1: So sid where exactly did she go?

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Speaker 8: Well, from Mompoke, it looks like she made a really

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Speaker 8: big loop, driving east all the way to Nebraska, then

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Speaker 8: back to Lompoke through Utah and Colorado.

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Speaker 1: Wow, a circuitous route. Take a look at that. Now?

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Speaker 1: Can we establish was Melody with her the entire time?

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Speaker 1: We now know that she stopped at a gas station,

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Speaker 1: the Junction gas Station. Listen, it was really really freaking weird.

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Speaker 2: She just like opened the door at the store and

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Speaker 2: then said, did you guys know you have a whole

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Speaker 6: surveillance footage, finding it taped over two days prior. An

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Speaker 6: she had a brief interaction with Ashley Buzzard. Employees say

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Speaker 6: Ashley did not purchase anything, but told her about cats

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Speaker 6: hanging around the store. The employee says Buzzard left with

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Speaker 6: a woman in her late twenties to mid thirties with

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Speaker 1: From our friends at KUTV and there's more. I kind

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Speaker 1: of walked towards the door, going what the crap was that?

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Speaker 2: When they left and noticed that they had a California

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Speaker 1: There's a lot of nature, a lot of woods around here,

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Speaker 1: so it's like, if this is where she was the

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Speaker 1: day before she got home, Like, who knows? You know there,

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Speaker 1: anything could happen. KUTV straight out to IRV Brandt. You

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Speaker 1: know him well, former Senior Inspector US Marshall Service International

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Speaker 1: Investigations Branch. What is that He's gone all around the

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Speaker 1: world looking for missing people and bad guys. IRV Brandt

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Speaker 1: Jack Solo g I wonder who that could be patterned after?

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Speaker 1: IRV Brandt? Did you hear what the gas station attendants

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Speaker 1: and when she left, it was so odd, her behavior

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Speaker 1: was so odd. They actually said, what the crawd was that?

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Speaker 1: California car tag? What could have happened that made them curious,

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Speaker 1: curious enough to go. I mean, you know, how many

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Speaker 9: Well, the gas station attendance, and I agree with you, Nancy,

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Speaker 9: that it is very odd. But when you're talking about

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Speaker 9: work there look at people they don't know hard and

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Speaker 9: something about that struck those people as unusual.

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Speaker 1: Straight out to Anne Emerson, senior investigative reporter, criminally obsessed.

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Speaker 1: And what I find significant, and I'm circling back in

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Speaker 1: a moment to Sydney regarding the timeline, is when this

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Speaker 1: you know about this interaction? Well, it was so bizarre.

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Speaker 4: I think that that's why this gas station attendant remembered

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Speaker 4: what she thought she saw. First of all, remember Ashley's

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Speaker 4: wearing a wig and it looks weird, So I think

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Speaker 4: there was a part of it that was like, why

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Speaker 4: why she could recollect it. She looks out and she

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Speaker 4: sees in the car someone with purple hair, is what

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Speaker 4: she said. Now, we asked very specifically. Our partners at

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Speaker 4: KUTV were sent down to this area to talk to

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Speaker 1: thank you for being with us tonight. I am stunned

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Speaker 2: Yeah, this whole thing is pretty shocking and it's very

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Speaker 2: I don't understand it at all. I have try to

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Speaker 1: When did you learn that Ashley Buzzard had walked out

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I was at work and I had people, My

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Speaker 2: Where is Melody? That's just a question, And she just

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Speaker 2: I mean, she's concealing her daughter's identity and not let

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Speaker 1: I've got a question when you said that she went

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Speaker 1: You know another thing that's scaring me, Elizabeth, is that

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Speaker 1: Has anyone been able to confront her about where is Melody?

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Speaker 2: So it's just frustrating. The whole thing is frustrating. It

431
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Speaker 2: doesn't make any sense to me. I just keep, you know, wondering,

432
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Speaker 2: is Melody okay? Does she need anything? You know? I mean,

433
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Speaker 2: I just think of my own kids and knowing that

434
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Speaker 2: they're in school and they're playing with their friends and

435
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Speaker 2: Thanksgivings coming up, and it's just heartbreaking. It's absolutely heartbreaking.

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Speaker 1: I've got such a bad feeling in the pit of

437
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Speaker 1: my stomach was beeth. We're in a catch twenty two.

438
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Speaker 1: Law enforcement is because they're trying to find Melody, just

439
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Speaker 1: like you are, but they don't have any proof of

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Speaker 1: any wrongdoing, so they cannot arrest Buzzard until they get

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Speaker 1: some kind of proof. And every minute counts. If Melody

442
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Speaker 1: is still alive and there is a strong possibility she is,

443
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Speaker 1: how long will she be alive and how long until

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Speaker 1: she is lost in some web of trafficking? You know,

445
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Speaker 1: children are sold, then they're sold, then they're moved, Then

446
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Speaker 1: they're moved, they go to place to place to place

447
00:28:26,800 --> 00:28:29,920
Speaker 1: to place to where you can't find them. That could

448
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Speaker 1: be happening right now tonight as we're talking. She could

449
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Speaker 1: be in some person's car, in the back of the

450
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Speaker 1: car getting taken across the country to some other location,

451
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Speaker 1: to some other person that wants a little girl her

452
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Speaker 1: age for nothing good. That could be happening right now

453
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Speaker 1: and the mom's not talking. I have another question for you, Elizabeth.

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Speaker 1: Did you ever know Buzzard to dress up in all

455
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Speaker 1: of these wigs or to dress her child up in wigs?

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Speaker 1: Or is that specifically for this road trip.

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Speaker 2: No, I've never seen her in so much makeup or

458
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Speaker 2: dressed the way she was. Never she was always just

459
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Speaker 2: in like jeans and a T shirt, you know, I mean,

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Speaker 2: never in full makeup like this ever. Never seen her

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Speaker 2: in a wig. She always had her natural hair which

462
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Speaker 2: was shoulder like, mid back, maybe very curly. But this

463
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Speaker 2: whole costume to Sky, this is all new. I mean

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Speaker 2: I wouldn't have recognized her if I've seen her on

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Speaker 2: the street. I mean, this is just a total new character.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean she is decked out with a full

467
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Speaker 1: on wig, fall eyelashes, either a leather or pleathan jacket,

468
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Speaker 1: tis matching boots, the works. She's put a lot of

469
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Speaker 1: time into that look she's got going on right there, Lizabeth,

470
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Speaker 1: Is she hold back up in her home now?

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Speaker 2: Yes, she returns last night.

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Speaker 1: This is just killing me that we can't get anything

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Speaker 1: out of her, and under our constitution we can't make

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Speaker 1: her answer questions. Lizabeth, what is your message to Melody

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Speaker 1: tonight if she can hear you.

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Speaker 2: I just want to let Melodie know that she has

477
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Speaker 2: a lot of family that loves her. She has her

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Speaker 2: grandma or her sister, aunt's uncles, cousins. We're all here

479
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Speaker 2: for her and we love her very much and we

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Speaker 2: just want her home safe.

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Speaker 1: Joining us tonight. Melody's paternal aunt who has been trying

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Speaker 1: and trying for weeks on end to find nine year

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Speaker 1: old Melody. Where is Melody? How could she be gone

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Speaker 1: a year and just reported missing.

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Speaker 6: Or was she without getting some kind of direct indication

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Speaker 6: promocially of where Melody should be? It's going to be

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Speaker 6: much more difficult.

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Speaker 1: Mommy. Just in court on another serious criminal charge, and

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Speaker 1: that would be false imprisonment by use of a box

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Speaker 1: cutter on a guy that shows up offering to help

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Speaker 1: find Melody, not a stranger, someone she knows, a guy

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Speaker 1: named Tyler Brewer, and apparently law enforcement believe him because

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Speaker 1: they issue a formal charge and Nobody asks Ashley Buzzard,

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Speaker 1: where's Melody, bringing up the chilling possibility that this little

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Speaker 1: girl has been sold or trafficked Straight back out to

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Speaker 1: Santa Barbara Sheriff's Pio over kel Zick. What happened to

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Speaker 1: the renal vehicle and the changing of plates?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so we know that the vehicle left the rental

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Speaker 3: agency bearying a California plate that was assigned to that vehicle.

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Speaker 3: We know that somewhere along the along the route that

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00:32:01,560 --> 00:32:03,880
Speaker 3: was switched out to a New York plate that did

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Speaker 3: not belong to Ashley, and it does not belonged to

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Speaker 3: the vehicle. And then before it was returned back to

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Speaker 3: the rental agency of Lompoque, the California plate was replaced.

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Speaker 3: So it's a little challenging. It's more challenging to track

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Speaker 3: that vehicle as it goes through states because we're not

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Speaker 3: sure what license plate we're looking as looking at associated

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Speaker 3: with this white sedan. And additionally, it's hard to tell

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Speaker 3: how many times or if that plate was switched back

510
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Speaker 3: and forth.

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Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy Grace joining me now a veteran

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Speaker 1: defense attorney. You know him well, Greg Morse, criminal defense

513
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Speaker 1: attorney out of Palm Beach, founder of Morse Legal and

514
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Speaker 1: author of They Untested on Amazon. Greg, when you have

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Speaker 1: a client that changes the car tags on her car,

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Speaker 1: I mean when you go on a road trip, do

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Speaker 1: you take time to change the tags? And think about it?

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Speaker 1: In California, you have a front and a back tag.

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Speaker 1: That's a lot of work.

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Speaker 10: Why well, Nancy, you're looking at these innocuous actions of

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Speaker 10: the mom and trying to impute that she sold her daughter,

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Speaker 10: she got rid of her into sex, slavery. But these

523
00:33:27,840 --> 00:33:32,240
Speaker 10: are just unconnected actions by someone. They don't prove anything.

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00:33:32,280 --> 00:33:35,959
Speaker 10: They're clearly not enough to arrest, so they're meaningless in

525
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Speaker 10: and of themselves. And she's doing the right thing by

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Speaker 10: not talking to the police, because they manipulate and they

527
00:33:41,480 --> 00:33:43,920
Speaker 10: change statements and they put more meaning on things than

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Speaker 10: maybe the information cause for to lead to a conclusion

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Speaker 10: that she did something wrong. They're now releasing her on

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Speaker 10: house arrest for which seems like a nonsense charge or

531
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Speaker 10: false imprisonment unrelated. You know, they're leveraging the law enforcement

532
00:33:58,520 --> 00:34:02,240
Speaker 10: and unrelated to keep her close for this investigation into

533
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Speaker 10: her daughter. She may be distraught. She is broken down

534
00:34:06,640 --> 00:34:09,960
Speaker 10: and very emotional, so she's probably not thinking right anyway,

535
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Speaker 10: cause her daughter's missing and the information that's out there

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Speaker 10: now doesn't prove anything.

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Speaker 1: Her daughter's missing because she took her on her bizarre

538
00:34:16,320 --> 00:34:19,319
Speaker 1: road trip and made her we wear wigs the whole

539
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Speaker 1: way along. And now suddenly she's gone to Doctor Bethany

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Speaker 1: Marshall joining US psychoanalyst, author of deal Breakers. You can

541
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Speaker 1: see here now on Peacock and you can find her

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Speaker 1: at Dodor Bethany Marshall dot com. Doctor Bethany Marshall in

543
00:34:34,120 --> 00:34:36,839
Speaker 1: all of your travels, which are extensive. Her parents are

544
00:34:36,920 --> 00:34:40,279
Speaker 1: missionaries all over the world, and she went along. Have

545
00:34:40,400 --> 00:34:44,520
Speaker 1: you ever seen or seen a video of a snake charmer?

546
00:34:45,560 --> 00:34:49,640
Speaker 1: The snake charmer plays the musical instrument and goes back

547
00:34:49,760 --> 00:34:53,719
Speaker 1: and forth, and suddenly the very poisonous snake. They're both

548
00:34:53,760 --> 00:34:57,680
Speaker 1: going symbiotically like this, and you start falling under each

549
00:34:57,680 --> 00:35:03,000
Speaker 1: other's trance, right, and as the music stops, the snake bite. Somebody, Okay,

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00:35:03,920 --> 00:35:07,839
Speaker 1: that is what Greg Morris just did. Did you hear

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Speaker 1: what he said? The mother's distraught? Really, I didn't see

552
00:35:11,480 --> 00:35:13,640
Speaker 1: her crying. Let's see a shot of that court TV

553
00:35:13,760 --> 00:35:17,960
Speaker 1: video of mommy in court. She's standing there just as

554
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Speaker 1: cold as a block of ice. And oh, by the way, Bethany,

555
00:35:22,800 --> 00:35:26,799
Speaker 1: after this this wee on court TV. Somebody asked the lawyer, hey,

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Speaker 1: is your client worried about melody? The lawyer said, quote,

557
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Speaker 1: I can't comment. I'm worried about melody. Why isn't the

558
00:35:37,360 --> 00:35:41,320
Speaker 1: mother worried about melody? You know what? You're the shrink

559
00:35:41,400 --> 00:35:43,000
Speaker 1: hit me, Well.

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Speaker 11: The mother's more worried about about kittens than about melody. Apparently,

561
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Speaker 11: here's what concerns me. The mother is end quite a

562
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Speaker 11: bit of debt. She and her daughter look so sexualized

563
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Speaker 11: in terms of their appearance. The mother is sexualizing the daughter.

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Speaker 11: Does somebody at a convenience store actually thinks a nine

565
00:36:00,920 --> 00:36:03,600
Speaker 11: year old is between twenty and thirty years of age?

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Speaker 11: That means the mother is putting makeup, the purple wig.

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Speaker 11: All of that with this tells me. And also all

568
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Speaker 11: the changing of the tags and the license plates. This mother,

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Speaker 11: I do not believe is sophisticated enough to do that

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Speaker 11: on her own.

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Speaker 1: But this is not a.

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Speaker 11: Highly functioning mother. So it tells me somebody might be

573
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Speaker 11: coaching her, telling her.

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Speaker 1: How because you plase put Bethany up.

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Speaker 11: And I think she's being coached.

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Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I just I'm hearing static right now, you

577
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Speaker 1: said this is not a highly functioning mother. Pause. Right,

578
00:36:40,440 --> 00:36:43,920
Speaker 1: This mother knows enough to get a rental car to

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Speaker 1: change out the tags throughout her cross country road trip

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Speaker 1: with her little girl, who goes missing to change outfits,

581
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Speaker 1: put on disguises, and come back without her and fend

582
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Speaker 1: off authorities who are questioning her about where is Melody?

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Speaker 1: And you say she's not high functioning. I disagree.

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Speaker 11: I Nancy. I do not think she is high functioning.

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00:37:07,320 --> 00:37:08,680
Speaker 11: I think she's being coached.

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Speaker 1: Let me remind everyone that the mother that just sticks

587
00:37:13,920 --> 00:37:17,280
Speaker 1: in my mouth, the mother in this case, Ashley Buzzard,

588
00:37:17,280 --> 00:37:20,040
Speaker 1: has not been charged and has not been named as

589
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Speaker 1: a person of interest in Melody's disappearance. She just happens RNDA,

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Speaker 1: the care founder of Missing an American network. She just

591
00:37:30,400 --> 00:37:32,400
Speaker 1: happens to be the last one known to be with

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Speaker 1: Melody on a hundreds and hundreds of miles road trip,

593
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Speaker 1: just the two of them, a mommy and me moment,

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Speaker 1: and she comes back without her daughter. I won't tell

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Speaker 1: anybody where she is. How disturbed are you? RNDA? Of

596
00:37:48,640 --> 00:37:51,560
Speaker 1: course just came to the forefront during the Chandra Levy case.

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Speaker 1: If you remember that where Chandra Levy went missing from

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Speaker 1: her high rise in DC and the Ritzy high Rise

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Speaker 1: would video would tape over their surveillance. So we don't

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Speaker 1: really know what time Shandra left her home. We don't

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Speaker 1: know if she was dressed to go out to a

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Speaker 1: dinner party or to go jogging, or to go back

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Speaker 1: to work to the office, no idea. We don't know

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Speaker 1: who was with her. We know nothing because every seventy two,

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Speaker 1: they tape over it, just like the gas station. I

606
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Speaker 1: considering pushing legislation to disallow that. But therefore we don't

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Speaker 1: have the video of that gas station. At least we

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Speaker 1: have the eyewitness accounts. But I want to hear your take, Rhonda.

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Speaker 12: Well, look, I believe that we would be in a

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Speaker 12: much better place if we had a better photograph of Melody,

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Speaker 12: and the gas station would have been able to provide

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Speaker 12: that if she was in that vehicle with her mom.

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Speaker 12: I feel like the whole communities along that route could

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Speaker 12: be looking out or could be looking through all of

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Speaker 12: their videos to see where else that vehicle was seen.

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Speaker 12: And I hope that the investigators are out there speaking

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Speaker 12: with every single establishment along that road to see what

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Speaker 12: they can find out, and hopefully they will come up

619
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Speaker 12: with more videos so that we can actually see who

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Speaker 12: we're supposed to be looking for.

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Speaker 1: Two. IRV Brandt, author of Solo Shot, Curse of the Bluestone,

622
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Speaker 1: and much more on Amazon. But for my purposes, IRV

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Speaker 1: Brandt has been with the US government going all around

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Speaker 1: the country hunting down tracking down bad guys and missing people. IRV,

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Speaker 1: what do we do.

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Speaker 9: Now, Well, Nancy, it's a complex investigation in the sense

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Speaker 9: it covers so much territory between California and Nebraska than

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Speaker 9: the route back. But having said that, it's not comp

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Speaker 9: lux and what they're looking for, and they will have

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Speaker 9: the manpower. The FBI is assisting California, all the other

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Speaker 9: states will join in, and any other federal agencies that

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Speaker 9: they deem necessary. They will track that route as best

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Speaker 9: they can. They will interview all the witnesses that they

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Speaker 9: can find. Uh for the last time that.

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Speaker 1: Child was seen to Greg Morri's veteran trial lawyer joining

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Speaker 1: us out of Palm Beach, why didn't anybody ask her

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Speaker 1: in court? Where's Melody?

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Speaker 10: Well, she has a lawyer, so she's not going to

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Speaker 10: She can't compel her to testify against herself. So rightfully,

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Speaker 10: so regardless of what's going on around her fault. No,

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Speaker 10: I don't know if she would be or not. But again,

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Speaker 10: you're going to tell someone that's being looked at for

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Speaker 10: a crime. You're going to tell someone that was charged

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Speaker 10: with an unrelated crime, do not speak with anyone or

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Speaker 10: the police. That's good sound advice. That's criminal defense law

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Speaker 10: one oh one. She has a Fifth Amendment right and

647
00:41:13,080 --> 00:41:16,320
Speaker 10: she's exercising it. There's nothing wrong with that, you know yourself.

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00:41:16,320 --> 00:41:18,120
Speaker 10: It can't be used against her in court if she

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Speaker 10: is ultimately arrested in the future for something involving her daughter.

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Speaker 10: But right now there's not much other than the police

651
00:41:26,960 --> 00:41:30,200
Speaker 10: began an investigation. Here's the last point of the daughter.

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00:41:30,560 --> 00:41:33,800
Speaker 10: They use this nonsense, false imprisonment to get her into

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Speaker 10: custody to see if that would provide leverage. But the

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Speaker 10: only thing that did probably was get her a lawyer,

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Speaker 10: probably court appointed, since she doesn't seem to have much money,

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00:41:42,520 --> 00:41:44,680
Speaker 10: and he or she's going to tell her, Hey, don't

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00:41:44,680 --> 00:41:47,000
Speaker 10: talk to anybody, no matter what they asked, even if

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00:41:47,000 --> 00:41:49,000
Speaker 10: you want to help. She may want to help, you

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00:41:49,040 --> 00:41:51,239
Speaker 10: may want to talk, but she's not. And that's sound

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Speaker 10: advice right now.

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Speaker 1: That's right, doctor Bethany. She wants to help so much.

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Speaker 1: She stood there in court and didn't say a word

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Speaker 1: and is being un cooperative and not helping police find melody.

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Speaker 1: That's how much she wants to help, doctor Bethany Marshall.

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Speaker 1: What do you think.

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Speaker 11: I think that the fact that she took her daughter

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Speaker 11: out of school and was homeschooling her was red flag

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Speaker 11: number one, cutting the daughter off from relatives, a loving grandmother, aunts, uncles,

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Speaker 11: red flag number two, running up debt, dressing her daughter

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Speaker 11: up in this manner and taking her across the country.

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Speaker 11: But most notably Nancy. When you interview somebody and you

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Speaker 11: wonder if there's homicide or sex trafficking or something like that,

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Speaker 11: what you really look for is whether or not there

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Speaker 11: is empathy towards the lost child. There's no empathy. She's not,

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Speaker 11: you know, Nancy. According to one report, she was taking

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Speaker 11: down missing children missing Melody Buzzard photos. That's not lack

677
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Speaker 11: of empathy. Even that's malice, that's destruction, that's getting in

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Speaker 11: the way of the investigation. This mother, I think, does

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Speaker 11: not want this daughter to be found for some reason,

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Speaker 11: because if the daughter's found and the daughter talks about

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Speaker 11: what happened, there's a lot of hell that could rain

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Speaker 11: down on this mother.

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Speaker 1: And Emerson, is that true? And seeing your investigative reporter

684
00:43:19,400 --> 00:43:23,800
Speaker 1: criminally obsessed? Is the mom Ashley Buzzard accused of tearing

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Speaker 1: down missing persons posters?

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Speaker 4: Absolutely, We've got it on video, like she was seen

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Speaker 4: by a ser like actually like a little surveillance camera.

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Speaker 4: It's out there of her going in her front yard

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Speaker 4: and These are community members who have been extremely concerned.

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Speaker 4: There are plenty of neighbors who have been speaking out

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Speaker 4: about this, and they've been watching this house for a

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00:43:47,760 --> 00:43:52,280
Speaker 4: while and they watched her go in the front yard,

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00:43:52,480 --> 00:43:54,920
Speaker 4: see these signs and start pulling them up out of

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Speaker 4: her yard because for whatever reason, she didn't feel like

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Speaker 4: they needed to have those signs in front of her yard.

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Speaker 4: Another thing about these neighbors is that they have been

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Speaker 4: watching strange behavior. I mean, I asked, have you seen her?

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Speaker 4: Have you ever seen Melody in a in a in

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Speaker 4: a wig or in a disguise before? And they were like, well,

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Speaker 4: I don't know about the wig, but I do know

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Speaker 4: every time she goes out she keeps her covered up

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Speaker 4: with a hoodie. What so this has been this behavior

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Speaker 4: has for whatever reason, if there's a mental health issue,

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Speaker 4: which we've heard a lot about of course, or some

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Speaker 4: reason that she would feel like she needs to keep

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Speaker 4: her hidden, there are there are definitely signs that have

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Speaker 4: been going on, according to the neighbors, for more than

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Speaker 4: a minute.

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Speaker 1: To Rhonda Decayr joining us Missing an American Network. What now, Well, we.

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Speaker 12: Are sponsoring six billboards throughout California, Nevada, and Utah, in

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Speaker 12: order to help the public know who to look for

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Speaker 12: and who.

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Speaker 1: To call if they see her.

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Speaker 12: I have been asking everybody in those communities to print

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Speaker 12: out posters and hang them up so people that aren't

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00:45:07,400 --> 00:45:10,400
Speaker 12: watching TV or on social media, so that they know

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00:45:11,239 --> 00:45:13,600
Speaker 12: that there is this little girl missing and she possibly

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00:45:13,680 --> 00:45:16,520
Speaker 12: was in their communities, and if they saw anything, to

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Speaker 12: contact the authorities. And I have also put it out

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Speaker 12: there that if any businesses want me to send them

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Speaker 12: flyers that they can hand out, that I will mail

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Speaker 12: flyers to anybody along that route or anywhere where they

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Speaker 12: were to locate her.

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Speaker 1: The search for nine year old Melody is happening now.

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Speaker 1: The state is trying desperately to find her. Law enforcement

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Speaker 1: across multiple jurisdictions are working night and day to find

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Speaker 1: this little girl and hopefully bring her home. If you

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Speaker 1: know or think you know anything at all about missing Melody,

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Speaker 1: age nine, please call Santa Barbara County Sheriffs eight and

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Speaker 1: zero five six eight one four one five zero repeat

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Speaker 1: eight zero five six eight one four one five zero. Tonight,

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Speaker 1: we remember an American hero, Officer Michael Chandler, big Stone Gap, PD, Virginia,

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Speaker 1: just twenty nine shot and killed in the line of duty,

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Speaker 1: leaving behind a grieving wife Natasha, and daughter Cameron, American

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Speaker 1: hero Officer Michael Candler, Nancy Gray signing off goodbye friend,