Authorities on Friday launched brand-new monitoring pictures of missing out on 9-year-old Melodee Buzzard, taken prior to she strangely disappeared.
These monitoring pictures of Melodee were caught at a Santa Barbara-area rental vehicle company on Oct. 7, according to the Santa Barbara Area Constable’s Workplace.

The Santa Barbara Area Constable’s Workplace launched a security photo revealing absent 9-year-old Melodee Buzzard at an automobile rental company in The golden state on Oct. 7, 2025.
Santa Barbara Area Constable’s Workplace
” In the image, Melodee is using a hooded sweatshirt with the hood brought up and what seems a wig that is darker and straighter than her all-natural hair,” the constable’s workplace claimed. “Detectives think the wig might have been made use of to modify her look.”
Melodee’s mama, Ashlee Buzzard, that authorities claimed has actually not accepted the missing out on individuals examination, is recognized to use wigs, the constable’s workplace claimed.

The Santa Barbara Area Constable’s Workplace launched a security photo revealing absent 9-year-old Melodee Buzzard at an automobile rental company in The golden state on Oct. 7, 2025.
Santa Barbara Area Constable’s Workplace
The Santa Barbara Area Constable’s Workplace claimed Friday it’s limited the home window of Melodee’s “puzzling” loss to in between Oct. 7 and Oct. 10.
Ashlee Buzzard was seen going back to her Lompoc, The golden state, home on Oct. 10 with the vehicle she and Melodee had actually rented out on Oct. 7– however Melodee was not with her on Oct. 10, the constable’s workplace claimed.

The FBI launched this image of 9-year-old Melodee Buzzard on a missing out on individuals publication.
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The mom and little girl took place a “three-day journey … from Lompoc to the Nebraska location, with the return journey consisting of the state of Kansas,” the constable’s workplace claimed in a brand-new declaration. “Investigators are currently concentrated on identifying where Melodee was throughout those 3 days and where she might be currently.”
” We stay identified to bring her home securely,” Santa Barbara Area Constable Expense Brown claimed.
The constable’s workplace asks anybody with info to call its investigators line at (805) 681-4150 or the confidential pointer line at (805) 681-4171.