For nearly three weeks, 9-year-old Melodee Buzzard has been missing – and the mystery surrounding her disappearance took a new turn as FBI agents searched the family’s California home.
On Thursday, detectives escorted Melodee’s mother, 35-year-old Ashlee Buzzard, from the property to another location “that would not interfere with their ability to conduct a thorough search,” the Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Office said in a press release.
Local authorities, assisted by the FBI, also searched a storage locker and a rental car believed to have been used on a multi-state road trip that the mother and daughter took shortly before the child vanished…