Overview
- Sheriff’s investigators released Oct. 7 surveillance from a Lompoc rental agency showing Melodee Buzzard with her mother, with both believed to be wearing wigs.
- Authorities say the rented white 2024 Chevrolet Malibu’s California plate 9MNG101 was switched to New York plate HCG9677 during the trip, and the mother returned alone on Oct. 10.
- Detectives, aided by the FBI, are concentrating on the return corridor through Green River and Panguitch in Utah, northwest Arizona, Primm in Nevada, and Rancho Cucamonga in California.
- Employees in Green River, Utah say they were asked for surveillance video from the relevant timeframe, and a Garfield County worker reported seeing Ashlee Buzzard with an unidentified woman with purple hair, a sighting not confirmed by investigators.
- The case is classified as an at-risk missing juvenile investigation; Ashlee Buzzard has not cooperated, no arrests have been made, and officials are asking the public to submit tips and relevant surveillance footage.