The Halfpenny family is sad to announce the passing of Johnny Halfpenny on November 18, 2025 in Salinas, California. Johnny was born to Jerry and Suzen (nee Rathburn) Johnson in 1969 in Upland, ...

A district judge dismissed the false imprisonment case against Ashlee Buzzard, the mother of missing 9-year-old Melodee Buzzard, on Thursday. Law enforcement arrested Buzzard on November 10 after ...

A judge in Santa Barbara County Superior Court has dismissed a felony false imprisonment charge against Ashlee Buzzard, the county district attorney said in a statement. Buzzard, 40, of Lompoc, ...

LOMPOC, Calif. (KEYT) – Today, a Lompoc judge dismissed a felony case against Ashlee Buzzard, the mother of missing nine-year-old Melodee Buzzard, one day after she appeared in court on her felony ...

Nine-year-old Melodee Buzzard has been missing for over a month after she was last seen with her mother wearing wigs on a cross-country road trip. The mother, Ashlee Buzzard, returned to their ...

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The mother of a missing "at-risk" 9-year-old girl reportedly told a man she's accused of falsely imprisoning that she knows where her daughter is. An investigation into 9-year-old Melodee Buzzard's ...

Ashlee Buzzard was arrested last week on a false imprisonment charge — unrelated to the case of her missing daughter, according to police Samira Asma-Sadeque is a legal reporter at PEOPLE's crime desk ...

The search for Melodee Buzzard began on October 14 when a school administrator reported the 9-year-old had been absent for a prolonged time. The investigation into her whereabouts has now stretched ...

The disturbed mom of missing 9-year-old Californian Melodee Buzzard allegedly held a friend hostage with a boxcutter because she regretted dishing on where she left her long-missing daughter, ...

Vandenberg Village woman Ashlee Buzzard, left, appears in court Wednesday with her attorney, Public Defender Adrian Galvan. Credit: KEYT.com photo A Santa Maria Superior Court judge granted a defense ...

Ashlee Buzzard has entered a not guilty plea to the false imprisonment charge. Ashlee Buzzard, the mom of missing 9-year-old Melodee Buzzard, allegedly armed herself with a box cutter and kept a man ...