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December 1, 2025 33 mins
Tonight on Hidden Killers, we sit down with psychotherapist Shavaun Scott to examine one of the most psychologically alarming missing-child cases in recent memory: the disappearance of nine-year-old Melodee Buzzard — and the unraveling mental state of her mother, Ashlee Buzzard, whose behavior seems to be spiraling far past “odd” and into a realm of fractured reality.

This is a case defined by contradictions, delusion-like narratives, and a system trapped in its own limitations. Ashlee has claimed her house is bugged, that strangers are monitoring her, that law enforcement is tracking her every move, and that a mystery couple from a zoo — whose names she can’t provide — is caring for Melodee. Meanwhile, she’s deleting accounts, swapping plates, dismantling her digital life, and creating what looks disturbingly like a symbolic stand-in for Melodee on a pillow inside the home.

And through all of this, Melodee hasn’t been heard from in nearly two months.

Tonight, Shavaun breaks down the psychological red flags:
• What paranoia and impaired reality-testing actually look like
• Why her story shifts from day to day
• What the “shrine” on the couch signals clinically
• Whether the flight behaviors suggest panic, planning, or manic unraveling
• Why calm, controlled behavior can mask severe internal instability
• The danger to a child depending on a parent whose reality is fractured

But the bigger story is the systemic failure:
Why hasn’t Ashlee been detained? Why no psychiatric hold? Why can’t the system intervene when a child is missing and a parent is unraveling?

Shavaun walks us through the brutal truth: unless someone meets the impossibly narrow legal standard of “imminent danger,” mental-health and child-welfare systems are often legally powerless — even when the red flags are blinking in neon.

If you’re following the Buzzard case, this is the conversation you need to hear.

#HiddenKillers #MelodeeBuzzard #AshleeBuzzard #TrueCrime #MissingChild #Psychology #MentalHealthCrisis #SystemFailure #TonyBrueski #ShavaunScott

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