The agonizing months-long search for 9-year-old Melodee Buzzard has come to a heartbreaking conclusion.
The agonizing months-long search for 9-year-old Melodee Buzzard has come to a heartbreaking conclusion, as the Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Office said that her mother acted alone in the death of her daughter — shooting her child in the head.
The California girl’s body was discovered in Utah in early December, two months after she vanished during an impromptu mother-daughter road trip.
“Maternal filicide is rare and always difficult to comprehend,” Santa Barbara County’s Sheriff-Coroner Bill Brown said on Tuesday.
Brown noted with disgust that the murder was premeditated, ruthless, calculated and heartless, saying that Melodee died from gunshot wounds to the head.
