A Lompoc mother accused of killing her 9-year-old daughter after a weeks-long, multi-state search is expected back in court Wednesday for a preliminary hearing. Ashlee Buzzard is charged with ...

A makeshift memorial sits in front of the Vandenberg Village home where Ashlee Buzzard lives. She is facing murder charges in the shooting death of her 9-year-old daughter, Melodee. Credit: Janene ...

The mother charged with murdering 9-year-old Melodee Buzzard returned to court this week, and the child’s grandmother said she believes the killing was planned, weeks after Melodee’s body was found in ...

Ashlee Buzzard appeared in Santa Barbara County Superior Court in Lompoc on January 7 to set the date for her preliminary hearing. Buzzard is charged with the murder of her daughter, 9-year-old ...

Relatives of the Lompoc girl whose mother was arrested on suspicion of her shooting death say they’re in disbelief after the 40-year-old woman pleaded not guilty to the murder charge she faces. The ...

California mom Ashlee Buzzard pleaded not guilty in the murder of her daughter Melodee during a Friday court hearing in which Santa Barbara prosecutors said they would not seek the death penalty. The ...

SANTA BARBARA COUNTY, Calif. -- Ashlee Buzzard has been charged with murder with special allegations in the shooting death of her 9-year-old daughter Melodee Buzzard, according to court documents. The ...

Ashlee Buzzard has been charged with first-degree murder in her daughter Melodee Buzzard’s killing, which a criminal complaint said was carried out with exceptional “cruelty” and “viciousness.” ...

Melodee's October disappearance from Santa Barbara County, Calif., sparked a weeks-long search spanning several states Charlotte Phillipp is a Weekend Writer-Reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working ...

Ashlee Buzzard pleaded not guilty to a murder charge Friday in the shooting death of her 9-year-old daughter, whose body was found earlier this month in a remote part of Utah. Stream Los Angeles News ...

The Southern California mother of 9-year-old Melodee Buzzard, whose body was found in Utah, pleaded not guilty Friday to her daughter's murder. Ashlee Buzzard, 40, entered a not guilty plea inside a ...