Nine-year-old Melodee Buzzard vanished during a cross-country trip; her mother is uncooperative, and she remains missing.

The FBI and Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Office are actively searching for 9-year-old Melodee Buzzard, last seen on October 7 during a road trip from Lompoc, California, to Nebraska and back through Kansas. Authorities executed search warrants at her mother Ashlee Buzzard’s home, a storage unit, and the rental car, relocating Ashlee to avoid interference as she has not cooperated. Surveillance footage from October 7 shows Melodee wearing a wig at a Santa Barbara rental car facility. Investigators have narrowed her disappearance to between October 7 and 10, and she remains an at-risk missing person. No arrests have been made, and the case remains open.