"9-YEAR-OLD MISSING AFTER MOM SWITCHES PLATES, HOLLYWOOD PRODUCER SENTENCED TO 146 YEARS"

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0:48 When you're covering the worst people who ever lived, you owe it to the victims to get it right now. Two cases today that'll make you lock your doors and hug your kids. California nine year old mel Theody Buzzard has been missing since October ninth. Her mother, Ashley, took her on a three day road trip to Nebraska, switched the rental car's license plates, removed the California plates, put on New York plates to avoid detection, came home on October tenth without her daughter. FBI is searching, mother refuses to cooperate, won't explain where Melody is. Last surveillance footage shows the little girl near the Colorado Utah border on October ninth, wearing a wig with her mother, Then she vanishes.

1:36 Los Angeles Hollywood producer David Pierce was sentenced yesterday to one hundred forty six years to life in prison. Convicted in February of murdering model Christy Giles and architect Hilda Marcella Cabrales Arzola in November twenty twenty one. Gave them fentanyl laced drugs at his Beverly Hills apartment. Both women overdosed eleven hours later. Pierce carried joyless body to his car, removed the license plates. First dumped her at a hospital she was already dead. Ninety minutes later, dumped Cabrales Arzola at a different hospital. She died eleven days later. Also convicted of raping seven women between two thousand and five and twenty twenty one. Drug facilitated sexual assaults pattern predator.

2:23 I'm Red Carter today, a mother who won't say where her nine year old daughter is, and a Hollywood producer who weaponized fentanyl to rape and kill. This is celebrity trials. Let's start with Melody Buzzard, nine years old, lives in Lompoc, California, with her mother, Ashley Buzzard. Small town in Santa Barbara County, population forty three thousand, the kind of place where everyone knows everyone, where kids ride bikes to school, Where a missing child shakes the entire community. August twenty twenty five, last time anyone from Lompoc Unified School District saw Melody in person at school. That's the last verified sighting by the school system. Two months ago. September passes, no Melody.

3:12 October arrives, still no Melody. October fourteenth, twenty twenty five, three weeks ago, the school district finally filed a welfare check request with Santa Barbara County Sheriff's office said Melody Buzzard hadn't been seen for some time. Couldn't reach the mother to verify the child's safety. Something's wrong. Deputies went to Ashley Buzzard's home in Vandenberg Village, just outside Lompoc, knocked on the door. Ashley answered, where's your daughter? Ashley Buzzard couldn't provide an explanation, couldn't say where Melody was, couldn't say when she'd last seen her, couldn't produce the child, and, according to investigators, became immediately uncooperative. October fifteenth, detectives executed a search warrant at the Buzzard home looking from Melody, looking for evidence of what happened to her, hoping to find her hiding in a closet, under a bed anywhere.

4:07 They didn't find her, and Ashley Buzzard remained uncooperative, wouldn't answer questions, wouldn't explain where her nine year old daughter was, just stone silence. That's when detectives started pulling surveillance footage, credit card records, rental car agreements, cell phone data, building a timeline of Melody's last known movements, and they found the road trip. October seventh, twenty twenty five, Ashley Buzzard rented a white twenty twenty four Chevrolet Malibu from a car rental agency in Lompoc, California, license plate number nine MNNG one zero one. Surveillance cameras at the rental location captured Ashley and Melody together, both wearing wigs. Melody's wig was darker and straighter than her natural, curly brown hairsh also appeared to be a disguise. Why are a mother and daughter wearing wigs to rent a car? That's question number one. They drove away. Ashley told the rental agency she was taking a trip. Didn't say where, didn't say how long, just signed the papers and left with her nine year old daughter. Detectives now believe they drove from California all the way to Nebraska, roughly one thousand, four hundred miles twenty hour drive. Why Nebraska, nobody knows, Ashley won't say. October eighth, one day into the trip, surveillance cameras start picking up the white Malibu, but the license

5:38 plate has changed. No longer California plate nine MMG one zero one, Now it's New York plate hCG nine six seven seven. Ashley Buzzard removed the rental car's legitimate California plates and put on stolen New York plates to avoid detection, to avoid being tracked, to disappear, smart enough to plan a disappearance, too stupid to realize rental cars have GPS. October ninth, surveillance video captured Melody Buzzard with her mother near the Colorado Utah border, somewhere between Green River Utah and the surrounding areas. This is the last verified sighting of Melody alive. She's still wearing the wig, still with her mother, still in that white Malibu, but now they're on the return trip to California, heading home. Investigators believe the Malibu traveled through several areas that day, Green River Utah, Panguitch Utah, Northwest Arizona, prim Nevada, Rancho Cucamonga, California, all on or around October ninth. Somewhere along that route. Melody Buzzard vanishes. October tenth, Ashley Buzzard returned to Lompoc alone, parked the white Malibu at the rental agency, turned in the keys, the California license plates. The original plates were back on the car. She'd switched them again, put the legitimate plates back on, covering her tracks. The rental agency didn't notice anything wrong, didn't ask where the child in

7:11 the surveillance video went, didn't report anything suspicious, just processed the return and moved on. Ashley went home without her daughter, and four days later, the school district called police. Santa Barbara County Sheriff's spokesperson Raquel Zick told reporters on Monday, the last verified sighting of Melody is now determined to be October ninth. Surveillance video shows Melody with her mom that day near the Colorado Utah border. Investigators are now focused on the timeline from October ninth to October tenth, twenty four hours. That's the window Melody was alive and visible on surveillance on October ninth. By October tenth, she's gone.

7:56 Ashley comes home alone. What happened in those twenty four hours. Zick also said the license plate swap appears to be deliberate. The license plate was switched to avoid detection. We don't have any other plausible reason. Ashley Buzzard won't say, won't cooperate, won't answer questions, won't tell investigators where her daughter is. October nineteenth, FBI joined the investigation. Federal resources, federal databases, federal jurisdiction. If Melody was taken across state lines, which she was California to Nebraska and back. October thirtieth. Last week, investigators served additional search warrants, likely on Ashley's home again, her car, her devices, her bank records, looking for anything that explains where Melody is. Still nothing, no body, no answers, no cooperation from the mother. Melody Buzzard is nine years old, four foot six, sixty pounds, curly brown hair, brown eyes.

9:00 Should be in fourth grade, should be doing homework, should be playing with friends, should be safe. Instead, she's been missing for almost a month, last seen wearing a wig traveling with her mother through the Southwest, and her mother won't say where she is. Here's what we know for certain. Ashley Buzzard rented a car and disguised her daughter, drove oney four hundred miles to Nebraska for reasons unknown, switched license plates to avoid detection, came home without her daughter, and refuses to tell anyone where Melody is. That's not a parent who lost track of her child. That's not a custody dispute gone wrong. That's a parent who planned something, who took steps to avoid being traced, who came home alone and won't explain why. Investigators are asking for the public's help. If you were in Green River, Utah, Panguitch Utah, Northwest Arizona, prim Nevada, or Rancho Cucamanga, California, on October ninth or tenth. If you saw a white twenty twenty four Chevrolet Malibu with either California plate nine MNG one zero one or New York plate hCG nine six seven seven.

10:09 If you saw a woman and a young girl possibly wearing wigs, call Santa Barbara County Sheriff's office at eight zero five six eight one four one five zero. Anonymous tips can be made at eight zero five six' eight one four one seven, one or through the sheriff's. Website no arrests have been. Made Ashley buzzard is still, free living in her, home going about her life while her nine year old daughter is missing and nobody knows where she. Is make it make? Sense how is a mother who took her child on a cross country road, trip switched license plates to avoid, detection and came home without her daughter not in? Custody how is she not being charged with child endangerment at? Minimum how is she walking free while her daughter is? Missing your tax dollars at? WORK a nine year old is, gone the mother won't, talk and nobody's been. Arrested If melody's father is out, there reports indicate he lives In. Indiana this is your. Moment your daughter is, missing your ex won't say where she.

11:12 Is call THE, fbi call the, sheriff get, lawyers get custody, orders do whatever it takes to find your. Daughter and To Ashley, buzzard if you're, listening where Is. Melody that's the only question that. Matters where is your nine year old. Daughter if she's, alive tell us where she is so she can come. Home if she's, not if something happened during that road, trip tell us where she is so her family can bury, her so her father can say, goodbye so the community that's looking for her can stop. Wondering silence protects. Nobody silence just means a little girl stays. Missing Melody, buzzard nine years, old curly brown, hair brown, eyes last Scene october, ninth near The Colorado utah, border wearing a wig with her. Mother then she. Disappears someone knows where she. Is someone saw, something a gas station, attendant a hotel, clerk a truck driver passing. Through someone saw a woman traveling alone On october, tenth who'd been with a child On october. Ninth if you saw, anything called the. Sheriff even if you're not, sure even if it seems, insignificant a nine year old is. Missing every detail.

12:19 Matters melody should be in, school should be learning fractions and reading chapter. Books should be playing at, recess should be, safe rest in. Peace if she's, gone please come. Home if she's, alive someone has to say her. Name Melody, buzzard nine years. Old. Missing we'll be right back With hollywood Producer David pears sentenced to one hundred and forty six years for murdering two women with fentanyl and sexually assaulting seven. Others november, thirteenth twenty twenty. One Christy giles And Hilda Marcella Cabrales arzola went to a, party never came.

13:09 Home David pierce sentencing fifteen. Minutes welcome back to celebrity. Trials i'm, Reed Carter. Yesterday, Wednesday october, thirtieth twenty twenty, Five Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Eleanor hunter Sentenced David Bryan pierce to one hundred forty six years to life in state. Prison convicted In february of two counts of first degree, murder three counts of forcible, rape two counts of sexual penetration by, force one count of sodomy by, force one count of rape of an unconscious, woman seven victims spanning two thousand five to twenty twenty, one sixteen years of drug facilitated sexual assaults culminating in two. Murders also ordered to register as a lifetime sex. Offender as if that matters when you're serving one hundred forty six, years but the judge wanted it on the. Record District Attorney Nathan hawkman released a, statement this sentence delivers long awaited justice From miss Cabrals, Arzola Mis, giles and the courageous sexual assault victims who came forward and. Testified not only were the victims sexually, assaulted but the lives Of miss Cabrals arzola And Miss giles were stolen in one of the most devastating, ways a fentanyl induced sexual assault By.

14:25 Pierce let me take you back To november, thirteenth twenty twenty, one Early saturday, Morning Los. Angeles David, pierce thirty nine years old at the, time described himself as A hollywood, producer party, promoter lived in A Beverly hills, apartment spent his time at warehouse, raves, cocaine, ECSTASY, ghb, fentanyl whatever he could. Get his roommate Was Brant, osborne forty, two, actor small, roles nothing, famous but lived the same, lifestyle, drugs, parties. Women that, Night pierce And osbourne were at a warehouse party In East Los. Angeles around three, am they met two.

15:07 Women Christy, giles twenty four years old, Model alabama, native interior, designer, beautiful, vibrant lived for art and design and. Creativity Hilda marcella Cabrals, arzola twenty six years, old architect and interior, Designer mexican, national, talented, driven one day away from her twenty seventh. Birthday also at the Party Michael, ansbach filmmaker spending the day With, pierce supposedly filming a Documentary pierce was. Producing ansbach would later become the prosecution's key, witness but that night he was just another person at the rave heavy cocaine, use everyone, drinking everyone, high the kind of party where decisions get blurry and consequences feel. Distant around five, am the party wound.

15:57 Down pierce Invited giles And cabrales Are zola back to His Beverly hills, apartment said they could keep, partying more, drinks more, drugs just a few more hours of. Fun the women, agreed why? Not seemed like nice, Guys Beverly hill's apartment safe? Enough what could go wrong? Everything they arrived At pierce's apartment around five. Am within thirty five. Minutes thirty five, Minutes Cabrales arzola called a ride share, service trying to. Leave something felt, wrong something spooked. Her she wanted, out but she never. Left neither woman. Did prosecutors Argued pierce gave them gamma hydroxy, butterate date rape, drug and, fentanyl powerful, sedatives deadly. Combination both women lost, consciousness.

16:46 Overdosed pierce And osborne had a. Problem two unconscious women possibly, dying definitely. Overdosing what do you? Do call nine one, one get them, help immediately PERFORM Cpr admit what you did in face com. Consequences, no you wait eleven, Hours let them die slowly in your, apartment then dispose of the bodies like. Trash that's What pierce. Did around four, pm eleven hours after the women, Arrived pierce Carried Christy giles out of his, apartment loaded her into His Toyota, prius but first he removed the license. Plates didn't want to be. Traced Michael, ansbach who was still, there Saw pierce remove the, plates watched him put them in the, trunk watched him Load giles's body into the. Car realized what was, happening didn't stop. It pierce drove to a, hospital pulled up outside the emergency, entrance Dumped giles on the, sidewalk drove. Away hospital staff found, her rushed her, inside tried to revive, her. Couldn't Christy giles was already, dead twenty four years, old left on a hospital sidewalk like.

17:54 Garbage ninety minutes, Later pierce made a second. Trip Carried cabrales Or zola out of the, apartment Same Toyota, prius still no license, plates drove to a different, hospital dumped her, outside drove. Away this time doctor's Resuscitated Cabrales arzola got her heart beating, again but she'd been without oxygen too long brain damage. Coma her family kept her on life support for eleven, days hoping for a. Miracle no miracle. Came On november twenty, fourth twenty twenty, one one day before her twenty seventh. Birthday Hilda Marcella Cabrales arzola's family removed her from life. Support she died surrounded by people who loved, her not left on a sidewalk by a predator who drugged. Her police, investigated pulled surveillance footage from the, hospitals saw The Toyota prius with no license, plates tracked, it Found, pierce Found, osborne Found. Ansbach december twenty twenty, One all three. Arrested ansbach immediately. Cooperated told police everything described the, part the, apartment the, drugs the, bodies Seeing pierce remove license, plates watching him dump the. Women ansbach turned state's. Witness charges against him dropped in exchange for.

19:10 Testimony some people call him a coward for not Stopping. Pierce others say he's the reason pierces in. Prison both can be. True the investigation. Expanded detectives looked Into pierce's, background his, lifestyle his. Pattern seven women came, forward all with similar, stories Met pierce at parties at bars through dating. Apps he offered them. Drinks they felt, dizzy woke up hours later with no, memory realized they'd been sexually. Assaulted two thousand and five to twenty twenty, one sixteen years of drug facilitated, rapes dozens of, victims only seven came. Forward how many more are out there who didn't, report who blamed, themselves who didn't want to relive the. Trauma pierce's apartment became a crime, scene a horror. Show prosecutors called it a crash pad and party. House pierce admitted people passed out there, weekly said it was normal part of the. Lifestyle february twenty twenty, five trial Began People Versus David pierce And Brandt. Osborne seven sexual assault victims.

20:16 Testified Described pierce's, pattern the, drugs the, drinks waking up, disoriented knowing something terrible, happened but unable to. Remember pierce took the stand in his own, defense denied, everything said he'd never met at least one, accuser said the other encounters were, consensual said everyone came on to, him said he was the. Victim described Finding giles And Cabrales arzola unconscious around five a. M near liquor bottles and a powdery. Substance said he didn't think much of it at. First quote the lifestyle THAT i was living at the time was not very conducive to regular. Behavior if that makes.

20:57 Sense it was not uncommon for people to use my house as a crash, pad a party. HOUSE i know it's, horrible but at least on a weekly, basis friends were passing out at my. House, translation women regularly overdosed in my, apartment SO i didn't think two dead women were a big. Deal pierce claimed he grew concerned when the women wouldn't wake. Up said he checked on them, Repeatedly said he ADMINISTERED, cpr but never called nine to one, one never got professional, help just waited eleven hours and dumped their bodies at. Hospitals his defense attorneys argued the women brought their own, drugs Said giles And Cabrales arzola overdosed on their own, supply Not pierce's, fault just unfortunate that they died at his.

21:41 Apartment prosecution destroyed that narrative showed That Cabrales arzola called for a ride share within thirty five minutes of. Arriving she was trying to. Leave she wasn't there voluntarily consuming drugs for, hours she was trying to. Escape digital evidence Showed pierce And osborne carrying the women from the apartment to the, prius not helping them, walk carrying their unconscious, bodies loading them like, cargo the license plate, removal, premeditation cover, up disposing of, evidence not the actions of someone. Innocent february, fourth twenty twenty, five jury returned Verdicts David pierce guilty on all counts two counts first degree, murder three counts forcible, rape two count's sexual penetration by, force one count sodomy by, force one count rape of an unconscious. Woman Brant osborne hung jury charged with two counts of accessory after the fact jury couldn't reach unanimous. Verdict mistrial. Declared osborne's retrial scheduled for next. Week pre trial Hearing november. Eighteenth prosecutors will try again to Convict tim of Helping pierce cover up the. Murders, Yesterday pierce was. Sentenced Judge hunter handed down one hundred forty six years to. Life pierce is forty three years. Old even with good, behavior he'll die in.

23:13 Prison multiple life sentences, consecutive not, concurrent no, parole no, clemency no. Mercy District Attorney hopeman emphasized fentanyl's. Role this case is a stark reminder of the devastation caused by. Fentanyl fentanyl poisoners who harm and exploit others will be held. Accountable let's talk About Christy giles And Hilda marcella Cabral As arzola as, people not just, victims not just names in a court. Case. People Christi, giles twenty four years old From, alabama moved To Los angeles to pursue modeling and interior. Design her social media showed her love for, art for, creativity for building beauty. Spaces she had, friends, family a. Life she was building dreams of designing, homes creating environments where people felt comfortable and. Inspired november, thirteenth twenty twenty, one she went to a, party made a decision to trust the wrong. People never came, home found dead on a hospital sidewalk twelve hours. Later Hilda Marcella Cabrales, arzola twenty six years, old architect and interior designer From, mexico came to The United states to build a. Career talented.

24:33 Driven one day away from her twenty seventh, birthday her family kept her alive for eleven, days hoping she'd wake. Up she. Didn't two young, women both in their, twenties both with careers in, design both with futures ahead of, Them both murdered by a predator who'd been drugging and raping women for sixteen. Years David pierre spent sixteen years attacking women USING, ghb use, fentanyl using drugs to incapacitate victims so he could assault, them and nobody stopped him until two women. Died how many victims Before giles and Cabrals, arezola how many women woke up In pierce's apartment with no memory and didn't, Report how many blamed? Themselves how many thought it was their fault for drinking too much or taking drugs. Voluntarily that's what predators. Do they create, doubt they create. Shame they make victims think they're complicit when, really the moment you drug someone without their, knowledge it's. Assault.

25:35 Period seven women, Testified seven brave women who came forward despite knowing they'd be cross, examined despite knowing defense attorneys would try to discredit, them despite knowing the public would judge. Them they testified anyway Because Christy giles And Hilda marcella Cabrals arzola. Couldn't and Now David pierce will spend the rest of his life in prison one hundred forty six. Years won't see freedom. Again won't drug another, woman won't dump another, body won't destroy another. Life sometimes justice. Works sometimes the system catches the monster before he kills. Again this time it. Didn't giles and Cabrals arzola are, dead but at Least pierce will never hurt anyone. Else Christy giles should be twenty eight years, old should be designing, homes should be posting her art On. Instagram should be.

26:26 Living Hilda marcella Cabrals arzola should be thirty years. Old should be celebrating her birthday every. Year should be creating architectural. Masterpieces should be. Thriving, instead they're. Gone murdered by a man who thought he could drug women without, consequences who thought he could dispose of bodies like, trash who thought he was above the. Law he was. Wrong rest in, Peace, Christie rest in, Peace. Hilda someone has to say your. Names That's celebrity trials For, Wednesday november, fifth twenty twenty. Five nine year Old Melody buzzard missing Since october. Ninth last scene Near Colorado utah border with her. Mother mother switched license plates on rental car to avoid, detection returned home without her. DAUGHTER fbi, searching no arrests. Made David pierce sentenced yesterday to one hundred forty six years to.

27:23 Life two counts, murder seven sexual assaults Gave Christy giles And Hilda Marcella, cabrales, arzola fentanyl AND. Ghb both women, died dumped their bodies at hospitals with no license. Plates lock your, doors watch your, drinks trust your. Instincts if something feels, wrong, Leave if you think someone is, missing report. It if you see, something say. Something Melody buzzard is still out there. Somewhere call The Santa Barbara County sheriff if you know. Anything eight zero five six eight one four one five. Zero i'm Read carter. Tomorrow whatever. Breaks this is celebrity. Trials