A California woman has been arrested in her 9-year-old daughter’s murder case after the missing child’s remains were found in Utah, authorities said Tuesday.
Ashlee Buzzard, 40, was arrested after 9-year-old Melodee Buzzard’s body was found in an area they had traveled through two months ago, the Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Office announced at a news conference Tuesday.
Officials said her body was found in early December, and DNA from the remains connected her mother.
A school administrator reported the child’s prolonged absence Oct. 14. Deputies went to the family’s residence in Lompoc, but Buzzard would not say where her daughter was….