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(NewsNation) — Relatives of missing 9-year-old Melodee Buzzard revealed her parent tore down missing posters of Melodee arsenic the hunt for the miss continues.
NewsNation affiliate KTLA reported caller hunt warrants were served Thursday astatine the location of Melodee's mom, Ashlee Buzzard, a retention locker and the rental car utilized by Ashlee Buzzard this month.
Melodee's ma was removed from her location with assistance from the FBI, 16 days aft Melodee was reported missing Oct. 14 by a Lompoc Unified School District administrator.
The Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Office released new pictures past Friday showing what is believed to beryllium Melodee wearing a wig astatine a car rental concern successful California connected Oct. 7 earlier leaving the authorities with her mother. Ashlee returned to California 3 days aboriginal without her daughter, according to investigators.
Amid the investigation, Melodee's aunt, Lizabeth Meza, told "Banfield" she has small clarity connected the missing case.
"We spoke to the quality miss who's been pursuing it, she called and conscionable fto america cognize what was going connected ... but arsenic acold arsenic detectives, we've called, near messages, and they haven't returned immoderate calls, truthful we've been successful the dark," Meza said.
Video showed Ashlee taking down missing posters of Melodee extracurricular and adjacent her home, which was "extremely hard to watch" for Meza.
"I cognize my niece went retired there, my mother-in-law and household members, and enactment signs up there, not lone for the assemblage spot it, but for Ashlee to remember, you know, that you person this beauteous daughter, and we privation her back," she said.
"We privation her safe, and for her to conscionable rip them down similar they didn't mean anything. It's decidedly heartbreaking."
Melodee's sister, Corinna Meza, told "Banfield" she has not been capable to get immoderate answers regarding Melodee from her mother.
"She did not reply immoderate questions regarding Melodee, lone to fto maine cognize that everything has been hard connected her and her intelligence health, and that she didn't admit each the attraction she's been getting, and the information that I was determination and knocking astatine the door," Corinna Meza said.
"She doesn't truly person overmuch emotion, similar a precise consecutive face, like, nary emotion astatine all," Corinna Meza added of Ashlee's emotions during their interaction.
Lizabeth told NewsNation she was unaware of immoderate household oregon idiosyncratic transportation to Nebraska oregon Kansas, the states that Ashlee traveled done aft leaving California and earlier returning.
