Ashley Buzzard (8:55)

You're flat out lying. You're a really good liar. Like Tyler.

Grandmother Lily (9:00)

Tyler.

Tyler Brewer (9:01)

I'm definitely not.

Ashley Buzzard (9:02)

Tyler, be quiet and listen, please. Look at me like I'm an intelligent woman. I'm 40 years old. You deal with legal stuff like, who are you kidding, Tyler?

Tyler Brewer (9:16)

I can only listen.

Ashley Buzzard (9:18)

I'm not trying to be disrespectful. You need a reality check. If this is on media news, like news talk shows, they're gonna be seeing you. They're gonna be interested in you. You have to understand that I'm aware whether you want to attend it or not. You want the attention.

Tyler Brewer (9:41)

I don't want the attention.

Ashley Buzzard (9:43)

There is absolutely no way in hell that you are not bipolar or have an extreme issue if you don't realize what you're doing is false advertisement and there are real legal ramifications. I don't know how you honestly are not worried about being put in jail.

Tyler Brewer (10:05)

I would like to leave at this.

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Ashley Buzzard (10:11)

Since you're leaving in an uncomfortable way. I want the keys to my house and the storage. Nobody else has keys. Is that correct?

Ashley Banfield (10:23)

Yes, ma'.

Grandmother Lily (10:23)

Am.

Tyler Brewer (10:23)

No one else has keys.

Ashley Buzzard (10:26)

Tyler, genuinely, if you've been here genuinely to help, I appreciate it. The lies are a lot. And especially if you are genuine and trying to help in your own way, you should be very concerned if they recognize you because anyone else, like, running for District. It doesn't add up. I'm not threatening you, but I'm saying, like, I'm not threatening you at all. I'm. I'm trying to help as a friend because I feel like it has to be bipolar or something. But I don't think you're grasping the level of. Of online things that don't make sense.

Tyler Brewer (11:14)

No, I understand where you're coming from. At this moment, I would like to leave. And I'm more than receptive. If you want to call or text me.

Ashley Buzzard (11:22)

How do I send you the money of the receipts?

Brian Enten (11:24)

I'm not.

Tyler Brewer (11:25)

I'm not concerned about any of that, but I'm.

Brian Enten (11:27)

I'm still.

Tyler Brewer (11:28)

I'm still very receptive should you want to call me or text me. But I've done nothing intentionally to be deceitful.

Ashley Banfield (12:05)

Yeah, I know. I know. It is a lot to process. Right. Did you hear what I just heard? She's accusing him. Ashley Buzzard is accusing Tyler Brewer of being bipolar. Yeah. I was particularly interested in the end there, where you can hear the footsteps and the jingling of keys and the door unlocking. It's like he was really locked in there. And I'll tell you what else I was very interested in. I'm not so sure I agree with the judge on this, but I will concede I was not there for all of it. I don't know every detail. I heard Tyler Brewer say twice in a very calm tone, I would like to leave now. I would like to leave now. And the one thing you couldn't hear was what was going on with the box cutter. Like, where was the box cutter in all of this? Right? Because if somebody's threatening you with a box cutter, you're going to be really calm, and you're going to ask very calmly, I would like to leave now. If you're not being threatened by a weapon. It just seems kind of weird that you'd be asking, I would like to leave now. I mean, you would just say, I'm out of here. See you later, bitch. I mean, that's really what you would do if you just wanted to leave and you could. I found it fascinating that he had to say it specifically two different times. So I'm a little surprised that the judge didn't see it that way. Didn't feel like Tyler was, you know, stuck there. But when the judge heard that tape, he threw the case out. He said there was no probable cause to believe that Tyler Brewer was terrified or that Tyler Brewer was prevented from leaving by force to the contrary. We hear him leave. To which I say, you know, you can be terrified and silent. Happens a lot. Silent scream. You know, you can be terrified and be trying to talk the crazy out of someone so that you can make your escape. And, yeah, he got to leave. But does that mean that if you're held for a while, but eventually you get to leave? It's like it never even happened. I mean, the holding still happens even if you're eventually allowed to leave. I. I found the whole thing very weird. I did. I'm not going to lie. So tonight, Ashley, free as a bird. And the ankle monitor. Remember the baggy pants that we figured she was trying to hide? The ankle monitor, she don't need to wear those anymore because the ankle monitor is a thing of the past. And earlier tonight, I caught up with my News Nation colleague, Brian Enten. He was right outside the family's house in the town of Lompoc. And actually, the ankle monitor is kind of an issue because, honestly, at least with an ankle monitor, you know where she is. So I brought that up with Enten and Here's our conversation.

Ashley Banfield (interviewer) (14:57)

Brian, first and foremost, great reporting, getting that audio, being in that courtroom today and seeing what transpired. First of all, let me just ask you, any movement at all now that she's free without the ankle monitor? Any movement outside that house? Have you seen Ashley since court?

Brian Enten (15:15)

Yeah, she's back at the house tonight. Ashley. And let me just walk up. I mean, it's dark again here tonight. There's been no activity since she returned from court, really a free woman, no ankle monitor, no charges. I thought maybe there was a light on in the front window a little while ago, but I can't tell if it's just a reflection. But it's interesting. In court today, it came out that she actually prefers to stay at the back of the house. They talked about this during the testimony with Tyler because she's concerned about the house being bugged and people listening through the front of the house. So that makes sense why we've seen very, very little activity here at the front. Ashley.

Ashley Banfield (interviewer) (15:52)

Well, and also she mentioned in that audio recording this is going to be on the news and the talk show. So maybe she's aware that there's a lot of media interest and coverage. I remember you staking out the laundries home in Florida. And I believe in Northport, Florida, they also spent most of time the their time in the back because it was hard to see any activity in the.

Ashley Banfield (16:13)

Front of the house.

Ashley Banfield (interviewer) (16:14)

Real quickly, there were photos in court of the inside of her home shown today. Can you talk about those?

Brian Enten (16:23)

Yes. And by the way, that audio recording, just remember this is her recording. She made the recording herself with her phone. She decided to record these conversations with Tyler. So, you know, remember, it sort of seems like she's putting on a little bit of a show there because she knows she's the one doing the recording. In terms of these other photos that came out, they had photos of the door and of the locks. There are four locks on the door that Tyler says she locked to keep him inside. There's also a photo of the box cutter on the ground. But it's interesting, actually. I sat through the whole hearing and it was long. It was like three or four hours. And he could never say for sure that she actually picked up the box cutter. And many of the things he said were, I felt like she was holding me in the house and wouldn't let me out. She stood in front of me, but then I was able to get out. So I have to say at the end of the hearing, I was not surprised that the judge Threw out the false imprisonment charge. In fact, I kind of expected it by the end. There just wasn't a lot of solid evidence that he wasn't able to actually leave.

Ashley Banfield (interviewer) (17:39)

It's weird, I heard him say, I'd like to leave now, I'd like to leave now. To me, that's not the kind of thing you say. You just, if you're able to, you just say, I'm out of here. Bye.

Ashley Banfield (17:47)

Bye.

Ashley Banfield (interviewer) (17:48)

You know, it was interesting, but it's different perspective. I do want to ask you about the story I keep hearing that Tyler was somehow working with the police. Is this true? Is this why we were hearing on the recording that you're deceitful, you're lying? I was trying to make out what that was all about.

Brian Enten (18:10)

Yeah. And it was a very confusing hearing on that front, Ashley, because at the very beginning, the judge made clear to everyone involved that they could not discuss anything related to the disappearance of Melody or the investigation into the disappearance of Melody. And you can just imagine a lot of this had to do with that. That's the whole reason it seems Tyler was at the house and was befriending Ashley and was trying to get information out of her. So every time questions would come out about like, well, were you at the house? There was a police officer outside while you were inside the house. But they would say, no, no, you can't go down that road. And he would remind them too, am I allowed to answer this? And they would say, no. So we never got a clear picture of whether he was actually working with the police. But it did come out that the minute he left the house and was able to leave, he texted the detective right away. He knew the detective's number and it, and it came out that the detective was already outside the house doing surveillance on the house while he was inside.

Ashley Banfield (interviewer) (19:15)

Speaking of that, is there anybody out there right now? Like, you're facing away from the house and presumably you're facing across the street. Are there detectives or any sort of ghost cars waiting and just walking, watching her movements? Because we're still missing a little nine year old girl.

Brian Enten (19:31)

Yes, and I don't want to give too much detail, obviously on that, but there's clearly still an investigation going on. The FBI is involved and it seems quiet out here tonight, but there are indications that she is still being watched in some regard. And even, I mean, even the neighbors are coming. I mean, people are so upset with this woman that she won't come out, that she won't talk and that Melody is still missing. And People are mad. I think there was a sense of comfort that she had the ankle monitor on. For whatever reason, people felt like, okay, they're kind of monitoring her. Now that the charge is thrown out and the ankle monitor is gone, there's definitely some concern.

Ashley Banfield (interviewer) (20:11)

Yeah. We said earlier it was a sideshow because the big show is, where is this child, for God's sake? What are they doing to find the child or hold her accountable for a child who is clearly not in that house and nowhere that we know to that end, the child's paternal grandmother.

Ashley Banfield (20:27)

I think it's Grandmother Lily.

Ashley Banfield (interviewer) (20:29)

You spoke with her. What did she have to say about everything that happened today and everything that's happening with her granddaughter?

Brian Enten (20:36)

Yeah, Grandmother Lily is very feisty. That is Melody's grandma on the father's side. And she attends many of these hearings. And she is just frustrated. She keeps saying, why can no one get the information out of this woman about where Melody is? Why can't they just force her to say? Unfortunately, they just can't. That's not how it works. But she sits in the hearings. She was sitting right near us. She just watches Ashley the whole time. I talked to her right when the hearing ended. This is what she said.

Grandmother Lily (21:06)

My son passed away in a motorcycle accident when Ashley was six months. So I really didn't know her there that much, but she was a good lady. I mean, real quiet.

Brian Enten (21:15)

Did she wear the wigs back then?

Ashley Banfield (21:17)

No.

Grandmother Lily (21:18)

She had beautiful long hair, never wigs. Now she's wearing a lot of wigs. I don't know what that came from.

Brian Enten (21:25)

What about the makeup?

Grandmother Lily (21:27)

Never wear that kind of makeup before. She had, I don't know, kind of like more. More than usual that she ever wore.

Brian Enten (21:35)

What do you make of the wigs and makeup? Like, I mean, since you knew her back then?

Grandmother Lily (21:40)

I don't know. She's trying to change her personality or. I don't know.

Brian Enten (21:47)

And with Grandma Lily, actually, I could see her sort of leaning in and listening when they played that full recording. It's just. It was interesting because this woman, the mom who's held up in the house, you know, we never hear her voice. And then all of a sudden, she has this sort of assertive voice and was sort of, like, angry with Tyler. And you could tell Grandma Lily was really, really interested in that.

Ashley Banfield (22:11)

So that's where things stand. And something tells me that the story is nowhere near done. Because let's remember all that weird shit today, right? All that business in court, the makeup, the wig, the recording, her crazy voice, all that no mention of Melody because the judge wasn't having it. They are two separate cases, although I would argue they are blended. But still no information on where this little girl is. No update from the detectives who were there, people who took part in this whole false imprisonment business. Nothing. We still have no information on Melody and we still don't know what they're doing to get the information out of this wildly crazy woman. But is she crazy or is she crazy like a fox? That seems to be the question now after I've heard her voice. So make sure you're subscribed. I don't want you to miss what happens next. It seems like a little shoe drops every day. I don't know how many shoes this lady has. But I definitely want you to make sure that you are up to speed on every development. I'm Ashley Banfield. Thank you so much for listening. Thank you so much for watching. And remember, the truth isn't just the serious. It's drop dead serious.