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In a chilling new twist to the disappearance of 9-year-old Melodee Buzzard, investigators now believe her mother swapped out license plates on her rental car during a multi-state road trip in an attempt to avoid detection as her daughter vanished without a trace.
Melodee and her mother, 35-year-old Ashlee Buzzard, left their Lompoc, California home on Octob
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