After a mysterious, two-month-long missing persons case, 9-year-old Melodee Buzzard has been found dead in Utah, and her mother, Ashlee Buzzard, has been arrested for allegedly killing her daughter.Here's the timeline of the case:Oct.

The body of missing 9-year-old Lompoc girl Melodee Buzzard, who has been missing since October, has been found.

Authorities have revealed that 9-year-old Melodee Buzzard, whose October disappearance sparked a weeks-long search spanning several states, died from gunshot wounds to the head. Melodee was last seen on Oct. 9 with her mother Ashlee Buzzard at the Colorado-Utah border, according to the Santa Barbara Sheriff's Office .

Ashlee Buzzard was arrested on Tuesday in connection with the murder of her 9-year-old daughter Melodee Buzzard.

Ashlee Buzzard has been charged with first-degree murder in the shooting death of her daughter, Melodee, who was 9. Police say she was shot in Utah.

A timeline of the missing person case of Lompoc girl, Melodee Buzzard, whose body was ultimately found in a remote part of Utah.

Authorities have discovered the body of Melodee Buzzard, the nine-year-old California girl who disappeared in October.

Then, on December 22, DNA evidence from the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s crime lab determined that the body found was a familial match to Ashlee Buzzard, confirming it to be that of Melodee Buzzard. Police arrested Buzzard for first degree murder this Tuesday morning.

Melodee’s aunt, Lizabeth Meza, claimed that Ashlee was “extremely mentally unstable." Melodee’s father, Rubiell Meza, died in a motorcycle accident.