Melodee Buzzard & The Great Vanishing: How California Lost 150,000 Kids

Melodee Buzzard’s disappearance isn’t an anomaly — it’s the warning sign of a statewide collapse.

Between 2019 and 2022, California’s public-school rolls dropped by 270,000 students.
Roughly 150,000 of them remain unaccounted for in any school, private affidavit, or relocation record.
They didn’t all move — many simply vanished from the data, the same way Melodee vanished from oversight.

In this episode of Hidden Killers, Tony Brueski and the panel connect the dots between one missing-child case and the larger crisis of invisible minors.
We’ll analyze state education reports, CPS workload numbers, and how “independent study” loopholes became a hiding place for abuse and neglect.

We’ll also ask the uncomfortable question:
If a state can lose track of 150,000 children on paper, how many are in real danger off the record?

This is not fear-mongering — it’s a forensic look at bureaucratic blindness and the cultural apathy that lets it continue.

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