Serialously with Annie Elise
336: Influencer Found Dead, “Friends” Hold Friend Captive, Melodee Buzzard Update & News Anchor Stabs Mom
13 Nov 2025
Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Hey, true crime besties. Welcome back to an all new episode of Serial Asleep. Hello, hello, hello, and welcome back to an all-new episode of Serialistly, with me, your host, Annie Elise. The true crime bestie, here to hopefully get you through the week. I don't know, this week has been kind of dragging in a way. I feel like the weather has finally turned. It's getting dark super early.
I don't know. I'm excited. It's almost the weekend. But anyway, I have a lot of cases that we need to talk about. Not only new cases that are like insane and wild, but a couple of updates in some cases that one case we talked about recently and then one that we haven't talked about for years, but there has finally been some movement. And so I actually really want to start with that.
And it's the case of Michael Vaughn. Now, we previously covered this case a couple of years ago. Michael Vaughn was a five-year-old little boy. He vanished outside of his home in Fruitland, Idaho back on July 27th, 2021. But now, as I said, there has been a major development.
On October 31st, the county prosecutor announced that charges are finally officially being filed in connection with Michael's disappearance. Then, after that announcement was made... Days later, it was revealed that 33-year-old Stacey Wondra, who is a boy, Stacey is a guy, he's being charged with first-degree murder, second-degree kidnapping, and destruction of evidence.
Now, here's where it gets really disgusting and very twisted. Stacey and his wife, Sarah, were first named as suspects way back in 2022. after police had received a tip from a roommate that ultimately led the investigators to excavate their backyard while they were searching for Michael's remains, but nothing has really happened since then.
Now, both Stacey and Sarah are currently serving prison sentences for completely unrelated charges— However, newly released body cam footage shows Stacey on FaceTime with the investigators during that 2022 excavation and dig, and he was pointing out where he believes Michael's remains could be found.
Yet, he continues to deny any sort of involvement in the burial itself, but he does claim that he saw his wife Sarah place Michael's body there. And even worse than that, that little Michael was wrapped in a black or white trash bag.
Now, I could go on and on about this case because it is one that has been highly covered but also is just so disturbing because right when this all happened, it seemed like everyone in the public was blaming the parents. It kind of felt reminiscent a little bit of Summer Wells if you had followed that case at all.
But right away when Michael was reported as missing, people were kind of like, oh, what the parents are saying isn't really quite adding up. Nothing's making sense. And it was sad because there was a lot of just like publicization public hatred directed towards the parents. And now this has finally come out. People are kind of like, wow, I can't believe people went so hard at the parents.
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Chapter 2: What are the latest updates on Michael Vaughan's disappearance?
Her parents were not cooperative. They didn't even report her missing for months. Then the mom said that she, I believe she said something alluding to the And sent her off to Romania to be with family because the stepfather was harming her. But then there was all of this drug stuff involved. Just a nightmare.
But my point being, because I'm kind of getting a little lost on the tracks here for a minute. My point being that any time a parent is unwilling to cooperate with their own missing child, it's a freaking huge waving red flag. Now, with that case, Melody Buzzard, there has been an update because her mom, Ashley Buzzard, the uncooperative monster mother, was arrested on November 7th.
However, she was not arrested for anything involving Melody. She was instead arrested for felony false imprisonment charges. Authorities have emphasized that these charges are not directly related to Melody's disappearance. However,
They've declined to share any further details, saying that by releasing more information, it could hinder the ongoing investigation, it could affect that, so they're trying to just really keep those details close to themselves.
But according to investigators, detectives recently learned that Ashley allegedly prevented a victim from leaving a location against their will, which that, of course, constitutes false imprisonment under California law.
So while police maintain that this specific incident is completely separate from Melody's case, they have stated that they can't disclose the full context of it due to the sensitive nature of the ongoing investigation. But it is at least one step forward into getting Ashley off the streets immediately.
hopefully getting her to cooperate because she's scared and feels like the walls are closing in and hopefully more answers so more to come on that and i think as more information comes out on this case we may end up just doing a deep dive because like i said before we did cover it briefly in headline highlights but there is so much information involved in this case from the cross-country road trip to melody potentially being seen on cctv wearing a wig and
Then the school being the ones to call in the welfare check because she had gone so long without getting her assignments. There's just so many different nuances within it. So let me know if you guys want that deep dive. But I think that we are going to do that now that I'm talking about it out loud and thinking through it.
I just think that it makes more sense to have that isolated as its own episode where we can really dig into it. Um, so that's it for updates. Now I want to get into new cases, but before we get into all of the new cases, have to make a special announcement. I am not alone here. I am joined by the Amy Colette. Oh my gosh.
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Chapter 3: What charges have been filed against Stacey Wondra in Michael Vaughan's case?
Wow. I was going to do like a drum roll or something like that, or like a song, but I know you don't like when I get sing-songy.
I don't like theater. You don't like it? Unless it's Emmy, and she just is the star of the show. Her life is theater. Oh, she is the show.
She is the show. She is definitely the show. But no, we have Amy back, and she's joining us. I see all of your comments always asking where she's at. So simmer down, my babies, as my dad would say. Well, thanks for having me. Yeah, thanks for being here.
I have a crazy one to share.
Okay. Well, I don't want to say I'm excited to hear it because obviously I'm not, but I'm curious to hear it. Because I feel like the ones that you'll find and you'll send either like you'll text them to me or you'll send them in the group Slack channel. I feel like the ones that you come across are not the ones that I come across. It's like we have two totally different algorithms.
Well, yeah. And thank you for just letting me come and share because I feel like – You're welcome. Your peeps love you. And so I'm just trying to, you know, share some stories too.
Yeah. I'm number one too. I'm number – Did you see? Sorry, guys. That's a quote. We always quote it from Bride Wars, the movie. If you haven't watched it, watch it. We've seen it so many times. But I was going to text you the other night and I forgot to. I don't think it's been on Netflix before, but it is on Netflix now. And over the weekend, it was the number two movie on Netflix.
But it's like so old.
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Chapter 4: What happened in the Melodee Buzzard case?
No, but the Halloween thing is so scary. And the fact that it was family, like, can you freaking imagine? No. That could have ended so, so bad. Sorry, I'm, like, derailing this whole thing.
Well, this one has nothing to do with ding-dong ditching. Okay, good. But it does come out of Wichita, Kansas, and had a lot of people just... stunned because this had nothing to do with a stranger or a neighbor, but it was actually a prior TV news anchor. And she was accused of doing something like we always say, totally crazy and unbelievable, which it was.
So it was Halloween morning and Wichita police got a call around 7.50 a.m. to what was described as, quote, cutting. And when officers arrived at the home, they found an 80-year-old woman named Anita Avers who was unresponsive in her bed. She had multiple stab wounds, so paramedics rushed her to the hospital, but unfortunately, Anita didn't survive.
And outside that same home was her 47-year-old daughter named Angeline Mock, or as she went by, Angie. She was covered in blood with cuts all over her hands, and according to neighbors, appeared to be in shock. In fact, one neighbor told reporters that they saw her approach their car with her hands and clothes all bloody, asking them to call 911.
And apparently that's when Angie took the neighbor's boyfriend's phone, went back into the house and then called the police. And what she reportedly told the dispatchers right after that is what actually shocked everyone. Angie said that she had, quote, stabbed her mother to save herself, which we've heard this before, right? Crazy.
Now, if this name sounds familiar, it's because Angie Mock used to be a familiar face on TV. She worked as a morning news anchor and reported in St. Louis from the years 2011 to 2015, before eventually leaving the news industry and landing in software and data management. which is a huge leap. And by looking at these photos, you can see her appearance has changed quite a bit over the years.
After being treated for her injuries, Angie was arrested and booked in the Sedgwick County Jail. She was charged with premeditated first-degree murder, and her bond was set for $1 million. And so far, investigators haven't released a motive, and it actually is still unclear. They haven't said what led up to the attack or exactly what Angie meant when she claimed she had to, quote, save herself.
And what's strange is there is no indication of anyone else being in the home, any forced entry, or even any public record of any domestic calls to the address. And nobody really understands why this would have happened because Anita was described by friends and neighbors as a kind and private woman who had previously worked as a marriage and family therapist before retiring.
Friends and neighbors say she was devoted to her family. So it feels even stranger that her own daughter ended up being the one to kill her. So Angie's defense team hasn't commented publicly, but her next court appearance is actually going to be tomorrow, November 14th. prosecutors haven't said whether they plan to address the quote self-defense aspect directly in court.
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