Two Crises, One Broken System — Buzzard & Slender Man Fallout

Tonight on Hidden Killers, psychotherapist Shavaun Scott helps us unravel two cases that shouldn’t be connected — but absolutely are.

On one side: Ashlee Buzzard, a mother spiraling into paranoia, delusion, secrecy, and destabilization as her nine-year-old daughter, Melodee, remains missing.

On the other: Morgan Geyser, the Slender Man attacker who escaped a state placement, cut her ankle monitor, crossed state lines with a 42-year-old man, and was found behind a truck stop.

Two wildly different cases.

One identical problem: a system incapable of responding to psychological danger until AFTER the damage is done.

Shavaun takes us deep into the psychology behind both crises.

In the Buzzard case, we look at fractured reality, shifting stories, conspiracy fears, digital erasure, symbolic “shrines,” and the psychological danger created when a child’s safety depends entirely on a parent who may no longer be tethered to shared reality — yet shows just enough calm to avoid involuntary intervention.

In the Geyser case, we dig into the illusion of “recovery,” the fragility of delusion-based offenders, hidden addresses, overlooked red flags, troubling adult relationships, and the near-disastrous consequences of placing someone with her history in an unsecured neighborhood with nothing but a GPS bracelet — a bracelet that failed the moment it mattered.

Both cases ask the same chilling questions:

• Why can’t the system intervene before irreversible harm?

• Why is “imminent danger” defined so narrowly it becomes meaningless?

• How can someone be deeply unstable yet still appear compliant enough to avoid detection?

• How many red flags does it take before a child or community is protected?

This is a conversation about psychology, danger, and systemic blind spots — and why families, victims, and entire neighborhoods keep getting blindsided by crises everyone saw coming but nobody was legally allowed to stop.

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