Chilling Nancy Guthrie ‘Revenge’ Theory Backed by Ex-FBI
We’re almost at three months since Nancy Guthrie disappeared, and the investigation has so far given us very little in the way of certainties. We know she disappeared sometime between the night of January 31 and the early hours of February 1. Police believe she was forcibly taken from her house by a masked assailant. However, no suspect has been identified, and no motive has been disclosed.
However, there are theories. Retired FBI profiler Jim Clemente recently suggested Nancy Guthrie could have been taken as a proxy or to get “revenge” on her daughter, Savannah Guthrie, according to IB Times UK. This theory has gained ground in the past few weeks as people comb through the available evidence and try to pinpoint a motive for the kidnapping.
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The family received multiple ransom notes demanding millions of dollars worth of Bitcoin in exchange for Nancy’s safe return. Police ruled that none of the notes were authentic, but the Guthrie family believed at least a couple of them were. However, no ransom was ever paid, and no proof of life was ever produced, which has left Clemente to theorize that perhaps Nancy was kidnapped to torment her family.
Clemente told NewsNation’s Brian Entin that what we know of the crime scene was enough to draw some conclusions, particularly due to the blood splatter information. “This tells me a number of things, and it’s very specific. One is that … at this point, Nancy’s face was very close to the ground, within a foot of the ground. This could be she was either on her knees, hunched over, or actually lying on the ground,” he said.
He added, “Where that blood pattern disappears, I believe she was likely picked up and carried the rest of the way, perhaps with her face up so that there was no more blood deposited on that walkway.
From that, Clemente deduced that Guthrie was kidnapped by just one person. “If there were two people, you would think one of them would have control of her, complete control of her inside the house and brought her outside and would not have lost that control,” he stated. “But here, she’s clearly on the ground coughing this blood up.”
Right now, the investigation seems to rest on DNA evidence, and it could take a while. “In my experience, it usually takes months, but I am assuming they will make it a top priority since most of the other cases are generally cold cases so it may be much quicker,” CeCe Moore, one of the country’s leading genetic genealogists, told Fox News Digital. “It also depends on a little luck because sometimes they have to make multiple attempts before they get the DNA.”
The DNA is now in the hands of the FBI. The Pima County Sheriff’s Department had originally sent it to a private lab. “FBI asked to test this DNA 2 months ago with the same technology we’ve always had — when the local sheriff instead sent it to a private lab,” said Ben Williamson, the bureau’s assistant director of public affairs. “Any further developments we will share as soon as appropriate.”
