Sheriff Reportedly Blocks FBI From Key Evidence After Report Savannah Guthrie Is Suspicious of Lead Cop Investigating Her Mom’s Abduction—She Wants ‘Answers’
The case of the abduction of Savannah Guthrie’s mom has seemingly been moving very fast after moving very slowly for the first few days. There are finally clues to sift through, and everyone hopes that answers are coming soon and that hopefully Nancy can be recovered alive and well.
But the way the investigation is being carried out is leaving people with some doubts. A new report indicates the FBI had been blocked from accessing key evidence, with a law enforcement official telling Reuters on Thursday, February 12, that the FBI requested that the Pima County Sheriff’s Department send physical evidence, including a glove and other DNA, to the national crime lab in Quantico, Virginia.
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However, Sheriff Chris Nanos reportedly decided to use a different lab, one in Florida.
Retired FBI agent Scott Curtis told Us Weekly, “Friction between the Sheriff’s Department and the FBI will not help matters,” adding that he’s surprised the FBI hasn’t taken over the case. “I’ve been doing this for 50 years. When something doesn’t sit well, it doesn’t sit well,” he said earlier this month. “Something unusual at that house occurred that made us go, ‘Wow … something’s wrong here. Something doesn’t fit.’”
However, Sheriff Nanos pushed back on the implications in an interview with NBC Tucson affiliate KVOA on Thursday, February 12.”Actually, the FBI just wanted to send the one or two they found by the crime scene, closest to it — mile, mile and a half,” Nanos said of the gloves that were found in the area surrounding Nancy Guthrie’s house. “I said ‘No, why do that? Let’s just send them all to where all the DNA exist, all the profiles and the markers exist.’ They agreed [that it] makes sense.”
The sheriff also said he was focused on the investigation. “When this is all done with, offer your critiques all you want, but right now we have work to do,” he said.
Reports about the family indicated they might have been losing faith on Sheriff’s investigation. “The family is losing faith in him,” a source close to the family said. “They want answers, not performances,” Rob Shuter reported a few days ago.
All of this comes on the heels of the FBI upping its reward for information on Guthrie. “Today, the FBI is increasing its reward up to $100,000 for information leading to the location of Nancy Guthrie and/or the arrest and conviction of anyone involved in her disappearance,” read a statement shared by FBI Phoenix via social media on Thursday. “New identifying details about the suspect in the kidnapping of Nancy Guthrie have been confirmed after a forensic analysis of the doorbell camera footage by the FBI’s Operational Technology Division.”
According to a statement posted on X, a forensic analysis of the doorbell camera footage made by the FBI’s Operational Technology Division has identified the suspect as a male around 5’9” – 5’10” tall with an average build.
Nancy Guthrie and her late husband Charles shared three kids: Savannah, Annie, and Camron. She was first reported missing on February 1 after her family checked on her because she did not show up for church. Savannah has been absent from the Today show since Feb 2, and she and her siblings have been active on social media in the past two weeks, sending messages to their mom and pleading with the captors.
