Detained Man in Nancy Guthrie Case Accuses Cops of Trying to ‘Frame’ Him After Claims He’s the Suspect in the Security Camera
The investigation into the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie, Savannah Guthrie’s mom, hasn’t really yielded much in the way of results. It’s been over a month, and it doesn’t seem like law enforcement is any closer to finding her or even figuring out what happened and who might be involved.
Now, a man who was arrested alongside his mother following a SWAT raid at his home in Tucson, Arizona, is speaking out about what happened. Luke Daley told True Crime Arizona host Briana Whitney in an interview released on Monday, March 2, that he was categorically not the man caught on surveillance video outside of Nancy Guthrie’s home. “It’s not me,” he said.
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“I don’t see the resemblance of it looking like me. Absolutely not. I have nothing to do with this case.”
Daley recalled his experience during his arrest, saying he was driving home and noticed two sheriff’s vehicles were following him. He was pulled over, cuffed, and put in the back of a police car. He said officers “wouldn’t tell me anything,” but he immediately thought, “‘Oh, this is probably about the Guthrie case.’”
“The whole time during the questioning, it seemed like more of a fishing expedition to get me to say something,” Daley alleged. He also claimed he told the police they could check his location on his phone to know where he’d been. He had to sit in the police car for hours while the police searched his vehicle.
He went on to say he thought he was “going to be framed for this” because he allegedly got very little in the way of information from cops as everything was going on.
Daley’s mother was also briefly detained by law enforcement while their home was searched. “Daley and his mother were both detained by law enforcement while the search warrants were being executed,” Daley’s attorney Chris Scileppi told People at the time. “Neither Daley nor his mother were arrested in connection to this case or any other.”
He added, “Daley has no link whatsoever to Nancy Guthrie and has no information related to her kidnapping. Like the entire Tucson community, both Daley and his mother are hopeful that Nancy will be returned to her family unharmed.”
In his interview, Daley said, “I, like everyone else, just want Nancy to come home and be safe. I hope that she’s safe. I hope that they find her.” And he also wants to be able to “move on” with his life without this “shadow of doubt casted [sic] over me.”
At this point, Nancy Guthrie’s family is bracing for the worst. Savannah Guthrie recently shared a video on social media saying she has “accepted” that her missing mother “may already be gone.”
“It is day 24 since our mom was taken in the dark of night from her bed, and every hour and minute and second and every long night has been agony since then — of worrying about her and fearing for her and aching for her and most of all, just missing her,” Savannah said on a video uploaded February 24. “We still believe in a miracle. We still believe that she can come home. Hope against hope. As my sister says, we are blowing on the embers of hope.”
“We also know that she may be lost; she may already be gone. She may already have gone home to the Lord that she loves, and is dancing in heaven with her mom and her dad and her beloved brother, Pierce, and with our daddy,” Savannah added. “And if this is what is to be, then we will all accept it. But we need to know where she is. We need her to come home.”
