Nancy Guthrie, the 84-year-old mother of Today show star Savannah Guthrie, has been missing for three months since she was reportedly taken from her home in Tucson, Arizona, on February 1.
As the case drags on, police have been scrambling to find hard evidence or to close in on any suspects, particularly after the release of Nest camera footage by FBI Director Kash Patel in February.
The haunting footage showed a masked individual approaching Nancy’s door with a gun tucked into his pants, before attempting to disable the camera. Now, three experts have come forward to profile a possible suspect in the case and explain how the kidnapper would behave.
The CW special NewsNation Presents: The Nancy Guthrie Mystery saw clinical and forensic psychologist Dr Gary Brucato, criminologist, behavior analyst and attorney Dr Casey Jordan, and criminal profiler Dr Ann Burgess come together to share insight into the case and its progress on Wednesday night.
“This guy…based on what I know about this kind of prowler burglar who, as Gary points out, probably has some kind of minor league record, but it represents a fraction of all this stuff that he’s actually done,” Casey said of the potential kidnapper. She added that the criminal “definitely lives locally” but is “probably not there anymore” and has potentially fled the country altogether.
“I think he was either eliminated by a puppet master or he fled. And I’m not saying he’s Mexican, but it’s the closest border. And that’s where he would go,” she explained. “This is a guy who, on the day this came out, quit his job, left town, broke up with his girlfriend, changed his behavior completely.”
© Getty ImagesAnn chimed in: “The only thing I’d add there is to look for anyone that wasn’t working, that was just doing odd jobs kind of thing.”
See the chilling Nest camera footage below…
Gary predicted that the perpetrator was “somebody with some sort of cruel, sadistic, scheming kind of personality…You do not develop that kind of personality overnight. You tend to have a long history of being that way.”
“Whereas if it’s true that they tend to be very cool under pressure like this, what makes them very not cool is when there are slights to their ego,” he explained. “I think they need to go around talking to people and say, look, I’m already kind of hotheaded, nasty, grudge-holding, kind of egotistical guy who might have had some run-ins with the law.”
© FBI“I also think if I had to make an educated guess somewhere in this story, this individual is also dabbling with illicit drugs. It is entirely possible that drugs are on the table.”
© Getty ImagesThe special aired on the same day that Savannah quietly left the Today show set just 90 minutes into the broadcast, with no explanation as to her whereabouts. “Savannah had to leave a little early. She’ll be right back tomorrow, though,” her co-anchor, Craig Melvin, told viewers.
Savannah returned to the show in April after a two-month hiatus while she aided authorities in the search for her mother. Some reports suggest the Today show and NBC have a shorthand code for the TV personality to pull her off the air if any developments in her mother’s case crop up.
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