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bucolic_frolic

(54,703 posts)
Mon Feb 23, 2026, 08:42 AM 3 hrs ago

Nancy Guthrie Update: Former FBI Agent Shares New Theory on Disappearance

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/nancy-guthrie-former-fbi-agent-162700147.html

Going off public information only, the longtime investigator and published author hypothesized that an unknown "personal grievance" may be the explanation for the kidnapping of Today co-host Savannah Guthrie's mother.

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"The first thing he does is with his glove, and with his glove, it doesn't look like he's trying to take [the camera] off," Grusing said. "It looks like he's trying to cover it with his right hand.And then he looks down, he looks around, and he gets the branches, and he puts the branches up in front of it."

"Is there a chance, since we don't have audio, that he is either knocking on the door loudly or that he has pressed the ring doorbell, [that] he's trying to get Nancy to answer the door, and he's shielding himself from being seen as a masked person, so she will, in her confusion, open the door?" Grusing continued.

If this is the case, Grusing said the situation would not fit the home robbery gone wrong theory, since the suspect seemingly wanted to lure Nancy Guthrie onto the porch for a confrontation.
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tanyev

(48,971 posts)
1. FBI Director Patel can now definitively state that she was not being held
Mon Feb 23, 2026, 08:50 AM
3 hrs ago

in the locker room of the U.S. men’s Olympic hockey team in Milan, Italy.

newdeal2

(5,133 posts)
5. The investigation continues to the south of France
Mon Feb 23, 2026, 09:17 AM
2 hrs ago

God bless that man and all the sacrifices he’s making for US! He deserves a few days on a yacht.

niyad

(131,100 posts)
2. Unless the person took her medications also, she is probably dead,
Mon Feb 23, 2026, 09:04 AM
3 hrs ago

and dropped out in the desert somewhere. Again, this story has made no sense from the beginning.

Jacson6

(1,876 posts)
4. This case was a kidnapping for ransom.
Mon Feb 23, 2026, 09:13 AM
2 hrs ago

The kidnappers sent an anonymous email demanding ransom for her return. The family didn't pay the ransom, so most likely she has passed away due to health problems.

Melon

(1,258 posts)
9. Paying a ransom without supporting information is also a fools errand
Mon Feb 23, 2026, 10:14 AM
1 hr ago

We had an employee in Mexico who had a child kidnapped. Ransom paid. No child ever returned.
Your only link is the money which is what they want. If you pay without any clue who the perpetrators are or if your loved one is already dead, you break that chain forever. The only chance is paying after proof of life and hopefully more contact so that the authorities can follow the clues to the kidnappers.

58Sunliner

(6,276 posts)
7. She probably died and the kidnappers dumped her body.
Mon Feb 23, 2026, 10:02 AM
2 hrs ago

No proof of life possible, so no ransom was paid.

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