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Expert: FBI May Be Guiding Family in Nancy Guthrie Search
15 Feb
Summary
- Criminologist suggests FBI coached family on videos.
- Search for 84-year-old Nancy Guthrie enters third week.
- Sheriff believes Nancy Guthrie is still alive.
The search for 84-year-old Nancy Guthrie, who was last seen on January 31 and potentially taken from her Tucson, Arizona, home on February 1, has now entered its third week.
Criminologist Dr. Alex Del Carmen suggests that the FBI may have coached the Guthrie family on the staged nature of their online videos. These appeals aimed to humanize Nancy, address the alleged kidnapper, and solicit public leads. Del Carmen posits the FBI's strategy is to maintain hope that Nancy is still alive.
However, Del Carmen also indicated that the FBI might be considering possibilities beyond a simple kidnapping. Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos stated on February 15, 2026, that authorities still classify this as a missing person case and believe Nancy Guthrie is alive, asserting that while there's no proof of life, there's also no proof of death.
Despite the sheriff's optimism, Del Carmen, with 28 years of experience, expressed a diminishing confidence in Nancy Guthrie's safe recovery as each day passes without new developments.
