Nancy Guthrie's Disappearance: Staged Abduction Theory

0:00It's April 30th. I'm Corey with The Story. This is Entertainment and Celebrity News. Today, driven by AI and built for the culture. 84-year-old Nancy Guthrie, mom to today's show host, Savannah Guthrie, vanished from her upscale Tucson, Arizona, home in the early hours of February 1st. Cops found blood droplets near the front door that matched hers, plus surveillance video showing a masked figure on her porch right around that time. Forensic psychologist Gary Brucato just dropped a wild theory, saying the whole scene looks staged. He thinks she might have been killed somewhere else entirely, with blood and an open-back door set up to fake an abduction by some mastermind trying. To throw off investigators, folks are reeling from this, especially since no one's seen or heard from Nancy since. Brucato calls it a huge red flag. No sign of life means her odds of being alive are super low. He lays out two possibilities, a botched ransom grab or straight up murder disguised as a kidnapping.

1:00Meanwhile, former FBI agent Jennifer Coffin-Daffer chimed in online, claiming cops knew from day one it was a kidnapping for ransom. She says Nancy sadly died, and the perps tortured the family with two notes demanding cash, even without proof she was still breathing. This case stays unsolved, with questions about one suspect or more. But these experts' takes have everyone rethinking were really when down that night.