The search continues for 84-year-old Nancy Guthrie, who has been missing since February 1.
The mother of Today show host Savannah Guthrie is believed to have been abducted from her Tucson, Arizona home almost two weeks ago. Since then, the Pima County Sheriff’s Department and the FBI have been working together to bring Nancy home.
Earlier this week, the FBI released images and video recovered from a doorbell camera of a masked person wearing gloves and holstering a gun at the door of the expansive desert home. The eerie black-and-white images have led to a surge in tips.
Gagliano told Fox and Friends on Thursday that a number of novice mistakes that ‘boggle the mind’ make it clear that whoever took Nancy was not a professional. “It does not look like a trained assassin or somebody who’s been doing this a long time,” he said.
The first giveaway that the suspect was not formally trained was the strange way the gun was holstered in the middle of the body instead of on the side. Gagliano explained, “I look at the gun, I’ve never ever seen somebody carry a weapon that way. I carried a weapon in the service of my country for 33 years. I have never seen somebody carry it that way.”
He continued, “This looks like it was thrown together either last minute or the person got a holster from one person and the weapon from somebody else.”
Another tell is that the suspect approached the heavy front door, which, of course, had a doorbell surveillance system. “There are multiple points of entry that you could get into very easily,” he explained.
“In the back of the house, there is a door that’s got like nine panel window panes in it, and you could have easily broken one panel, reached in your hand, unlocked the door, and gone in with nobody noticing So why did this suspect [go] to the front?” he asked, adding, “It really boggles the mind.”
On Wednesday, the FBI Evidence Response team was seen pulling a black glove from desert shrubbery near Nancy’s secluded home, which the retired FBI agent says could be a “margin of victory” for the investigation.
“If the gloves come back to this person, if there’s DNA on it and they ultimately be the item that undoes him… Who commits a crime, a violent crime, abducts somebody, and then drops off clues 1.3 miles from the house?” he questioned.
A suspect or person of interest in the abduction of Nancy Guthrie has yet to be publicly named by officials as Nancy’s three adult children plead for her safe return.
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