Retired FBI supervisory special agent Jason Pack believes that the FBI’s Cellular Analysis Survey Team (CAST), which is one of the bureau’s most useful tools in missing person cases, might be the missing link in the ongoing Nancy Guthrie case.
After the 84-year-old mother of Today star Savannah Guthrie went missing earlier this month, an investigation was launched and has been ongoing for the past 14 days. During Jason’s conversation with Fox News Digital, the ex-Chief of Staff for FBI Publics Affairs and negotiator, told the news outlet that authorities most likely have suspects in Nancy’s disappearance. However, that data is still being combed through by the special team.
CAST agents have been trained to thoroughly assess cellular data to a microscopic degree. Jason explained that the team does more than just pull call logs, explaining that CAST also traced the movement of every phone that pinged from the towers in and around the area of interest amid relevant time windows.
“Every cellphone is essentially a tracking device its owner carries voluntarily,” Jason broke down. “CAST can reconstruct where a phone traveled, when it arrived, how long it stayed, and where it went next. In a kidnapping investigation, that capability is devastating to anyone who thinks they moved undetected.”
Jason revealed that in order to access phone records and data, agents would first have to issue warrants and subpoenas.
“It comes trickling in, sometimes in waves, sometimes in fragments,” Jason continued. “Each new batch of records has to be ingested, analyzed, and cross-referenced against the existing evidence map. Every new data point can confirm a theory, eliminate a lead, or open an entirely new investigative thread. …The search warrants tell us the investigation is active and aggressive. The subpoenas tell us the digital net is widening.”
He speculated that, in the Guthrie case, there were court orders at different stages and that developments were ongoing.
“What agents and deputies are doing right now is exactly what they should be doing. Letting the cell records, the video, and the tips converge,” Jason shared. “…That’s when you see law enforcement activity like we are seeing or hopefully an arrest. Not before. The investigation isn’t stalled. It’s building.”
So far, the headway that authorities seemed to make in Nancy’s disappearance case still hasn’t locked down an actual suspect. Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos revealed on Friday (February 13) night that a man who was detained in connection to Nancy’s investigation was released as a “person of interest.”
It’s believed that the man, who’s now released, was the owner of a gray Range Rover that authorities searched and towed. There were also three other people detained at a nearby home, in which the FBI launched a federal search warrant on Friday, but they have since been released.
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