More than two months into the Nancy Guthrie case, an insider has revealed shocking new details about the investigation.
This week, NewsNation’s Brian Entin spoke with the confidential source, who requested anonymity to avoid repercussions with their job.
The insider revealed that investigators initially believed the 84-year-old had wandered away from home.
“Some people that actually know the intimate knowledge of this investigation have told me that there was an immediate rush to judgment on what was happening at that scene, and it was that Nancy had somehow wandered off,” the tipster told Entin. “And so, they rushed to that judgment, stayed with that judgment, and then ran the investigation as if this was a search-and-rescue issue, as opposed to a possible criminal issue.”
Nancy Guthrie Update: Retired FBI Agent Highlights Early Mistakes in Investigation
Retired FBI special agent Steve Moore shared his thoughts about this latest detail in the Nancy Guthrie investigation.
“Well, if you’re looking for somebody who walked away from the house who’s in their 80s, you’re going to do a search about 20 yards around the house, and you’re not going to treat it as a crime,” Moore explained during the April 3 episode of “Brian Entin Investigates.”
He added that the scene may have been compromised after it was not treated as a crime scene early on, potentially affecting key evidence.
Moore also questioned why investigators initially believed Nancy had wandered off despite her family saying she had mobility issues and the clear signs of a crime in the house.
“How many people, when they walk away, leave blood on the front door and rip out their own Ring camera, right? Doesn’t fit with a walk away..” Moore continued. “Within the first hour of arriving, that should have tipped them off that this was a crime. It isn’t rocket science.”
Nancy Guthrie Suspect Either ‘Lucky or More Cunning’
Moore also explained that the re-opening of the crime scene multiple times may have significantly affected the evidence.
“If you open the scene, you’ve lost a substantial amount of evidentiary value of anything you find after that,” he added. “Everything you find after it’s been opened, especially when the public knows what’s been going on, and the bad guy knows what’s been going on, it opens the question, ‘Did somebody plant something once it was opened up?’ So yeah, that’s a terrible mistake.”
Moore believes that the Nancy Guthrie case was “botched early on,” and that impacted the investigation all along.
“See, cases are made sometimes by the thinnest of margins, the smallest pieces of evidence,” the retired FBI agent told Entin. “And so if you have somebody who’s reduced the value of the evidence by 10%. That’s may be enough.”
Moore continued, “If you delay evidence coming in for 3 or 4 days, then it may mean that some evidence never came in at all.”
Moore also reacted to the insider’s remark, saying that the suspect is “either lucky as hell or more cunning than a lot of people have seen in the past.”
“I mean part of their luck is that the case wasn’t investigated properly right at the beginning, and that slowed it down and changed the course of the investigation, and maybe evidence didn’t come in.”
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