The kidnapping of Nancy Guthrie from her home in Tucson, Arizona has proved to be an immensely shocking and tragic event. That is even more true for journalist Savannah Guthrie and the rest of her family, who are having to deal with the disappearance of their 84-year-old matriarch.
Members of the Guthrie family have already been cleared by law enforcement, with the Pima County Sheriff’s Department effectively ruling them out as suspects. However, one psychology expert has now noticed an important element in one of Savannah Guthrie’s interviews that may provide some insight into the case.Â
Expert Psychologist Believes Savannah Guthrie May Have Revealed an Important Detail
Speaking to the Daily Express US, psychologist Dr. Kelly Gonderman explained how some of the language used by Savannah Guthrie in a recent interview gives an indication of her state of mind and what the journalist believes about may have happened to her mother.Â
Dr. Gonderman, who is a licensed clinical psychologist and the clinical director of We Conquer Together, revealed that Guthrie frequently used past tense when discussing her mother during an interview.
In particular, Savannah Guthrie inadvertently began talking in the past tense when discussing her mother’s various health conditions. She said, “She was in tremendous pain; her back was very bad. On a good day, she could walk down to the mail box, so this wasn’t a wander off.”
Dr. Gonderman observed the importance of this word choice and why it matters. “When someone shifts to past tense while speaking about a person who is still officially missing, it rarely happens consciously – and that’s exactly what makes it significant,” she said.
She added, “Language reflects the internal model we’ve already constructed, even when we haven’t articulated it out loud. [This] suggests her psyche had already begun processing an absence.”
Describing the use of past tense when discussing a missing person as a sort of “anticipatory grief,” Dr. Gonderman went on to say that it is an unconscious decision where the “nervous system initiates before the person is ready to consciously acknowledge it.”
According to the psychologist, it is important to understand, though, that this doesn’t mean that Savannah Guthrie necessarily knows what has happened to Nancy Guthrie. Instead, it is a coping mechanism whereby “sustained uncertainty at that level of fear eventually forces the mind to begin grieving in order to survive it.”
Former Sheriff Kurt Dabb Says Suspect Probably Had Help From Several People
Speaking to  RadarOnline.com, the former Pima County sheriff Kurt Dabb explained why the suspect likely had a number of accomplices to help him both plan the crime and carry out the kidnapping.Â
âI believe there are anywhere between two to four accomplices,â Dabb said. âThe logistics of something of this magnitude is too much for one person to handle, in my professional opinion, based on the facts as I know them right now.â
He added, âItâs more than likely the home was canvassed prior, either by the kidnapper himself or an accomplice. Whether or not they knew a camera was there was a culmination of their reconnoiter.â
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