Investigator believes Nancy Guthrie was likely targeted

A veteran investigator believes that Nancy Guthrie was most likely taken by a local employee who assumed her household had cash.

The 84-year-old has been lacking since February 1, the place authories say she was taken from her Tucson, Arizona, dwelling. There has been no recognized suspect or suspects in her case. Barbara Butcher, a longtime medicolegal demise investigator, spoke with Fox Digital on Saturday, May 30, about Nancy’s case and gave her two cents on who may have probably taken Nancy. She shared her perception that Nancy was kidnapped by somebody in the Tucson space because they thought she was rich, because she is the mom of TODAY host Savannah Guthrie.

“I find it flabbergasting that anyone would take a woman her age, but what I think is probably the case is that someone in the area, maybe a handyman, maybe a service person, had known, had found out that Mrs. Guthrie was the mother of Savannah Guthrie and said, ‘Oh, she must be rich,'” Barbara said to the outlet close to CrimeCon Las Vegas.

The former demise investigator for New York City’s chief medical examiner also talked about the unverified ransom notes with their calls for immediate considerations that Nancy might have handed away shortly after her alleged abduction, and the doable suspect has hidden the proof.

Days after Nancy was reported lacking, purported ransom notes had been despatched to different media retailers (TMZ and KOLD-TV). They had demanded hundreds of thousands in cryptocurrency and had deadlines for the order. Then, in April, TMZ reported receiving two further notes from the same particular person, providing info on the kidnapper.

In February, Derrick Callella — a 42-year-old man from Hawthorne, California — was arrested and charged with performing as an imposter and sending fraudulent ransom texts to Nancy’s household.

“My second thought was that after time, when there was no valid ransom demand or any information forthcoming that it’s probably likely that Mrs. Guthrie died of shock, fright, heart disease, whatever it was, very soon after being taken from her home,” Barbara acknowledged.

“And that’s just horrifying to me…and so now this kidnapper had nothing and probably, unfortunately, took her body into the desert and buried her there,” the host of Oxygen’s The Death Investigator added.