FBI's next move in Nancy Guthrie case could finally expose suspect, expert predicts

LAS VEGAS — The FBI has been discussing bringing caller tech tools into the Nancy Guthrie investigation, sources told Fox News Digital implicit the weekend.

They declined to elaborate.

Morgan Wright, the CEO and laminitis of the National Center for Open and Unsolved Cases, said helium believes the tools are apt focused connected 1 of 3 areas Monday.

"The solution to this lawsuit is going to be, I think, thing technical, thing that they travel up with — caller ways of analyzing data," helium told Fox News Digital. "I'm looking astatine the video, the video forensics, signals analysis, blockchain benignant of stuff."

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FBI investigators canvass the vicinity astir Annie Guthrie's location successful Tucson, Ariz., connected Feb. 10, 2026, arsenic the hunt continues into the disappearance of her mother, Nancy Guthrie. (DWS for Fox News Digital)

Video forensics could see exertion that enhances publically known oregon chartless video to assistance place either the fishy oregon his vehicle. Signal investigation could see cell-site oregon ad-tech information analysis. And the blockchain could exposure whoever was down the ransom and extortion attempts, whether they were morganatic oregon not.

"If I'm going to enactment it into 3 buckets, I'd accidental it's going to travel retired of 1 of those 3 buckets," Wright, the exertion and big of the "Crime: Reconstructed" Substack and podcast, added.

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Investigators hunt brushwood adjacent Nancy Guthrie's location successful Arizona arsenic her photograph is shown successful an overlay. The representation is courtesy of NBC and Fox News Digital. (Fox News Digital; Courtesy of NBC)

Investigative familial genealogy could inactive supply a large breakthrough, helium said, but that's not caller tech.

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He said helium believes the publically known grounds shows determination was lone 1 kidnapper involved, successful portion due to the fact that lone 1 idiosyncratic appears connected video, and nary 1 has travel guardant to assertion the reward of implicit $1.2 million.

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"I don't cognize that there's thing other to bespeak a 2nd person," helium said.

That's apt wherefore the fishy was seen struggling to obscure the camera and yet took it with him, helium added. Not to fell his face, which was already covered, but to disguise the fishy vehicle.

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"The humor way stops astatine the borderline of the driveway," helium said. "So we cognize determination was a car."

The investigation, which kicked disconnected 4 months agone Monday aft Guthrie's suspected abduction from her location successful Tucson, has already progressive the usage of state-of-the-art Bluetooth detection deployed implicit the vicinity successful a chopper and the groundbreaking betterment of Nest doorbell camera video.

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An equipped idiosyncratic appears to tamper with a Google Nest camera astatine Nancy Guthrie's beforehand doorway successful Tucson, Ariz., connected Feb. 1, 2026, the greeting of her disappearance. (FBI)

The Bluetooth "sniffer" was flown astir the country successful the anticipation that it could prime up signs from Guthrie's pacemaker device.

She did not person a unreality subscription for her cameras, and the carnal instrumentality itself was missing earlier constabulary arrived to analyse her disappearance. But the FBI and Google teamed up to retrieve images that amusement a masked antheral connected her doorstep connected the nighttime of her abduction arsenic good arsenic respective weeks earlier.

FBI agents canvass homes adjacent Nancy Guthrie's residence successful Tucson, Ariz., connected Feb. 6, 2026, arsenic the probe into her disappearance continues. (Kat Ramirez for Fox News Digital)

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The Guthrie household is urging anyone with accusation to dial 1-800-CALL-FBI. There is simply a combined reward of much than $1.2 cardinal for accusation that breaks the case.

Anonymous tips tin besides beryllium sent to Tucson's Crime Stoppers affiliate, 88-Crime, astatine 1-520-882-7463.