With each passing day, the chances of finding Nancy Guthrie alive grow smaller.
A former Arizona SWAT commander now explains what law enforcement is focusing on as the search enters a critical stage.
Ransom demand for $6 million
Nancy Guthrie, 84, has now been missing for 10 days from her million-dollar Catalina Foothills home, with no sign of her. On Monday, “Today” anchor Savannah Guthrie posted a solo video on social media, saying the family still believes Nancy “is out there” and emphasizing that they need the public’s help to locate her.
Savannah also admitted that they were “at an hour of desperation.”
Tension spiked Monday night as a second alleged ransom demand for $6 million in Bitcoin, set for 5 p.m. local time (7 p.m. ET), came and went with no payment made.
A former Arizona SWAT commander has weighed in on what law enforcement must do as time ticks away and no new leads have emerged. In an interview with the New York Post, ex-Pima County Sheriff’s Department SWAT Commander Bob Krygier said his former colleagues will be revisiting previous leads with urgency.
“They will be going back over a lot of their previous leads again, interviewing individuals again, checking all the cameras that we have on buildings, intersections, things like that,” Krygier told the tabloid.
“It isn’t like the old days..”
Regarding the alleged ransom demands and the notes with expired deadlines, Krygier explained:
“As it relates to those time frames, as we get close, you get more and more concerned that the note is legitimate and [the abductee] is in danger and more concerned with how we can safely rescue them as opposed to how legitimate are the threats from the bad guys.”
“It isn’t like the old days when you would dump a bag of money at a certain place. Kidnappers have to give some information they actually have the victim, whether it’s a photo, a video, a conversation,” he said.
Krygier suggested that, tactically, law enforcement will operate under the assumption that Nancy Guthrie is still being held by the kidnappers.
He explained that authorities will treat the situation as a live hostage case, and even if the abductors are lying about having her, their actions would still be considered aiding a kidnapping.
A cartel hit on the wrong address?
Bob Krygier is far from just any law enforcement officer, he previously worked on the investigation into the attempted assassination of Arizona Rep. Gabby Giffords in 2011.
The former lieutenant also spoke with Fox News reporter Michael Ruiz about whether Nancy Guthrie’s disappearance could be “a cartel hit on the wrong address.”
“It is a possibility. I think it’d be more far-fetched,” Krygier said, adding:
“I have responded to plenty of home invasions in my career, and there have been houses that have been hit, basically the wrong house, the wrong people would live there, where they recently moved in, and whoever was living there before had issues with whoever may have done the home invasion or had it, you know, taken care of. In this instance, if they’ve lived there for a long time, probably not a cartel-related home invasion, but it doesn’t mean it’s not. Like I said, Tucson’s pretty notorious for their home invasions.”
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