VIDEO EVIDENCE RAISES NEW QUESTIONS IN NANCY GUTHRIE CASE: A retired Federal Bureau of Investigation agent says newly released surveillance footage in the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie may reveal more than investigators first thought
Nancy Guthrie Case Details: Retired FBI Agent Shares Suspicions About Released Video Footage
One key piece of evidence in the Nancy Guthrie missing persons case is the recently released FBI footage. The video shows a person of interest wearing a ski mask and latex gloves outside the home. The person is assumed to be male and is carrying a holstered weapon at his waist and a large backpack. The footage is chilling, but it also feels performative, a veteran FBI agent has shared.
Nancy Guthrie Case Video Footage
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In an interview with Katie Couric on her “Katie Couric Media Substack Live,” retired FBI agent Kristy Kottis, who spent 24 years with the Bureau, said the footage recently released by the FBI “felt like a staged video to me.”
The video has been widely circulated by news outlets and social media, including by the Guthrie family and their loved ones, who are urging the public to help identify the individual. Kottis feels something is off about the video due to the person’s attire and behavior. “It was an individual, we don’t know whether it’s a male or female, showing us what they want us to see: head down, approaching the house, clearly, to me, wearing two sets of gloves, two sets of pants, a bulky shirt, two masks,” she said.
She continued, “First they’re like, ‘Head down, don’t look at me.’” Then it’s like, ‘Oops, look at me. I looked right into the camera.’ Then it’s like, ‘I’ve got a gun. I want you to think it’s a gun strapped right to the front in my crotch area.’”
The gun’s placement is unusual, and it appears the individual took little effort to conceal it. Whether this was because they wanted it seen or because of easier access remains unclear. But for Kottis, the decision was unusual. “I’ve never seen a gun worn that way in any condition,” she said.
The Nancy Guthrie Suspect Video Feels Staged
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Kottis continued to describe the footage as “performative drama.” She also made a good point: if it were a serious person, they would have ripped off the camera, not gone back into the garden to locate some shrubbery.
“If that was the lookout team or the team that’s supposed to do something from the front, all you do is hide your face, walk up, and cover the ring camera, rip it off the wall right then,” Kottis said. “So I don’t necessarily assume that individual even went into the house.”
Guthrie is the mother of “Today” anchor Savannah Guthrie and her two other children, Camron Guthrie and Annie Guthrie. She lived alone in her Arizona home and is 84. The investigation into the Guthrie case is ongoing, and although law enforcement is unlikely to publicly disclose all the information they have, no major leads have been made public after almost two weeks. Nancy has been missing since February 1 and is presumed to have been kidnapped.
