Ex-FBI agent Nicole Parker appeared on Fox News Monday saying investigators must ‘get into the mind of a criminal’ following Savannah Guthrie’s latest emotional appeal video directed at her mother’s abductor.

‘When you’re investigating crime, and you see things that are so egregious and evil, when you’re the investigator you have to get into the mind of a criminal, and you have to have empathy for them,’ Parker told Fox’s Trey Growdy on Sunday Night in America.

‘You may not agree with them, but you to understand “Why would they do such a thing?”‘ she added.

Investigators are currently honing in on the clothing worn by Nancy’s alleged captor as they ‘lean away’ from any of her family members as suspects, while the search for the 84-year-old enters its third week.

The Today show host’s mother was abducted from her $1 million Tucson, Arizona home in the early hours of February 1. Police are hunting for the man seen in chilling footage tampering with Nancy’s doorbell camera shortly before it was disconnected on the night she disappeared.

Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos told CBS News that the clothing and face mask worn by the suspect seen in the chilling doorbell footage were purchased at Walmart.

It comes as investigators are testing DNA from a pair of gloves that appear to match the ones the unidentified masked captor was wearing in the doorbell video captured at Nancy’s front porch.

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Former FBI agent breaks down Savannah’s latest appeal

Former FBI agent Nicole Parker, who was praised by Donald Trump, broke down Savannah Guthrie’s latest appeal video on Fox News.

‘I believe the behavioral analysis unit from the FBI very likely helped her with that statement because it’s a very important moment and I think there’s important elements that have to be brought to the audience’s attention,’ Parker said on Sunday.

‘It’s interesting because when you are investigating crimes and see things so egregious and evil, when you’re the investigator, you almost have to get into the mind of the criminal and really have empathy for them. You may not agree with what they are doing, but you have to understand why would they do such a thing?’

She added, ‘There were so many key points and elements that stood out in my mind when I heard that, and I’m going to read it. She said, “It’s never too late to do the right thing.”

‘Saying we are all human, you are not lost or alone. This is a plea to the offender, and she’s begging for their assistance, talking about how we believe in the goodness of every human being. So it’s opening the door for the offender to come in and say we want to work with you, please help us, and show us where our mother is, and give us information, and to me, that’s very indicative of the FBI providing solid assistance likely from a behavioral analysis unit.’

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Abductor has to be ‘enormously confident,’ profiler says

Former FBI profiler Candice DeLong told CNN last week that the person who abducted Nancy Guthrie has to be ‘enormously confident in themselves.

‘For somebody to think they can pull off a crime like this, they have to be enormously confident in themselves, and the term narcissistic psychopath comes to mind,’ she said.

‘Psychopath being a clinical term, someone that has no empathy for others, no guilt for what they do to other people,’ DeLong then explained.

‘They do not see themselves as fallible in any way,’ she added.

DeLong then went on to explain that a person who would commit a kidnapping like this would have to think they are able to pull off a crime of this magnitude.

However, the masked man seen in Nancy Guthrie’s surveillance footage did not seem sophisticated enough, DeLong said, citing the suspect covering the doorbell camera lens with a plant before walking away.

 

Investigators only revealing ‘five percent’ of what they know, former FBI agent says

Retired FBI agent Lance Leising said investigators are likely keeping their cards close to their chests as the search for Nancy Guthrie enters its third week.

‘When you do that, you run the risk of hitting dry holes, of swinging and missing,’ Leising told The New York Times.

He said that the public is aware of probably only ‘five percent of what investigators know.’

 

Trump’s death penalty threat does not ‘cool things down’

Former FBI agent turned CNN correspondent Josh Campbell said Donald Trumps’ death penalty threat to Nancy Guthrie’s captor may not help.

‘You want to cool things down. This is the opposite of that, because there is no leverage,’ he said.

‘If you’re an investigator, you’re looking at that thinking, “not now Mr. President. This is just not part of our strategy.”‘

 

Entire Guthrie family cleared as suspects, sheriff says

The entire Guthrie family has been cleared as suspects in the investigation into Nancy’s disappearance, Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos confirmed on Monday.

‘To be clear… the Guthrie family – to include all siblings and spouses – has been cleared as possible suspects in this case,’ Nanos said.

‘The family has been nothing by cooperative and gracious and are victims in this case.’

He added, ‘To suggest otherwise is no only wrong, it is cruel. the Guthrie family are victims plain and simple… please, I’m begging you the media to honor our profession and report with some sense of compassion and professionalism.’

 

Majority of gloves collected for testing were used by police and discarded

Authorities are now waiting for confirmation on DNA samples from an unknown male profile that was lifted from a glove that the FBI has said ‘appears to match’ the pair the suspect was seen wearing in the shocking doorbell surveillance footage.

It was found last week near Nancy’s home along with several other gloves, which were sealed in evidence bags by the Pima County Sheriff’s Office, and shipped overnight for testing at a private lab in Florida.

Nearly 16 gloves were collected near her home, and most of them were used and discarded by searchers at the site, the FBI told the Daily Mail.

 

Anguished Savannah Guthrie rushes to $1.2M desert hideaway amid FBI search at sister Annie’s home

Savannah Guthrie is waiting out the search for her missing mother in a $1.2million mansion tucked away in Tucson’s Catalina Foothills, the Daily Mail can exclusively reveal.

The embattled NBC host flew in to her Arizona hometown last week after her mother Nancy, 84, vanished from her own $1million rural home.

Savannah, 54, initially stayed with sister Annie, 56, at the sprawling ranch-style property she shares with Italian husband Tommaso Cioni, 50. But the sisters – along with their brother Camron, 61 – did a midnight flit after the constant presence of news cameras became unbearable.

Now, the Daily Mail can reveal the siblings have holed up at an altogether more private residence in an exclusive Tucson neighborhood.

 

Investigators working with Walmart

Investigators are consulting with Walmart management to develop leads because a backpack the suspect was wearing is sold exclusively at the stores.

Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos said in a text message to The Associated Press on Monday that the 25-liter Ozark Trail Hiker Pack backpack was the only clothing item that has been ‘definitively identified.’

‘This backpack is exclusive to Walmart and we are working with Walmart management to develop further leads,’ Nanos said.

The suspect’s clothing ‘may have been purchased from Walmart but is not exclusively available at Walmart,’ the Pima County Sheriff’s Department said in a statement Monday. ‘This remains a possibility only.’

 

Arizona residents help with search for Nancy Guthrie

Jotrisha Cook, 41, told The Wall Street Journal she is riding her bike around the Tucson, Arizona, area looking for clues in the Nancy Guthrie disappearance.

‘We’ve got a group of riders out now, just looking to see if we can find any evidence -a hat or a glove or the backpack,’ Cook said.

‘Basically everyone in Tucson is looking for her, from crackheads to rich people.’