Nancy Guthrie via Savannah Guthrie's Instagram, January 27, 2025.

Nancy Guthrie via Savannah Guthrie’s Instagram, January 27, 2025. – Courtesy of Savannah Guthrie/Instagram

Retired FBI agent believes missing Nancy Guthrie was likely carried out of her home due to blood pattern analysis.

A retired FBI special agent believes it’s unlikely that missing 84-year-oldΒ Nancy GuthrieΒ walked out of her home on her own accord and was instead β€œwrapped up in something” and carried out.

Maureen O’Connell, an ex-FBI agent, shared her assessment based on forensic evidence and the pattern of blood found outside Nancy’s front door. Appearing onΒ Brian Entin InvestigatesΒ on Sunday (March 8), O’Connell said, β€œI doubt that [Nancy] walked out because there were no voids [in the blood spatter].”

β€œSo, let’s say the pattern of the blood is concentrated here, but the sphere is this big, it’s round, you would have a void here from one foot or from another foot or from something,” she explained, perΒ InTouch. β€œThere don’t appear to be any voids.”

As for what this means, O’Connell said that, in her mind, β€œ[Nancy’s] wrapped up in something and they’re carrying her out. The shape of the blood droplets… they’re all round and the sphere is intact. That means it went straight down. It wasn’t moving at speed.”

Nancy, the mother ofΒ Today’sΒ Savannah Guthrie, has beenΒ missing since January 31,Β when police believe she was abducted from her home in Tucson, Arizona. Since then, investigators have releasedΒ doorbell camera footageΒ of a masked suspect andΒ shared a descriptionΒ of the potential abductor. Photos also show blood spatter at the front of the property.

Nancy Guthrie blood spatter

Nancy Guthrie blood spatter

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As of writing, no suspects or persons of interest have been named publicly by law enforcement. Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos previously stated that Savannah and her family have been ruled out as suspects. Nanos also confirmed the blood on the stoop belonged to Nancy.

Fellow retired FBI agent Jim Clemente wasn’t fully on board with O’Connell’s theory. He agreed that the droplets suggest the blood dripped β€œstraight down” and β€œwasn’t moving at speed.” But if Nancy was wrapped up, Clemente noted, β€œShe wasn’t wrapped up well.”

Clemente offered an alternative theory, saying that if Nancy had tried to fight the suspect, it could have resulted in her suffering an injury that made her bleed.

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