A former FBI agent confessed he was stunned by how dark and remote the neighborhood around Nancy Guthrie’s home is when he arrived on the scene — and said that it was likely hampering the investigation.

“What I was immediately struck by was this — the darkness,” retired FBI supervisory special agent James Gagliano told FOX & Friends on Tuesday morning, speaking from near Nancy’s home in the Catalina Foothills neighborhood on the outskirts of Tucson, Arizona.

James Gagliano, an ex-FBI agent, speaking while holding a pen.
Former FBI supervisory special agent James Gagliano expressed surprise regarding the Nancy Guthrie crime scene Tuesday.FOX & Friends

Savannah Guthrie embracing her mother, Nancy Guthrie.
Nancy Guthrie was first reported missing on Sunday, February 1.savannahguthrie/Instagram
“Even with a full moon, the light pollution out here is negligible. There’s none. It is so dark,” he added.

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“And the type of cacti, the flora and fauna that are native here in Arizona, for somebody to be able to sneak up in the dark not to be seen or to bring a car in with no lights on the road right behind my shoulder,” Gagliano said.

“This really took my breath away about how difficult this is going to be, and it made a lot more sense to me why somebody that night might not have seen anything.”

The Catalina Foothills neighborhood, home to around 50,000 people, is so safe that parts of it don’t even have streetlights, and many of the houses have no security cameras, a longtime resident said recently.

Aerial view of two FBI officers on the roof of Nancy Guthrie's brick house in Tucson, AZ.
FBI officers carry out a rooftop search of Nancy Guthrie’s home on February 6.BACKGRID
Despite the challenges facing law enforcement, Gagliano insisted that the disappearance of “Today” show host Savannah Guthrie’s 84-year-old mother would be solved.

“The good guys always win here. There are no perfect crimes. This isn’t the era of Jack the Ripper, where you don’t have any of the forensics and any of the police sciences,” he added.

“This case will be solved, and we’re all praying for a wonderful reunion with Savannah and her mother and her family,” Gagliano said.