A former detective has shared his theory about Nancy Guthrie, suggesting that the person responsible likely knew the area well and could be local.

Savannah and Nancy Guthrie

Nancy is the mother of Today Show co-host Savannah Guthrie (Image: Instagram)

A former detective has explained why the abductor of Savannah Guthrie’s 84-year-old mother, Nancy Guthrie, is likely “someone close.”

On Friday, March 20, the Pima County Sheriff’s Department in Arizona and the FBI marked their 48th day searching for the Today Show host’s mother, who vanished on February 1. Despite the extensive investigation, authorities have not disclosed any significant breakthroughs in the case. After encountering challenges with DNA testing, investigators are believed to be concentrating on digital forensics while continuing to interview Nancy’s neighbors.

Meanwhile, Brian Entin, an independent journalist and senior correspondent for NewsNation, has persistently provided updates. On Thursday, March 19, he interviewed Morgan Wright, a former state trooper and detective who now focuses on cold cases, discussing Nancy’s case as a “targeted abduction.” Throughout their conversation, both concluded that Nancy’s abductor must be someone familiar to her. It comes after a mystery man who claimed he “saw Nancy 5 days ago” offered chilling new proof.

In his most recent YouTube video covering Nancy’s disappearance, Entin shared with Wright, “One thing that I, just from talking to people on the ground in Tucson, talking to some sources, and just what my gut told me, and I don’t know why, but I always felt like, and I still feel like whoever did this is not far away from Nancy’s.

“Not necessarily in the neighborhood, but I just never got the sense that this person came from another state or something. And I may be totally wrong. Do you have any feeling about that?”

Savannah and Nancy Guthrie

Nancy Guthrie has been missing for 50 days (Image: savannahguthrie/Instagram)

Wright responded, “I don’t think you are. Here’s why I think that – this is why I think you’re spot on. But you have to look at behavior, right? That area out there, you’ve been out there, Brian…” reports the Irish Star.

“It was tough enough when the roads, and I grew up in Kansas, where the roads were right angles. But at that out there, I said it’s the equivalent of taking a bowl of spaghetti and turning it upside down. That’s what the road plan looks like out there. There is absolutely no rhyme or reason.

“So, you either need a navigation app or you have to have knowledge of that area. And the other thing too is that is an area, and I also wrote another article, too, it was called the – it was about the Egress Analysis. How would you get out of there? But that proves my point.

surveillance images at the home of Nancy Guthrie the night she went missing

A man was caught on Nancy’s Ring camera (Image: AP)

“So, when you look at, in fact, I’ll tie it back to something the FBI did, the missing kids, when the FBI, and this is something I got involved with 24 years ago. This is actually part of the work I was doing inside the intelligence community right after 9/11 because I looked at what the FBI was doing.

“It’s called the highway serial killer initiative. They would find where bodies would dump… and what they would find is that they were along major interstates, major routes.”

Wright explained that in the cases he examined, a body typically won’t be located far from the interstate because the abductor must return to it to exit the area.

“This tells me, when I look at everything that goes on around it, and I look at how comfortable that person was, how comfortable that were staying in that area from 1:47 until no later than 2:28, that is a lot of time… That guy was on the X for at least 40, if not 47 minutes.

“If it was a burglary gone wrong… think, within 16 minutes, remember, your behavior doesn’t get better with stress. It degrades with stress.”

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Brian Entin interviewed the ex-detective (Image: undefined)

Wright noted that numerous questions arise if this incident was a burglary that went awry. If Nancy’s disappearance resulted from a planned abduction, the kidnapper would have had everything mapped out in advance.

In the end, Wright believes the perpetrator is a local resident familiar with navigating the roads at 2 a.m. It comes as the mysterious disappearance of an Air Force general has several chilling similarities to the Nancy case.