Nancy Guthrie had ‘one chance’ to escape kidnapper with video revealing opportunity

Nancy Guthrie’s suspected kidnapping has captured the attention of the world -Credit:NBC
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Nancy Guthrie was abducted from her residence in the dead of night, with a legal expert suggesting she had a single opportunity to escape.

The 84-year-old was last seen at her home in the Catalina Foothills near Tucson, Arizona, on January 31. Her family reported her missing the following day. As the search for Nancy persists, a video of her appearing on the Today show has reemerged.

The footage, shot back in 2013, features Nancy in her bedroom, believed to be the location she was taken from on February 1. This comes after Guthrie cops broke their silence after a woman’s body was chillingly found in a canal.

Legal expert Chad D. Cummings has examined the resurfaced Today show clip and offered his insights on how it might pertain to the abduction case, reports the Irish Star.

Nancy Guthrie has been missing since February 1 -Credit:Nathan Congleton/NBC via Getty Images

Speaking exclusively to The Irish Star, he stated: “The wood nightstand and the table lamp were the two objects within arm’s reach that Nancy could have used to defend herself.

“An 84-year-old woman waking to an intruder in darkness has one chance to create noise, not to win a physical contest. The lamp, thrown or knocked to a tile floor, would have produced a sound audible to neighbors.”

To date, authorities have not issued any statements indicating neighbors reported hearing anything unusual on the evening Nancy vanished. Cummings explained to us: “The fact that no neighbor reported hearing a disturbance suggests either that the abductor controlled the situation before Nancy reached full consciousness or that the FBI has not been entirely transparent in the course of events.”

As investigators began looking into Nancy’s kidnapping, TMZ received ransom messages from an individual claiming to possess details about the case. The sender demanded bitcoin in exchange for the information.

The Nancy Guthrie case remains open -Credit:NBC

Discussing the messages, Cummings stated: “The ransom note connection is the detail that should concern the FBI. It certainly concerns me and is the key point with respect to the video.

“Whoever wrote those notes described the interior of the bedroom with specificity that the bureau treated as evidence of access (i.e., they assumed whoever wrote the note had actually been in the house). But that same detail was available to anyone who watched NBC’s own broadcast.”

The legal analyst concluded: “If the FBI spent investigative hours chasing ransom demands written by someone who watched a YouTube clip, that is time the bureau did not spend on cell tower analysis, ALPR data, or canvassing, which is where energy should have been focused within the first 48 hours and which might have changed the direction of the investigation altogether.”

This news follows the eerie disappearance of an Air Force general, which bears several chilling resemblances to Nancy’s case.