A former FBI profilerhas claimed investigators in Arizona could identify the person responsible forNancy Guthrie's disappearancewithin weeks, after new CCTV footage appeared to show a masked figure near the 84-year-old's home outside Tucson between 31 January and 1 February.
Nancy Guthrie was abducted from her home more than three months ago and has not been found. The Pima County Sheriff's Department and the FBI have repeatedly appealed for information, but have not named a suspect or publicly identified a person of interest. Public interest in the case has remained intense, fuelled in part by Guthrie's connection to her daughter, US television journalist Savannah Guthrie.
The latest development centres on new home surveillance footage from a neighbouring property about a mile from Guthrie's house. Recent reporting says the video appears to show a masked individual moving through the area around the time she disappeared.
Authorities have not said the person in the clip is a suspect, nor have they confirmed any direct link between that sighting and the abduction. Officially, the figure remains an unidentified person captured on camera.
Even so, the footage has revived earlier comments fromJim Clemente, aformer FBI Supervisory Special Agentwho worked in the bureau's behavioural analysis unit. Clemente discussed the case on 1 May in an interview withNewsNation host Brian Entin, and those remarks are now drawing renewed attention.
Nancy Guthrie KidnappingFormer FBI Profiler, Jim Clemente, says the FBI will have Nancy Guthrie’s kidnapper’s name, age and address in a matter of WEEKS.pic.twitter.com/h18z0FsVRs
Clemente argued that, in his view, investigators have a clear path to identifying the suspect. He said that if detectives followed the right trail, they could have the suspect's 'name, age and his address, in a matter of weeks.'
That is an unusually confident prediction, even from a former profiler. So far, there is no sign from law enforcement that such an identification is close, and neither the Pima County Sheriff's Department nor the FBI has publicly endorsed Clemente's timeline.
In his NewsNation appearance, Clemente suggestedSavannah Guthrie's public profilemay be central to the case. He argued that the abduction was 'linked' to the high-profile broadcaster and that the perpetrator may originally have tried to reach Savannah herself before turning to her mother.
According to Clemente, that theory offers investigators a practical route forward. He suggested that a close review of Savannah Guthrie's communications history could reveal an individual who stood out as threatening or obsessive, allowing police to narrow their focus quickly.
Source: International Business Times UK
