Nancy Guthrie Sources Finally Confirm if There Were Any ‘Signs of Assault’ in Her Home as Officials Detail the Eerie Condition Kidnappers Left Her House
Of all the surprising things about the Nancy Guthrie case, perhaps the most perplexing is that two months after her disappearance, we still don’t really know what happened the night of February 1. Who took Nancy Guthrie? What happened at her house that night? And why was she even targeted? All questions without firm answers.
But there are some things we do know now. Or at least things the police have confirmed didn’t happen. A source close to the investigation has claimed that Guthrie’s home was in “immaculate” condition and showed “no signs of an assault” when police arrived after her disappearance.
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NewsNation correspondent Brian Entin shared that a local law enforcement source described the property as spotless, implying there were no signs a struggle had taken place inside the house. In fact, other than the door reportedly being propped open, the inside of the home didn’t really have many in the way of clues for investigators.
“This new information sort of makes sense with the big picture of what we know,” Entin said, per Realtor.com. “A source very close to the investigation now [confirms] to us that there were no signs of an assault inside Nancy Guthrie’s home, that most of the rooms were described as ‘immaculate,’ so the house was very, very clean.”
And this information seems to confirm what Savannah Guthrie herself shared on a recent interview with Hoda Kotb on the Today show. “[It] makes sense when you go back to what Savannah said, which is that when her sister and brother-in-law showed up, they weren’t sure what happened,” Entin added. “She had basically just vanished at one point. They had even thought that maybe an ambulance had taken her away. That’s because there was, according to this source, nothing in the house that appeared out of the ordinary.”
There were signs that something had happened outside of the house, though. The door was found in the driveway, and the doorbell camera had been ripped from its frame. Guthrie also said in the interview that the back doors were “propped open,” which initially led her and her family to believe Nancy Guthrie could have suffered “some kind of medical episode in the night.”
About the doors, Entin added that investigators still weren’t sure if the kidnapper or kidnappers entered or exited through the front or back door.
Police have shared surveillance photos and videos of one suspect and have reportedly recovered DNA from the scene, which has been entered into local and federal databases. Police have also gone back to canvass the area again, focusing on an empty house in the neighborhood and investigating the possibility of an internet outage the night Nancy Guthrie disappeared. Despite that, no suspect has been identified, and no motive for the abduction has been disclosed. The reward for information about Nancy Guthrie’s disappearance is up to $1 million.
