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It’s been two months since Nancy Guthrie disappeared, and we are still nowhere near close to understanding what happened or why it happened. All we know is that Savannah Guthrie’s mom was kidnapped from her home in the early hours of February 1, that police found blood outside the house, and the doorbell camera was ripped from its frame.
Later, police released photos and surveillance video of a suspect. DNA is still being processed, but so far, police have not identified a suspect or disclosed a motive for the kidnapping. There has also not been an update for law enforcement about where the investigation stands for a while.
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However, Savannah Guthrie’s Today interview provided the public with another piece of information: the back doors of Nancy Guthrie’s home were “propped open” when her family got there the next day. Speaking on her Drop Dead Serious podcast, journalist Ashleigh Banfield referenced this specific detail. A detail that “really floored me,” Banfield said, “was that the perpetrator used Nancy’s flower pots to do this.”
“He took her beautiful flower pots that I can only imagine she spent time nurturing and making beautiful for her back patio, and he used them for his evil f**king plot,” Banfield said.
“It’s just so frustrating to think that filthy, vile beast deflowered that kitchen, that entrance, that family home. But he did,” she continued. “My sources say that’s where he got his entry. But that’s not the only thing that he did. He also took Nancy’s beautiful flower pots, and he propped open the back gate.”
She also speculated about why the doors were even propped open in the first place. “Did he plan to make Nancy walk at gunpoint out that back kitchen door and then out through the propped-open screen door” to avoid house cameras?
“But then, did he think, ‘Oh dear, I didn’t plan for this. Mrs. Guthrie can’t walk that far’? Because Savannah’s now told us that on a good day her mom could get to the mailbox, but there weren’t many days like that,” Banfield said. “So maybe this guy didn’t count on Mrs. Guthrie not being able to walk as far as he had planned to walk her. And so now he’s got to change his plan.”
Police found Nancy’s blood in the front entrance of the house.
All of this comes after reports that Guthrie’s home was in “immaculate” condition when police arrived. NewsNation’s Brian 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.”
Entin also said that police still weren’t sure if the kidnapper or kidnappers entered through the front door or the back door.
The reward for information about Nancy Guthrie’s disappearance is up to $1 million.
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