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We don’t yet know the circumstances of Nancy Guthrie’s kidnapping, but what we do know paints a terrifying picture. Guthrie was abducted in the early hours of February 1 from her house in Tucson, Arizona. Her blood was found outside the house. She couldn’t have walked out on her own. The doorbell camera was ripped off the frame.

Over two months later, no suspect has been identified, and no motive has been disclosed. But when the people responsible are caught, some are already hoping for the worst punishment possible. Nancy Grace said during an interview on the Hang Out with Sean Hannity podcast that she hopes those responsible get the death penalty.

Related: Who are Savannah Guthrie’s siblings?

“Poor little Miss Guthrie could hardly walk to the mailbox. On a good day, she could walk to her mailbox, and some a-hole got her out of her bed in her little PJs, barefoot, and took her out of that house. She said, ‘My little bitty mother,’ which to me means she was bent over and frail,” Grace said.

She added, “I want them to get the death penalty. That is what I want. … For what they have done to Miss Guthrie, there’s no other choice. I’m still holding out a thin hope that somewhere, somehow, she could be alive. But by God, if she’s not, the hounds of hell will chase those kidnappers until they are caught,” Grace added.

Arizona is one of 27 states where the death penalty is still legal.

On her Drop Dead Serious podcast, journalist Ashleigh Banfield had discussed another revelation from Savannah Guthrie’s interview: the fact that the back doors of Nancy Guthrie’s home were “propped open” when her family arrived the next day. 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,” she added.

“It’s just so frustrating to think that filthy, vile beast deflowered that kitchen, that entrance, that family home. But he did,” she also said. “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.”

Banfield also referenced the revelation that Nancy Guthrie couldn’t have walked out of the door on her own, saying, “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 went on. “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.”

The reward for information about Nancy Guthrie’s disappearance is up to $1 million.

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