Latest / Crime Stories with Nancy Grace / SAVANNAH GUTHRIE MOM MISSING: DAY 19
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy Grace, so Ada Guthrie's mother, Nancy
- 0:08Speaker 1: Guthrie missing day nineteen.
- 0:12Speaker 2: This as we learned new DNA evidence discovered.
- 0:16Speaker 1: What I Nancy Grace, this is Crime Stories. I want
- 0:19Speaker 1: to thank you for being with us. But Canon amateur
- 0:22Speaker 1: really elude the FBI for this wrong.
- 0:25Speaker 3: And obviously Nancy, he doesn't even know what he's doing
- 0:28Speaker 3: and he's looking at the ground.
- 0:30Speaker 2: It's just like a lot.
- 0:31Speaker 3: Of wrong in this picture.
- 0:33Speaker 2: What was he doing in that home?
- 0:37Speaker 1: Seemingly more updates every night during the night news unfolds
- 0:43Speaker 1: in the search for Nancy Guthrie. We are learning about
- 0:47Speaker 1: new DNA found two weeks after Nancy goes missing, a
- 0:53Speaker 1: pinky ring that seems to be easily identifiable. This as
- 0:57Speaker 1: a search extends into Mexico. So regardless of what authorities
- 1:02Speaker 1: are trying to tell us, that is so much more.
- 1:06Speaker 1: As Google is lending another helping hand with me an
- 1:11Speaker 1: all star panel to make sense of what we're learning
- 1:13Speaker 1: right now. Is Nancy Guthrie alive? Is Nancy Guthrie dead?
- 1:20Speaker 1: What is her family going through? As we go to
- 1:23Speaker 1: air right now, Dave mac joining me Crime Stories investigative
- 1:27Speaker 1: reporter New DNA what.
- 1:30Speaker 2: Well, you know what, Nancy.
- 1:31Speaker 4: Earlier this week, we knew that law enforcement investigators had
- 1:36Speaker 4: been back at the house, and we knew they were
- 1:38Speaker 4: looking for something. Well, apparently they were all over the
- 1:43Speaker 4: house looking for biological material and that's what they found.
- 1:48Speaker 4: Investigators found biological material that does not belong to Nancy Guthrie.
- 1:55Speaker 4: They found it inside the home. And again you pointed
- 1:58Speaker 4: it out, weeks after the home had already been searched,
- 2:02Speaker 4: after evidence had been collected, and after the home was
- 2:06Speaker 4: briefly turned back to the family before the investigators shut
- 2:10Speaker 4: it back down. But still two weeks this crime began,
- 2:15Speaker 4: law enforcement finding biological material inside the home that does
- 2:20Speaker 4: not belong to Nancy Guthrie.
- 2:22Speaker 1: Guys, we're showing you Nancy's home right now. This is
- 2:25Speaker 1: from our friends at twelve News. There's so many directions
- 2:28Speaker 1: to go with this bombshell. It's maybe a bombshell to
- 2:33Speaker 1: only crime watchers, crime aficionados, people like US prosecutors, former
- 2:40Speaker 1: FBI lawyers, shrinks.
- 2:43Speaker 2: DNA experts.
- 2:45Speaker 1: You got a big, big problem with the fact that
- 2:48Speaker 1: this DNA is discovered two weeks later. Let's go ahead,
- 2:53Speaker 1: let's tackle it head on. Joining me Kelly Hyman, veteran
- 2:57Speaker 1: trial attorney, analysts podcast star of What's Upon a Crime
- 3:03Speaker 1: in Hollywood. Kelly, go ahead, I've got I'm ready for you.
- 3:07Speaker 1: See I know what you're gonna say, and I'm ready
- 3:10Speaker 1: for you.
- 3:11Speaker 2: Go ahead, attack the DNA. I'm ready.
- 3:15Speaker 5: DNA is key to this case. Why is DNA so important?
- 3:20Speaker 5: Because the DNA can prove who was there? The DNA
- 3:24Speaker 5: can help substantiate who was in the house at this time.
- 3:28Speaker 5: The police went in and then two weeks later find
- 3:33Speaker 5: this DNA all of a sudden, after two weeks it's found.
- 3:38Speaker 5: Now I could see a lot of couch investigators saying
- 3:42Speaker 5: that there's something wrong with that. Why didn't they find
- 3:45Speaker 5: this DNA the first time? Why is it all of
- 3:48Speaker 5: a sudden being found? Nancy?
- 3:51Speaker 2: Okay, there you go. That's just a tiny, tiny tidbit. Kelly.
- 3:54Speaker 1: Him is actually being generous and delicate with this attack,
- 3:59Speaker 1: because let me assure you that when and if this
- 4:02Speaker 1: goes to trial, there will be a frontal attack on
- 4:07Speaker 1: this DNA.
- 4:09Speaker 2: Here's my response.
- 4:11Speaker 1: So they find the perp, Okay, this DNA has already
- 4:15Speaker 1: been found, Okay, even though it's late to the party.
- 4:19Speaker 1: When they find the perp. That's going to be much later.
- 4:23Speaker 1: So what their mind readers. They now know who the
- 4:27Speaker 1: purp is, They go get his DNA and they plant it. Yeah,
- 4:31Speaker 1: straight out to Scott Iiker joining me. Uh oh, Now,
- 4:36Speaker 1: I'm giving her time to come up with her next attack,
- 4:38Speaker 1: and believe me.
- 4:39Speaker 2: She will.
- 4:40Speaker 1: Scott Iiker joined me, digital forensics expert, founding member of
- 4:44Speaker 1: the FBI Cellular Analysis Survey Team. They're the ones behind
- 4:50Speaker 1: the scenes that are getting all the phone numbers and
- 4:53Speaker 1: phone data and much much more from the area.
- 4:57Speaker 2: That I contend is why they pull.
- 5:00Speaker 1: Over the first guy that first catch and release. Remember him,
- 5:07Speaker 1: He was released and I think he was picked up
- 5:09Speaker 1: because his phone kept pinging in the area. He had
- 5:14Speaker 1: nothing to do with it. By the way, I hate
- 5:15Speaker 1: to even keep mentioning his name. He had nothing to
- 5:17Speaker 1: do with this. But that's what cast is doing and
- 5:21Speaker 1: much much more. Also, former homicide detective with Norfolk, Virginia
- 5:27Speaker 1: twelve years now, he is with Precision Cellular Analysis at
- 5:33Speaker 1: PCA Experts dot com. As much as I am pooh
- 5:37Speaker 1: pooing her, Kelly Hyman is right, this is going to
- 5:42Speaker 1: be subjected to a huge attack. I imagine what happened, Scott,
- 5:47Speaker 1: is that the local Pema County went in a process
- 5:51Speaker 1: the scene.
- 5:52Speaker 2: The FBI was.
- 5:52Speaker 1: Finally allowed in, and they reprocessed it and found the DNA.
- 5:57Speaker 2: What do you think?
- 6:00Speaker 6: I think you're correct. There also the scenarios change. You know,
- 6:05Speaker 6: first of all, it was a missing person, and then
- 6:08Speaker 6: later on we'd get ransom, and now we're looking at
- 6:10Speaker 6: as a kidnapping. So you come in with fresh eyes
- 6:14Speaker 6: or different eyes to look at different things.
- 6:17Speaker 2: Now.
- 6:17Speaker 6: I definitely think that a full processor should have been
- 6:20Speaker 6: done immediately once they realized this was possibly a kidnapping.
- 6:24Speaker 6: But fresh eyes and the FBI with a specialized equipment
- 6:28Speaker 6: and knowledge, that's always good to go back and look again.
- 6:32Speaker 6: As long as they've kept the crime scene, you know,
- 6:35Speaker 6: which it appears that they have not. We could still
- 6:39Speaker 6: go in and look for DNA and hopefully any other
- 6:43Speaker 6: evidence and recover it.
- 6:45Speaker 1: Okay, well, Scott Iiker, let's let me have you address
- 6:48Speaker 1: this because you've been with a local police department in Norfolk, Virginia.
- 6:52Speaker 1: You were a homicide detective there and you were fed
- 6:55Speaker 1: for many many years. Let's give PEMA a time me
- 7:00Speaker 1: break here. This type of ransom kidnap for ransom is rare.
- 7:07Speaker 1: I can count them on two hands that we know of. Right,
- 7:11Speaker 1: I've done a lot of kidnaps. I've investigated and prosecuted kidnaps,
- 7:14Speaker 1: but not of this nature.
- 7:16Speaker 2: Right.
- 7:17Speaker 1: More like carjack, put the victim in the car and
- 7:20Speaker 1: take off, that's kidnap. More like take the victim to
- 7:22Speaker 1: a secluded location and raper, that's a kidnap. There are many,
- 7:26Speaker 1: many genre of kidnaps, right, Kidnap for ransom.
- 7:30Speaker 2: Is a very rare bird.
- 7:33Speaker 1: Indeed, so not just PEMA, but generally all across the country.
- 7:39Speaker 1: Expertise in kidnap cases, it's few and far between.
- 7:44Speaker 2: Would you agree with that?
- 7:46Speaker 6: I definitely agree. And local police departments normally wouldn't deal
- 7:49Speaker 6: with this in the first place. Once becomes a suspected kidnapping,
- 7:54Speaker 6: the federal authorities can come in and help those local
- 7:57Speaker 6: police departments. And we do come in with a lot
- 7:59Speaker 6: of experts in several different aspects. DNA, cellular stuff, BAU
- 8:06Speaker 6: are our behavioral analys this analysis unit. All this can
- 8:10Speaker 6: help those local police departments get a grip on what's
- 8:13Speaker 6: going on here and help them work through the caves.
- 8:18Speaker 1: And I understand, I disagree, but I understand why they
- 8:23Speaker 1: are very possessive of the case that they started investigating,
- 8:27Speaker 1: and they look. When I was stay prosecutor, I like
- 8:31Speaker 1: the FEDS because I had benefited been a FED before.
- 8:34Speaker 1: But I also loathed them because they act like they
- 8:38Speaker 1: know everything because they do, but they really rub it
- 8:42Speaker 1: in and they bigfoot you. Nobody likes that, but when
- 8:45Speaker 1: you're trying to do what's best for your case, you.
- 8:48Speaker 2: Let them in.
- 8:49Speaker 1: So I wonder about how much the delay of bringing
- 8:53Speaker 1: the FEDS in on this cost the investigation. And now
- 8:57Speaker 1: we're seeing the first fatality. I'm not saying the DNA
- 9:00Speaker 1: was planted. That's impossible because we don't know who the
- 9:03Speaker 1: culprit is yet, right, so you can't.
- 9:05Speaker 2: Plant the DNA. That said Kelly Hyman is right.
- 9:10Speaker 1: This DNA is going to be subjected to a strict
- 9:14Speaker 1: scrutiny and a heated cross examination, and I hope the
- 9:19Speaker 1: state and the DNA can survive.
- 9:22Speaker 2: Look at OJ.
- 9:23Speaker 1: Do somebody really believe the LAPD had the wherewithal to
- 9:28Speaker 1: go plant the victim's blood on Simpson socks?
- 9:34Speaker 3: No?
- 9:34Speaker 1: And I guarantee you after all these years, whoever did
- 9:38Speaker 1: the planting or who knows about the planting would have
- 9:41Speaker 1: done a blockbuster movie and a book and made millions
- 9:43Speaker 1: and millions of dollars. Hasn't happened Because that didn't happen.
- 9:49Speaker 1: Nobody planted this DNA. It be impossible at this juncture
- 9:54Speaker 1: now speaking of DNA so heavily, and I haven't even gotten.
- 9:57Speaker 2: To the rest of the news yet.
- 9:59Speaker 1: To Tammy Balor joining us, she is a DNA crime
- 10:02Speaker 1: scene consultant. Crime Scene investigation and reconstruction is her specialty.
- 10:09Speaker 1: This is the important part for our purposes tonight. Former
- 10:12Speaker 1: DNA criminalist at the San Diego Police Department Crime Lab,
- 10:17Speaker 1: San Diego. Never a lack of business, never a lack
- 10:22Speaker 1: of DNA experimentation going on in that lab. Tammy Ballard,
- 10:26Speaker 1: thank you for being with us. Okay, you're the expert.
- 10:29Speaker 1: I could make a stab at asking you the questions,
- 10:32Speaker 1: but you tell me your thoughts first. By the way,
- 10:35Speaker 1: That's how I would always approach an expert when preparing
- 10:38Speaker 1: for trial. I recognize you know a lot more than
- 10:42Speaker 1: any of us on this panel about DNA, so instruct us,
- 10:47Speaker 1: teach us.
- 10:48Speaker 2: Tell me your thoughts on this, Tammy Ballard.
- 10:52Speaker 7: Well, with respect to the finding the DNA two weeks later.
- 10:59Speaker 6: My first thought would be to compare that.
- 11:02Speaker 7: To the DNA from everybody who has entered that resident,
- 11:07Speaker 7: just to rule that out so there's no embarrassment down
- 11:10Speaker 7: the road. I'm not nobody's perfect. I've returned to scenes
- 11:15Speaker 7: and found additional evidence. Everybody wishes they could go to
- 11:19Speaker 7: a scene and process just to make sure they didn't
- 11:22Speaker 7: overlook anything. The two week later thing is a little tough,
- 11:28Speaker 7: but it is what it is, and again, the important
- 11:31Speaker 7: thing is that that's getting.
- 11:32Speaker 1: Comb I need to follow up on something you just said.
- 11:35Speaker 1: Did you say that you timmy ballor have gone back.
- 11:39Speaker 2: To scenes to process them again.
- 11:42Speaker 7: If more information has come out and I'm allowed to
- 11:46Speaker 7: go to a scene and check for additional items. I've
- 11:51Speaker 7: also returned to a scene with one of the guru
- 11:54Speaker 7: rus Tom Bevell, who is from bebel Gardner and associates,
- 11:58Speaker 7: and walked through my double homicide with him and learned
- 12:03Speaker 7: from him about some additional stains that I could have collected.
- 12:08Speaker 7: So you know, you got to stay humble, stay open.
- 12:11Speaker 7: Everybody there should be as a team and just trying
- 12:14Speaker 7: to do the right thing and find Nancy Guthrie on
- 12:17Speaker 7: the perpetrator.
- 12:20Speaker 2: Okay, that sentiment is shared by everyone on the panel.
- 12:23Speaker 2: What do you mean you went back with.
- 12:24Speaker 1: Bevel and he pointed out additional things that you should
- 12:28Speaker 1: have tested, and then that point, from that point on,
- 12:30Speaker 1: you did that.
- 12:31Speaker 2: What additional things did he has struck for you to test?
- 12:35Speaker 7: Well, if we're speaking technically, I had an interesting injury
- 12:39Speaker 7: on one of my victims in the double homicide, and
- 12:42Speaker 7: there was a blood stained pattern adjacent to where his
- 12:47Speaker 7: head had been. And I learned from Tom Bevell that
- 12:53Speaker 7: that that actually wasn't an additional shot fired that shared
- 12:59Speaker 7: with it struck the victim, so it was changed my
- 13:03Speaker 7: number of shots fired. It made me look so much
- 13:07Speaker 7: closer at bloodstained.
- 13:08Speaker 2: Patterns crime stories with Nancy Grace. Timmy, you said that
- 13:23Speaker 2: the bullet cheared. What do you mean by that?
- 13:27Speaker 7: One of the bullets struck my victim in the forehead,
- 13:31Speaker 7: and actually some of the bullet fragments entered into his
- 13:37Speaker 7: head and some of them sheered off and went directly
- 13:41Speaker 7: perpendicular to the victim's head through the door. So tiny,
- 13:46Speaker 7: tiny circular stains that I had overlooked after being in
- 13:52Speaker 7: a crime scene for probably twenty four hours. That was
- 13:56Speaker 7: something that I had overlooked, and it was great to
- 14:00Speaker 7: have somebody who is an absolute legend in the field
- 14:04Speaker 7: be able to walk through my scene with me and
- 14:06Speaker 7: point that out.
- 14:07Speaker 5: So that was very useful.
- 14:10Speaker 1: Wow, that's a great rendition. Okay, that would support going
- 14:17Speaker 1: back to the scene. And you're right, everyone that has
- 14:20Speaker 1: processed the scene has to now be tested for DNA.
- 14:25Speaker 1: They have to give their DNA to prove it's not
- 14:28Speaker 1: their DNA that's been found. And we see that a
- 14:32Speaker 1: lot in when there are claims of contamination across contamination, like.
- 14:36Speaker 2: Within the lab somebody touched the specimen and.
- 14:40Speaker 1: Got their DNA, and it's a horrible, horrible detour for the.
- 14:48Speaker 2: State to have to make when presenting a case.
- 14:51Speaker 1: Right up front you have to say, yeah, we screwed
- 14:53Speaker 1: up the DNA, but yet I want you to believe
- 14:54Speaker 1: the DNA.
- 14:55Speaker 2: So that's a problem. But what the prize is is
- 15:00Speaker 2: is finding Nancy Guthrie, and that is just a sideshow.
- 15:04Speaker 2: We'll deal with that if and when we ever get
- 15:06Speaker 2: to trial.
- 15:07Speaker 1: So what type of DNA Tammy Ballard do you believe
- 15:13Speaker 1: was found? Obviously by the Feds by two weeks and
- 15:16Speaker 1: Dave mac anybody on the panel jump in if I'm wrong.
- 15:19Speaker 1: After about two weeks, I'm pretty sure the Feds were
- 15:21Speaker 1: already in.
- 15:23Speaker 7: There was a.
- 15:25Speaker 1: Standoff for a while where the locals did not want
- 15:28Speaker 1: them in. They're refusing to admit that it's true they
- 15:31Speaker 1: did get in, so I'm imagining it's them that went back.
- 15:36Speaker 1: So what type of DNA do you believe they found
- 15:39Speaker 1: they didn't see the first time.
- 15:43Speaker 7: I can only imagine that it was going to be
- 15:46Speaker 7: an item of evidence that is an outlier, not necessarily
- 15:51Speaker 7: a bloodstain or any touch DNA from something that is
- 15:56Speaker 7: stationary in the home I'm expecting. I would imagine that
- 16:00Speaker 7: it's going to be some sort of article from something
- 16:04Speaker 7: that is something that you can remove from that home.
- 16:07Speaker 2: So not a table, not a sofa.
- 16:11Speaker 7: It's going to be in some sort of article of
- 16:14Speaker 7: clothing or a tool or something that is going to
- 16:18Speaker 7: be that outlier where there will the DNA on that item.
- 16:23Speaker 1: Again, joining us an all star panel trying to make
- 16:26Speaker 1: sense of everything you know to doctor Bethany Marshall, joining us,
- 16:31Speaker 1: psychoanalyst out of the LA jurisdiction, author of deal Breaker.
- 16:37Speaker 2: You can see her on Peacock and find her.
- 16:40Speaker 1: At Doctor Bethany Marshall dot com Doctor Bethany, I know
- 16:44Speaker 1: that this is a step forward, but sometimes it must
- 16:47Speaker 1: feel for the family that it's one step forward, two
- 16:50Speaker 1: steps back.
- 16:52Speaker 3: You don't, Nancy, of course, it feels that way to them,
- 16:54Speaker 3: because what's horrible for the family is the unknown. They
- 16:58Speaker 3: have no idea if they're mother is dead or alive.
- 17:02Speaker 3: They don't know how she's been treated. And Nancy, when
- 17:05Speaker 3: we face the unknown, we project into it our worst
- 17:10Speaker 3: possible fears. That's how we evolved as a BCS biologically,
- 17:15Speaker 3: is we evolve to be suspicious of the unknown so
- 17:18Speaker 3: we could keep ourselves safe. But that's what causes anxiety,
- 17:21Speaker 3: right when we don't know how a situation is going
- 17:23Speaker 3: to turn out. So in this case with the mother,
- 17:25Speaker 3: they're going to be wondering like is she cold? Is
- 17:28Speaker 3: she being fed? What about her medications? How has she
- 17:33Speaker 3: been treated by the perpetrator? Are they kind to her?
- 17:36Speaker 3: Are they cruel to her? Has she passed? If so,
- 17:38Speaker 3: under what circumstances? Was there somebody there to hold her hand?
- 17:43Speaker 3: I mean, this is this is agonizing for the family.
- 17:46Speaker 2: They need to know.
- 17:47Speaker 3: They need all these details so that they can sleep,
- 17:53Speaker 3: so that they can think so that they can move
- 17:55Speaker 3: on with their lives. They need their mother back, whether
- 17:58Speaker 3: she's deceased or alive, Nancy, they need to know what's
- 18:00Speaker 3: happened to her.
- 18:04Speaker 2: You know, doctor Bethany Marshall.
- 18:06Speaker 1: When I learned there was new DNA, well, let me
- 18:11Speaker 1: rephrase newly discovered DNA. I was elated, but then I
- 18:17Speaker 1: was immediately concerned and worried about how the DNA was
- 18:22Speaker 1: going to be attacked and how this would affect the family.
- 18:25Speaker 1: They'll be happy at first, but then they'll start questioning
- 18:28Speaker 1: the entire investigation.
- 18:29Speaker 2: Why wasn't it found to start with? It could be
- 18:32Speaker 2: something as simple Tammy Ballard is going back in to
- 18:37Speaker 2: do I don't know.
- 18:38Speaker 1: Let's just go with a touch DNA analysis, redoing the
- 18:42Speaker 1: home with.
- 18:43Speaker 2: An alternate light source to find DNA.
- 18:47Speaker 1: After they realized the purp had been touching with the
- 18:50Speaker 1: gloves on, touching that bite light over and over and over,
- 18:56Speaker 1: touching the wholester over and over and over.
- 18:58Speaker 2: It that's just what we saw.
- 19:00Speaker 1: What else did we not see? For Pete's sake, did
- 19:03Speaker 1: he blow his nose? I don't know, but maybe after
- 19:07Speaker 1: they evaluated that doorcam video, they got an idea and
- 19:14Speaker 1: went back in it could be as innocent and easily
- 19:19Speaker 1: explainable as that, right.
- 19:23Speaker 7: Correct, They definitely went back into reprocess and again hopefully
- 19:30Speaker 7: with a fresh set of eyes and more of a
- 19:34Speaker 7: diverse approach so that they can additional evidence can be obtained.
- 19:41Speaker 7: So again, I can only speculate, but there's always the
- 19:46Speaker 7: chance that something fell off of the perpetrator with a struggle.
- 19:51Speaker 7: So maybe that was something that got overlooked. It could
- 19:54Speaker 7: have been underneath the side of a couch, it could
- 19:58Speaker 7: have been something that just kicked when everybody in the
- 20:00Speaker 7: home and they realize that it's there. So it's something
- 20:04Speaker 7: to consider. And my thought would be, worry about getting
- 20:09Speaker 7: DNA from that item, now, worry about excluding other people
- 20:13Speaker 7: from it that have been in the house for the
- 20:15Speaker 7: investigation and the family members, and then worry about the
- 20:19Speaker 7: downstream process later.
- 20:21Speaker 2: You're right. You're right, guys.
- 20:22Speaker 1: The reason we're spending so much time on the newly
- 20:25Speaker 1: discovered DNA is because it could crack the case wide open.
- 20:30Speaker 2: There's not just CODIS, the National DNA data Bank.
- 20:34Speaker 1: There is also the Arizona Databank that allows much more diverse,
- 20:40Speaker 1: let me say euphemistically, DNA profiles in there. You can
- 20:44Speaker 1: have DNA from crime scenes that are unsolved, you can
- 20:47Speaker 1: have DNA from just suspects that have not been convicted.
- 20:50Speaker 2: You can have all sorts of.
- 20:52Speaker 1: DNA in the Arizona Data Bank that is not allowed
- 20:55Speaker 1: due to strict regulation of the National CODIS Data Bank.
- 21:00Speaker 1: Going with this, it's a much more diverse array of
- 21:04Speaker 1: DNA and there's over a half a million DNA profiles
- 21:08Speaker 1: in the Arizona Databank. Then you've got Interpols DNA Databank.
- 21:14Speaker 1: You even have a Iphamilia, which is out of Mexico
- 21:19Speaker 1: and other jurisdictions. Now, the Mexican Data Bank deals mostly
- 21:26Speaker 1: with identifying missing people, dead bodies, victims that have not
- 21:30Speaker 1: been identified. But still there's DNA in there to be mined.
- 21:36Speaker 1: So we're just getting started with the whole DNA process.
- 21:40Speaker 1: And speaking of Mexico, straight out to Dave Mack from
- 21:44Speaker 1: Crime Stories, Dave mac, we're learning regardless of what Nanos
- 21:47Speaker 1: keeps trying to stuff down our throat.
- 21:50Speaker 2: I'm not swallowing.
- 21:52Speaker 1: Number one, they are looking in Mexico and it's not
- 21:56Speaker 1: just them, Isn't it true? The Guthrie family has reached
- 22:00Speaker 1: out to a group of moms in Mexico that search
- 22:05Speaker 1: for missing people.
- 22:06Speaker 4: Tell me, the searching mothers of Sonora. That's who the
- 22:11Speaker 4: Guthrie family has reached out to. This group of women
- 22:15Speaker 4: actually search for missing people in Sonora. Now, the reason
- 22:19Speaker 4: this is important, Nancy, is there is No Gallas Arizona
- 22:23Speaker 4: and No Gallas Sonora, Mexico, just across the border. We're
- 22:28Speaker 4: talking sixty miles south of Tucson. You go through No
- 22:31Speaker 4: Gallas Arizona to No Gallas Mexico, and the searching mothers
- 22:37Speaker 4: of Sonora have been contacted by the Guthrie family to
- 22:40Speaker 4: try and help find Nancy Guthrie. It is more than
- 22:45Speaker 4: just possible, Nancy, that Nancy Guthrie could have been taken
- 22:50Speaker 4: across the border right there at No Gallas.
- 22:53Speaker 1: Okay, I am so ill right now, Dave MATC scott Iker.
- 23:02Speaker 1: The family is having to reach out to Mexico. What
- 23:10Speaker 1: Why is the family having to do the work of
- 23:13Speaker 1: the sheriff. Of course they should reach out to Mexico.
- 23:17Speaker 1: Do I believe she's in Mexico? Don't know, could be
- 23:20Speaker 1: because it's so close. But why is the family, why
- 23:24Speaker 1: is Savannah Guthrie at her siblings at a time like this,
- 23:28Speaker 1: having to do the job of law enforcement help me out.
- 23:31Speaker 2: Iker.
- 23:33Speaker 6: It is kind of strange that their family is doing
- 23:36Speaker 6: the reaching out. You got to remember, I believe the
- 23:39Speaker 6: FBI and maybe the Sheriff's office is reaching out to
- 23:42Speaker 6: Mexico but not telling us about it. They should be
- 23:46Speaker 6: doing that in the first place, because Tucson is only
- 23:49Speaker 6: sixty miles from the border. But these nonprofit situations, hey,
- 23:53Speaker 6: you know, why not use anything that we can. And
- 23:56Speaker 6: if the Guthrie family thinks, hey, these mom group and
- 24:01Speaker 6: just across the work and help at all, let's why
- 24:04Speaker 6: not try that too.
- 24:06Speaker 8: I wanted to come on and it's been two weeks
- 24:12Speaker 8: since our mom was taken, and I just wanted to
- 24:18Speaker 8: come on and say that we still have hope and
- 24:27Speaker 8: we still believe.
- 24:29Speaker 2: You can buy a burner phone under any name, not
- 24:32Speaker 2: your own.
- 24:33Speaker 6: You don't have to put a name on it because
- 24:34Speaker 6: you've already paid the phone company. What they want is their.
- 24:38Speaker 1: Money, So you may never know if it were for
- 24:41Speaker 1: the video who bought the Burner phone used outside Nancy
- 24:46Speaker 1: Guthrie's home at the time she was kidnap. The FEDS
- 24:51Speaker 1: and the locals tracking down every single tip all this
- 24:56Speaker 1: while eighty four year old Nancy Guthrie is missing. You know,
- 25:02Speaker 1: we're talking about reaching out to Mexico and finding out
- 25:07Speaker 1: whether Nancy Guthrie was taken across the border, which is
- 25:10Speaker 1: entirely possible since it is so close to Nancy Guthrie's home.
- 25:14Speaker 2: What about it, Dave mac Not only.
- 25:16Speaker 4: Very close Nancy, but the crossing point at No Gallas
- 25:20Speaker 4: for exact example, No Gallas in Sonora, Mexico. So we've
- 25:26Speaker 4: got a quick shot. You realize that the glove that
- 25:29Speaker 4: was tossed out of a vehicle, we don't know if
- 25:31Speaker 4: it's a glove that we're looking at right there, but
- 25:34Speaker 4: it was tossed out on a road heading towards Interstate nineteen.
- 25:38Speaker 4: Interstate nineteen runs from near Nancy Guthrie's home straight to
- 25:44Speaker 4: No Gallas and crossing the border from the United States
- 25:48Speaker 4: into Mexico far different than coming the other way. Only
- 25:52Speaker 4: one in twenty five or so vehicles even gets checked
- 25:56Speaker 4: going across the border from the United States in New
- 25:58Speaker 4: Mexico at any time. Not that difficult. Crossing at night
- 26:04Speaker 4: simple and getting a woman out of the United States
- 26:07Speaker 4: in New Mexico be a breeze, So looking into Gallas
- 26:10Speaker 4: is not only smart at this point, I cannot believe
- 26:14Speaker 4: they're not feed on the ground.
- 26:16Speaker 1: Looking to doctor Bethany Marshall, you have familiarity with the
- 26:20Speaker 1: searching mothers of Sonora.
- 26:22Speaker 2: What can you tell me I do.
- 26:23Speaker 3: Because I've heard them interviewed Nancy. These women are fierce.
- 26:28Speaker 3: They are sick and tired of this culture of kidnap okay,
- 26:32Speaker 3: and they have different tools at their disposal. They may
- 26:34Speaker 3: not have all the DNA testing and all of that,
- 26:36Speaker 3: but they have something very powerful. They have connections. They
- 26:41Speaker 3: know people, They know people who know people, and they have,
- 26:45Speaker 3: many of them their own husbands and sons who have
- 26:48Speaker 3: been affected. So they are on the search. They are
- 26:51Speaker 3: on the hunt, and they are people to be reckoned with.
- 26:54Speaker 3: And I think it's very smart that the family reached
- 26:57Speaker 3: out to.
- 26:57Speaker 2: Them theive mac.
- 26:59Speaker 1: Another issue you with extending research into Mexico is that
- 27:03Speaker 1: Mexican authorities, and we've seen this with Americans that go
- 27:07Speaker 1: missing there and fall to violence there, don't go to
- 27:14Speaker 1: Mexico on a vacation.
- 27:16Speaker 2: Just listen to me, all right.
- 27:19Speaker 1: They have a very different standard of investigation than we
- 27:23Speaker 1: do in the US.
- 27:25Speaker 4: They do Nancy and you know, it's just a different culture.
- 27:30Speaker 4: And when we have actually been involved in investigations in Mexico,
- 27:34Speaker 4: and I say we being the United States of America,
- 27:37Speaker 4: oftentimes we run up against local authorities who are not
- 27:42Speaker 4: necessarily on the up and up as we would expect.
- 27:46Speaker 4: So a lot of times in Mexico when we're dealing
- 27:49Speaker 4: even with law enforcement, Nancy, we don't know who's the
- 27:53Speaker 4: real law enforcement and who's really in charge. This is
- 27:57Speaker 4: a problem that Mexico has a college for years that
- 28:00Speaker 4: they have a problem in their own policing. So that's
- 28:03Speaker 4: the problem we run up against.
- 28:05Speaker 8: To whoever has her or knows where she is, that
- 28:16Speaker 8: it's never too late, and you're not lost or alone,
- 28:28Speaker 8: and it is never too late to do the right thing.
- 28:32Speaker 8: And we are here. We believe, and we believe in
- 28:41Speaker 8: the essential goodness of every human being, and it's never
- 28:48Speaker 8: too late. On behalf of our family. We want to
- 28:52Speaker 8: thank all of you for the prayers for our beloved
- 28:56Speaker 8: mom f Fancy. We feel then, and we continue to
- 29:02Speaker 8: believe that she feels them too. Our mom is a kind, faithful, loyal,
- 29:12Speaker 8: fiercely loving woman of goodness and light. She's funny, spunky,
- 29:20Speaker 8: and clever. She has grandchildren that adore her and crowd
- 29:26Speaker 8: around her and cover her with kisses. She loves fun
- 29:31Speaker 8: and adventure. She is a devoted friend. She is full
- 29:36Speaker 8: of kindness and knowledge.
- 29:39Speaker 4: Talk to her and.
- 29:40Speaker 2: You'll see.
- 29:43Speaker 6: The light is missing from our lives.
- 29:48Speaker 8: Nancy is our mother.
- 29:51Speaker 6: We are her children. She is our beacon.
- 29:56Speaker 8: She holds fast to joy and end all of life's circumstances,
- 30:03Speaker 8: she chooses joy day after day.
- 30:08Speaker 1: There you see the Guthrie siblings begging for the return
- 30:11Speaker 1: of their mother, Nancy Guthrie. The investigation goes on now,
- 30:15Speaker 1: extending into Mexico. We learn hopefully the Mexican I Familia
- 30:21Speaker 1: database will be used for DNA as well as international databases. Guys,
- 30:30Speaker 1: we also are learning about polygraphs that went down into
- 30:34Speaker 1: the evening last night.
- 30:37Speaker 2: Dave mac what about it?
- 30:39Speaker 4: Well, as normally a case develops with everybody involved. Now
- 30:44Speaker 4: you've got workers all around the house that are being
- 30:48Speaker 4: investigated because they should. Anyone with access to the home
- 30:53Speaker 4: has been brought in, and we're talking about people even
- 30:55Speaker 4: including the pool workers that came by the other day
- 30:59Speaker 4: to clean the pool. Nancy Guthrie doesn't normally have a
- 31:02Speaker 4: pool cleaning service. The family called it out to make
- 31:04Speaker 4: sure that it was being kept up. But you know what, Nancy,
- 31:08Speaker 4: everybody with access to that home, everybody with access to
- 31:12Speaker 4: Nancy Guthrie, probably people at church as well as everywhere else,
- 31:16Speaker 4: is being polygraphed to find out everything law enforcement can
- 31:20Speaker 4: at this point. And as you mentioned early on, somebody
- 31:23Speaker 4: rejecting a polygraph is going to become a huge suspect.
- 31:27Speaker 1: Dave mac did you actually say that the church congregates
- 31:32Speaker 1: are being polygraphed or they should be polygraphed.
- 31:35Speaker 4: Should be polygraphed? I miss both, but everybody should be nan.
- 31:39Speaker 2: Actually I agree with you.
- 31:42Speaker 1: I'm not impugning them or suggesting ron doing on their part,
- 31:46Speaker 1: but everyone connected to Nancy Guthrie should volunteer for a
- 31:51Speaker 1: polygraph done.
- 31:53Speaker 2: What's the problem.
- 31:54Speaker 1: So the reason I'm saying that Kelly Hyman is here's
- 31:59Speaker 1: the goal. Standard Mark class. When his daughter Polly went missing,
- 32:03Speaker 1: she was abducted in a sleepover party of her and
- 32:07Speaker 1: her little friends at her mom's home. Well, they came
- 32:10Speaker 1: bamming on his door and he went, fine, take my fingerprints,
- 32:14Speaker 1: do whatever you want. Search my place, search my car,
- 32:16Speaker 1: search my office, I'll do a poly right now, so
- 32:19Speaker 1: you can get past me and find my daughter. So
- 32:23Speaker 1: I don't see a problem with everybody connected to Nancy
- 32:26Speaker 1: Guthrie getting a polygraph.
- 32:28Speaker 6: Now.
- 32:28Speaker 1: Of course, they are not allowed in a criminal trial
- 32:31Speaker 1: unless stipulated.
- 32:33Speaker 2: Ahead of time. We all know that, all the legal
- 32:36Speaker 2: eagles know that.
- 32:37Speaker 1: But I have used polygraphs as an investigative tool in
- 32:40Speaker 1: the past.
- 32:42Speaker 5: No stone should gonna go unturn Nancy in this case,
- 32:46Speaker 5: and so the polygraphs should be done as well. And
- 32:49Speaker 5: you're right, bring up a really good point. If there's
- 32:52Speaker 5: nothing to hide, if there's transparency, then it's really important
- 32:56Speaker 5: for people to give polygraphs. It's really important for people
- 33:00Speaker 5: to give up their DNA on which the family has
- 33:03Speaker 5: given their DNA and been ruled out as a suspect.
- 33:06Speaker 5: But going back to the DNA, like, it's really important
- 33:09Speaker 5: that this kind of stuff is key to the case.
- 33:12Speaker 5: Why the DNA is so important because it can help
- 33:14Speaker 5: substantiate who is there and DNA can be used in
- 33:19Speaker 5: the court of law. Of course, now the DNA that
- 33:21Speaker 5: was found two weeks later could potentially be challenged, But
- 33:24Speaker 5: it's really important to look at.
- 33:27Speaker 7: What is available.
- 33:29Speaker 5: What is available in regards to resources that are out there,
- 33:33Speaker 5: whether it's using the FBI database or potentially also looking
- 33:37Speaker 5: at genetic databases as well, like something like twenty three
- 33:42Speaker 5: in ME in which people can opt out of their
- 33:47Speaker 5: information and so that that can't be discovered. However, with
- 33:52Speaker 5: a court of law, potentially can get a warrant out
- 33:56Speaker 5: there to leave at DNA as well.
- 34:05Speaker 2: Crime stores.
- 34:06Speaker 1: With Nancy Grace, polygraph's going down at the Pema Sheriff's office.
- 34:15Speaker 1: No revelation as of right now as to who is
- 34:18Speaker 1: being polygraphed. This as a reality show has reared its
- 34:23Speaker 1: ugly head, Dave mac a reality show Nancy.
- 34:26Speaker 4: The show is called Desert Law. It encompasses the Pima
- 34:31Speaker 4: County Sheriff's Department, which is one of the largest in
- 34:33Speaker 4: the country. And believe it or not, this is an
- 34:37Speaker 4: embedded elite group of sheriff's deputies that are being followed
- 34:42Speaker 4: by cameras on a daily basis. And the show just premiered.
- 34:46Speaker 4: And we're talking about a program on A and E
- 34:50Speaker 4: that just premiered, as this is exploding all over the country.
- 34:54Speaker 4: And by the way, the sheriff Nanos is not particularly
- 34:58Speaker 4: featured on the program yet but he is consulting and
- 35:02Speaker 4: directing where to head with different investigations and helping the
- 35:07Speaker 4: actual show behind the scenes. So yes, Desert Law Live
- 35:11Speaker 4: from p McGannon.
- 35:12Speaker 2: To doctor Bethany Marshall joining us psychoanalyst. The Sheriff's office.
- 35:16Speaker 1: In the Nancy Guthrie case has its own reality show.
- 35:20Speaker 1: Now apparently Nanos has not appeared on camera yet, but
- 35:24Speaker 1: coordinates with the production company behind the scenes.
- 35:27Speaker 2: Okay, I don't know, just gut reaction. Not a good look, thoughts.
- 35:33Speaker 2: It's not a good look you, Nancy.
- 35:34Speaker 3: I've been on so many reality shows. They take hours
- 35:37Speaker 3: and hours.
- 35:38Speaker 2: When you watch five.
- 35:39Speaker 3: Minutes on a reality TV show, sometimes those people that
- 35:43Speaker 3: the cast members have been filmed for three or four
- 35:45Speaker 3: days to get that five minutes. So we're worried about
- 35:48Speaker 3: not enough resources on the ground there in that particular jurisdiction,
- 35:55Speaker 3: but all those resources are being pulled away towards a
- 35:59Speaker 3: TV show. It's really diluting the resources that they need
- 36:05Speaker 3: to find Nancy Guthrie. That was my gut reaction to this.
- 36:09Speaker 1: You know, I'm curious, Kelly, what do you think about this?
- 36:12Speaker 1: I don't know if it would hurt a trial or not.
- 36:17Speaker 2: Maybe, how.
- 36:19Speaker 5: Well, when you look at it from a legal perspective
- 36:22Speaker 5: and you think about the trial that you have to
- 36:25Speaker 5: look at the prosecution that brings the case. They have
- 36:28Speaker 5: to prove every element of the crime. They have to
- 36:31Speaker 5: prove every element. So when you look at that, you're
- 36:33Speaker 5: only going to be looking at what exactly the charges are,
- 36:37Speaker 5: whether it's kidnapping, and what are the elements to prove
- 36:41Speaker 5: those crimes. Because when the juries sit, as you know, Nancy,
- 36:43Speaker 5: they're not supposed to look at outside evidence. They're only
- 36:46Speaker 5: supposed to look at evidence that is going to affect
- 36:49Speaker 5: the case and that is going to help substantiate the
- 36:53Speaker 5: case as well.
- 36:55Speaker 2: And so when the.
- 36:55Speaker 5: Juries look at that, they're just going to look at
- 36:57Speaker 5: the charges and also what the prosecution to prove up
- 37:02Speaker 5: the case.
- 37:03Speaker 1: You know, there's another issue. Nanos is now hosting a
- 37:09Speaker 1: number of cherry picked reporters his teacher's pets in his
- 37:12Speaker 1: office for one on one interviews. His office is professionally
- 37:17Speaker 1: lit for TV what happened to good old fashioned pressers?
- 37:22Speaker 1: Where everybody shows up and asks the hard questions what
- 37:27Speaker 1: about it?
- 37:28Speaker 6: Scott Iiker, Well, if you're going to do cherry picking
- 37:33Speaker 6: of pressman reporters. You've got the control of the interview,
- 37:39Speaker 6: and it's not going to look crazy like it does
- 37:42Speaker 6: in a regular press conference. So I think if he
- 37:45Speaker 6: wants to limit his exposure and try to maintain the
- 37:48Speaker 6: integrity of the case, maybe it's a good idea to
- 37:51Speaker 6: you know, do one on ones instead of you know,
- 37:53Speaker 6: getting beat up by you know, forty different reporters.
- 37:58Speaker 1: Investigative reporter, mac can I confirm with you that today
- 38:03Speaker 1: is February nineteen.
- 38:06Speaker 4: Yes, it is February nineteen, twenty twenty six.
- 38:09Speaker 1: I'm very surprised it took you that long to answer,
- 38:11Speaker 1: But that said to doctor Bethany Marshall, the last presser
- 38:17Speaker 1: was February five, Bethany, February five.
- 38:23Speaker 2: Nancy.
- 38:23Speaker 3: I noticed that as well, and I started watching some
- 38:26Speaker 3: of the individual interviews that he gave, and he's choosing
- 38:31Speaker 3: reporters from very big networks like maybe NewsNation or CNN,
- 38:35Speaker 3: and that leaves out that weeds out the reporters from
- 38:39Speaker 3: smaller outlets that really might ask incisive questions, just like
- 38:44Speaker 3: the reality TV show, Nancy. This is diluting his time,
- 38:49Speaker 3: diluting his resources. He could take one hour doing a presser,
- 38:52Speaker 3: but instead hours and hours individually with reporters. This is
- 38:56Speaker 3: time he could spend finding Nancy Guthrie.
- 39:00Speaker 1: Scott Iiker before we continue down the trail of finger
- 39:04Speaker 1: pointing at a time when Nancy Guthrie is still missing.
- 39:07Speaker 1: What about the possibility that has been brought up tracking
- 39:11Speaker 1: vehicles in the area through GPS through their own GPS trackers?
- 39:15Speaker 1: How would that even work? And you have to know
- 39:18Speaker 1: which car it was in order to get into their
- 39:20Speaker 1: NAV system.
- 39:22Speaker 6: Well, there are several different aspects. I mean, we know
- 39:24Speaker 6: that some cars, some of the newer cars have cell
- 39:27Speaker 6: phones in them. We're doing that with the cast team.
- 39:30Speaker 6: We also know that a lot of companies put GPS
- 39:34Speaker 6: trackers on their vehicles. Rental car companies put GPS trackers
- 39:39Speaker 6: on their vehicles, so we could go to them and
- 39:42Speaker 6: pull and see what if any of their vehicles were
- 39:46Speaker 6: in the area of Missus Guthrie's residents around the time
- 39:50Speaker 6: she went missing. So at another avenue to track vehicles
- 39:53Speaker 6: in and out of the area.
- 39:55Speaker 2: Isn't it true? Of course you got to get it
- 39:58Speaker 2: through subpoena.
- 39:58Speaker 1: They won't just hand it over silver platter that for instance,
- 40:04Speaker 1: serious XM and other infotainments can be traced in that area.
- 40:11Speaker 2: Isn't that true? Just a thought.
- 40:15Speaker 6: Serious XM is a satellite music entertainment aspect or subscription.
- 40:23Speaker 6: They don't track your locations, but on Star does something
- 40:26Speaker 6: like on store when you hit the button asks for help,
- 40:29Speaker 6: they can track your location. But the NAP systems in
- 40:33Speaker 6: all the vehicles, like if they recover a vehicle from
- 40:36Speaker 6: this case, or they think if you remember the range
- 40:39Speaker 6: River that they recovered or took from those individuals that
- 40:42Speaker 6: they stopped, They're going to pull a NAP system out
- 40:44Speaker 6: of that and see if that vehicle was backed in
- 40:47Speaker 6: the area of Nancy Grethury's residents at the time she
- 40:50Speaker 6: went missing.
- 40:51Speaker 2: Well, I agree and disagree with you, Scott Iiker.
- 40:53Speaker 1: Standard series XM satellite radio only receives signals and cannot
- 40:59Speaker 1: track a You're right, However, vehicles with active Serious XM
- 41:05Speaker 1: connected vehicle services like Guardian, You Connect, We've Got you
- 41:11Speaker 1: Connect can be tracked as these use GPS and sell
- 41:16Speaker 1: networks to provide location data. To track, you've got to
- 41:22Speaker 1: have an active subscription. It's active subscription based telematics. Now
- 41:28Speaker 1: explain to everyone in regular people talk what that means.
- 41:33Speaker 6: Connective vehicles. That's the term there that makes them that
- 41:36Speaker 6: it connects at all. Actually is that if it has
- 41:40Speaker 6: a cell phone in it, or if it has a
- 41:42Speaker 6: GPS device in it, we can track that vehicle. That's
- 41:46Speaker 6: what on Star does when you need help.
- 41:49Speaker 1: As a matter of fact, a case that we investigated,
- 41:53Speaker 1: the Debbie Collier death, her car, the location of her
- 41:58Speaker 1: vehicle and ultimately her dead body was found because of
- 42:05Speaker 1: our serious XM sell service. They picked up that Wi
- 42:11Speaker 1: Fi I guess you would call it trail and they
- 42:14Speaker 1: found DeBie Collier. That's one of the ways they found her.
- 42:18Speaker 1: There's one way versus two way. Their standard satellite radio
- 42:22Speaker 1: that's one way received only that does not transmit a
- 42:25Speaker 1: car's location. Then you've got the connected services. Now that's
- 42:31Speaker 1: possible through series XM Guardian. It's very common in a Chrysler,
- 42:37Speaker 1: a Dodge.
- 42:38Speaker 2: A Jeep, a RAM.
- 42:41Speaker 1: These services use GPS an lt SELL networks, not satellite
- 42:48Speaker 1: radio signals themselves. You could maybe get a beat on
- 42:55Speaker 1: stolen vehicle assistance if you have an active subscription. Now,
- 43:00Speaker 1: all of these systems can be disabled, but that doesn't
- 43:04Speaker 1: mean it's not worth a try. Guys, Polygraphs new DNA
- 43:12Speaker 1: searches now extending into Mexico. Are the FEDS taking over
- 43:17Speaker 1: the case from Pima County.
- 43:20Speaker 2: All that brewing is a search for Nancy. Guthrie goes on.
- 43:25Speaker 1: If you know or think you know anything about this case,
- 43:28Speaker 1: please dial one eight hundred two two five five three
- 43:32Speaker 1: two four, or if you wish to remain anonymous five
- 43:36Speaker 1: two zero eight eight two seven four six three. There
- 43:41Speaker 1: is a two hundred thousand plus dollar reward. We remember
- 43:46Speaker 1: American hero Deputy Sheriff Dan Glaize, Russ County Sheriff's Wisconsin,
- 43:53Speaker 1: shot and killed in the line of duty, leaving behind
- 43:57Speaker 1: a wife now widow, Sarah, and three children without a father.
- 44:03Speaker 1: American hero Deputy Sheriff Dan Glaze Nancy Grace signing off
- 44:09Speaker 1: goodbye friend.