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Nancy Guthrie Investigation Drawing FBI's Criticism | Crime Alert 05.07.26 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Alart hourly update, Breaking crime News Now, I'm Sidney Silvanni.
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  Speaker 1: A scathing critique from the highest level of federal law
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  Speaker 1: enforcement has ignited a firestorm over the investigation into the
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  Speaker 1: disappearance of eighty four year old Nancy Guthrie. FBI Director
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  Speaker 1: Cash Pattel is publicly calling out the Pima County Sheriff's Department,
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  Speaker 1: alleging that local authorities essentially handcuffed the Bureau during the
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  Speaker 1: critical first hours after the elderly woman vanished. Nancy Guthrie,
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  Speaker 1: the mother of NBC Today's Show co anchor Savannah Guthrie,
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  Speaker 1: was last seen on January thirty first, at her daughter
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  Speaker 1: Annie's home in Tucson. She was reported missing the following day,
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  Speaker 1: February first, after failing to show up for an online
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  Speaker 1: church service. What followed, according to Director Patel, was a
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  Speaker 1: period of bureaucratic stalling that may have cost investigator's precious time.
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  Speaker 1: Appearing on the Hangout with Sean Hannity podcast, Director Patel
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  Speaker 1: did not mince words about the friction between the FBI
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  Speaker 1: and local police.
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  Speaker 2: It is a state matter to state and local law
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  Speaker 2: enforcement matter. What we the FBI do is say, hey,
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  Speaker 2: we're here to help.
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  Speaker 3: What do you need?
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  Speaker 2: What can we do? And for four days we were
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  Speaker 2: kept out of the investigation.
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  Speaker 1: The director claims that the breakthrough in the case, an
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  Speaker 1: image of an armed masked man outside Nancy Guthrie's home,
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  Speaker 1: only happened because the FBI finally bypassed local hurdles to
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  Speaker 1: work directly with tech giants. Patel explains that the ring
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  Speaker 1: doorbell at the residents did not have an active subscription
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  Speaker 1: to save footage, meaning the data was at risk of
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  Speaker 1: being lost forever.
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  Speaker 2: When we were finally let in sean, look what we did.
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  Speaker 2: We went in and got the ring doorbell and we said, hey,
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  Speaker 2: is anyone talking to Google? I called the leadership at
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  Speaker 2: Google and I said, look, we know that there was
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  Speaker 2: not a subscription service to capture all of the data
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  Speaker 2: that would have been captured had there been a subscription service,
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  Speaker 2: But can we go into the cash. Can we go
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  Speaker 2: into the deep data before it's deleted and see what
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  Speaker 2: we can find. That's why you have that image because
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  Speaker 2: the FBI worked with Google to put that image out.
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  Speaker 1: Patel further alleged that the FBI offered the full reason
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  Speaker 1: courses of their world class laboratory in Quantico Virginia to
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  Speaker 1: process DNA evidence and offer he says would have yielded
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  Speaker 1: results in a fraction of the time.
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  Speaker 2: We have Quantico best live in the world. I had
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  Speaker 2: a fixed wing aircraft on the ground ready to move
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  Speaker 2: it immediately through the night. Did just say no, and
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  Speaker 2: they said We're sent in it to Florida.
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  Speaker 1: The Pema County Sheriff's Department is firing back, issuing a
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  Speaker 1: statement insisting that coordination with the Bureau began without delay
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  Speaker 1: and that the FBI was notified promptly by both the
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  Speaker 1: department and the Guthrie family. They defended their evidence processing
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  Speaker 1: as being based on operational needs and maintained that their
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  Speaker 1: local labs work in close partnership with Quantico. Despite the
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  Speaker 1: finger pointing, the grim reality remains Nancy Guthrie is still
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  Speaker 1: missing and no suspect or motive has been identified. The
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  Speaker 1: Guthrie family has offered a one million dollar reward for
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  Speaker 1: her recovery. If you have any information, please call a
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  Speaker 1: Pema County Sheriff's Department at five two zero three five
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  Speaker 1: one forty nine hundred or one eight hundred. Call FABI
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  Speaker 1: more crime and justice news after this in the Bahamas,
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  Speaker 1: The search for fifty five year old American Lynette Hooker
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  Speaker 1: has taken a new international turn, as the US Coast
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  Speaker 1: Guard Investigative Service officially enters the Fray. This week, the
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  Speaker 1: Coastguard released images of a specific sailboat moored near Aunt
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  Speaker 1: Pat's Bay around the time Lynette disappeared on April fourth.
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  Speaker 1: They are urgently seeking the owner of this vessel, which
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  Speaker 1: was positioned near the Hooker's yacht, the Soulmate. The timeline
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  Speaker 1: provided by Lynette's husband, fifty eight year old Brian Hooker,
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  Speaker 1: remains under intense scrutiny. Brian claims that while the couple
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  Speaker 1: was on their eight foot dinghy around seven thirty PM,
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  Speaker 1: Lynette simply fell overboard. He told authorities that strong current
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  Speaker 1: swept her away, and that because she had the boat's
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  Speaker 1: keys in her possession, the engine died, forcing him to
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  Speaker 1: paddle for hours before reaching shore the next morning. While
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  Speaker 1: Brian was initially detained and released without charges, the Royal
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  Speaker 1: Bahamas Police continued to label him a primary suspect.
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  Speaker 3: The search and rescue volunteers they have been, I believe,
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  Speaker 3: still looking whenever they can. But even while I have
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  Speaker 3: been detained by the Royal Behamian Police Department. I won't
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  Speaker 3: be able to stop looking.
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  Speaker 1: You want to keep looking for Lynette.
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  Speaker 3: I'm going to need somebody with more authority to tell
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  Speaker 3: me to stop.
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  Speaker 1: The day after his release, Brian made several media appearances
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  Speaker 1: proclaiming his devotion to continuing the search for Lynette, but
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  Speaker 1: on April fifteenth promptly left the Islands, citing a need
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  Speaker 1: to visit his ailing mother. However, the narrative of a
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  Speaker 1: tragic accident is being challenged by Lynnette's daughter, Carly Aylesworth
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  Speaker 1: and her mother, Darlene Hamlet, who describe a marriage plagued
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  Speaker 1: by long standing issues.
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  Speaker 4: She told me two years ago that he choked her
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  Speaker 4: and was threatening to kill her and throw her overboard.
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  Speaker 4: And she said he choked her so bad that she
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  Speaker 4: felt something like pop at her neck. So and then
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  Speaker 4: that's when she packed her bag and left, and that
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  Speaker 4: she only left him for like a couple of months.
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  Speaker 4: She went back to him, sadly. I don't know why
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  Speaker 4: she went back. I think she's always known that she
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  Speaker 4: needs to leave him, but she cares about him a lot.
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  Speaker 4: I got along with him for my mom. Really, I
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  Speaker 4: always didn't want her to be with him. Every time
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  Speaker 4: they broke up, I was like advocating for her to
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  Speaker 4: stay away because it feels like he like tried to
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  Speaker 4: like take her away and like made herself the house.
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  Speaker 4: And I know that she wanted to do that eventually,
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  Speaker 4: but I don't think that she was like ready to
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  Speaker 4: do it yet.
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  Speaker 1: Brian's attorney, Terrell Butler, has released a statement saying her
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  Speaker 1: client categorically and unequivocally denies any wrongdoing and remains cooperative
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  Speaker 1: with the ongoing investigation. For the latest crime and justice
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  Speaker 1: favorite podcast app with this crime alert. I'm Sidney Silvani.