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Forensic Friction: AZ Sheriff Blasts ‘FBI Blockade’ Claims as Hunt for Nancy Guthrie Turns Toxic|RIME ALERT HOURLY UPDATE SAT · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Alart hourly update, Breaking crime News Now.
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  Speaker 2: I'm Jennifer Gould. A high stakes power struggle between local
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  Speaker 2: and federal authorities has erupted as the search for eighty
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  Speaker 2: four year old Nancy Guthrie enters its third agonizing week.
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  Speaker 2: Pema County Sheriff Chris Nanos is under fire following bombshell
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  Speaker 2: reports that he is actively blocking the FBI from accessing
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  Speaker 2: critical physical evidence in the abduction of the Today's Show
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  Speaker 2: co host's mom. The clash centers on a pair of
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  Speaker 2: black gloves and DNA samples recovered from the Guthrie home,
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  Speaker 2: evidence the FBI demanded be flown to their elite national
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  Speaker 2: crime lab in Quantago, Virginia. In a defiant move that
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  Speaker 2: has stunned many, Nanos snubbed the FEDS, instead shelling out
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  Speaker 2: two hundred thousand dollars in taxpayer money to ship the
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  Speaker 2: samples to a private lab in Florida. An anonymous law
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  Speaker 2: enforcement source blasted that decision, claiming the move quote risks
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  Speaker 2: further slowing a case that grows more urgent by the
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  Speaker 2: minute end quote. Sheriff Nanos, though, fired back, telling TV
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  Speaker 2: station KVOA branding the allegations of a blockade as quote
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  Speaker 2: not even close to the truth end quote. Nanos argued
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  Speaker 2: that the Florida Lab has worked with his department for
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  Speaker 2: years and is handling some aspects pro bono, claiming the
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  Speaker 2: FBI eventually agreed that sending all samples to a single
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  Speaker 2: site for marker comparison made sense. Former Secret Service agent
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  Speaker 2: Charles Marino spoke to Fox News and.
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  Speaker 1: Hopefully he wasn't wearing a double layer of gloves, and
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  Speaker 1: we're going to get some solid DNA evidence here, either
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  Speaker 1: directly from the hands or from another part of the body.
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  Speaker 2: The tension comes as the FBI doubles its reward two
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  Speaker 2: one hundred thousand dollars and releases a chilling new profile
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  Speaker 2: of the suspect, caught on doorbell camera at two twelve
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  Speaker 2: a m. On February first. The mass predator is described
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  Speaker 2: as a male five foot nine to five ten with
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  Speaker 2: a medium build, carrying a black twenty five Leader Ozark
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  Speaker 2: trail hiker pack and a semi automatic handgun. Experts note
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  Speaker 2: the suspect's outfit appeared cobbled together, utilizing a holster design
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  Speaker 2: for a revolver rather than the semi automatic weapons seen
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  Speaker 2: in the footage. Showing he's most likely an amateur. While
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  Speaker 2: federal agents frantically trace retail records at local tuson Walmart's
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  Speaker 2: for the backpack another gear. Nano's down played the importance
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  Speaker 2: of the roadside gloves, noting quote quite a number of
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  Speaker 2: them were found end quote and that their quote true
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  Speaker 2: value remains unproven. More Crime and Justice News. After this,
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  Speaker 2: authorities are now urgently requesting that all residents within a
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  Speaker 2: two mile radius of the East Skyline Drive and North
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  Speaker 2: Campbell Avenue intersection scour their security camera footage for any
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  Speaker 2: signs of vehicles, pedestrians, or suspicious activity. The request covers
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  Speaker 2: an expansive window from January first through February second. Retired
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  Speaker 2: FBI special agent Jennifer Coffindaffer spoke to Inside Edition.
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  Speaker 1: They want to see if there were any dry runs,
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  Speaker 1: any site surveys done of Nancy's property before this strike.
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  Speaker 2: This follows the release of a man in Rio Rico
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  Speaker 2: who was questioned after his car and home were searched.
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  Speaker 2: He was cleared after no links to Nancy were found.
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  Speaker 2: Adding to the urgency, a new lead has emerged involving
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  Speaker 2: a man with a goatee lurking near a home six
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  Speaker 2: and a half miles away, just one week before Nancy vanished.
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  Speaker 2: This was back on January twenty third. His features mirror
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  Speaker 2: the beard visible beneath the suspects mask in doorbell clips.
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  Speaker 2: Detectives are also grappling with ransom notes sent to media outlets,
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  Speaker 2: including TMZ, with one reportedly snarling quote, I am not
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  Speaker 2: being taken seriously end quote. Nancy, of course, has been
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  Speaker 2: missing since February first, and was last seen by family
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  Speaker 2: on the evening of January thirty first. No suspects are
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  Speaker 2: in custody, No persons of interest have been identified, and
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  Speaker 2: Guthrie's whereabouts remain unknown, though her family believes she is
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  Speaker 2: still alive. DNA confirmed blood on her porch as hers
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  Speaker 2: and her pacemaker, lost cell phone contact. Her vital heart
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  Speaker 2: medications have also long since runout. Amid the ordeal, Savannah
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  Speaker 2: Guthrie shared a heartbreaking Instagram montage of old home videos
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  Speaker 2: on Thursday, showing a young Nancy with her three children,
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  Speaker 2: captioning it quote, we will never give up on her.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you for your prayers and hope end quote. Again.
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  Speaker 2: The FBI has boosted its reward to one hundred thousand
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  Speaker 2: dollars for information leading to the location of eighty four
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  Speaker 2: year old Nancy Guthrie and or the arrest and conviction
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  Speaker 2: of anyone involved in her disappearance. Tips can be submitted
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  Speaker 2: anonymously to one eight hundred, call FBI or tip dot
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  Speaker 2: FBI dot gov. That's gov. For the latest crime and
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