Nancy Guthrie Latest News: Sheriff Reveals Shocking Search Warrant Twist
This is Cameron Guthrie.
I’m speaking for the Guthrie family.
Whoever is out there holding our mother, we want to hear from you.
We haven’t heard anything directly.
We need you to reach out and we need a way to communicate with you [music] so we can move forward.
But first, we have to know that you have our mom.
Nobody’s eliminated, but we just really don’t have enough to say this is our suspect.
This is our guy.
We know that or our gal.
We just don’t know that.
>> Just family.
We’re going to go with family.
We’re We’re always mindful of what it is that’s in front of us and what we should release and and can release.
There’s There’s legal guidelines that that guide us, but there’s also um strategy, too.
[music] So, you know, I’ll I’ll I’ll leave that for you to determine.
A brother speaks.
Cameron Guthrie, standing in front of a camera that may have been set up by federal agents, addressing whoever is holding his mother.
We want to hear from you.
We have not heard anything directly.
Proof of life is the demand.
Communication is the request.
And the silence from whoever sent ransom notes to media outlets has become its own piece of evidence because the FBI stated publicly that kidnappers typically are much quicker to the gate with demands, and the communications do not usually end with a single request.
The silence is unusual.
And unusual in this investigation means something.
One of the ransom note senders has been identified and arrested.
Derek Calella, a man in California, was charged federally after allegedly contacting Annie Guthrie and her husband Thomas O’Seon directly asking whether the Bitcoin had been sent and claiming he was waiting for the transaction to go through.
Federal agents traced the communication through a voice over internet system back to a Google email account that allegedly belonged to Calella.
He admitted sending two messages and calling the family directly.
He faces federal charges carrying a potential range from 3 to 8 years in prison on the low end with the possibility of life if aggravating factors apply.
But, the arrest of one fraudulent ransomer does not resolve the question of the other communications.
Three separate ransom notes were sent to media outlets, TMZ, KOL DTV, and KGUN in Tucson.
Those three are thought to potentially originate from the same source, but authorities have not confirmed that.
And the details contained in those notes, references to floodlights at the home, the Apple Watch, may have been gleaned from media coverage that broke on the same day the notes were sent.
Anyone watching the news could have assembled those details without any knowledge of the actual crime.
We’re actively looking at everybody we come across in this case, everybody.
Uh it it it it we would be irresponsible if we didn’t talk to everybody.
The the Uber driver, the gardener, the pool cleaner, whoever, everybody is so cliche, but everybody’s still a suspect in our eyes.
That’s just how we look at things and think as as cops.
Does that mean we have a prime suspect?
No, and and and the family’s been very cooperative, uh very they they they’ve done everything we’ve asked of them.
And and we want that relationship to continue.
Um and sometimes people can be mean out there and and and that can really harm us.
Everybody is a suspect.
The Uber driver who brought Nancy to Annie’s house earlier that evening, the gardener, the pool person, everybody.
The sheriff framed the investigation as casting the widest possible net.
No one eliminated, no one identified as a prime suspect.
The family has been cooperative.
They have done everything asked of them.
And the sheriff cautioned that public reporting that identifies specific individuals can harm the investigation.
But the journalist who first reported that the son-in-law may be a prime suspect stood by her reporting.
She cited a parallel that every true crime follower will recognize.
In the Moscow, Idaho murders, investigators connected Brian Kohberger’s DNA to the crime scene and then publicly stated that no suspect had been identified.
They surveilled him for 2 weeks before arresting him.
The public statement did not reflect the private reality.
And the journalist source, contacted regularly over three consecutive days, has not changed the assessment.
The language remains the same.
Son-in-law may be prime suspect.
The sheriff’s responses during the press conference were notable for what they did not say.
When asked whether the cameras at Nancy’s home were smashed, he did not deny it.
He said he did not know where that information came from and that the cameras were removed and disconnected.
He confirmed there were two cameras.
He confirmed they are not in law enforcement’s possession and have not been located.
And he confirmed that the first camera was triggered at 1:47 a.m.
And that there was additional activity recorded at 2:28 a.m.
A 45-minute window between the first alert and the last.
The camera company could only provide alert data, not video, because Nancy did not have an active subscription.
The alerts simply indicated person detected, not who, not what they were doing.
Just that the software identified a human figure near the camera at those times.
And if you want to follow how the camera alerts, the DNA evidence, and the ransom investigation develop, make sure you’re subscribed because in this case every update has changed what we thought we knew.
And so, the reporters asked for clarity.
What was it?
Was it one, the other, or both who were the last people to drop Nancy off and see her?
And the answer was alarming.
Just family.
We’re going to go with family.
That was what the sheriff said, just family.
We’re going to go with family.
New York Times was told by the sheriff that the last person to drop off Nancy Guthrie was Tomassetti.
Annie’s husband, Tomassetti.
Just family.
We are going to go with family.
When asked directly who dropped Nancy off the night she disappeared, whether it was Annie, Thomas Osian, or both, the sheriff did not answer the question.
He deflected with a phrase that raised more questions than it resolved.
The New York Times had been told separately that the last person to drop off Nancy was Thomas Osian.
But in the press conference, the sheriff chose to obscure that specific detail behind a vague reference to family.
The vehicle that brought Nancy home that evening, Annie Guthrie’s car, has been towed and is in evidence.
The sheriff confirmed today that the towing was standard, part of the search warrant process, and that the vehicle is being processed.
That confirmation aligns with the initial reporting from the journalist’s source.
The car is in evidence.
It is being examined.
Whatever data its systems contain, telemetrics, GPS logs, the record of where it traveled and when, is now accessible to investigators.
The blood on the front porch has been confirmed as Nancy Guthrie’s blood.
Not a perpetrator’s blood.
Nancy’s blood.
The only DNA results that have come back so far point to the victim, not to an unknown suspect.
The sheriff confirmed that additional biological evidence has been submitted for testing and that results are still pending with processing times ranging from 10 to 20 days depending on the type of analysis required.
The question of forced entry remains officially unanswered.
The journalist source stated definitively that there was forced entry.
The sheriff said he would not discuss whether there was or was not forced entry.
He did not deny it.
He said he did not know where that information came from and that it was not something they were discussing.
The pattern neither confirming nor denying, deflecting with statements about not knowing where information originated is consistent with a department that is managing the public narrative while conducting a private investigation that may be further along than public statements suggest.
The sheriff was asked directly whether he was purposely withholding information because of the active investigation.
His answer was delivered carefully.
There are legal guidelines that guide us, but there is also strategy.
I will leave that for you to determine.
Strategy.
The word itself acknowledges that what the public is being told is shaped not just by legal constraints, but by investigative tactics.
Information is being managed.
The question is whether that management is protecting the investigation or protecting a narrative.
Nancy Guthrie is still missing.
Her blood is on the front porch.
Her cameras were triggered at 1:47 a.m.
And again at 2:28 a.m.
Then removed, disconnected and have not been located.
A fraudulent ransomer has been arrested.
The legitimate ransom communications remain unresolved.
The family’s car is in evidence.
The family is cooperating.
And the sheriff who told one journalist that this was definitively a kidnapping is now hedging on that characterization in public while acknowledging that strategy is shaping what the public is told.
If you have any information, contact the FBI at 1-800- call-FBI or submit tips at tips.fbi.gov.
The reward currently exceeds $1.2 million.
This story is far from over.
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