Savannah Guthrie returned to the TODAY show earlier this month on Monday, April 6. This came two months after her mother Nancy Guthrie, 84, was kidnapped from her home in Tucson, Arizona. Sadly, Nancy remains missing, and the search for her continues.
Now, a former FBI profiler is speaking out to reveal some disturbing new details about Nancy’s kidnapping.
FBI Profiler Weighs In
The retired FBI profiler Jim Clemente is addressing the blood splatters that were found outside Nancy’s home. After analyzing images of the splatters, Clemente concluded that Nancy likely coughed up this blood as she was taken.
“This tells me a number of things, and it’s very specific,” Clemente told News Nation. “One is that … at this point, Nancy’s face was very close to the ground, within a foot of the ground. This could be she was either on her knees, hunched over, or actually lying on the ground.”
Clemente went on to say that some of the droplets are low-velocity blood spatter while others are medium-velocity.
“Medium velocity (blood spatter) can be created when somebody actually aspirates blood and then coughs it up,” he explained. “You can see three circular blood spots, but they are hollow. You see mainly the rings. This definitely came from her (Nancy). She coughed it out. It kind of went out in different directions.”
“Where that blood pattern disappears, I believe she was likely picked up and carried the rest of the way,” Clemente added. “Perhaps with her face up so that there was no more blood deposited on that walkway.”
Clemente Doubles Down
Clemente also expressed his belief that Nancy was kidnapped by just one person. This is because he saw no indication of multiple steps taken in or around the blood splatters.
“If there were two people, you would think one of them would have control of her, complete control of her inside the house and brought her outside and would not have lost that control,” Clemente stated. “But here, she’s clearly on the ground coughing this blood up.”
“There’s no evidence to me that there are more than one offender here,” he continued. “If there was three different shoe print patterns in the blood stains … that would tell me something. I don’t see it. I’m not aware of that evidence.”
As for why someone would kidnap someone of Nancy’s advanced age, Clemente believes that the kidnapper had a specific “goal” in mind.
“Here it appears that that goal had to do with getting Nancy out of her home in the middle of the night,” he said. “I do believe his motivation was strong enough that he carried this out even despite the fact that at some point she did not actually cooperate.”
Clemente then said that if one of the ransom notes that came in were real, money was likely the motivating factor.
“In order to get that money, he would have to control her, take her, threaten her life,” he concluded. “The fact is clearly that actually didn’t happen in these circumstances.”
Nancy Goes Missing
Nancy was last seen on the night of Saturday, January 31. That evening, she had dinner with her daughter Annie and son-in-law Tommaso Cioni. They dropped her off at her home afterwards at around 9:45pm, and she tragically hasn’t been seen since.
A masked intruder was captured on Nancy’s doorbell ring camera in the early hours of February 1. He managed to cover the camera with some plants before moving forward with the kidnapping.
It has since been revealed that the masked man had been seen in the doorbell ring camera prior to the night Nancy was taken. This indicates that he may have been casing out her home.
The Guthrie family is offering a $1 million reward for information that leads to Nancy’s return.
This has clearly been a nightmarishly difficult time for Savannah and her entire family. Please join us in saying a prayer for the return of Nancy Guthrie.