A forensic expert analyzes the mysterious tracks found outside Nancy Guthrie’s home in the early days of the investigation.
Joseph Scott Morgan, a forensics professor at Jacksonville State University, spoke with Nancy Grace about the possible origin of the tracks.
“If you take a look at that larger kind of panoramic view of the tracks, you can actually appreciate that it’s got what we refer to as kind of a curved or curved linear pattern,” Morgan explained in the latest episode of “Crime Stories with Nancy Grace.” “And this is a bilinear track. So, you’ve got two tracks that are running parallel to one another.”
Although it’s hard to tell the depth of the track from the photo’s angle, Morgan speculated that it was from something with a “very specific wheelbase.”
Nancy Guthrie Update: Forensic Expert Shares Possible Origin of Tracks
The mysterious tracks raised a lot of speculation early in the Nancy Guthrie investigation, particularly about their origin.
“I’ve heard people say a wagon. Don’t think it’s a wagon,” Morgan pointed out. “I think probably two wheels. That could be a trash bin. I’ve heard a lot of chatter about that.”
Morgan also suggested the tracks could have come from a wheelchair, raising questions about whether Nancy has one at home or if the suspect brought one.
Meanwhile, Grace noted that the blood trail appears to stop where the tracks pick up, suggesting that a conveyance was used to bring Nancy Guthrie from the door to the vehicle.
“So, was she then put in some sort of conveyance, a wheelchair, something movable?” Grace added. “Because someone else would likely have had to help the porch guy. He couldn’t do all of this on his own. Or could he?”
Forensic Expert Explains Possible Problem in Identifying the Tracks
Morgan hopes investigators conducted a wheelbase assessment when the tracks were first discovered, noting they’ve likely since been eradicated.
“If they did a measurement on this, that could put them in the neighborhood of what it was, what conveyance actually generated it, and that could point back to something specific,” the forensic expert explained.
He continued, “But here’s the problem, and this has been one of the problems all the way along, Nancy, is that if they didn’t do it in the beginning, there’s a problem because you can’t go back and undo what you haven’t done. It just doesn’t make sense.”
I guess I’ll be the first to point this out here but my guts telling me the daughter did it her stories her reactions even calling whom ever did it thugs and just a lot of her rehearsed interviews if I could just be point blank that’s where cops should be focussed
Maybe a dolly for moving furniture