As the search for Nancy Guthrie enters its fourth week, many true crime fanatics wonder why authorities haven’t enlisted a psychic to help find Savannah Guthrie’s mother.
NewsNation senior national correspondent Brian Entin answered some burning questions from the viewers in a special report, “Missing: The Nancy Guthrie Mystery.”
Entin revealed that one of the most frequently asked questions is why the FBI hasn’t brought a psychic into the case.
Can Psychics Be Used in Nancy Guthrie Case?
Former FBI Special Agent Maureen O’Connell said that while someone may have talked to psychics before, using them in an investigation “chew up way too much manpower.”
“The bottom line is very few, if ever, have been fruitful,” O’Connell told Entin. “As a law enforcement officer, we feel a lot more comfortable sticking with the traditional means and methods that we know to be tried and true.”
More People Want to Help
Aside from psychics, internet sleuths are also getting more invested in the Nancy Guthrie abduction.
On social media, a growing network of so-called “mom detectives” is doing their own investigation in hopes of piecing together what really happened to the 84-year-old mother.
“I’m crazy about Nancy Guthrie… I’m not even trying to hide it anymore,” Melinda Long, a mother of three, admitted on Instagram. “Anyone else completely locked into this right now?”
Despite having no personal link to the Guthries, Long finds the case intensely personal.
“I’m waking up in the middle of the night, and I’m putting on Fox News, and I am not a girl who watches TV at night,” Long told Fox News Digital. “A lot of women are writing, ‘Same, same girl, same.’ You just said exactly what I’m feeling but afraid to say out loud.”
Last week, a Mexican nonprofit group, Madres Buscadoras de Sonora, joined the search for Nancy Guthrie.
Founder Ceci Flores Armenta told TMZ that they were contacted by a reporter and requested their help. The group of mothers combed the terrain outside of Nancy’s home, hoping to find any clues that might aid the investigation.
But their efforts were cut short after being told they’re not allowed to search for Nancy, not until they get a permit first, TMZ reported.
However, Fox News reporter Matt Finn shared a clarification from the Sheriff’s office about the incident.
“The Pima County Sheriff’s Department tells me it did not tell a Nancy Guthrie search party that it needs a permit,” Finn wrote on X. “The Sheriff’s office says it doesn’t even issue permits for searches. Sheriff’s office told the party that it needs *permission if it goes on private property.”
