As the investigation into the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie continues into its sixth week, one legal expert has ruled out members of the Guthrie family as being involved in the kidnapping.
While the suspect seen on surveillance footage at Nancy’s home in Tucson, Arizona has yet to be identified and there appears to be no major breakthrough in the case, legal commentator and television journalist Nancy Grace has explained exactly why members of the Guthrie family are unlikely to be suspects in this case.
Nancy Grace Explains Why Family Are Almost Certainly Not Involved
NBCUniversalSpeaking to Newsweek at the Variety True Crime Summit during the SXSW festival in Austin, Texas, Nancy Grace opened up about why she feels that the Guthrie family have never been involved in the kidnapping of Nancy Guthrie.
“For one reason, and one reason only, I do not believe the Guthrie family is responsible, because although it was many years ago that I first met Savannah Guthrie, she is, I’d like to assure you, not a fake TV person,” Grace said.
Grace also touched on the fact that Savannah and Annie Guthrie, alongside her brother-in-law Tommaso Cionio could be seen as a family at a memorial near their mother’s home in a genuine moment of grief and unity.
“[Savannah’s] real. She is real, just like she is on TV. She’s super-smart. She’s a trained lawyer,” Grace added. “She walked up to that flower memorial with her arm around her brother-in-law and I just do not believe, I find it impossible to believe that Savannah would do that if she suspected he was involved.”
The Pima County Sheriff’s Department ruled out the Guthrie family as suspects early in the investigation.
Guthrie Family Pass Polygraph Tests
As part of an appearance on “The Megyn Kelly Show” this week, Chad Ayers revealed that members of the Guthrie family had passed polygraph tests as part of the investigation. Ayers is a former SWAT team leader who cites a reliable source who has knowledge of the investigation.
Ayers said, “I can also report that it has been confirmed this morning—and I’m sure we all assume this—that every family member passed polygraphs with flying colors.”
Host Megyn Kelly then replied, “That information is huge. So then that means—I don’t know, some people don’t believe in the polygraphs, I do—but if that’s true, then we can move on from the brother-in-law and the sister.”
“And it kind of sheds a little more light on the sheriff’s statement to NBC that he’s had a theory about this case from the beginning, and nothing has moved him off his theory. And that he does believe he knows the motivation for the crime,” she added.
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