Esteemed NewsNation correspondent Brian Entin spoke out on the Nancy Guthrie investigation in an interview with the Daily Mail published on Feb. 12, explaining the peculiarities of the crime scene at Nancy’s Catalina Foothills home, where she was abducted in the early morning hours of Feb. 1.
Entin has been staked outside of Nancy’s home since the investigation began. He was even the reporter who obtained footage of the blood spatter on the 84-year-old’s front doorstep, TMZ reported.
Although Entin and his camera crew were the first to reveal the blood spatter footage, he told the Daily Mail that upon his arrival at the scene, he heard sheriffs confirm there was blood found. To his surprise, though, Nancy’s home was left unattended and without crime scene tape after detectives obtained blood samples for analysis, which Sheriff Chris Nanos later confirmed belonged to Nancy, People reported.
Brian Entin Shocked by Nancy Guthrie Investigation
“In other big cases that I’ve covered, even if it’s not really an active crime scene anymore, they’ll at least keep a deputy out there,” Entin explained of how he had access to Nancy’s property. “I’ve never seen that before, where it was just kind of like, ‘We’re done.’ And they left, and everything was just opened back up.”
Entin continued, “We weren’t sure if any family members were in the house, so we realized, why don’t we just go knock on the door like we would in any other story? There’s no one here. There’s no one telling us that we’re not allowed to. We knock on doors all the time, so we should just go see if anybody’s home.”
Authorities did, however, eventually reseal the crime scene on Feb. 4 at Nancy’s home after Entin was able to freely roam the property and capture footage of the trail of blood — days after the initial conclusion of searching her residence for evidence, Fox News reported.
Entin noted that despite authorities deciding to reseal Nancy’s home with crime scene tape, the fact that he was able to find the blood spatter was “not a good sign,” adding, “You’d think they wouldn’t have wanted everybody’s footsteps there, because they would have probably wanted to try to find footprints, right? How are we able to just walk up? How is anybody able to just walk up? That shocked me.”
Notably, Entin has worked on high-profile cases, including the disappearance of Gabby Petito. After she went missing in 2021, Entin spent seven weeks camped out in front of the home of Petito’s fiancé, Brian Laundrie, who later admitted to murdering her, Daily Mail reported. Entin also worked the infamous Idaho murder case in 2022 after four college students were killed inside of an off-campus home.
Entin told the Daily Mail that even with his significant experience as an investigative journalist, it appears that “no one really knows what has happened” to the beloved Nancy Guthrie.
Brian Entin Says the Search for Nancy Guthrie Is ‘Impossible to Predict’
“That’s what has everybody so gripped and so disturbed by it. Every day there’s a different twist and turn that makes you think something different – and even now, I can’t say that I secretly have a theory of who did it or that I know who the suspect is,” he added. “We really just don’t know. And I think that’s what makes this really unique.”
Entin suggested that authorities heavily leaning on the public for leads even after obtaining surveillance footage and photos of the suspect from Nancy’s doorbell camera makes him believe that detectives are at a standstill in the investigation.
“The fact that the FBI is putting pictures out and doing interviews — that, to me, makes me think they don’t have much to go on right now,” Entin said. “But it’s impossible to predict. All it takes is one really good tip to go into the FBI, and a few hours later we’ll have the answer. It could change literally at any moment.”
As the search for Nancy rounds into week two, FBI Phoenix shared on their X account that they have increased their reward to $100,000 for anyone who can directly lead them to Nancy’s location or the conviction of who is involved in her abduction.
I’ve already read that she was found some where in her back yard.Just a couple of days ago.