A retired FBI profiler gave a detailed analysis of the blood spatter found outside of Nancy Guthrie’s house.
Jim Clemente, a 22-year FBI veteran, examined the video of the scene frame by frame and shared his observations with NewsNation’s Brian Entin.
“This tells me a number of things, and it’s very specific. One is that, at this point, Nancy’s face was very close to the ground, within a foot of the ground,” Clemente explained in the latest episode of “Brian Entin Investigates.” “And this could be either that she was on her knees and hunched over, or actually lying on the ground.”
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Jim Clemente noted that some of the droplets found on Nancy Guthrie’s porch are low-velocity blood spatter, and others are medium-velocity.
“Medium velocity (blood spatter) can be created when somebody actually aspirates blood and then coughs it up,” Clemente expanded. “You can see three circular blood spots, but they are hollow. You see mainly the rings. This definitely came from her (Guthrie). She coughed it out. It kind of went out in different directions.”
The expert also pointed to a smear pattern, suggesting someone may have stepped on it or another body part made contact.
“Where that blood pattern disappears, I believe she was likely picked up and carried the rest of the way, perhaps with her face up so that there was no more blood deposited on that walkway,” he continued.
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Jim Clemente theorized that Nancy Guthrie may have been threatened by her abductor and fought back.
“I believe that she was threatened,” he explained. “She was controlled by most likely the gun that the offender had at his waist or his crotch area, and that he used the gun to threaten her, and control her and get her down to the front door.”
Clemente believes that at that point, Nancy likely realized that the abductor was trying to take her out of the house and tried to fight back.
“I believe that Nancy fought him either inside the door or just outside the door, depending on where the first appearance of this blood spatter evidence is,” he continued. “And at that point, she was likely either blitzed with overwhelming force, punched in the face or the nose, and she began bleeding. And she went down either on her knees or just hunched over and then coughed up this blood, which is why we see this pattern.”
The retired FBI profiler believes Nancy’s kidnapping only involved one person, noting that there was no indication of multiple steps taken in or around the blood spatter.
“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,” he explained. “But here, she’s clearly on the ground coughing this blood up.”
Nancy Guthrie was abducted from her home in the early morning hours of February 1st.
