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Several suspects were likely involved in the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie, according to a retired Arizona investigator.
Kurt Dabb, a former homicide detective in Pima County, said he believes up to four assailants coordinated together before Guthrie, 84, vanished from her Tucson residence after returning home on January 31.
"It's more than likely the home was canvassed prior, either by the kidnapper himself or an accomplice," Dabb told Parade during an exclusive interview published Friday. "Whether or not they knew a camera was there was a culmination of their reconnoiter."
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Suspected kidnappings or burglaries gone awry typically require coordination, likely suggesting "two to four accomplices," Dabb said.
Authorities have not publicly confirmed they believe multiple suspects were involved in Guthrie's disappearance, although Dabb said his theory is based on the premise that the individual captured on a surveillance camera outside her home didn't act alone.
"I believe there are anywhere between two to four accomplices," Dabb told the outlet. "The logistics of something of this magnitude is too much for one person to handle in my professional opinion based on the facts as I know them right now."
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Dabb said the masked and armed suspect spotted on Guthrie's doorbell camera prior to her disappearance seemed to have a specific intent.
"I see nothing different on the video than what is publicly known," he told Parade. "That being said, burglars don't go to burglarize a house with a full backpack. This was a kidnapping."
FBI officials have released footage from a doorbell camera showing an armed and masked man outside Guthrie's home prior to her disappearance, but no suspects have been publicly identified. The suspect spent approximately 40 minutes inside Guthrie’s home after the doorbell camera was disconnected around 1:45 a.m. on February 1, authorities have said. Guthrie’s pacemaker disconnected from her cellphone around 2:30 a.m., indicating she had likely been abducted around that time.
Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos, meanwhile, has “always said it’s possible that more than one person was involved,” Pima County public information officer Angelica Carrillo told Newsweek in an email Friday.
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Nanos has previously said Guthrie, who was reported missing on February 1, could die without her daily medication.
The likelihood that Guthrie, the mother of Today co-anchor Savannah Guthrie, is still alive is decreasing by the day, a former FBI intelligence analyst told Newsweek earlier this month.
More than a month into the investigation, Jennifer Doebler, who specialized in intelligence collection and analysis during her 13-year FBI career, said agents were likely focusing on collected evidence, including processing DNA culled from Guthrie's home and tracing the origins of the backpack and clothing worn by the masked individual caught on surveillance camera.
"They are likely working with both brick-and-mortar and online retailers that sell the backpack/clothing worn by the man in the video and following up on any and all leads that result," Doebler told Newsweek during an interview on March 5. "For example, they could subpoena Amazon for every single purchase of the backpack worn by the man in the video over the past year, and then follow up on all those leads to identify every purchaser. While painstaking, this could be very fruitful."
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