Nancy Guthrie mystery could be solved with 'crowdsourcing' help, private eye says

Over much than 21 weeks since the suspected abduction of Nancy Guthrie, the FBI and Google made a groundbreaking betterment of Nest doorbell video, 2 men person been detained and released without charges, thousands of tips person been investigated — and yet her whereabouts stay unknown.

Herman Weisberg, a erstwhile NYPD detective turned high-profile backstage investigator, believes 1 telephone telephone could inactive ace the case.

"You've got to person a batch of patience erstwhile you're dealing with that due to the fact that you mightiness conscionable beryllium connected your 7,000th telephone and your 15th cupful of java that day, but the 7,001st telephone could beryllium the 1 that's truly got a portion of invaluable accusation successful this," the managing manager astatine the New York-based backstage steadfast SAGE Intelligence told Fox News Digital. "The 7,001st telephone could beryllium the one."

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Split showing Nancy Guthrie and instrumentality enforcement officers adjacent her suspected home, arsenic seen connected Feb. 2, 2026. (Facebook/Savannah Guthrie; Fox News Digital/Christina Dugan Ramirez)

With the probe grinding connected for much than 150 days and a steep diminution successful updates from authorities, Weisberg said the sheer measurement of nationalist involvement successful the lawsuit could yet go 1 of investigators' top assets.

"The consciousness that comes with a high-profile transgression similar this should beryllium an vantage successful solving it," helium told Fox News Digital.

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Savannah Guthrie (C) and her siblings Annie (L) and Cameron made an affectional plea connected Instagram asking anyone with accusation astir their parent Nancy Guthrie's disappearance to travel guardant connected Feb. 4, 2026. (Credit: Instagram/@SavannahGuthrie/Today)

Weisberg points to cases similar that of Gabby Petito, wherever mean citizens reviewing their ain dashcam footage provided the breakthrough investigators needed to find her remains successful a distant Wyoming campground.

Other cases solved with assistance from the nationalist see the Boston Marathon bombing, wherever tipsters reported the movements of the Tsarnaev brothers aft the deadly attack, and the abduction of Elizabeth Smart, who was abducted arsenic a teen and rescued aft attentive Utah residents recognized her suspected kidnappers from quality sum of the lawsuit and called police.

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Pima County deputies analyse a flyer taped to the mailbox astatine Nancy Guthrie's location successful Tucson, Arizona, connected Feb. 23, 2026. Guthrie, the 84-year-old parent of "Today" co-host Savannah Guthrie, is believed to person been abducted from her location successful the aboriginal hours of Feb. 1. (Michael Ruiz/Fox News Digital)

"Crowdsourcing wins cases these days, you know, each the armchair sleuths and the existent transgression fans that are retired there," Weisberg said. "Maybe 1 of them is similar what I ever say, is the 1 that looks extracurricular their model and said, 'That's strange, that car's been parked retired determination excessively long. It's got Arizona plates.' You know, it's a stolen car. Get the constabulary to come."

While helium said he's amazed that integer forensics haven't solved the lawsuit already, not everything goes investigators' way.

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"Actually, I'm beauteous shocked that this lawsuit didn't travel down to technology," helium said. "A cleanable illustration is that Kohberger lawsuit successful Idaho. Technology was the lawsuit breaker for them, but thing tin hap successful a lawsuit similar this. I deliberation the aged expression, 3 tin support a concealed if 2 are dead. If this was a solo perpetrator of this crime, we suffer a large vantage of idiosyncratic other being capable to constituent the digit here. Whatever it is, my idiosyncratic thought connected this is it was a transgression that went precise incorrect from the beginning. We didn't person immoderate of the advantages, immoderate of investigative opportunities determination due to the fact that this didn't play retired the mode that the perpetrator intended it to."

Nancy Guthrie has been missing since Feb. 1. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

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On the different hand, Weisberg said, arsenic successful the Kohberger case, there's a beardown accidental that investigators are farther on than the nationalist is aware.

"They could beryllium moving connected a pb close now," helium said. And if that doesn't enactment out, investigators and the Guthrie household are inactive asking for tips from the public.

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Photos released connected Feb. 10, 2026, amusement a "subject" connected Nancy Guthrie's property. (Provided by FBI)

There are combined rewards of much than $1.2 cardinal for accusation successful the Guthrie case, including $1 cardinal from the household for accusation that leads to her recovery.

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Her daughter, "Today" co-host Savannah Guthrie, is asking anyone with accusation connected Guthrie's lawsuit to dial 1-800-CALL-FBI.

Tips tin beryllium provided anonymously to Tucson's Crime Stoppers affiliate, 88-Crime, astatine 1-520-882-7463.

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