Nancy Guthrie's front door blood evidence points to ‘single abductor’: former FBI profiler

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The humor spatter connected Nancy Guthrie's beforehand structure suggests a azygous abductor took her retired of her home, according to a erstwhile FBI profiler.

"If determination was nary humor spatter signifier wrong the house, past extracurricular by the beforehand doorway oregon portion she was going done the doorway this is wherever she enactment up a combat oregon refused to spell immoderate further," retired FBI Supervisory Special Agent Jim Clemente told Fox News Digital Monday.

"This is wherever she was assaulted. Most apt struck successful the chemoreceptor oregon mouth. She fell to her knees oregon connected the ground, aspirated, past coughed up blood, which besides dripped astir the aforesaid spot."

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Drops of humor look connected the beforehand structure of Nancy Guthrie's location successful Tucson, Arizona, connected Feb. 3, 2026. Guthrie was past seen connected Saturday night. (Derek Shook for Fox News Digital)

Guthrie is the 84-year-old parent of "Today" co-host Savannah Guthrie. She had lived successful her location successful Tucson's Catalina Foothills vicinity for decades earlier vanishing nether suspicious circumstances connected Feb. 1.

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Sources with cognition of the lawsuit antecedently told Fox News Digital determination were nary signs of a conflict inside. A masked intruder appeared connected doorbell camera video taken astatine Guthrie's beforehand porch, and her backmost doorway was recovered propped open. Authorities person said they person not ruled retired the anticipation that aggregate radical could person been progressive successful her suspected kidnapping.

Red droplets look connected the beforehand structure of Nancy Guthrie's location successful Tucson, Ariz., connected Feb. 3, 2026. Guthrie was past seen connected Saturday night. (Derek Shook for Fox News Digital)

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Clemente said helium believes her abductor past carried her distant with her look up, which constricted further humor spatter. Video taken aft section authorities released the transgression country shows a attraction of humor drops adjacent the mat astatine her beforehand door. The way grows bladed and ends wherever her beforehand walkway meets the borderline of the driveway.

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"It rules retired much than 1 idiosyncratic due to the fact that if 2 radical had power of her arsenic they were leaving the location she would ne'er person fallen to the ground," helium said. "They would person been successful power of her assemblage and prevented her from resisting and warring and falling aft she was struck successful the face."

Red droplets look connected the factual walkway starring to Nancy Guthrie's location successful Tucson, Ariz., connected Feb. 3, 2026. Guthrie was past seen connected Saturday night. (Derek Shook for Fox News Digital)

She apt had her look down adjacent the beforehand doorway wherever images amusement the astir blood, helium said.

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"The larger droplets are low-velocity humor spatter that fell straight retired of her mouth," helium said. "Her look was facing downward erstwhile she coughed up the mean velocity tiny droplets, and it was wrong inches of the crushed facing consecutive down."

There's nary denotation of "cast off" humor spatter, helium said, which appears erstwhile humor is flung disconnected of a moving object.

Savannah Guthrie stands beside her parent Nancy Guthrie successful a photograph taken connected June 15, 2023. (Nathan Congleton/NBC via Getty Images)

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"The deficiency of directionality of the humor splatter says that those drops fell consecutive down, and she wasn’t moving fast," helium said. "So determination is simply a contradiction successful the evidence. I judge this was caused by the information that she was carried from that archetypal determination to the car with her look up truthful lone a minimum magnitude of humor was deposited connected the walkway."

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He said it doesn't look similar she was dragged and believes she had been struck successful the look with a fist oregon perchance the butt of the suspect's handgun.

Nancy Guthrie and Savannah Guthrie airs unneurotic successful a photograph provided by NBC. (NBC)

"This was not done precise rapidly due to the fact that if it had been, the humor should’ve had a process moving the absorption that she was traveling," helium said.

Dr. Michael Baden, a famed forensic pathologist, antecedently told Fox News Digital helium suspected the humor drops came from Guthrie's hands oregon face.

"The quality of the humor spots with small airy centers oregon donut shapes are emblematic for drops that travel from the chemoreceptor oregon mouth, due to the fact that they're mixed with air," helium said successful February.

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"These are not guiltless droplets," helium added. "From the shape, fig of droplets and the spot of the droplets extracurricular the location connected the porch, they are wholly accordant and indicative of occurring during an abduction." 

Anyone with accusation is asked to dial 1-800-CALL-FBI. There is simply a combined reward of much than $1.2 cardinal for accusation that cracks the case.

Fox News' Julia Bonavita contributed to this report.