Nine months after Nancy Guthrie vanished from her Tuscon, Arizona, home, a retired homicide detective is offering a bold new theory that there can be more than one person being involved in her kidnapping.
Chris McDonough, host of the “The Interview Room” and a former homicide detective, shared his assessment in an interview with Ashleigh Banfield for NewsNation.
On the basis of evidence available publicly, he described the officer as “a disorganized offender who has attributes, potentially, of being an organized offender.”
“The guy shows up on the front porch, if he’s the guy that wrote the notes. I’m not convinced of that, personally yet. But he could be,” McDonough said.
“Or, it could be a second person. I do believe there’s more than one. I think there are two involved in this.”
When Banfield asked whether he meant “the brains and the brawn,” McDonough suggested the dynamic could resemble a murder-for-hire arrangement.
He shared similarities of Nancy Guthrie’s abduction with a case in a which a wife hired six Marines to kill her husband, noting it’s “not uncommon for somebody to say, Hey, here’s what you’ll get out of the situation.”
Nancy Guthrie was last seen at her Catalina Foothills home on the evening of January 31. Her family reported her missing on February 1. Investigators have released photos of a masked suspect dubbed “Porch Guy” and published alleged ransom notes so far. But no suspect has been named.
The family has offered a $1 million reward for information leading to an arrest.
