The Nancy Guthrie investigation continues more than six months after her disappearance, and based on a recent report, the FBI is not giving up.
“FBI teams have been back in Nancy Guthrie’s neighborhood in the last couple of weeks,” Brian Entin of News Nation was told by Guthrie’s Tucson neighbors on Monday, August 10. “I’m told that the FBI agents were in an area kind of behind Nancy’s house.”
According to Entin, there is an alley-like dirt path that trails behind Guthrie’s home.
“One of the neighbors was telling me that she saw an FBI agent back in that area,” he revealed.
While it’s unclear exactly why the FBI has a renewed interest in the area, Entin theorized that the rainy season in Arizona may have shifted or uncovered previously buried evidence.
Entin’s latest report comes nearly three weeks after former FBI agent Steve Moore claimed the case had gone “completely cold.”
“They don’t close those cases ever, but they’ll give them to new agents who are coming in with a new set of eyes who are not indoctrinated into the way the FBI necessarily investigates everything,” Moore told Entin on July 21. “And sometimes people see them in a different light.”
He explained that a case going cold is “not acceptable” within the FBI, who are under “immense” pressure to solve every case.
“What you’re probably looking at is the FBI is evaluating not just the case, but how they work the case and trying to find what they can do to look at it from a different standpoint,” Moore said. “And so I don’t see right now that they are giving up on the case by any stretch of the mind, but I do believe if I were them, I’d be evaluating whether we had the right people on it.”
Guthrie was first reported missing on February 1. She was last seen the evening prior during a family dinner hosted by her daughter Annie Guthrie.
The Pima County Sheriff’s Department has been working alongside the FBI’s Phoenix Division to solve the case.