Major giveaways in Nancy Guthrie case showing suspected kidnapper not ‘trained killer’: Former FBI special agent
The masked thug suspected in Nancy Guthrie’s kidnapping made unprofessional movements that prove he was likely not a “trained killer”, as a former FBI senior figure had speculated, a former FBI senior figure said. A black glove was discovered near the 84-year-old’s home It could be a “margin of victory” for investigators.
Retired FBI Supervisory Special Agent James Gagliano said the way the suspect was holding a gun when he was caught on surveillance video approaching Guthrie’s home was unlike anything he had seen before.
“It doesn’t look like he’s a trained killer or someone who’s been doing this for a long time,” he told “Fox & Friends” early Thursday.
The former FBI official continued: “I’m looking at the gun, and I’ve never seen someone carry a gun that way. I’ve carried a gun in the service of my country for 33 years. I’ve never seen someone carry it that way.”
“It appears this was either put together at the last minute or the person got the holster from one person and the gun from another person.”
Galeano said the gun and black glove that authorities found Wednesday could be a series of blunders that will hopefully open the case.
“If the gloves came back to this person, if there was DNA on them, and they were ultimately the item that would nullify him… who would commit a crime, a violent crime, kidnap someone and then drop off the evidence 1.3 miles from home?” He said.
A former FBI official said the glove resembled the pair he was wearing The armed perpetrator was captured on videocould be “part of the margin of victory” for investigators scrambling to find the mother of “Today” show host Savannah Guthrie.
“Why? Well, the DNA side. So you can remove traces of fingerprints, hair, fibers and any kind of bodily fluids that are on them,” he said.
The Post spotted at least one member of the FBI’s Evidence Response Team pulling the gauntlet from the desert undergrowth in the isolated desert suburb of Guthrie on the edge of Tucson on Wednesday afternoon.
Investigators declined to comment when asked about possible evidence.
