SAVANNAH GUTHRIE MOM MISSING: DAY 34

Summary

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Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

Episode: "SAVANNAH GUTHRIE MOM MISSING: DAY 34"

Date: March 6, 2026

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Overview

In this episode, Nancy Grace and her panel delve into the ongoing investigation into the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie, mother of NBC anchor Savannah Guthrie, now missing for 34 days. The episode focuses on new developments: FBI canvassing of neighbors about possible internet disruptions on the night of Nancy Guthrie's abduction, theories around the use of a signal jammer, and law enforcement’s efforts investigating trash collection routes for evidence. The episode stands out for its thorough breakdown of cutting-edge forensic and digital investigative tactics, with insights from digital forensic experts and law enforcement veterans.

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Main Themes & Discussion Points

1. FBI Investigation: Targeted Neighborhood Interviews

Key Segment: [02:16] – [04:12]

• Nancy Grace reveals the FBI is not canvassing every neighbor, but instead targeting specific homes near the Guthrie residence.
• Investigators are asking these neighbors if they experienced internet outages the night Nancy Guthrie disappeared, possibly due to use of a signal jammer.
• Speculation about the criteria for selection: vantage points, work schedules (e.g. people out late or up early), possible movement detected via cell phone data.

Quote:
“Nancy, as we've pointed out before, while this is a neighborhood, the homes are not close together...the FBI did not go to every house. They only went to specific homes…very specific about the time and very specific about what could have happened with their Internet connectivity.”
— Dave Mack (Crime Stories Reporter) [04:12]

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2. Digital Forensics: The Signal Jammer Theory

Key Segment: [09:01] – [13:32]

• James Bass, digital forensic analyst, explains how a WiFi (signal) jammer can disrupt wireless security cameras and other internet-connected devices.
• Such jammers are illegal in the US but easily purchasable online; they work by “screaming” over the frequencies used by wireless devices, preventing data transfer.
• If only Nancy Guthrie’s home lost connectivity, it points toward a targeted jammer, not widespread cable sabotage.
• Panel speculates on whether a device seen in drone footage is a jammer or walkie-talkie, noting jammers often have multiple antennas.

Quote (explaining WiFi jammer):
"If you think of your wireless router, it's got really two signals...jammers don't erase the signal, but what they do is they emit such a loud signal that it's going to overwhelm your device. Just like I said, going to a movie theater and having someone beside you screaming in your ear the whole time."
— James Bass [10:55]

• Discussion of which devices could be affected: security cameras, doorbells, driveway monitors, potentially even Bluetooth medical devices (though that requires even more sophistication).
• Hypothesis: FBI using neighbors’ internet outage reports to map possible entry/exit routes for the perpetrator.

Standout Moment:
“You're saying that if the signal jammer had already been turned on as the perp was proceeding into the neighborhood, it could very likely jam, even if briefly, devices as it passed on the way to Nancy's...that would give me an entry...it would give me the route and it would tell me which way they went.”
— Nancy Grace [26:53]

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3. Clarifying the Timeline: Pacemaker vs. Jammer

Key Segment: [33:18] – [37:39]

• Nancy and guest Brian Fitzgibbons (USPA Nationwide Security) piece together new data: Nancy Guthrie’s pacemaker (with Bluetooth) continues transmitting after initial outside entry, suggesting the signal jammer (if used) did not affect all devices immediately.
• It’s suggested the nest camera was dismantled after the suspect entered, and video was still uploaded to the cloud before any jamming commenced. The suspect may have activated the jammer while exiting or after neutralizing the camera.

Quote:
“So the signal jammer, if it existed, did not stop the NEST from recording yet because we got some of that video. Okay, yeah, but it could have been turned on after that.”
— Nancy Grace [36:48]

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4. Trash Collection: The Search for Physical Evidence

Key Segment: [41:34] – [44:38]

• Investigators have been coordinating with trash companies since day one, trying to locate where trash from the Guthrie neighborhood ends up.
• Panel believes they are seeking discarded items: bloody clothing, gloves, masks, or other forensic evidence (a tactic seen in other high-profile cases).
• Landfill searches are meticulous, using schedules/grids to pinpoint deposit locations.

Quote:
"They're going to be trying to find out, you know, what the dates and times of pickups were...you can identify precisely where trash from a certain date range was deposited."
— Brian Fitzgibbons [42:36]

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5. Patterns from Previous Cases

Key Segment: [44:38] – [48:47]

• Nancy and panel draw comparisons to past cases (Jennifer Doulos & Bryan Kohberger) to illustrate how suspects often try to dispose of or destroy evidence—clothing, vehicles, cleaning meticulously, etc.—but are still caught by forensic diligence.
• Discussion of suspects acting suspiciously post-crime: deep-cleaning cars, changing routines, or burning/discarding vehicles.

Quote:
“I've seen perps actually burn the car after a murder or ditch the car, wait for it to get stolen, leave it somewhere with the keys in it, get rid of it. So that car actually may have been destroyed by now.”
— Nancy Grace [48:11]

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On media scrutiny:
  “They're like gnats, you know, one or two.”
  — Bob Krieger (Former SWAT Commander) [06:04]

• Nancy's candor on tech explanations:
  “James Bass. I got two law degrees...I don't know what you just said. Slow it down, brother.”
  — Nancy Grace [09:30]

• On possible evidence disposal:
  “First thing Peterson wanted to do after he murdered Lacey was do the laundry. First time ever, right.”
  — Nancy Grace [48:11]

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Timeline Timestamps for Key Segments

• Episode Content Begins: [02:16] – Nancy sets stage, outlines new leads.
• FBI Neighbor Interviews: [04:12]
• Media & Law Enforcement Discussion: [06:04]
• Digital Forensics & Signal Jammer 101: [09:01] – [15:34]
• Theories on Entry/Exit Routes via Jammer Data: [21:13] – [26:53]
• Pacemaker Timeline Discussion: [33:18] – [37:39]
• Trash/Forensic Evidence Investigation: [41:34] – [44:38]
• Suspect Clean-up/Disposal Patterns: [44:38] – [48:47]

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Panel & Expert Roles

• Nancy Grace: Host; guides, asks pointed legal and procedural questions, connects to famous precedent cases with passion and clarity.
• Dave Mack: Crime Stories reporter; provides factual, on-the-scene updates.
• James Bass: Digital forensics expert; explains signal jammers, digital device vulnerabilities, and potential data recovery tactics.
• Bob Krieger: Former SWAT commander; contextualizes law enforcement methods, media scrutiny, and practical challenges.
• Brian Fitzgibbons: Private security/investigator; adds insights into evidence retrieval, suspect behavior, and search procedures.

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Conclusion & Call to Action

The episode underscores the increasingly high-tech tactics in modern police investigations—signal jammers, WiFi analysis, digital forensics—but also highlights age-old investigative basics like canvassing and trash forensics. Panelists agree the suspect may have attempted to disable surveillance and destroy evidence, but law enforcement's advances and diligence may still lead to a breakthrough.

Reward: Over $1.2 million for tips leading to Nancy Guthrie’s whereabouts.
Hotline: [phone] (FBI Tip Line)

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Note: This summary focuses solely on the investigative content. Ads, sponsorships, and non-essential sections are omitted for clarity.

Transcript

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[Nancy Grace]

Savannah Guthrie's mother Nancy Guthrie Missing Day 34 it defies all logic. This as we learn in the last hours, the FBI has been going door to door asking certain neighbors did they have an Internet disruption the night Nancy Guthrie was abducted, Was a signal jammer used or some other apparatus? Also, we learn investigators are now talking to trash Companies. Why? And this, as we learn, the DNA, the stranger DNA, not a family member, not someone that worked with Mrs. Guthrie was definitively found in. In the home. What difference does it make? Good evening. I'm Nancy Grace. This is Crime Stories. I want to thank you for being with us. A lot happening in the search for Nancy Guthrie. Straight out to Crime Stories, investigative reporter Dave Mack. Dave, what do you mean? The FBI going not exactly door to door, but to certain neighbors, which I find interesting. Not door to door. Not every neighbor. Certain targeted neighbors. Why them? What do they know? What can they offer that the next door neighbor cannot offer? Is it a vantage point? Is it their work schedule? In other words, were they coming home in the middle of the night? Were they getting up early? What did they notice? Were they out and about? Was their cell phone identified, moving around in the area in the early morning hours? My point is it could be a myriad of possibilities. Not every neighbor was questioned. Certain people were isolated in question. I'll get to that in a moment. But Dave Mack. Interference with their Internet signal. What?

[Dave Mack]

The FBI yesterday was specifically looking at the home just west of Nancy Guthrie's home, and they were specifically the FBI specifically asking about Internet connectivity issues the night that Nancy Guthrie disappeared. Very specific about the time and very specific about what could have happened with their Internet connectivity. Now, Nancy, as we've pointed out before, while this is a neighborhood, the homes are not close together. They are separated by a bit. And in this particular case, they, as you mentioned, FBI did not go to every house. They only went to specific homes. In particular, the home to the west of Nancy Guthrie's house, that's the one they spent the most time with. And again, checking on Internet connectivity on February 1st. That's what they're looking at.

[Nancy Grace]

You're seeing video, drone video from our friends at Fox News. How irritating. Look, look, it's like gnats straight out to. I'm going to circle back on what you just said, but to Bob Krieger joining us, former SWAT commander. That's not easy to obtain. Former SWAT commander, Pima County Sheriff's Office. 30 years in Pima. Did you see the video we just showed? Do you see the media chasing down the FBI? I mean, they can't. They can't make a move without being watched. People are trying to figure out what they're saying. They're trying to read their lips. Did you ever encounter anything like this where your every move was watched while you tried to work? Bob?

[Bob Krieger]

Not specifically like that, but, you know, it started a handful of Years ago where first amendment auditors decided they wanted to videotape and look at everything that law enforcement does. And it's a skill that you learn, and you learn that as long as they're decent distance away, you just kind of ignore them. Like you said, they're like gnats, you know, one or two.

[Nancy Grace]

Hey, Bob, can I tell you a story? I remember the first time that Court TV covered one of my trials live. I was so oblivious, focusing on the answer, the jury, the question, the jury, the judge. I mean, it's like a tennis match. You zone out everything else. And later I found out that the camera caught me trying to put my hair up, which I wore on top of my head at the time, adjusting my dress and all that before the jury would come back in. So, you know, you have to be in a zone if you're focusing on what's happening. Can I see that video again from our friends at Fox's drone video of the FBI. And that's how we know they were only going to certain doors, certain neighbors. So can I see the other photo now, please? Control room of Nancy Guthrie's home. And Dave Mack, if you could look at this because, see, we don't know how this is situated. The overhead shot of Nancy Guthrie's home. Okay. When you're say, saying west, see, from what we're seeing, I don't know which home that would be. Let me see a far shot. That's from 12 News, by the way, a high. Ariel, is it to the right of her home or the left of her home in front or in back? What is west as it is oriented to this photo? Dave Mack, do we know what would be west? I would assume it's to the left of her home.

[Dave Mack]

Okay, that's what I assume. But, Nancy, I don't have a. There's not a compass here on the picture to know exactly where. That's why I use the identifier.

[Nancy Grace]

Okay, well, we're going to find out. Control room. That will give you something fun to do. Figure out what is east, west, north, and south in this photo. Just FYI, all you need to know, control room, is what's north. I'll do the rest for you. Back to the topic. The FBI going not quite door to door, but certain neighbors isolated. Straight out to James Bass joining us, digital forensic analyst, expert witness at Evidence Solutions, Inc. In Tucson. James, thank you for being with us. Now, you've heard, like we did late last night, about questioning neighbors. Did they have an Internet interference the night Nancy went missing? Thoughts

[James Bass]

Based on some of the new reporting of possible WI fi jammers being used, I think what you're seeing is them trying to either establish that one was used or rule out that fact. WI fi jammers work by overwhelming the signal. You can think of it like sitting in a movie theater and someone screaming in your ear. That's pretty much what they do. They're going to flood the zone with signals. So part of this requires a proximity to your device. You can't block out everything.

[Nancy Grace]

Okay, James Bass. James Bass. Let me see him. Bass. I got two law degrees, One JD from Mercer University, one LLM in Criminal Constitutional Law from nyu. And I don't know what you just said. Slow it down, brother. Okay, what? Because I need to understand this is technology I don't know about, and I want to understand it. Okay, what now,

[James Bass]

a WI fi jammer is. It's a device you can buy off the Internet. They're illegal in the United States. You can't possess them. But if you do obtain one, they're relatively effective at stopping WI fi signals. They do this by just overwhelming this specific signal bandwidth.

[Nancy Grace]

How did you. First of all, you've already told me something inconsistent. I believe you, but in my mind, it's inconsistent. You said it's illegal, but you can get it on the Internet. Just like drugs. They're illegal, but you can get them anywhere. So a signal jammer is illegal in the U.S. i wonder, where are they legal? But that's a whole other can of worms. Oh, there's a picture signal jammer. And then you said. Okay, so I've reconciled that, James. Now, you said you flood the Internet. What does that mean? How do you flood the Internet?

[James Bass]

If you think of your wireless router, it's got really two signals. Your 2.4 gigahertz and your. Your 5 gigahertz signal band. That's how it talks back and forth. It sends and receives data. Now, these jammers don't erase the signal, but what they do is they emit such a loud signal that it's going to overwhelm your. Your device. Just like I said, going to a movie theater and having someone beside you screaming in your ear the whole time. You can't hear the movie, but the movie's still going on. It's just going to interfere with the. The transmission of the data.

[Nancy Grace]

Okay, stop right there. I need to. I need. I've got to take this in tiny sips. Okay? Number one, it's illegal. Number two, you can get one on the Internet. Three, Internet. Everybody's home Internet through their routers, gives a signal and receives a signal. A signal jammer does not stop either the receipt or the transmission of your home router. What it does is it sends out its own signal that is so strong and overpowering. Okay, then you finish the rest of the sentence. That's as far as far as I got.

[Dave Mack]

Go ahead.

[James Bass]

It's so strong and overpowering that nothing can be sent or received. It can't be heard. You know, you're in this case, maybe the. The NEST camera is broadcasting video to the router. The router is then sending it to the service. Now, when a WI fi jammer is set next to that camera, it's going to scream so loud that the signal from the device from the camera isn't heard by the router. It's just going to jump between it and block it.

[Nancy Grace]

Pretend you're talking to kindergartners. The WI fi jammer, when set next to Nancy Guthrie's nest. What was the rest of that?

[James Bass]

It's. It emits a signal that's more powerful than the NEST camera. It would overwhelm that bandwidth. It just screams and yells really loud, and then the router can't hear the camera anymore. It just interferes and severs that wow

[Nancy Grace]

override signal so loudly, the nest can no longer hear the transmission it's supposed

[James Bass]

to be receiving and sending. Yes, that right, exactly.

[Nancy Grace]

Wow. Okay, you just explained a lot to me. Now I want you to look at something. Control room, could you please show the item sticking out of the door? The porch, guys. There you go. Keep going, keep going, keep going. Stop. So what we had thought. Oh, you're still moving. Could you ISO that for me? What we had thought was a walkie talkie, could that be the signal jammer or a signal jammer? James Bass?

[James Bass]

It's possible. It is very possible that that is a WI FI signal jamming antenna. You normally would see more than one antenna. There's usually one antenna per band that it's going to try to interfere with as your illustration here. So it could still be a walkie talkie of some sort. But that antenna is also something that you would see on a WI fi jammer.

[Nancy Grace]

So it could be a jammer. Do all jammers have the three antenna?

[James Bass]

No, some have two, some have three. Depending on the sophistication of the jammer, the technology that's being used, you can see more. Some don't have one. You would have to provide a separate antenna. Some have them integrated into the device for portability.

[Nancy Grace]

Huh. So some have no antenna or you you buy them.

[James Bass]

Everything has to have an antenna, but if you buy they can be mounted to to anything they're not. The one you would put in your pocket would have an antenna like a walkie talkie, but if you were looking to install one on a vehicle, it would not have a built in integrated antenna. You would have to have an external antenna for the signal to broadcast.

[Nancy Grace]

Okay, I asked that because you said it could be integrated into the device, but you're saying it can be attached to the device, correct?

[James Bass]

Correct.

[Nancy Grace]

Depending on what you purchase everything separately and then put it together.

[James Bass]

You can yes, or you can just purchase one for they usually run about 100 $150 like the one you're displaying here. That's probably a hundred $200.

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See full [e-mail] Crime Stories with Nancy Grace Signal jammer. The reason we're talking about this tonight is we have learned that the FBI, this is not just some kook on the Internet. The FBI is asking neighbors, certain neighbors, if they had interference with their Internet the night Nancy goes missing. Now I've got an answer. Let's see the aerial view of Nancy's home again, please. Because I've now learned the front door is facing north. The front door is facing north. So as you're looking at the camera, you are north, south is behind the house. Okay. Which means west would be to the left. There you go. Thank you. Control room. Wow. Okay. That is very helpful. Now let's There's Nancy's home with the red mark on it. So to the west there you can see now you see her home, you see her pool and it looks. There you go. The first home to the left would be the one to the west. Okay. Dave Mack, you're telling me that is the home that they were asking about interference with the signal.

[Dave Mack]

Correct. That is the home they spent the most time with. And that's where they were specifically asking connect the night Nancy went missing.

[Nancy Grace]

Dave Mack, not to belabor the point, but was the FBI asking multiple people in the neighborhood or just the home to the west?

[Dave Mack]

The FBI actually went to different homes in the neighborhood, Nancy, not just the one. They were seen walking to other homes in the neighborhood as well.

[Nancy Grace]

That I know. But did they ask other neighbors about Internet interference or just the one neighbor?

[Dave Mack]

We know just about the one neighbor. We don't know what the conversation.

[Nancy Grace]

But they could have. Got it. Got it. But they could have. So back to you, James Bass, digital forensic analyst, expert witness at Evidence Solutions Inc. There in Tucson. If a signal jammer was used, would it have jammed houses around Nancy's or just Nancy's?

[James Bass]

That's exactly what they're probably trying to establish. A small unit has a very small area that it can jam. It's got to be close to the device to actually stop the signal. So what they're looking is houses that are going to be close trying to establish a timeline or possibly a route in or out of the neighborhood based off of a signal interruption.

[Nancy Grace]

Okay, that was really smart. Hold on, hold on. I was trying to discern something. If the neighbors say their Internet was not interrupted, that could mean there was not a blanket like cable disruption. That would be more likely. Not absolutely, but more likely that a signal jammer was used at Nancy's home. If nobody else had a problem. Nancy was the only one that had a problem. More likely a signal jammer was used. Although Bob Krieger has another idea. Former SWAT commander, 30 years in LA, law enforcement in Pima. Was your idea.

[Bob Krieger]

Well, if they were asking about strictly Internet service going out, the jammers have a real small radius to work in. If the whole neighborhood went out, it'd be probably more likely that someone cut something in a box or at the house or houses to knock off the service that's going to cut all the Internet activity, not just the individual WI FI signals. So there, there's, you know, it just shows.

[Nancy Grace]

Okay, what does that mean? Bob Krieger, to have the fiber optic

[Bob Krieger]

cut, that means you're not you. You can't get on the Internet anymore. Your Internet is now broken. You can't talk to anything.

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[Bob Krieger]

Can't stream anything. No data is coming in, no data is going out. What the jammer does is it just affects the WI FI signals from your router inside your house, all your devices that are pushing information out. So the, the Internet is still working. It's just being jammed. If the cables are cut or there's a big disruption, that's when the whole neighborhood would go out. That's when you get Comcast or Xfinity or whoever your provider is saying, hey, guess what? The Internet's down in your neighborhood. You can't do anything. And today's world, people are going to panic and everything stops. No streaming, no cells or no. Anything that you do on the Internet is done. And that's an absolute.

[Nancy Grace]

Bob Krieger if the fiber optic was the issue, when you say cut, do you mean physically manually cut, severed, like with scissors or a knife?

[Bob Krieger]

Yes.

[Nancy Grace]

Okay. Wouldn't there be evidence of that following? I mean, they can't cut it and repair it, so wouldn't that still be cut the following morning?

[Bob Krieger]

Yeah, absolutely. And you would know that whenever you get an outage in your neighborhood, I get a text alert from somebody saying, hey, there's an outage in your neighborhood. Neighborhood, you know it's coming. So that's far less likely to have happened because the Internet service provider would know that already.

[Nancy Grace]

Unless Nancy Guthrie's could have been cut solely, like at her home. The. The fiber opt leading to her home. I don't know that that's possible or how it is set up. But that said, it's still an option. I want to go back to something that James Bass said and Krieger Fitzgibbons, please jump in if you have an idea. You mentioned James Bass, that the routes in and out of the neighborhood could be discerned based on this signal jammer or something to that effect. Again, they did not teach me this in law school. I'm learning right now as we're talking. Aren't you glad you're not one of my witnesses that I would put on the stand? Because we would be at this all day. What did you mean by that? All day long that maybe you could discern a route in and out?

[James Bass]

Well, first, back to the fiber optic issue. The reason I don't believe it would be a fiber optic issue is because the camera was transmitting at this point. So if fiber optic was cut prior to the incident, you would not have had these images recovered on the back end from Nest. So the way. Secondly, the way this signal jammer would work is, as Bob said, there's a very small radius that it can actually kill signal to. To overwhelm a signal transmission. So if it is in use and it's doing its job as it's driving past homes, you may see not necessarily. When I say an Internet loss, you're not going to see a router go offline necessarily, but you may see some of your connected devices. You may notice, you may get an Internet or a notification that your doorbell stopped working. There was a break in service or a driveway monitor or something as it drove past, it interrupted a signal, and there was a record made somewhere. So knowing this, it would help you establish a timeline if there were a sequence of interruptions through the houses going down the road, you know, in and out you could kind of discern possibly a route, a timeline, and I want to say that the type. But the sophistication of what you're dealing with.

[Nancy Grace]

Okay, that is brilliant. Okay, James, let me see. James Bass. A moment. I'm trying to drink in what you just said. I'm trying to ingest it. You're saying that if the signal jammer had already been turned on as the pert was proceeding into the neighborhood, it could very likely jam, even if briefly, devices as it passed on the way to Nancy's. That would give me an entry. I don't need the time because I already know the time based on a pacemaker. But it would give me the route and it would tell me which way they went and how they entered. And if I know that, then maybe I can follow that and get video surveillance from the quick trip or the whatever. Okay, hold on. Let me. Let me just. What devices could the signal blocker potentially have knocked off? You mentioned a doorbell device. I guess you're talking about a ring or something like that. Or a nest. A driveway monitor. You're still talking about a ring cam or something to that effect. Would it affect cell service? Would it affect any other devices? A baby monitor? I don't know. What. What else could it affect? Wait, what control room? You had an idea what? Pacemaker? You know, actually, I thought of that as I was spouting them off. But would a signal jammer affect a Bluetooth connected pacemaker anyway? That's a good idea. Pacemaker. What else could it affect? And ergo, how would we get a notice of that? When you say you might have got a. A record will be made and you may have gotten notice. Okay, first of all, what devices,

[James Bass]

really? Any devices. Anything that connects to the Internet wirelessly.

[Dave Mack]

Hold on.

[Nancy Grace]

James Bass. Wait a minute. We're just hearing. We've confirmed three other neighbors were asked the same thing about Internet connection, not just the neighbor to the west. Now that we spent 10 minutes trying to figure out what was the right house, now we know it was not unique to them. That should, I believe, affect your opinion about what's happening? That more neighbors are being questioned? The FBI thinks more people, not just Nancy, not just one neighbor, may have had Internet interruption. And it goes along with your theory.

[James Bass]

Yeah. What we would be looking for, or what they should be looking for is if there is some sort of interference as a vehicle or as a person walking. However this happened, that WI fi jammer has such a small radius that it could knock off things as it goes down the road. You know, we see.

[Nancy Grace]

I know what I was asking you, James. I was asking you what other devices would have been interrupted. Just give me a quick laundry list off the top of your head.

[James Bass]

There's a lot of devices that we see every day that are advertised on social media that we're bringing into our lives. You see the solar powered remote, security cameras, driveway monitors, anything that can be connected to the Internet remotely that could be close to this jammer as it went by would have been knocked offline sequentially.

[Nancy Grace]

What about a pacemaker as it traveled? What about a pacemaker?

[James Bass]

Pacemaker is a Bluetooth connection. That would require a more sophisticated type of jamming and it's a much closer not saying it can't be done. It would require another frequency of jamming and it would also be much closer to the device.

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[Brian Fitzgibbons]

Yeah, absolutely.

[Dave Mack]

And.

[Brian Fitzgibbons]

And I think, you know, going through that timeline, it's. It's going to lead to this. Right? We know this. We know that that NEST camera was taken. Right? We know that that NEST camera was taken away. So we, we know, at least in those moments when the subject comes up to remove the camera that the signal jammer was not working. Right, because law enforcement recovered this from a transmission from that device to the cloud. So we know that the signal jammer wasn't working at that moment, but we can potentially deduce that it was working earlier.

[Nancy Grace]

I gotta write that down so I can study it. That's a really good observation, Fitzgibbons. Okay, so the signal jammer, if it existed, did not stop the NEST from recording yet because we got some of that video. Okay, yeah, but it could have been turned on after that.

[Brian Fitzgibbons]

It could have been on.

[Nancy Grace]

Go ahead.

[Brian Fitzgibbons]

And it could have been on and working and jamming that signal while they entered the house, while they exited the house. And that what you could be seeing here. We know that this subject removed that camera at some point and took it away. So at a minimum, they were aware that video could be recovered from the physical device. They weren't planning on it being recovered from the cloud.

[Nancy Grace]

Okay, you Fitzgibbons just hit another important point. Bob Krieger Joining us, former SWAT, Pima County Sheriff's 30 years at Pima. Maybe that is why we don't have any additional cam. Because when he goes in, he turns on the jammer and no more cam is available. He jammed it. It's possible. Because if they could have gotten that, if they could have resurrected like Lazarus, Google resurrected, or either cast, FBI cellular Analysis survey team resurrected this video. If the jammer was then turned on, maybe that's why we don't have any more video. Maybe he thinks he has somehow dismantled the door cam and then turns it on when he goes inside. I don't know what he did, but I do know the FBI thinks he did something. Okay, play that out to its logical conclusion. Bob Krieger.

[Bob Krieger]

It's definitely possible.

[Ryan Reynolds]

With.

[Bob Krieger]

With that, though there's a lot of stuff going on from a bad guy's perspective. And for me, the last thing I'm going to worry about is turning on and off a single jammer if I'm actually using one. You see, it's clearly not on here. Like Brian pointed out, I'm not going to turn out once I get inside because I'm dealing with way too much things going on inside. You've got people, you've, you've got everything else that's happening. So to put my hand in my pocket, hit a button, small motor skills. It's probably not likely. It, it is definitely possible that it's, it was turned on and turned off. But at the same time, if it's on here, you know your crime is, has started. You, you kick this thing off to start doing things during that outside of your, your normal what you're there for, probably not going to happen. And hopefully there is more video evidence. We just because it hasn't been released to the public doesn't mean that there's not video evidence from inside that the FBI, the sheriff's department has, that they're, they're using for their investigation. They felt it's just not time to release it yet. I don't know why that would be.

[Nancy Grace]

Well, we know she went out. We know she went out the front door, but there's no video of her going out the front door or else it hasn't been released. So if they could resurrect the video of him coming in, then why can't we resurrect the video of her going out? We also know there are cameras on the inside, so maybe that's what they were trying to block. That said, that's a development. Now we, I wondered all night, why is the FBI back at the scene? What are they doing? What are they asking the neighbors? Now, we know some of the questions that they were asking, but I've got to tell you, I was talking about it last night on air. I don't think I ever tried. Well, I know I didn't try a single case, that I did not go back to the scene multiple times. Multiple times. Especially if I was looking for forensic evidence that I thought maybe had been overlooked. I remember going to one playground in a housing project at all hours of the day and night trying to find ballistics that I thought maybe had been overlooked because there was so much spent cartridges, bullets, glassing bags, syringes, rubbers, you name it. On the children's playground where a triple homicide went down about 11pm on a Sunday night. I thought, well, it was at night. Did they miss something? What can I. I went back and back and back. So them going back to the scene is not unusual, but I'm very curious about the questions they are asking because it gives me insight about the direction in which they are going. Guys, I've got so much to get to. Okay, back to you. Dave Mack, Crime Stories investigative reporter. What can you tell me about investigators speaking to trash companies?

[Dave Mack]

Yeah, Nancy, this is something that they, that investigators have been doing since the very beginning. They were picking up trash in the area around the home of Nancy Guthrie. We saw them toting trash and putting it up as, as evidence. They have reached out. Investigators have talked to trash companies of where their trash is picked up and where it is taken. We know they are investigating with those trash companies to determine where the trash from that neighborhood is taken. We don't know the result of what they found out, but reaching out trash, common occurrence.

[Nancy Grace]

Well, you know what I think about that, Brian Fitzgibbons, I believe that is. This is from our friends at FOX News, by the way. BRIAN fitzgibbons, USPA Nationwide Security Brian, instead of hearing my thoughts, I want to hear your thoughts about what they would be looking for, not just getting the trash that they accumulated that day, but now going to the trash companies. What is it they're looking for?

[Brian Fitzgibbons]

Yeah, they're going to be trying to find out, you know, what the dates and times of pickups were, and then they're going to find out what transfer centers that that trash was taken to and ultimately its final location. Because these things are gridded out like we've seen in so many other cases, like Suzanne Clark in Texas. These trash, you know, dumps are on a schedule, on a grid, and you can identify precisely where trash from a certain date range was deposited.

[Nancy Grace]

But again, could you tell me your best guess, an educated guess about what they would be looking for?

[Brian Fitzgibbons]

I would have to think they're thinking that the perps may have dumped clothing items or equipment items, you know, bags, gloves, clothing in that, in that trash. I would think that that would be what they're looking for.

[Nancy Grace]

Mm, Mm. Okay. What about it, Bob Krieger? What would they be looking for? Why are they contacting trash companies?

[Bob Krieger]

I agree with everything that Brian said. You know, at this point, anything, if you're running out, you throw your gloves in there, it's probably something smaller, probably something to try and get some DNA off over things like that. But, you know, landfills are a science, and it's they, they will be able to get in an area where things might be, they'll be able to identify it and look for anything that you might see on this video right here. Because the first thing, you know, folks do when they flee scenes like this is they start changing their appearance. That jacket's going to be off, those gloves are going to be off, the mask is going to be off. And you know, you might drive somewhere and throw it in a trash can a block or two or a mile or two away. You know, it all depends on the tips that they got that have been coming in. And that's what they're following up on now.

[Nancy Grace]

You know, Fitz Gibbons very often, I mean, I'm thrilled about the high tech nature of this investigation because high tech really cracked the Coburger case. That said, think about it. People make all sorts of mistakes in the heat of the moment. For instance, here's a good one. Jennifer Doulos, Connecticut, mother of five, she's dead. Her husband, Fotus Doulos, piece of crap murdered her. Her body has never been found. How do I know he murdered her? Because he's caught on camera with his mistress throwing out in multiple trash cans around town. Idiot. Bloody bra, bloody T shirt, bloody rags. I know she's dead even though we have never found the body because of a copious amount of blood, her blood found in their garage. So much blood. A human could not survive if they lost that much blood. But yet there he goes, throwing away the evidence, which of course the police went and found he's caught on video. So what Krieger just said is right. You're leaving with Nancy Guthrie in your vehicle and you want to get rid of that face, that ski mask, you want to get rid of that jacket or anything else associating you with this crime. They may very well in that moment put it in a trash can. Would I do it?

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[Nancy Grace]

Would somebody else do it? Yes.

[Brian Fitzgibbons]

Yeah, Bob's spot on here. And we also know that Mrs. Guthrie was bleeding as she was exiting that house. So there could have been an item. That jacket could have had blood on it. And they want to get discard that right away as quickly as possible. You know, not only to change the appearance, but to get rid of that evidence as quickly as they can.

[Nancy Grace]

Let me see if it's Gibbons again. You know, I just had another thought and I owe it all to Fotus Doulos. You said, as we all know, that Nancy was bleeding. I wonder if they didn't take that vehicle for a full on cleaning. I mean a deep cleaning. Because that's what Doulos did. He even took the back seat out of the car which later yielded DNA from his dead wife, Jennifer Doulos. But that said, that's another lead. It's weak lead, very weak. But it's something having the vehicle deep cleaned, saw Kohberger do it Fotus Doulos did it. Many, many perps immediately think they can outsmart CSI and get rid of all the evidence. Don't you know they had that vehicle claimed spot on.

[Brian Fitzgibbons]

And you know, with this reward money, well over a million dollars. These are, you know, items that add to the list to describe this perpetrator who, you know, in the last 30 plus days has probably been following this case quite extensively, has probably been acting, you know, staying at home more often than not, acting nervous and anxious, doing things like getting a car deep cleaned. You know, this is something that could help drive a tip to the FBI.

[Nancy Grace]

I mean, Fitzgibbons, Bass, Krieger, every time a guy murders his wife, he always turns into a neatnik. First thing Peterson wanted to do after he murdered Lacey was do the laundry. First time ever, right. That said getting the car deep cleaned or I've seen perps actually burn the car after a murder or ditch the car, wait for it to get stolen, leave it somewhere with the keys in it, get rid of it. So that car actually may have been destroyed by now. What do you think about that, Krieger?

[Bob Krieger]

Very likely. Especially if there was blood involved. You know, the deserts of Pima county are vast. It's a huge geographical area. That car could go, you know, out to the west in three points in that area down towards the border. It doesn't have to make it into Mexico, but they could just park it and leave it there and it might not be seen for years. That's just the nature of the area that we live in. So for something like that to happen, it's honestly a dime a dozen of vehicle fire, stolen car burned, destroyed. All of those things are possibilities and honestly likelihoods if they were thinking about how they're going to try and cover up. Excuse me. What they have done.

[Nancy Grace]

Bob Krieger Joining us, former SWAT commander, Pima county sheriffs in Pima 30 years. We'll get to Nanos on another day. That just slows me down in this investigation. Brian Fitzgibbons, USPA Nationwide Security. James Bass joining us, digital forensics analyst and expert as evidenced tonight at Evidence Solutions Inc. Right there in Tucson. And of course crime stories investigative reporter, our Dave Mack. Thank you gentlemen. Again there is a 1.2 plus million dollar reward. For Pete's sake. If you know or think you know anything about the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie, please dial toll free 800-225-5324. Repeat, 800-225-532-4800. Call FBI or if you wish to remain anonymous 5208-8274-6352-0882, 7463. Thank you to our amazing guests, but especially to you for being with us tonight and joining us in our search for the truth as to the whereabouts of Grandmother Nancy Guthrie. Nancy Gray signing off for tonight, but I'll see you tomorrow night and until then, good night friend.

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