Finding Nancy Guthrie: Talk Nerdy To Me - Ep. 19

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Podcast Summary: Finding Nancy Guthrie: Talk Nerdy To Me - Ep. 19

Date: March 18, 2026
Host: Lynden Blake (Daily Wire)
Featured Guest: Nerdy (True Crime Investigator)
Episode Focus: Updates and Expert Analysis in the Ongoing Nancy Guthrie Disappearance

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This episode centers on the latest updates and investigative insights into the high-profile disappearance of Nancy Guthrie, 84-year-old mother of Today show co-anchor Savannah Guthrie. Daily Wire reporter Lynden Blake digs into new leads, theories, and the role of digital evidence, joined by online true crime analyst “Nerdy.” The episode provides timely details about FBI activity, neighbor reports, and lingering questions regarding law enforcement’s strategy.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. New Theories and Neighborhood Suspicion

• Pima County Sheriff’s Targeted Theory (00:25):
  Lynden delivers breaking news that the sheriff now believes Nancy Guthrie’s disappearance was targeted.
  Quote (Sheriff’s statement via Nerdy):
  “We believe we know why he did this and we believe that it was targeted.” (00:38)

• Suspicious Activity at Nearby House (01:01—02:57):

  • Three men reportedly moved out of a house near Guthrie’s around the time she vanished.
  • One of these men is said to be repeatedly returning to the neighborhood.
  • Multiple neighbors raised the alarm, noting the coincidence and reporting absence of cars.
    Quote (Neighbor):
    “Whoever lived there had moved out within a few days of this happening... I just became, you know, See something, say something.” (02:29)

2. Shifting Investigative Timelines & Digital Footage

• Key Dates Under FBI Scrutiny (02:57—04:20):

  • Investigators are now focused on surveillance covering January 11th and January 24th, possibly critical windows ahead of Guthrie’s disappearance.
  • Emphasis on front door camera footage, with the FBI canvassing neighbors for additional evidence.

• Role of Streamers and Citizen Detectives (03:40—04:20):
  Lynden acknowledges criticism but defends the value of independent online investigators, referencing their role in historic cases like Gabby Petito’s.

3. Expert Analysis with Nerdy ("Nerdy Addict")

a. Pace and Progress of the Investigation

• Nerdy contextualizes the timeline, drawing parallels to the Idaho Four murders case while expressing more concern over “the investigators leading this up at Pima County” than the elapsed time. Quote (Nerdy):
  “I don’t know if I’m more worried about the time period or the investigators leading this up at Pima County.” (04:37—05:01)

b. Lack of Concrete Evidence and Communication Gaps

• Unlike other cases with tangible evidence, there is “nothing” substantial reported in Guthrie’s case.
• Noted that findings (e.g., a pair of gloves) have been debunked or remain inconclusive.
  Quote (Nerdy):
  “We haven’t learned of any concrete evidence in this case thus far. There’s a lot of speculation.” (05:20)
• Frustration over inconsistent information from authorities, especially lack of regular press conferences.
  Quote (Nerdy):
  “...it’s like the telephone game. We get different information from each journalist...” (06:20)

c. Theories About Suspects and Motive

• Abandoned House (06:34—07:11):
  Nerdy believes the FBI has probably investigated the moving men lead, questioning the absence of vehicle captures on any neighborhood cameras. Quote (Nerdy):
  “They wouldn't need a vehicle if they were locally there in the neighborhood...” (07:11)

• Speculation on Motive and Ransom Letters (08:20—10:11):

  • Considers whether someone was provoked by media appearances, but discounted robbery as a motive due to unusual behavior (person of interest carried a loaded, not empty, backpack).
  • Three ransom letters — one confirmed hoax, two with “legitimate” elements and dollar amounts — have resulted in no known arrests.
  • Suggests family might release the ransom letters for crowdsourcing; even stylistic clues could be useful. Quote (Nerdy):
    “I would probably release the ransom letters... the public can crowdsource... perhaps someone out there can recognize the style...” (09:52)

d. Digital Evidence and Forensics (10:11—11:34)

• Residual Nest Camera Data:
  • Many dismiss the lack of subscription as negating video, but Nerdy explains that Google may retain cluster-stored data.
  • Digital forensic recovery of thumbnails already uncovered images of “people around the house,” no suspicious activity yet. Quote (Nerdy):
    “Google is not a search company... they're an advertising company. And the more data they can collect... they will.” (10:36)
  • Predicts digital forensics could yield the case breakthrough after technical delays.

e. The Bizarre Public Spectacle (11:34—12:15)

• Observes the circus-like atmosphere: people singing, DUI arrest, “spirit box” practitioners at Nancy’s home. Quote (Nerdy):
  “This case has turned into a spectacle of sorts... The way the public has sort of used this area for photo ops, it's all been interesting to me.” (11:43)

f. Skepticism of Psychic and Medium Claims (12:15—12:32)

• Dismisses value of psychics in true crime investigation:
  Quote (Nerdy):
  “I'm in technology, and we rely on zeros and ones and logical evidence in front of us... same applies in true crime.” (12:32)

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Notable Quotes & Moments

• On Law Enforcement Strategy:
  “The absence of the press conferences is quite significant.” — Nerdy (05:45)

• On Digital Evidence Recovery:
  “When you don't have a subscription, it's not indexed... it takes time for digital forensic people to piece these together.” — Nerdy (10:53)

• On Public Involvement:
  “If you don't believe [ransom letters] are legitimate, why not release them?... perhaps there's a writing style... perhaps someone out there can recognize the style...” — Nerdy (09:52)

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Important Segment Timestamps

• Suspicious House/Neighbors Voice Concerns: 01:01—02:57
• FBI Focus on New Dates & Role of Streamers: 02:57—04:20
• Begin Expert Interview (Nerdy): 04:20—12:59
  • Investigation progress: 04:37—05:45
  • Evidence and press strategy: 05:20—06:20
  • Theories and ransom letter discussion: 08:20—10:11
  • Digital evidence / Nest footage: 10:11—11:34
  • Notable oddities/psychics: 11:34—12:32

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Conclusion

This episode delivers sobering insight into the stalling, confusion, and persistent community anxiety around Nancy Guthrie’s disappearance. Nerdy’s analytical perspective cuts through the fog of speculation, emphasizing the importance of digital forensics and public engagement while highlighting the unusual silence and communication issues hampering official progress.

FBI tip line: 1-800-CALL-FBI
Reward: Over $1 million (Guthrie Family donation)
Follow Nerdy: X, TikTok, YouTube – Nerdy Addict

The investigation continues, with all eyes now on what digital forensics and continued community vigilance might reveal.

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Transcript

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[Lyndon Blake]

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[Nerdy (True Crime Investigator)]

We believe we know why he did this and we believe that it was targeted.

[Lyndon Blake]

And neighbors are questioning one house in particular in the Catalina foothills that's near the 84 year old's home. Plus, we talked to a popular investigative crime junkie about this bizarre case.

[Nerdy (True Crime Investigator)]

The things that we're seeing from this person of interest don't align with robbery, burglary. Right.

[Lyndon Blake]

I'm Lyndon Blake and this is Finding Nancy Guthrie a Daily Wire True Crime investigation. It is Wednesday, March 18th. It is day 46 in the search for Nancy Guthrie. It's hard to believe. This investigation's been going on for six weeks. And we're going to get to what has happened in the last several days. There's a lot of weird things going on right now that happened today. We have John DiPietro. He's a talk show host. He's been on Court TV. He is now reporting that the FBI is looking into three men who moved out of this house in the Catalina foothills around the time of Nancy's disappearance. Why does this strike me as odd? Well, one, John is saying that one of the men keeps circling back around Nancy's neighborhood even though he's moved out. But the thing that really strikes me as just interesting is that two different neighbors of Nancy's told News Nation's Brian Enten about this abandoned house that people just moved out of. It is raised some questions about the timing of this. It could all be coincidence and more times than not it is. But John is reporting the FBI is now looking into it. And I'm going to let you hear the neighbors talk about this house and just how it's unsettling right now.

[News Reporter / Neighbor]

And whoever lived there had moved out within a few days of this happening. They had moved out a few days before because the car was. Cars were gone. So I just became, you know, See something, say something. So I thought it's probably nothing, but I'm just gonna.

[Ryan Reynolds / Brendan Steinhauser]

Right.

[News Reporter / Neighbor]

I'm gonna call, I'm gonna talk to them and just let them know that there was somebody living there and they're not there anymore. And so I confirmed with a couple of the neighbors did in fact, you see those cars aren't there. He said, yeah, they just moved out.

[Lyndon Blake]

There's a new date that the FBI is looking at in addition to that January 11th date. And this all connects back to this front door camera footage from Nancy Guthrie's home. We now know the FBI is looking at January 24th. So you have January 24th, which was a Saturday before Nancy went missing, and then January 11th, all also on the weekend as two key dates. FBI has gone back to neighbors and asked to look at those specific dates. So streamers have been a big topic in this case. The investigators on YouTube that cover true crime have gotten a lot of flack in this case. Even though it was a streamer, someone that was online that helped solve the Gabby Petito case, it was a blogger that led authorities to Gabby Petito. And many people still believe to this day if that blogger didn't have that tip of the van going through the Tetons, that she would have never been found. So they play an important role. So I reached out to Nerdy, as many of you guys know him online, who has been following this case to weigh in with him on what he thinks happened to Nancy Guthrie and how he thinks this case will get solved. Take a listen.

[Nerdy (True Crime Investigator)]

Hi, Lyndon. How are you?

[Lyndon Blake]

I'm good. How are you? I'm interested in your take. Mainstream media has moved out. A lot of independent journalists have moved out, and it seems like the case is at a standstill. Does this worry you?

[Nerdy (True Crime Investigator)]

I think we were worried on the Idaho four murders. I think we're using that as a benchmark for this case. And it took 47 days from the time of the murders to the time that they identified Brian Kohberger as a suspect there. So we're right around that benchmark time period. I don't know if I'm more worried about the time period or the investigators leading this up at Pima County.

[Lyndon Blake]

Well, that was my next point. In Bryan Kohberger's case, you had the white Elantra. You had the knife sheath. You had things that investigators were working towards to linked a person to that. And in the case of Nancy Guthrie, it really just seems like they have nothing.

[Nerdy (True Crime Investigator)]

Yeah, we've had these gloves that were found well outside the Proximity of our house and turned out to be searchers or restaurant workers. So we haven't learned of any concrete evidence in this case thus far. There's a lot of speculation. Just today, I read an article about, you know, could this person of interest taken that flashlight? We believe he's. He's holding a bite light right in his mouth. And if he had taken that out at any period during these 41 minutes inside Nancy guthrie's home, Would that have left evidence? But we haven't heard anything from investigators to indicate that's true. And all we can do is speculate. At this point, I don't know. I think the absence of the press conferences is quite significant. Just yesterday, we had a press conference on william mccaslin, missing from albuquerque. And seeing that press conference made us realize that there's a lack of information from pima county, A lack of communication. But he seems to have no problem talking one on one with reporters. But it seems like when he does that, it's like the telephone game. We get different information from each journalist that's talking to him one on one. So it's not helpful, in my opinion.

[Lyndon Blake]

It seems like the neighbors are talking more to the media. In the last couple of weeks, when there's been such a lull of developments, we had two neighbors tell Brian and 10 about this abandoned house that just, you know, raised their eyebrows. And then I know you had a friend on scene, John dipietro, say that the FBI is looking in to three men who vacated a property in catalina foothills around nancy guthrie's disappearance. Is this something that you think investigators have been aware of and looked into, or could this be a new lead?

[Nerdy (True Crime Investigator)]

I would have to believe that it's something they've looked into. I think many people in the public, including myself, have gone back and forth on why don't we have, at the very least, a vehicle on camera? And that makes you go back and think, well, they wouldn't need a vehicle if they were locally there in the neighborhood. And I. I have to believe the FBI has thought through that process as well. So I hope that they've been pulling these threads on these leads and the information out there. But it wasn't until recently, a week ago, that we learned that they were knocking allegedly on neighbors doors and asking about Internet connections. And that led to a huge sort of wave of speculation online where they're using wi fi jammers. People sort of, you know, going with the theory, well, if they use a wi fi jammer at Nancy's house, and it took out The Internet at the neighbor's house. That's not how WI fi jammers work. But due to the lack of communication from both Pima county and look, on most cases, the FBI just doesn't say anything, right? But at least from Pima county, not hearing any information and just left to speculate on a lot of this stuff. It's worrisome. It's troublesome.

[Lyndon Blake]

What does your gut tell you about maybe who would be responsible for doing this?

[Nerdy (True Crime Investigator)]

You know, I've been going back to the Today show footage and trying to figure out those dates. Right. January 11th, January 24th. Was there anything said by Savannah that would anger someone out there in the public to make them target her mother? But the things that we're seeing from this person of interest don't align with a robbery, a burglary. Right. Even the fact of going to the front door with a loaded backpack. If you're at a house to rob someone, you're going to go there with an empty backpack, likely, right? So I don't know. I. You know, I. I tend to go back and think that perhaps these ransom letters were legitimate because we haven't heard of any further communication after those deadlines. And more interesting to me is we don't have any arrests. We have one arrest for one of the people that sent a hoax. Right. But the other two that seem to be more legitimate and had dollar amount set to them, we haven't heard of any arrests on those. And that makes me wonder if law enforcement is still piecing that together or have they pieced that together. And this was sent from someone inside Russia or Iran, a country that we can extradite from. So both of those. Those pieces are puzzling to me. I don't know. I feel like certain pieces of, like, if I was the family, I would probably release the ransom letters, right. If they're not. If you don't believe that they're legitimate, why not release them? And that way the public can crowdsource. You know, perhaps there's a writing style in one of these letters or the way that they submitted the web form message. Perhaps someone out there can recognize the style of writing or the way they wrote it. I think little things like that would be useful for the public.

[Lyndon Blake]

And in this case, there's that residual data that investigators have been able to

[Nerdy (True Crime Investigator)]

dig into, the residual data on the cameras and these thumbnails that. I don't know if you've spoken about that previously, but that's another piece that I don't think a lot of people understand. Is that she didn't have a subscription on that S camera. And so a lot of people, well, that's the end of it, right? There's no video. That's not true. Google is. Is a. Is not a search company. Most people think of Google as a search company. They're an advertising company. And the more data they can collect and harvest on the back end, they will. So I think that they will eventually get there. I think the amount of time that it's going to take to reproduce and get these videos, people don't realize when you send nest footage to the cloud, it's. It's not just this one server, one PC. It gets distributed among storage clusters. When you don't have a subscription, it's not indexed. And so it takes time for digital forensic people to piece these together. I think eventually they'll get there. I think that will be the breakthrough in this case. We just heard a couple days ago that we now have thumbnails that we didn't know we had of people around the house. Although investigators are saying nothing suspicious, I think the more time that goes by, I think that investigators will ultimately be able to work with Google and get us more footage or thumbnails.

[Lyndon Blake]

Of all the bizarre instances in this case, what has struck you as the most odd?

[Nerdy (True Crime Investigator)]

Oh, gosh, I don't even know where to begin. This case has turned into a spectacle of sorts. We've had people singing out front of her house. We've had a DUI arrest out in front of her house. We've had this woman and this guy show up and started doing spirit boxes. I don't think there's one particular thing that struck the entire case is bizarre from start to finish. The way the police have handled it, the way the public has sort of used this area for photo ops, it's all been interesting to me.

[Lyndon Blake]

Do you believe in the psychics and the mediums that. That sometimes get involved in these cases and have these theories? I know one of the psychics said in front of Nancy's house that she feels like the answer's under her nose.

[Nerdy (True Crime Investigator)]

I don't. I'm in technology, and we rely on zeros and ones and logical evidence in front of us to solve issues. Right. The same applies in true crime.

[Lyndon Blake]

Well, nerdy, thank you so much for coming on. Tell us where people can follow your investigative work.

[Nerdy (True Crime Investigator)]

Sure. You can find me on X as nerdy nerdy addict. TikTok as well, nerdy addict and then Eva and I do YouTube. Nerdy addict and Eva.

[Lyndon Blake]

It was such an honor to talk to nerdy. He is one of those guys that just knows his stuff. And I hope you enjoyed the perspective he gave on this Nancy Guthrie investigation. I'm gonna leave you with the FBI tip line. 1-800-call-FBI VAT reward still over a million dollars thanks to the Guthrie family's donation. And and this is a case we will continue to follow as we enter the part of the investigation where we hope something big breaks. I'm Lyndon Blake and this is Finding Nancy a daily wire true crime investigation.

[Ryan Reynolds / Brendan Steinhauser]

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[Nerdy (True Crime Investigator)]

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