When Guthrie, 84, first disappeared on Feb. 1, the Pima County Sheriff's Department was leading the investigation. The FBI was brought into the case after the investigation was already underway, and that delay may have come at a cost, according to FBI Director Kash Patel.
Patel says that agents worked with Google to recover cached video from Guthrie's Nest doorbell after discovering that she did not have a cloud storage subscription and that the physical camera itself was missing. The footage they recovered had never been intended for long-term storage and was on the verge of being automatically deleted.
A screen grab from a video shows an armed individual appearing with camera at Nancy Guthrie's front door the morning of her disappearance in Arizona, United States on February 12, 2026.Pima County Sheriff's Department/Anadolu via Getty Images
"We were looking for the needle of all needles in all haystacks, because since she didn't pay for [the subscription], they didn't record that data," Patel said. "But there was a chance that it was located in their cache just before it was being deleted."
"What we do know is that the longer you wait, there's no chance of recovering the video," Morgan Wright, the CEO and founder of the National Center for Open and Unsolved Cases, told Fox News Digital. "The earlier you get started, the better your chances. Waiting four days may have been fatal to the recovery of some video that could have been more illuminating."
Anyone with information about the Guthrie case is asked to call Tucson’s 88-Crime hotline at 1-520-882-7463 or the FBI at 1-800-CALL-FBI.
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