We are more than one week into the disappearance of Savannah Guthrie's mother, Nancy Guthrie, and it seems the public has more questions than answers. Authorities say that Nancy, 84, may have been abducted from her Arizona home in the middle of the night on Sunday, Feb. 1. Her location and the person or persons behind her disappearance are still unknown.
Parade spoke with former FBI Special Agent Bryanna Fox, a professor at the University of South Florida (USF) in the Department of Criminology and the co-director of the Center for Justice and Research and Policy at USF, about the case.
"This is like an iceberg," Fox tells Parade. "The amount we know that law enforcement knows is the tip of the iceberg. The rest is below the surface, and they do that on purpose."
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"I think that was one of the reasons that [Sheriff Chris Nanos] has decided to go from talking to the media a lot to basically only doing press conferences when there's a major development, because there is no benefit to sharing so much information with the public," Fox continues.
She explains that telling the public extra details in a case like this doesn't help find Nancy, and that's the task at hand.
"The only thing they care about right now is finding her safe," Fox says. "Any detail that's released that could potentially compromise where she is, or her safety, or the prosecution of these people. Why would you think that risk? It could backfire."
Fox believes that the unverified ransom notes are a good example of this because one allegedly mentioned an Apple Watch after Sheriff Nanos noted that Nancy had owned one.
"There are details in the ransom notes that could potentially have been used to validate their authenticity. Things like the broken flood light and the Apple Watch," Fox explains.
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"Somebody's paying attention very closely and could have inferred she had an iPhone and an Apple Watch. We're just taking a wild guess, right? And that could have been included in the note because of a small detail they never thought was gonna matter was released," Fox says, referring to some of the early details of the case that were shared publicly by Nanos.
"It's the reason why the FBI says absolutely nothing unless it's absolutely necessary and urgent. It's because they don't take those risks," Fox tells me.
Fox stressed that the FBI doesn't leave stones unturned and that revisiting crime scenes or people's homes where a victim may have been is just part of the process.
"They do things to avoid risk," she reiterates. "So if there's a risk that someone can tamper with the scene, or there's any doubt that a person could be a suspect, the FBI's general policy is search it, photograph it, document it and do it as soon as possible, because you will only get one shot at that crime scene, the way it is."
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