Nancy Guthrie’s kidnapping could have been an act of retribution against her family, including her famous daughter, Savannah, an expert criminal profiler has suggested.
The 84-year-old mother of the “Today” show presenter was taken from her home near Tucson, Arizona, on Jan. 31. Blood was found spattered on the front porch.
“I think something went very wrong inside the house … because you know, there was blood,” former FBI Behavioral Analysis Unit researcher Dr. Ann Burgess told NewsNation’s “Brian Entin Investigates” on Friday.
The psychiatric clinical nurse specialist also suggested that Nancy may not have been the target.
“Who in her orbit, let’s call it family, could be friends, would be hurt the most [by her kidnapping]?” Dr. Burgess said, indicating that the abduction could have been to retaliate against one of her loved ones.
“And I think you can answer… It’s a very mean, angry, horrible thing to do. And then if it goes wrong, which obviously it did, I think it doesn’t make sense that she would be a target to do more than abduct her,” she added.
Dr. Burgess also called on the FBI to release more information on the case.
“I think there are other small bits of evidence that could be released that people could then have more to be able to, again, hypothesize on or speculate. I think they could let more out,” she said.