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Are Police Keeping Evidence They Shouldn't? | Nancy Guthrie Missing Day 27

Drop Dead Serious With Ashleigh Banfield

Drop Dead Serious With Ashleigh Banfield

True Crime

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2026

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Are police keeping evidence that they shouldn’t be? As the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie stretches on, new questions are surfacing about how evidence is being handled, what investigators are choosing to disclose, and whether critical information in the case of the 84-year-old mother of Today show co-host Savannah Guthrie is being held back from the public. In this episode of Drop Dead Serious, Ashleigh is joined by former homicide detective, director of The Cold Case Foundation, and host of the Interview Room, Chris McDonough, to break down the investigative strategy, the evidence that has been confirmed, what may still be in police custody, and whether the pace of this search signals a tactical shift or something more concerning.

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0:00.0

Hey everyone. Welcome. I'm Ashley Banfield. This is Drop Dead Serious. It's really nice to have you here. We're at the end of the week. We made it to Friday. Big favor, hit subscribe. It is a huge favor to me. And I so appreciate seeing you and then seeing the numbers of you actually growing because

0:21.0

we have become a pretty cool little community.

0:23.0

I would love it if you join our club as well.

0:25.3

We do special things for the club members, but let me tell you we are at day 27 of the Nancy

0:32.2

Guthrie investigation and we are heading into the weekend that will take us to one month. And I really cannot believe

0:40.9

that we are at one month with, honest to God, nothing to go on. I hate saying that because I know

0:48.2

that investigators are working hard behind the scenes. I know that. The people on the ground are busting their asses.

0:56.0

The rank and file, they don't sleep at night. They're working so hard. But to feel out here in, you know, the public that we don't have a car to look for. We don't have, you know, any more to go on for this huge community of us to crime solve as a crowd source.

1:17.3

Listen, lots of people have hit Sleuthers hard, but the truth of the matter is that many eyes are really valuable in trying to solve a case. Just ask the Petito's.

1:30.3

Gabby Petito was found because of YouTubers. Okay. So the crowdsourcing that all of us as a community can do is really remarkable.

1:40.3

And I don't have to tell you that the first thing that a lot of sheriff's departments and police departments and homicide units do is try to enlist the public for tips. Have you seen? Why do you think we've had crime stoppers for decades? Because the public can help and often does. But in this instance, it worries me that we are coming up on the one month mark, and there's

2:02.2

not much for us to go on to help.

2:05.1

And it may mean because there's not much that they have to go on.

2:10.8

Let me tell you some stuff that at least happened today.

2:13.3

It's not that there's nothing happening.

2:14.5

There are some things happening.

2:15.7

Matt Finn from Fox News said, actually, there was a lot of activity at Nancy Guthrie's house.

2:21.5

Nothing like the last few days where all the blue suits showed up.

2:25.4

But a white SUV pulled into the driveway.

2:28.1

And Matt said that there was a person shielding their face with a hood crawling out of the back of the SUV, and it looked

2:35.6

like they were carrying like a document case, and they went inside the home. Don't know who it is.

2:42.0

Can't tell you, and neither did Matt, but other reports said that handymen showed up today. In fact,

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