Breaking: Masked Prowler Caught on Video BEFORE Nancy Guthrie Vanished?

Drop Dead Serious With Ashleigh Banfield

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🗓️ 24 February 2026

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Was Nancy Guthrie targeted? Did the suspect visit her home more than once? Multiple outlets have reported that the Nest camera images and videos of the masked prowler seen outside Nancy Guthrie’s Catalina Foothills home may have been captured on two different nights, not one. If true, that changes everything. In this episode of Drop Dead Serious, Ashleigh Banfield breaks down the new masked prowler video reporting, what it could mean for the FBI and Pima County Sheriff’s Department investigation, and why the distinction between one night and multiple nights is so critical. She is joined by Spencer Coursen, former Special Deputy U.S. Marshal, threat management expert, author of The Safety Trap, and founder of Coursen Security Group.

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0:00.0	Hey, everybody. I'm Ashley Banfield and this is Drop Dead Serious and we are in day 23 of the Nancy Guthrie investigation and bombshell.
0:17.3	You know, a lot of you have looked at videos and have speculated that the pictures that the FBI released to us, God, two weeks ago, showing the perpetrator at the front doorbell cam, one of them doesn't look like the others. One of them, not wearing a backpack, not wearing the gun. And we all wondered, is it possible it might be from another date?
0:38.9	Well, tonight, law enforcement sources confirming yes,
0:43.2	that it is in fact from another date.
0:45.9	The backpack missing, the gun missing, that image, that single image,
0:51.0	is from a date prior to the date of the suspected abduction of Nancy Guthrie. It is
0:58.7	massive news in this investigation. It's also massive to the investigators, and I am curious
1:05.5	about how long they have known that. And I will tell you this. The way this news rolled out, you may have seen some of it,
1:13.6	bits of it. I want you to know how it all rolled out. Okay. Michael Ruiz from Fox Digital
1:20.1	breaking, a source with knowledge of the investigation just confirmed to me, meaning Michael
1:23.9	Ruiz, that these two images were taken on different days and may show the same person.
1:29.4	The image with no backpack was taken before the suspected abduction of Nancy Guthrie.
1:34.8	Source declines to pinpoint the date, citing the open investigation.
1:39.6	That's very important.
1:41.4	Because was it the night before? A few days before, weeks, months before? Was it maybe just a few hours before?
1:51.2	Because the date changed within a couple hours, right, of 1.47 a.m. I'm going to get into that
1:58.2	really in depth with a former U.S. Marshal who tracks bad guys for a living,
2:03.7	or used to track bad guys for a living for the U.S. Marshals now does it for his security company.
2:08.5	I will continue with Michael Ruiz's actual reporting here.
2:12.9	Authorities have alternately asked for neighbors to check their home security systems for the entire month of
2:18.3	January. From the night of January 11th, we all wondered, why that date? Is it possible? This is the
2:28.9	date of this other image. Certainly is interesting that January 11th seemed to come out of the blue,
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