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FBI Investigating Mysterious Internet Blackout the Night Nancy Guthrie Vanished

Drop Dead Serious With Ashleigh Banfield

Drop Dead Serious With Ashleigh Banfield

True Crime

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 7 March 2026

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

The FBI is investigating a suspicious internet outage in Nancy Guthrie’s neighborhood around the time of her disappearance. Was a WiFi jammer used? New reporting suggests there may have been a mysterious internet blackout in the neighborhood overnight, when Nancy Guthrie vanished, raising new questions about whether security cameras or home surveillance systems could have been affected. In this episode of Drop Dead Serious, Ashleigh is joined by digital forensics expert Jake Green, who explains how an internet blackout, Wi Fi disruption, or signal interference could impact doorbell cameras and digital evidence.

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0:00.0

Hey, everybody. Welcome. I'm Ashley Banfield. This is Drop Dead Serious. Thank you for being here. It's Friday. We made it through another week.

0:09.4

Subscribe. It is really kind and I love you for it. And there's a cute little thing down there that's adorable. So, you know, easy to do. Doesn't cost a thing. And it's really a nice little solid that you're doing me.

0:20.5

Hey, so look,

0:21.9

I know that you're probably starting to feel a little hopeless about the Nancy Guthrie case

0:26.7

because what are we, day 34. I'm recording this on March 6th. And don't feel that way. Everybody

0:33.5

who says, oh, the case is cold. It isn't cold, duh, okay, it isn't cold. Trust me. A cold case is when you've exhausted all the leads and then you pack up all the evidence and you put it on a shelf. And you say, gee, I hope we get back to that one day and let's move on to other stuff. This is not that. There's a whole task force assigned to this. Five people from the sheriff's department and then the FBI. And they're working out of the FBI's actual headquarters, not headquarters, but they're field office in Tucson. So they're there on the ground, in the place where this happened. It's not cold. Is it chilling? Yeah, it's getting a little cooler. And we already heard from the sheriff that the tips are going down too. But today, yeah, it was interesting. Today was

1:16.5

interesting because, and I don't know why we didn't know this on day two, three, four, or six, or

1:21.6

eight, but here we are day 34 and we're learning it. So yesterday, if you were watching, you saw

1:27.0

pictures of FBI agents from

1:29.5

the Violent Crime Task Force, several of them walking through Nancy Guthrie's neighborhood and knocking

1:34.2

on neighbors' doors and asking a whole new round of questions. Okay, I'm in. I am down for this

1:40.6

because sometimes it's fresh eyes. Sometimes it's we got something else and we're

1:45.1

running down a lead. And so now we need to go ask questions about the new thing that we just got

1:48.7

from the thing. And so some of the neighbors didn't want to tell reporters what it was the

1:54.1

agents were knocking on their door for, but some did. And several of the reports came back to people like, you know, Michael Ruiz, who's still with Fox News and stayed there.

2:04.9

And Brian Enten, who's with News Nation, and stayed there.

2:08.6

And their producers, I mean, they're still working hard, even though the media got chased out by the sheriff who made them park in, you know, Phoenix.

2:15.4

And walk the desert to get to Nancy's home.

2:18.1

Didn't work.

2:19.5

So what the reports were that came back from the neighbors was that the agents were asking

2:25.8

about what seems like a neighborhood-wide outage, Wi-Fi, Internet outage, right around the time that Nancy went missing on February

2:36.7

1st around 1-2 in the morning. Multiple people said they had an outage at that time.

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