Former FBI Agent Coffindaffer: What the Evidence Fight Means for Finding Nancy Guthrie
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🗓️ 16 February 2026
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Summary
Federal sources say Sheriff Chris Nanos is blocking the FBI from physical evidence in the Nancy Guthrie case — a glove found inside the home and DNA samples routed to a private Florida lab instead of Quantico. An FBI source called the decision "dumb" and "insane." Nanos says it's "not even close to the truth." The FBI hasn't backed his account.
Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer breaks it all down. The operational difference between Quantico and a contracted lab. What it means when a federal official publicly torches a local sheriff's evidence handling in a kidnapping case. Whether the FBI can force the issue or if they're stuck working under an agency they've accused of blocking access. And the jurisdictional reality — Pima County holds primary authority, and the bureau can only take over under narrow circumstances.
Coffindaffer also reads the FBI's latest moves — the updated suspect description from doorbell footage forensics, the thirteen thousand tips, and a surveillance footage request going back to January 1st that suggests investigators believe the suspect may have been watching Nancy's home for weeks. Plus the question no one wants to ask on Day 13: after a contaminated crime scene and evidence the FBI can't touch, what can still be proven?
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| 0:00.0 | This is Hidden Killers Live with Tony Bruske, Stacey Cole, and Todd Michaels. |
| 0:09.7 | 13 days now to the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie, the investigation hitting a new fracture point. |
| 0:15.8 | Federal law enforcement sources confirming to Reuters, Fox News Digital, and News Nation that Pima County Sheriff |
| 0:21.9 | Chris Nanos is blocking the FBI from accessing key physical evidence, routing it to a private |
| 0:27.8 | Florida lab instead of the FBI's Quantico facility. |
| 0:32.1 | Nanos denies it saying that's all bunk calling the report not even close to the truth to understand what this kind of friction means from the inside of the Bureau for the evidence, the investigation, and Nancy, which I feel like with all of the chaos, we're starting to lose track of what this is about. |
| 0:53.6 | Right. |
| 0:54.0 | We are joined by retired FBI special agent Jennifer Coffin-Daffer. |
| 0:58.8 | Jennifer, welcome. I'm very happy that you are here on this morning when this is the headlines |
| 1:04.7 | that are breaking out. Jen, the FBI source told several places that the disputed evidence, the glove found inside |
| 1:14.1 | Nancy's home, the DNA samples represents basically all the evidence in a case so far. |
| 1:19.2 | And Nano sent it to a private lab in Florida. |
| 1:22.3 | And the FBI wanted it at Quantico. |
| 1:25.4 | For people trying to understand why this matters, what does the FBI's lab offer on a case |
| 1:32.1 | like this that a contracted private lab simply can't? |
| 1:36.4 | And what about time and effort and why, what the hell's going on, I guess, is the big question. |
| 1:44.0 | Well, geez, there's so much to break |
| 1:46.4 | yeah first i want to give caution because remember this was the glove so we're talking about |
| 1:52.0 | three gloves i think people are very concerned about this confused there's a glove that was found |
| 1:58.4 | in the house that we know about if we're to believe this |
| 2:01.3 | source information. The glove that we all saw, the post took a picture of it that was found |
| 2:06.7 | on the side of the road about a mile and a half away. Then there was another glove that Fox News |
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