Nancy Guthrie: Crime Scene Released in 24 Hours — FBI Expert Reacts
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Tony Brueski
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🗓️ 10 February 2026
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
The crime scene at Nancy Guthrie's home was released to the family after just one day. Investigators came back four more times. A rooftop camera was missed for five days. And on Day Eight, deputies were searching a septic tank behind the property. Retired FBI Special Agent Robin Dreeke says the handling of this scene raises serious questions about the first seventy-two hours — and whether those decisions can be overcome.
Blood confirmed as Nancy's DNA. Doorbell camera physically removed from the wall. Every camera in and around the home systematically targeted. Sheriff Nanos released the scene Monday, said it was "done" Tuesday, and then investigators returned Wednesday through Saturday. Crime scene tape went up and down four times. A Fox News analyst said anyone could have planted or removed evidence. Nanos later admitted he "could have held off."
On True Crime Today, Dreeke applies his FBI experience to the forensic decisions that will define this case. What does the evidence pattern reveal? What does the septic tank search tell us about where investigators believe this case is headed? And can chain-of-custody issues compromise a prosecution?
Robin Dreeke is a retired FBI Special Agent and former Chief of the FBI's Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program with twenty-one years of service.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Hidden Killers Live with Tony Bruske, Stacey Cole and Todd Michaels. |
| 0:08.1 | The physical evidence at Nancy Guthrie's home has been the subject of intense scrutiny, |
| 0:14.2 | not just for what investigators have found, but for what they've missed and how the scene was handled initially. |
| 0:21.3 | The crime scene was released back to the family just one day after Nancy was reported missing. |
| 0:26.7 | Then re-entered four separate times over the following week. |
| 0:30.3 | Rooftop camera overlooked for five days. |
| 0:33.4 | Chain of custody questions are already being raised by legal analysts. |
| 0:37.2 | Robin Drake, retired FBI special agency for the counterintelligence behavioral analysis |
| 0:41.3 | program is with us to help us break down our conversation about the crime scene that we've |
| 0:48.6 | been looking at on a Sunday afternoon. |
| 0:52.1 | They got into what appears to be a septic system. |
| 0:57.9 | At least that's what the conjecture has been from everybody that's seen the video of them |
| 1:02.9 | opening a hole in the ground. |
| 1:04.8 | This is an area that we do know does not have like a public sewer system. |
| 1:08.3 | Every home neighbors have said, yes yes we all have our own septic |
| 1:10.9 | tanks so that's likely what the hole in the ground and the pit that they were you know scraping |
| 1:15.7 | around in is um let's just start there um supposedly you know we have no suspects we don't have any |
| 1:24.8 | vehicles of interest these are the things that are being publicly said. |
| 1:28.9 | And there's supposedly these Rampson notes and they're willing to pay, yet they're digging into |
| 1:32.7 | the septic tank. What's going on? As they're getting more data and they're getting more people, |
| 1:39.4 | more likely, they're getting more people in with the experience of doing these sorts of things. |
| 1:43.8 | They're having to go back in and do things that weren't done before or redo things that |
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