Nancy Guthrie Day 9: Defense Attorney Says the Investigation Is Telling on Itself
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Tony Brueski
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🗓️ 11 February 2026
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Summary
The Nancy Guthrie investigation is nine days old and criminal defense attorney Bob Motta says the contradictions between law enforcement's public statements and their actual investigative actions are building a defense case before anyone has even been charged. On today's True Crime Today, Motta breaks down every major development and explains what a defense attorney sees that most people miss.
Nancy Guthrie disappeared from her Catalina Foothills home in Tucson, Arizona. Blood confirmed as hers was found on the front porch. Her pacemaker stopped transmitting. The Nest doorbell camera disconnected at 1:47 AM, and at 2:12 AM the system reportedly detected a person — but no video exists because there was no active subscription. The Pima County Sheriff says there are no suspects, no persons of interest, and no vehicles connected to the case.
But the actions on the ground tell a different story entirely. The crime scene was processed, released to the family, and re-entered by FBI agents with canine units at least three additional times. On Day 8, investigators searched the septic tank. Deputies spent hours conducting forensic photography inside the home of Nancy's daughter Annie Guthrie and her husband Tommaso Cioni — the last known person to see Nancy alive — and left carrying evidence bags. A blue SUV was towed from Nancy's property. Gas stations near the foothills are being canvassed for overnight surveillance.
The FBI is now jointly running the investigation. President Trump says he is being briefed multiple times daily. Federal digital billboards have been deployed across multiple states. Motta explains what federal involvement signals and how it changes the legal landscape for anyone eventually charged.
Bob Motta gives the defense attorney's playbook on every move investigators have made — and what they are not telling you.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Hidden Killers Live with Tony Bruske, Stacey Cole, and Todd Michaels. |
| 0:08.6 | Here we are, uh, what, 10 days now into the Nancy Guthrie disappearance. |
| 0:14.0 | Law enforcement has publicly stated they have no suspects. |
| 0:17.9 | No persons of interest, no vehicles connected to the case. |
| 0:22.0 | But behind the scenes, it may be a different story. |
| 0:27.6 | Investigators have conducted forensic photography inside a family member's home, |
| 0:32.6 | towed a vehicle from the property, search a septic tank, and return to the crime scene at least four separate times after initially releasing it. |
| 0:41.4 | Criminal Defense Attorney Bob Mata is with us, host of the podcast Defense Diaries. |
| 0:45.6 | Bob, it's too early, really, I think, to even go into a conversation about litigating any of this, |
| 0:52.3 | but more so when you're looking at it from an investigative |
| 0:55.9 | standpoint, the early steps in this when you're trying to understand the case. Let's get into that. |
| 1:00.5 | Let's get into that. Nancy's home was processed as a crime scene, and then, and then, as we see |
| 1:08.8 | all too often, released, and back to the family. And then a as we see all too often, released and back to the family. |
| 1:13.0 | And then, a little while later, hey, maybe there's more here. |
| 1:17.3 | Maybe within 24 hours we shouldn't release an active crime scene where the victim hasn't been found yet. |
| 1:23.2 | And then crime scene tape goes up. |
| 1:26.7 | And police are there, but not before reporters and other people could trapes around the property. |
| 1:33.8 | Let's start there. |
| 1:35.2 | What kind of a nightmare did that create? |
| 1:38.4 | A chain of custody nightmare. |
| 1:40.5 | Yeah, in time. |
| 1:41.7 | It's that simple, man. |
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