This is Hidden Killers with Tony Brewski. Here now, Tony Brucey.

The scope of the investigation now into the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie, it's huge.

18,000 tips as of this recording so far, millions of of views on every family video this one put out there.

We got Reddit threads dissecting body language frame by frame, comment sections full of

accusations and amateur analysis.

People claiming that they have her, people claiming that they know where she is or they

know the guy who has her or the girl who has her, whoever has her,

but they need some money to tell you that. This case isn't just being investigated. It's being

watched and judged by the entire country in real time. That mass observation isn't neutral. It

changes the psychology of everyone involved, the family performing grief under a microscope,

witnesses who might stay silent because they fear becoming targets,

even the perpetrator watching themselves be dissected by strangers online and on television.

What is going on here?

That's what we're going to break down more of. Robin Drake,

retired FBI special agency for the Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program is with us.

Let's start on this, on the people angle. You spent your career as one of the few people

trained to actually read human behavior the way you can. Now, millions of people are watching this case and convinced they can do the same from their

couch.

What do you think is happening here collectively in an investigation when the entire public

becomes the amateur behavioral analysis unit, essentially?

First, I don't want to discount.

I mean, it's a great lead, Tony. I don't want to discount. I mean, it's a great lead in, Tony. I don't want to

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