Nancy Guthrie: Ret. FBI Expert Breaks Down the Investigation's Failures
Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski | True Crime News & Commentary
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🗓️ 17 February 2026
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
He admitted releasing the crime scene too early. Then he denied it. The FBI says its access was limited to what the sheriff's office would allow. Searchers contaminated their own evidence field. A forensic genealogy expert called the DNA routing "devastating." And investigators inside the case told reporters they don't know who's in charge. A retired FBI behavioral expert walks through fifteen days of contradictions and command failures in the Nancy Guthrie investigation — from the premature crime scene release and re-securing, to pool cleaners on an active scene, to a pacemaker helicopter delayed by a personal grudge, to DNA routed away from Quantico to a private Florida lab the FBI says it will likely need to retest. NewsNation's FBI source put it plainly: "This is dumb." This interview asks when the pattern crosses from friction into something that's costing Nancy Guthrie her life.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Hidden Killers Live with Tony Bruske, Stacey Cole and Todd Michaels. |
| 0:08.7 | Let's talk about the investigation itself. Sheriff Chris Nanos told the Associated Press he made a mistake. |
| 0:15.0 | He said this early on, releasing Nancy Guthrie's crime scene too early, then turned around and denied it to Fox News. |
| 0:21.5 | Just pretty much contradicting himself allegedly here. |
| 0:24.1 | His own search helicopter was grounded for three hours because he demoted the pilot over a personal grudge, allegedly. |
| 0:31.6 | His search teams contaminated their own evidence field by now we're learning about discarding gloves in the same |
| 0:38.4 | zone where the suspect may have dropped one the co-founder of the forensic genealogy lab that |
| 0:44.8 | helped identify brian koburger even called danos evidence handling decision devastating and |
| 0:49.9 | investigators inside the case have told reporters they don't know who's in charge and the sheriff |
| 0:55.5 | or the FBI uh that's what we've been hearing from all sorts of reporting this person saying that |
| 1:04.0 | that person saying this and then everybody contradicting each other and saying nope none of that's true |
| 1:09.3 | so everything's at a complete stalemate of what |
| 1:11.8 | exactly is going on. But, I mean, walk me through. What the hell do you think is going on here |
| 1:18.2 | with Nanos? Because, I mean, at the beginning, he even said flat out, probably should have waited |
| 1:23.7 | longer to relinquish Nancy Guthrie's home to her family after his detectives |
| 1:30.6 | processed it. And then out, you know, shortly after that to Fox News, to Matt Flynn, rejecting, |
| 1:36.5 | was saying that no, we did everything the way that we should have, basically. I'm paraphrasing there. |
| 1:42.6 | You can't have it both ways. I mean, again, I don't know what |
| 1:47.1 | the hell's happening here. And it's just statements. None of this actually leads to Nancy Guthrie's |
| 1:51.1 | being found. But it's, it's chaos and its contradiction from the people who are supposed to be the |
| 1:56.8 | grownups and in charge and have their shit together. Sorry. |
| 2:02.4 | I'm laughing because the expectation that public has on this is law enforcement |
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