Nancy Guthrie: Septic Tanks, Evidence Bags, and a Sheriff at a Basketball Game
Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski | True Crime News & Commentary
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🗓️ 9 February 2026
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Nine days after Nancy Guthrie disappeared from her Tucson home, the gap between what investigators are saying and what they are doing has never been wider. Officially — no suspects, no persons of interest, no vehicles. On the ground — drone footage of deputies probing a septic tank on Nancy's property. Three hours of forensic work inside Annie Guthrie's home Saturday night with photography flashes through the windows and deputies leaving with evidence bags and latex gloves. Investigators pulling Circle K surveillance footage after an employee said they were looking for "a guy that got away." Topographic search grids photographed at a staging area and carried into headquarters. A crime scene released after one day, re-entered five times, with a rooftop camera missed for five days. The ransom notes that launched a thousand headlines contained no proof of life, no communication channel back to the sender, and produced zero follow-through when the first deadline passed. The family's "we will pay" video was FBI-directed, responding to a second note that asked for nothing.
Sheriff Chris Nanos was photographed near the front row at a basketball game Saturday evening while his deputies were extracting evidence from a family member's home. His own union revealed he grounded the thermal-imaging Cessna by punishing its pilot and transferred the most experienced Search and Rescue deputy off the unit months before Nancy vanished. Nancy is 84. Her pacemaker went dark at 2:28 AM. She has been without life-sustaining medication for nine days. The investigation just went silent — no scheduled briefings. That is not a department with nothing. That is a department building toward something.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Hidden Killers with Tony Bruske. Here now, Tony Bruske. |
| 0:07.6 | This is chaos. The Nancy Guthrie story, 1,000% chaos. |
| 0:14.1 | There's a lot of information out there right now. There's a lot of misinformation out there right now. |
| 0:18.7 | There's a lot of information out there that, you know, quite honestly, as you try and |
| 0:23.6 | wade through it, you go, is this reportable? |
| 0:29.4 | Is this a thing? |
| 0:31.2 | Is this being held back? |
| 0:34.0 | Is this nothing? |
| 0:34.9 | Is this someone's opinion? |
| 0:36.4 | Is this? |
| 0:37.0 | That's what happens when you |
| 0:40.7 | have a void of information. People fill in blanks. We are going to do our best to accurately |
| 0:48.0 | fill in those blanks as best we can based on the information, but at the end of the day, |
| 0:56.0 | this is an opinion piece. |
| 1:12.2 | This is something where you're going to have to take a look at where everything stands, depending on the time you watch this, because quite honestly, changing hour by hour it's very hard to report on the story in a timely manner other than live |
| 1:18.4 | because it changes so we're going to get into everything we can right now look we have no one to say, this is who did this. |
| 1:30.9 | This is who you should be looking at. |
| 1:32.6 | We're going to take a look at everybody and everything that's being looked at right now. |
| 1:36.9 | And let the cards fall where they may. |
| 1:41.1 | And at the end of the day, the goal is one thing. |
| 1:45.6 | Get Nancy Guthrie back alive. |
| 1:49.1 | If she is out there alive to be brought back. |
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