Nancy Guthrie: The Raid, The Release, The Reality | Weekend Breakdown
Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski | True Crime News & Commentary
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3.3 • 909 Ratings
🗓️ 16 February 2026
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
The biggest show of force in two weeks—and it produced nothing.
Friday night: SWAT raid two miles from Nancy Guthrie's home. Three detained. A "person of interest" questioned at a Culver's parking lot. His Range Rover searched and towed.
Saturday morning: Everyone released. No arrests. Sheriff Nanos confirming "no sign of Nancy was found."
Then Nanos told the New York Times finding her could take "years."
An 84-year-old woman who needs daily heart medication. Missing for sixteen days. And the sheriff is measuring his timeline in years.
This episode exposes the dysfunction: FBI and sheriff fighting over which lab processes DNA evidence. Sixteen gloves collected—fifteen discarded by the searchers themselves. The one glove that matters now entering CODIS.
Inside sources say burglary gone wrong. The FBI says "myriad of theories." Nobody's on the same page.
And Savannah Guthrie, speaking directly to whoever has her mother: "You're not lost or alone. It's never too late to do the right thing."
That's an off-ramp for someone in over their head. The question is whether anyone's listening.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Hidden Killers with Tony Bruske. |
| 0:03.3 | Here now, Tony Bruske. |
| 0:07.2 | Oh, it's been a weekend. |
| 0:09.7 | It certainly has been a weekend in the investigation into the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie, |
| 0:17.0 | all the way from Friday night to here we are where we're recording this at the beginning of week three. |
| 0:25.4 | And if you thought there was a lot of chaos this weekend, you were exactly right. |
| 0:29.2 | If you had a hard time trying to parse it all together. |
| 0:33.6 | Because information's coming from here, from there, from over there, down here. And then somebody's saying, well, that's not right. This isn't right. Well, that's a lie. This isn't right. But that's true. That's kind of half true. And this is sort of true. But this is not really true. And if you look at that, oh, my God. And if it weren't all just coming from, or if it were all just coming from, I should say it that |
| 0:56.7 | way, if it were all just coming from commentators online, from YouTubers, from people on social |
| 1:04.8 | media, from armchair sleuths, from wherever, it would be a different story. But it's coming from officials. It's coming from |
| 1:13.4 | the sheriff. It's coming from YouTubers. It's coming from journalistic outlets that should know |
| 1:20.1 | how to understand the concept of responsible reporting better than they do. It's, it's, it's, it's, |
| 1:29.1 | all of this is chaos. all of this is chaos. |
| 1:31.2 | All of this is chaos. We're going to try and make some sense of the chaos for you at the end of the day. |
| 1:41.0 | Because as Savannah said, it is never too late to do the right thing. |
| 1:47.9 | And at the end of the day, I think that's the message that really matters most here in this case. |
| 1:55.0 | Robin said it on the show on Thursday. |
| 1:57.1 | I said it on court TV on Friday night. |
| 1:59.2 | Savannah said it the other night in that YouTube video. |
| 2:03.6 | Speaking directly to whoever may be out there that's behind this. It's never too late to do the right thing. |
| 2:15.8 | From all the criticisms, and we're going to certainly go through them and the issues with this |
| 2:21.3 | investigation i think it does come down to one thing humanity there's somebody out there who did |
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