Possible Shoe Print in Blood? 3 Shocking Expert Theories | Nancy Guthrie Update

Drop Dead Serious With Ashleigh Banfield

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🗓️ 4 April 2026

⏱️ 74 minutes

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For weeks now, one disturbing question has been hanging over the Nancy Guthrie case: is the blood on her front porch just spatter, or could it contain trace evidence that might help identify whoever took her? On Day 62 in the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie, Ashleigh Banfield zeroes in on one of the most unsettling details in the entire case and brings in three top forensic experts to help break it down. Dr. Peter Valentin, Associate Professor and Chair of Forensic Science at the University of New Haven, joins the show alongside Dr. Laura Pettler, forensic criminologist and founder of LPA, and Dr. Ken Kinsey, forensic crime scene analyst and reconstruction expert known to many as the state’s expert witness in the Alex Murdaugh trial. Together, they examine the blood evidence, the possible shoe print, and the competing theories about what may have happened on Nancy Guthrie’s porch as the search for Savannah Guthrie’s missing mother stretches into Day 62.

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0:28.6	hi everybody i'm ashley banfield and this is dropious. It's nice to have you here. It is Friday as I record this. It is April 3rd, and this is day 62 of the Nancy Guthrie investigation. I've got a couple of things I want to share with you. First and foremost, there's been a lot of talk among the true crime community
0:54.4	about some internet chatter, some photographs of the blood droplets outside of Nancy's front door.
1:03.5	Brian Enten from News Nation, Michael Ruiz from Fox Digital, both were able to capture those images
1:08.6	early on, I think around day two or day three.
1:20.6	And if you zero in very, very closely on one of those droplets, does that look like a shoe print? Does it look like a partial shoe print, a transfer print, or an impression?
1:30.2	It's a really good question. And I had been following along with all your comments as well and looking at it. And finally I decided, I think it's time to
1:34.0	bring in the experts on this. And I've assembled three very, very good blood experts. They're
1:41.7	experts in Spatter, in CSI, in crime scene investigation, evidence recovery,
1:47.5	all those kinds of things. But specifically, they have a lot of savvy when it comes to
1:52.5	blood evidence. And so I'm going to ask all of them, what are your thoughts about these images?
2:01.3	Does it tell you that it's a sneaker?
2:03.6	And some of you have talked about it being a cloud sneaker.
2:07.8	And some of you have said it's not that at all.
2:11.0	But I always want to turn to the experts.
2:13.6	So in a moment you're going to hear from three experts that I've assembled in blood
2:18.3	evidence, Dr. Peter Valentin, as well as Dr. Laura Petler, and Dr. Ken Ken Ken Kenzie. And they will
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