Sheriff Nanos Denies Blocking FBI — But His Track Record Says Otherwise
Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski | True Crime News & Commentary
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🗓️ 13 February 2026
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
An FBI source told NewsNation it's "dumb" and "insane" — Sheriff Chris Nanos is allegedly blocking federal agents from accessing key evidence in the Nancy Guthrie case, routing a glove and DNA samples to a private Florida lab instead of Quantico. Nanos called the reports "not even close to the truth." But the documented history of this sheriff's credibility tells a very different story.
From a 98.8 percent no-confidence vote by his own deputies, to an Arizona Attorney General investigation that flagged four policy violations, to placing his political opponent on leave weeks before an election he won by 481 votes — Nanos has spent years denying what the record confirms. And in the Guthrie case alone, he's admitted to releasing the crime scene early, contradicted himself publicly, grounded his best search aircraft over a personal dispute, and sat courtside at a basketball game while the family begged for Nancy's return.
This episode lays out the full pattern — every claim sourced, every quote verified — and asks the only question that matters on Day 13 of this search: whose word has actually held up?
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| 0:00.0 | This is Hidden Killers with Tony Bruske. Here now, Tony Bruske. |
| 0:07.3 | We've kind of become accustomed to chaos in the Nancy Guthrie case, haven't we? |
| 0:13.2 | Something that, obviously, it's a missing person, so it's going to be complex. |
| 0:19.5 | But it's really need to be this complex. Does it really need to have this much |
| 0:24.8 | chaos surrounding every turn of this case? Well, patterns are an interesting thing. People tend to operate in patterns of behavior. |
| 0:40.6 | So when we're hearing reports, obviously we've been hearing reports for quite a while, |
| 0:44.5 | we were reporting about six, seven days ago, about Sheriff Nanos track record, about his pattern of behavior. |
| 0:57.0 | It seems just now the rest of the media is starting to catch up. Why? Because it's hitting them flat in the face. Because there's reports now |
| 1:03.4 | that the FBI and the Sheriff's Department are at a bit of odds. And then, of course, there's reports |
| 1:09.6 | that are coming back from the sheriff's department |
| 1:11.4 | completely denying it. It's a lovely relationship. Everybody gets along. They go and have Figg-Newtons |
| 1:17.6 | on the backstep of the sheriff's department, and they have milk and cookies, and they sing songs |
| 1:24.2 | and do kumbaya, and it's wonderful, and everything and everything's great okay that part i'm making up |
| 1:28.6 | but they have come back and swung at the reporting that has now been published from many outlets |
| 1:34.5 | about said um hiccups to put it lightly so we're going to go through all of that we're going to go |
| 1:43.3 | through the history a little bit more in case you're unaware of the track record, the pattern of behavior that has led us here. |
| 1:49.3 | So you can judge for yourself. |
| 1:51.9 | Both sides are saying what they're saying. |
| 1:55.1 | The reality, the truth that lies somewhere in the middle. |
| 2:01.0 | I'll let you make your judgment call once you've heard the full scope of everything. |
| 2:07.7 | The full story, the track record, the years, the decades of leadership surrounded in chaos. |
| 2:23.6 | We're getting to all that. |
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