What Can Nancy Guthrie's Family Do When the Sheriff's Own Deputies Don't Trust Him?
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🗓️ 27 May 2026
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
The investigation into Nancy Guthrie's disappearance from her Catalina Foothills home has produced no arrest and no publicly identified suspect. The DNA evidence recovered from inside the home was initially sent to a private lab in Florida, then transferred to the FBI for more advanced analysis. The crime scene was reportedly released too early. A homicide unit supervisor was allegedly installed who had never previously investigated a homicide. A retired Pima County detective has gone on the record stating he believes the suspect's name is already contained somewhere within the existing case files.Criminal defense attorney Bob Motta examines the Guthrie family's legal options with the specificity of someone building a case. What does the evidentiary landscape look like from the family's side? Is there a legal mechanism to compel an outside review of the materials already gathered? Does hiring a private investigator create chain-of-custody complications that could undermine a future prosecution? The Pima County Board of Supervisors referred perjury allegations against Sheriff Nanos to the attorney general but declined to remove him. His deputies voted unanimously that they lack confidence in his leadership. If the family's attorney looks at that political fracture and the investigative failures together — what's the legal path forward?Bob doesn't deal in optimism or reassurance. He deals in what's actionable. This is the case examined through the lens of what the family can actually do with the tools the law provides them.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Hidden Killers Live with Tony Brewski and Robin Dree. |
| 0:08.7 | More than 100 days now since Nancy Guthrie was taken from her Tucson home. |
| 0:13.5 | There's been no arrest, no publicly identified suspect, and the sheriff leaning the investigation just survived a vote to remove him from office. |
| 0:21.2 | The Pima County Board of Supervisors referred perjury allegations against Sheriff Nanos to the state attorney general, but stopped short of pulling him. |
| 0:29.1 | His own deputies voted unanimously that they have no confidence in his leadership. |
| 0:33.4 | The recall effort is underway, but faces a very steep climb over 122,000 signatures needed by July, |
| 0:41.3 | and the family is reportedly frustrated as well, still without a private investigator, |
| 0:47.2 | still relying on the same department that released the crime scene too early, |
| 0:52.2 | routed DNA away from the FBI lab, and installed a homicide |
| 0:55.7 | unit supervisor who had allegedly never worked a homicide. |
| 0:59.4 | That's where we're beginning today. |
| 1:01.5 | Happy, happy, happy beginning of the week, everybody. |
| 1:05.7 | Here, the thing in the bureau said, things that make you go, yeah. |
| 1:08.4 | Hmm. |
| 1:09.1 | Criminal defense attorney, Bob M Mata is with a host |
| 1:12.1 | of the podcast Defense Diaries. |
| 1:15.1 | Bob, I mean, there's so much with this case |
| 1:17.9 | and there's so much that's not happening with this case in a while. |
| 1:20.9 | Everybody's sitting here going, what can be done at this point? |
| 1:25.0 | If you're working for the Guthrie's right now, if the family had come to you |
| 1:30.7 | going, hey, I don't know what our options are, what can we do, if anything? And they hired you at this |
| 1:37.6 | point. What's your first call? What's your first way that you're advising them to get some sort |
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