What Legal Remedies Exist for Nancy Guthrie's Family With No Arrest and No Suspect?
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Tony Brueski
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🗓️ 27 May 2026
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
No arrest has been made in the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie from her residence in Tucson's Catalina Foothills community. DNA evidence recovered from the scene was transferred from a private laboratory in Florida to the FBI for advanced analysis. The Pima County Board of Supervisors referred perjury allegations against Sheriff Chris Nanos to the Arizona Attorney General but declined to exercise their authority to remove him. The Pima County Sheriff's Deputies Association voted unanimously in a no-confidence measure against Nanos. A recall petition is reportedly circulating, requiring more than 122,000 signatures.Criminal defense attorney Bob Motta addresses the legal remedies available to the Guthrie family from a procedural standpoint. What standing does a family have to petition for an outside agency to assume investigative authority? What are the evidentiary risks of initiating a private investigation that runs parallel to an active law enforcement case? A retired Pima County detective stated publicly that the suspect's identity may already exist within the accumulated case materials — is there any legal instrument that compels the department to submit to an independent review of those files?Motta provides a candid assessment of the family's position given the current procedural posture — no identified suspect, no pending charges, and an investigation led by a department facing simultaneous crises of leadership and credibility.
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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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