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Why Was a Rookie Leading This Case? | Nancy Guthrie Case Update

Drop Dead Serious With Ashleigh Banfield

Drop Dead Serious With Ashleigh Banfield

True Crime

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 1 April 2026

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

Disturbing New Details: On Day 59 in the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie, an alarming new detail raises questions about how this investigation was handled from the very beginning. In this episode of Drop Dead Serious, Ashleigh Banfield shares new reporting that the detective initially leading Nancy Guthrie’s case had only two years of experience, even as the investigation quickly became a major, high-profile case.

Ashleigh is joined by retired Pima County homicide detective Kurt Dabb. They also dig into the latest details about the back kitchen door, the flower pots used to prop open the screen door and back gate, what that staging could suggest about planning, and whether more than one person may have been involved in Nancy Guthrie’s disappearance.

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0:00.0

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0:35.9

Hi everybody.

0:37.2

I'm Ashley Banfield, and this is Drop Dead Serious. Thank you for being here. Thank you for subscribing. And if you haven't yet subscribed, this is it. The little button. It's free. It's easy. It might even go ding when you do it. And I so appreciate it. Thank you so much for being here. And also, if you're a member, I really appreciate you guys.

0:54.5

If you want to join, there's a little join button down there as well. We'd love to have you.

0:57.6

We do all sorts of special member stuff just for the members. So I've got some more reporting for you.

1:03.6

This is day 59, y'all, and I'm recording this on March 31st. It is the last day of March,

1:09.0

which means tomorrow is day 60 in Nancy's investigation.

1:13.5

Okay, so I learned something from my law enforcement sources that so much that I learn makes me

1:19.6

so angry. Others I find fascinating. Like if you didn't see yesterday's episode, check it out.

1:25.1

I finally have learned from my sources where the perpetrator got into Nancy's house. It's in the middle back door, the door that goes

1:32.4

into the kitchen. And when Savannah said doors propped open, plural, it meant the screen door

1:38.9

and the wooden door of the same entrance. The screen door was propped open with the flower pots,

1:44.7

and so was the gate to the backyard. So check out yesterday's episode, if you haven't already,

1:49.8

for more details about that. Today, though, I have learned that in the very beginning of this

1:58.0

case, right? You know how it's so important at the beginning of a case?

2:01.6

Timing is everything. Your countdown is everything when you have a missing person. It's just like the hours count. In the very beginning of this case, when we learned from the sheriff that homicide had been called in because there was, you know, disturbing things inside the house.

2:18.6

We learned what that is, right? It's the door, back door wide open. I told you that on day three.

2:23.5

And also, blood found in the house, I told you that on day three. I also, in the last several weeks,

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