Nancy Guthrie is still missing—but the FBI was able to recover video footage from her front stoop that became a key piece of evidence early in the investigation.
When Guthrie, 84, first disappeared on Feb. 1, the Pima County Sheriff’s Department was leading the investigation. The FBI was brought into the case after the investigation was already underway, and that delay may have come at a cost, according to FBI Director Kash Patel.
Patel says that agents worked with Google to recover cached video from Guthrie’s Nest doorbell after discovering that she did not have a cloud storage subscription and that the physical camera itself was missing. The footage they recovered had never been intended for long-term storage and was on the verge of being automatically deleted.
Patel told Fox News Digital that while investigators were ultimately able to retrieve the video from Guthrie’s front stoop, any additional footage that may have existed could have been lost before the FBI got involved. Whether that unrecovered video contained evidence relevant to the investigation remains unknown…