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National Police Association spokesperson and retired Chicago-area police officer Betsy Brantner Smith said Saturday she believes the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie may not be connected to the ransom notes at all, suggesting instead it could be “a home invasion or something gone wrong.”
Appearing on Newsmax’s “Saturday Report” Brantner Smith reacted to legal analyst Alan Dershowitz’s comments urging Guthrie’s family to open dialogue with the abductors even without proof of life.
“I think that they have been directed by the FBI, you know, from a hostage negotiation standpoint to demand this proof of life,” Brantner Smith said. “But we don’t even know… and I’m kind of a realist, like the professor is.”…