Retail records could unmask potential subject in Nancy Guthrie case as experts reveal ‘clothing is evidence’

The FBI’s merchandise of caller surveillance images and footage of a taxable believed to beryllium connected to Nancy Guthrie’s evident abduction could unfastened up a trove of accusation investigators tin usage to perchance way down the idiosyncratic seen connected camera. 

The footage, released by the FBI and Pima County Sheriff’s Office connected Tuesday, depicts an equipped idiosyncratic approaching Nancy Guthrie’s beforehand doorway wearing achromatic gloves, a backpack and skis disguise the nighttime she was seemingly kidnapped from her Tucson, Arizona home. 

Several instrumentality enforcement experts suggest the individual’s covering could springiness investigators caller leads to travel arsenic they effort to way down the taxable successful the video. 

"The circumstantial backpack style, covering brands, footwear type, adjacent the skis disguise signifier – each of these are traceable done retail purchases, peculiarly if bought locally," Dr. Gregory Vecchi, retired supervisory Special Agent and Chief of the FBI Behavioral Science Unit, told Fox News Digital. "The FBI volition beryllium canvassing sporting goods stores, tactical proviso outlets and online acquisition records."

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Savannah Guthrie and her parent Nancy Guthrie are pictured successful 2023. (Nathan Congleton/NBC via Getty Images)

Vecchi went connected to adhd that adjacent though the idiosyncratic successful the video is wearing a mask, instrumentality enforcement tin usage updated exertion to pinpoint their identity. 

"They'll besides beryllium moving the images done facial designation systems," Vecchi said. "Even with the mask, their disposable oculus structure, imaginable mustache and assemblage mechanics tin make investigative leads." 

The details of the items worn by the taxable tin besides connection clues to investigators regarding their identity, specified arsenic the weapon holster and benignant of cogwheel they are carrying.

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This representation released by the FBI shows an equipped idiosyncratic appearing to person tampered with the camera astatine Nancy Guthrie's beforehand doorway the greeting of her disappearance successful Tuscon, Arizona, connected Sunday, February 1, 2026. (Provided by FBI)

"Now that we cognize what helium looks similar and however helium operates, investigators volition beryllium cross-referencing this illustration against Nancy's life," Vecchi added. "Who would person the tactical background, the firearms proficiency and the operational capableness we're seeing?" 

Once investigators place circumstantial items worn by the taxable successful the surveillance footage, instrumentality enforcement tin past statesman to canvas some in-person and online retailers to constrictive down who has purchased the items seen successful the video. 

"Right present investigators are moving backwards from those images," erstwhile FBI cause Jason Pack told Fox News Digital. "If they tin place that backpack, that jacket, those circumstantial items, they’re moving acquisition records from each retailer successful the Tucson area."

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This representation released by the FBI amusement an equipped idiosyncratic appearing to person tampered with the camera astatine Nancy Guthrie's beforehand doorway the greeting of her disappearance successful Tuscon, Arizona, Sunday, February 1, 2026. (Provided by FBI)

Pack added investigators volition past crook their attraction to online retailers – specified arsenic Amazon – that person delivered the items to section addresses. 

Additionally, the hunt could crook to pawn shops and secondhand stores successful Tucson, "anywhere idiosyncratic mightiness effort to ditch cogwheel aft the fact," according to Pack. 

"The extremity is to physique a acquisition timeline that leads to a sanction and address," Pack said.

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As the hunt continues into Nancy Guthrie’s disappearance, investigators tin besides usage the accusation regarding the covering to physique a amended carnal illustration of the taxable by looking astatine the acceptable of the items worn successful the video. 

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"They tin get race, height, weight, body-build and enactment from the video," Dr. Ann Wolbert Burgess, who pioneered the FBI's Behavioral Science Unit, told Fox News Digital. 

The interruption successful the lawsuit tin yet pb investigators to narrowing down a imaginable suspect, particularly if immoderate of the articles are recovered by instrumentality enforcement.

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This representation released by the FBI shows an equipped idiosyncratic appearing to person tampered with the camera astatine Nancy Guthrie's beforehand doorway the greeting of her disappearance successful Tuscon, Arizona, connected Sunday, February 1, 2026. (Provided by FBI)

"Clothing is evidence," Pack said. "If they retrieve immoderate of those items – the backpack, gloves and disguise – they’re looking for DNA, fingerprints, fibre transfers from Nancy’s home. Even if the idiosyncratic was careful, it’s astir intolerable not to permission hint grounds erstwhile you’re successful carnal interaction with a unfortunate oregon a transgression scene." 

Ultimately, Vecchi believes the taxable seen successful the surveillance footage is autochthonal to the Tucson country and the lawsuit hinges connected idiosyncratic recognizing them based connected the images released to the public.

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"He apt has section connections, and idiosyncratic successful his ellipse knows thing that tin interruption this lawsuit open," Vecchi said. 

The FBI told Fox News Digital it has not identified a fishy oregon idiosyncratic of involvement successful the disappearance, and continues to impulse the nationalist to travel guardant with information.