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Could FBI's next step expose Nancy Guthrie suspect? Expert weighs in, ‘The solution to this case is…’
The FBI has been planning to bring new tech tools into the investigation into Nancy Guthrie’s disappearance.
The FBI has been planning to bring new tech tools into the investigation into Nancy Guthrie’s disappearance, sources told Fox News Digital over the weekend. An expert believes that this move could finally expose the suspect.
While the FBI did not elaborate on the tools, Morgan Wright, the CEO and founder of the National Center for Open and Unsolved Cases, has said that he believes the tools are likely focused on one of three areas.
Solution to the case could be ‘something technical’: expert
"The solution to this case is going to be, I think, something technical, something that they come up with — new ways of analyzing data," he told Fox News Digital. "I'm looking at the video, the video forensics, signals analysis, blockchain kind of stuff."
Video forensics could include technology to enhance publicly known or unknown video to help identify the suspect or his vehicle, per the outlet. Signal analysis might include cell-site or ad-tech data analysis, and the blockchain might be able to expose who was behind the ransom attempts, and whether or not they were legitimate.
"If I'm going to put it into three buckets, I'd say it's going to come out of one of those three buckets," Wright, the editor and host of the ‘Crime: Reconstructed’ Substack and podcast, said.
Wright explained that investigative genetic genealogy could provide a major breakthrough, but that is not exactly new tech. He added that publicly known evidence points to only one kidnapper.
"I don't know that there's anything else to indicate a second person," he said.
Wright said that the suspect tried to obscure the camera and then took it with him to mask his vehicle, not his face. His face was already hidden behind a mask.
“The blood trail stops at the edge of the driveway," Wright said. "So we know there was a car."
Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos previously acknowledged in an interview with People that the Guthries must be “frustrated” with the lack of answers. However, it seemed certain that answers would come.
“My team, I’ve said all along, they’re gonna solve this,” he said. “I fully 100% believe that. … When you have the best minds of the country working on problems, I think they’re gonna solve them. It just takes a while.”
