Nancy Guthrie was ‘injured’ not ‘killed’ during kidnapping, ex-FBI agent suggests

Nancy, 84, was last seen on Jan. 31 when she was dropped off at her Catalina Foothills home after dinner with her daughter Annie and her son-in-law Tommaso Cioni.

The next day she disappeared without a trace, leaving only her personal belongings, blood and eerie images of a man in a balaclava and black gloves captured by her Nest camera.

While it is clear that something violent took place in her home that evening, Andrew Bringuel, a retired FBI agent who now runs a private security consulting firm in New York, suggested that the kidnapper did not intend to kill her.

‘Without knowing if there is any of it [value] was indeed stolen, my opinion is that the subject’s intention was to kidnap Ms. Guthrie, but something went wrong, violence occurred and she was injured but not killed,” he explained in an interview with Newsweek. ‘If his intention was to kill her, he could have done it with the weapon on his body. He was clearly not opposed to the use of force as the evidence suggests he injured Ms Guthrie.”

Bringuel said it was possible the suspect “underestimated” the 84-year-old.

“If she resisted, he hurt her – however much in her compromised state this could have led to tragic consequences that the subject had not foreseen,” he added.