Nancy Guthrie: Ex-FBI Agent Thinks Kidnapper May Try to Strike ‘Deal’

As the Nancy Guthrie investigation enters its seventh month, with no update on her whereabouts or potential suspects, a former FBI agent has suggested the case could be solved via a plea deal.

Retired FBI agent Jennifer Coffindaffer, who has closely followed the case from the beginning, recently spoke with fellow ex-FBI agent Frank Storey on her YouTube channel. During the conversation, Coffindaffer asked Storey if he believes the case will ever be solved.

“I think it will be at some point,” he said. “Somewhere along the line, somebody always talks.” Storey went on to say that if “several people were involved in the kidnapping, it may come a time when one of them is arrested for something else.”

Storey said if that person is confronted with a serious crime and facing a potentially lengthy prison sentence, they may say, “‘I want to make a deal; I know about the Guthrie case.'”

“That may occur; it may not. But it’s possible,” the ex-agent continued. “And then the truth will come out, eventually. It usually does.”

Nancy, the 84-year-old mother of Today’s Savannah Guthrie, went missing on February 1, when police believe she was abducted from her Tucson, Arizona, home. Investigators have released doorbell camera footage of a masked suspect and sent DNA for testing at the FBI lab in Quantico, but no suspects have been named publicly.

Storey went on to say that the FBI is still investigating the case and that it’s not the sort of case they would close until it’s solved. He also said he’s confident that “top agents” are working on the investigation.

As for his thoughts on what happened, Storey believes it was a kidnapping for ransom that went wrong. He explained that the kidnappers were successful in abducting Nancy from her home, but he thinks she possibly had a fatal heart attack a day or two later.

In July, Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos told the Wall Street Journal, “I can assure everybody that we are working hard every day with all of our partners [including] corporate America [which has] offered up some assistance with some of the brightest minds in this country.” He also reiterated, “This case is not cold.”