Nancy Guthrie case: Unclaimed $1.2M reward suggests 'very small circle' of suspects, retired FBI agent says
— The fact that a seven-figure reward remains unclaimed nearly six months after the suspected abduction of Nancy Guthrie from her home in Tucson's Catalina Foothills neighborhood tells one veteran investigator that if the masked intruder on her porch had help, it came from a small, tight-knit group."That tells me the circle who knows is very small, and whoever is in it is bound by something stronger than money: blood, fear, shared exposure," said Jason Pack, a retired FBI negotiator and supervisory agent who has been closely following the case. Until they don't."The more people who know about a crime, the more likely someone would come forward and claim the reward money, he said.
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— The fact that a seven-figure reward remains unclaimed nearly six months after the suspected abduction of Nancy Guthrie from her home in Tucson's Catalina Foothills neighborhood tells one veteran investigator that if the masked intruder on her porch had help, it came from a small, tight-knit group."That tells me the circle who knows is very small, and whoever is in it is bound by something stronger than money: blood, fear, shared exposure," said Jason Pack, a retired FBI negotiator and supervisory agent who has been closely following the case. Until they don't."The more people who know about a crime, the more likely someone would come forward and claim the reward money, he said. The combined sum of rewards in the case is over $1.2 million — and none of it has been claimed 179 days after Guthrie's suspected abduction.NANY GUTHRIE SHERIFF CHRIS NANOS SAYS HE'S 'STILL POSITIVE' CASE WILL BE RESOLVED DESPITE LONG WAIT"Money like that usually pulls somebody loose from almost any group," Pack told Fox News Digital. "It hasn't."Rather than a dead end, Pack sees the untouched reward as another clue."In my experience, a meaningful share of cases like this break sideways," he said.
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- — The fact that a seven-figure reward remains unclaimed nearly six months after the suspected abduction of Nancy Guthrie from her home in Tucson's Catalina Foothills neighborhood tells one veteran investigator that if the masked intruder on her porch had help, it came from a small, tight-knit group."That tells me the circle who knows is very small, and whoever is in it is bound by something stronger than money: blood, fear, shared exposure," said Jason Pack, a retired FBI negotiator and supervisory agent who has been closely following the case. Until they don't."The more people who know about a crime, the more likely someone would come forward and claim the reward money, he said.
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