Nancy Guthrie video may have been erased after FBI kept out for days, director says
EXCLUSIVE: The delay in allowing the FBI to assist in the investigation into Nancy Guthrie's suspected abduction may have cost crucial video evidence due to the elaborate process involved in recovering Nest doorbell footage from the crime scene when the victim did not have a cloud subscription and her physical camera was missing as well, according to the FBI director.Guthrie, the mother of "Today" co-host Savannah Guthrie, was taken from her Tucson, Arizona, home in the early hours of Feb. 1, according to authorities.The FBI worked with Google to recover cached video from Guthrie's Nest camera that was not intended for long-term storage and was on the verge of deletion, Director Kash Patel told Fox News Digital.If there was more, it was lost before the FBI became involved, and its evidentiary value remains unknown.NANCY GUTHRIE SHERIFF SCOLDED COUNTY OFFICIAL FOR SHARING TIP WITH FBI, SHE CLAIMS IN INTERVIEW"We were looking for the needle of all needles in all haystacks, because since she didn't pay for it, they didn't record that data," he said.
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EXCLUSIVE: The delay in allowing the FBI to assist in the investigation into Nancy Guthrie's suspected abduction may have cost crucial video evidence due to the elaborate process involved in recovering Nest doorbell footage from the crime scene when the victim did not have a cloud subscription and her physical camera was missing as well, according to the FBI director.Guthrie, the mother of "Today" co-host Savannah Guthrie, was taken from her Tucson, Arizona, home in the early hours of Feb. 1, according to authorities.The FBI worked with Google to recover cached video from Guthrie's Nest camera that was not intended for long-term storage and was on the verge of deletion, Director Kash Patel told Fox News Digital.If there was more, it was lost before the FBI became involved, and its evidentiary value remains unknown.NANCY GUTHRIE SHERIFF SCOLDED COUNTY OFFICIAL FOR SHARING TIP WITH FBI, SHE CLAIMS IN INTERVIEW"We were looking for the needle of all needles in all haystacks, because since she didn't pay for it, they didn't record that data," he said. "But there was a chance that it was located in their cache just before it was being deleted."That's where investigators found the video and still images that Patel made public on Feb. 10, in the hope that someone would recognize the suspect and turn him in.A short time later, FBI experts had generated a rough physical description.
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- EXCLUSIVE: The delay in allowing the FBI to assist in the investigation into Nancy Guthrie's suspected abduction may have cost crucial video evidence due to the elaborate process involved in recovering Nest doorbell footage from the crime scene when the victim did not have a cloud subscription and her physical camera was missing as well, according to the FBI director.Guthrie, the mother of "Today" co-host Savannah Guthrie, was taken from her Tucson, Arizona, home in the early hours of Feb. 1, according to authorities.The FBI worked with Google to recover cached video from Guthrie's Nest camera that was not intended for long-term storage and was on the verge of deletion, Director Kash Patel told Fox News Digital.If there was more, it was lost before the FBI became involved, and its evidentiary value remains unknown.NANCY GUTHRIE SHERIFF SCOLDED COUNTY OFFICIAL FOR SHARING TIP WITH FBI, SHE CLAIMS IN INTERVIEW"We were looking for the needle of all needles in all haystacks, because since she didn't pay for it, they didn't record that data," he said.
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