# What Nancy Guthrie's Abductor Put In Writing

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Podcast: [Hidden Killers Live! Daily True Crime News & Breakdowns](https://stenobird.com/podcast/hidden-killers-live-daily-true-crime-news-breakdowns-5650841)
Published: 2026-06-26T12:00:00+00:00
Episode link: https://audioboom.com/posts/8921012
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## Resource

Strip away the frustration, the missing updates, and the months without an arrest, and one question remains in the Nancy Guthrie case: if investigators handed everything they have to a prosecutor, what would actually hold up? Joining this legal breakdown are former prosecutor Eric Faddis and retired FBI agent Robin Dreeke. Tony Brueski runs through the state's hand. There's the physical evidence pulled from the home of the 84-year-old mother of Savannah Guthrie — blood, a disconnected pacemaker, the doorbell footage of a masked figure at the door. There's the backpack traced to a single national retailer. And there's a note, sent to a Tucson TV station through a server built to bury its origin, that may carry more weight in a courtroom than anything else on the list. This conversation is about leverage — what a prosecutor builds around first, how circumstantial evidence becomes proof a crime even happened, and why felony-murder law could quietly remove the hardest thing the state would otherwise have to prove. If Nancy died in the course of a kidnapping, prosecutors may never need to show anyone intended for her to die. They'd only need to show she was taken. It's also about timing: the reasons a careful prosecutor stays silent, and the very different reasons a stalled one does the same. Tony separates the two, and explains how you'd tell from the outside which one is really happening here. Somewhere in that house, on that porch, and in that note is a case. Whether it's a winnable one is the whole conversation. Full episode inside. END_LINKS: Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1…

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