🚨🗞️🚨 NEW: What did the delay in bringing the FBI into the Nancy Guthrie case cost investigators?
Potentially — more photo and video evidence due to the nature of how the FBI and Google were able to recover cached Nest doorbell footage even though Guthrie didn't have a cloud subscription and her physical device was taken, FBI Director Kash Patel has revealed.
The backend imagery was not slated for long-term storage and was on the verge of automatic deletion by the time the FBI became involved in the case, he told Fox News Digital.
A masked man appeared on Guthrie's Nest camera at least twice — once on the day of her Feb. 1 abduction, and once about three weeks earlier, Fox News Digital has reported previously.
There is only a single still image publicly available from the earlier visit — but experts say it's likely that video existed at one point.
If the FBI were involved sooner, they may have been able to recover additional evidence, which potentially may have included a suspect vehicle, more footage of the masked intruder or even additional imagery from a prior visit to Guthrie's home, Patel said.
"If this was recovered from a backend cache and it was almost deleted, that implies that another video was deleted because they would have been able to recover more than what they did," says Morgan Wright, an expert on digital forensic and the founder of the National Center for Open and Unsolved Cases. "Timing is always an issue."
Anyone with information on Guthrie's kidnapping is asked to dial 1-800-CALL-FBI or 520-88-CRIME to remain anonymous.
The combined sum of rewards in the case is more than $1.2 million.
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Here's the video that was recovered and made public on Feb. 10:
@Rep_Grijalva Basura, your fucking illegals are getting away with murder. Check all the illegal guns, shared among your fucking gangs and thugs. Fuck your ideas about leaving g AZ vulnerable to your illegals criminals. Do you need to see heads on pikes before you get off your fat ass? 🩸
The mayor of Charlotte, NC asks that we not post about this lady murdered on a Charlotte train by a repeat offender with 14 prior arrests!
I say in Iryna’s memory please share and make this go viral! A repeat offender with 14 prior arrests should not be roaming the streets of ANY city! They should be locked up!! Epic failure in the justice system!