Nancy Guthrie: Five Hours, a Grounded Plane, and an Investigation in Crisis

The investigation into Nancy Guthrie's disappearance is now generating as many questions as the crime itself. Criminal defense attorney and former felony prosecutor Eric Faddis joins Hidden Killers Live to break apart the investigative decisions that could define — or destroy — any future prosecution.

Sheriff Nanos released the crime scene early and sent his team back in days later. His thermal imaging Cessna — the single best tool for locating a person in the Arizona desert — sat on the ground for five hours because the pilot had been pulled from the unit months earlier as punishment in a dispute with the sheriff. The deputies' union president has gone on record criticizing the department's response. A county supervisor has publicly questioned the handling of the case. The sheriff was photographed at an Arizona Wildcats basketball game during the active search.

For ten days, the department told the family and the public that the Nest doorbell camera footage was permanently unrecoverable. Then the FBI pulled it from backend data. If the most important piece of evidence in the case existed the entire time and the department didn't know it, every decision made during that window is now suspect.

Faddis draws on years of prosecuting first-degree murder and defending criminal cases to explain where honest investigative mistakes end and actionable negligence begins. He addresses the legal consequences of the premature scene release, the chain of custody problems created by multiple re-entries, the sheriff's retracted statement to NBC News, and — bypassing law enforcement entirely — reveals about their confidence in the people running this case.

This is an investigation being second-guessed in real time by the people closest to it. Faddis explains what that means if this case ever reaches a courtroom.

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