Six months after Nancy Guthrie was abducted, authorities appear no closer to finding her or to making arrests. What's gone wrong? In a deeply reported story, the Wall Street Journal details a case marked by early missteps, political infighting, and high-profile finger-pointing between local authorities and the FBI. It also reveals a new example of a misfire: The Pima County Sheriff's Office most powerful search-and-rescue tool, a sophisticated plane equipped with infrared and zoom-lens cameras, sat grounded until dusk on the first day of Guthrie's disappearance because there was no deputy available trained to operate it. The senior pilot initially assigned that day had been demoted days earlier. The Journal notes that this deputy had backed a challenger to Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos.
The story reconstructs the first hours and days, including how investigators minimized the importance of blood found on Guthrie's porch and left the home without crime-scene tape as media and delivery drivers came and went. A masked man captured on Nancy's missing Nest camera, two chilling ransom notes, and the involvement of both FBI Director Kash Patel—"who had early on promised to lead the charge but has since gone largely silent"—and President Trump have generated more spectacle than answers. Patel also has publicly criticized the sheriff, and the two men have reportedly never spoken. Read the full story, in which Nanos pushes back against criticism. "I can assure everybody that we are working hard every day with all of our partners," he says. "This case is not cold."
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