TRUE CRIME NEWS'I Don't Think the Back Door Was an Exit': Ex-FBI Agent Disputes Theory as Nancy Guthrie Remains Missing
An ex-FBI agent said the propped open back doors of the home of missing Nancy Guthrie served as entry for multiple perps.
April 1 2026, Published 1:03 p.m. ET
Former FBI special agent Raymond Carr told NewsNation anchor Elizabeth Vargas that he does not believe the back door of Nancy Guthrie's home was an exit for the abductors.
Nancy, the 84-year-old mother of Today show anchor Savannah Guthrie, was allegedly abducted from her Catalina Foothills, Ariz., home in the early hours of February 1.
Raymond theorized that, while the back doors were found propped open, they likely served as entry points for additional individuals into the house rather than as escape routes.
An ex-FBI agent weighed in on Nancy Guthrie's case.
“How do you think they took Nancy out?” Elizabeth asked. “It looks like going out the back, you’d go into that rough terrain. There’s no way you could carry an elderly woman through that.”
Raymond agreed, saying, “I don’t think that the back door was an exit; I think it was an entry. I think that’s how additional individuals may have been let into the home. But the one individual went in through the front.”
He undoubtedly said that Nancy was taken out through the front entrance. He cited blood found on the front steps and porch as evidence for this theory.
The ex-agent thinks the suspect left from the front of the home.
“They had to leave from the front of the home because of the blood that was found on the steps and on the porch,” he shared. “There’s no doubt in my mind that she left from the front. But there were entries that people were going in from different parts of the home.”
Raymond noted that the rough terrain behind the house would make it nearly impossible to carry an elderly woman out that way.
Because moving an 84-year-old would be difficult for one person, Raymond suggested that multiple individuals were likely involved in the abduction.
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Savannah Guthrie spoke about her mom in an interview.
This contradicted earlier speculation from the family, including Savannah, who initially wondered if the open back doors meant paramedics had taken her mother out on a stretcher after a medical emergency.
“We thought maybe they came, and there was a stretcher, and they took her out the back. But her phone was there, and her purse was there, and all her things. And it just didn’t make any sense,” Savannah told Hoda Kotb in an emotional Today show interview.
Investigators have indicated they may now know a motive behind what is believed to be a targeted abduction.
The Pima County Sheriff's Department recently called off the use of cadaver dogs as they shift focus to other forensic leads.
Investigators have indicated they may now know a motive behind what is believed to be a targeted abduction.
Savannah is scheduled to return to her duties at the Today show on Monday, April 6.
