Former Arizona SWAT Chief Slams 'Emotional' Sheriff's Handling of Nancy Guthrie Case as She Remans Missing

A retired SWAT chief criticized Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos' leadership in the investigation into Nancy Guthrie's disappearance.

Former Lieutenant Bob Krygier, who spent nearly 30 years with the department, laid into his former colleague's lack of communication skills during an appearance on the "Surviving the Survivor" podcast on Wednesday, March 4.

Speaking about the sheriff's Today interview the day before, in which he claimed they were "definitely closer" to solving the case, Krygier declared, "I wouldn’t put it past him to be on that semantics train."

"He is not the best one to deliver those messages most times," he said of his former boss. "He gets wrapped up in his thoughts, he gets emotional. Even if he’s not getting pushback, he sometimes just repeats himself over and over."

Krygier went on to reveal, "We did a morale poll a couple years ago — 98 percent of the department gave a vote of no confidence to the sheriff for various reasons."

"Think about that number," he continued. "We have roughly 450 commissioned officers. We’re not a small agency. This isn’t Mayberry. We need to do better."

Krygier added that Nanos was seemingly unconcerned with the verdict on his leadership, telling the podcast "he chose not to follow up with the unions" to see how he could improve.

The former SWAT commander's remarks come as the 84-year-old mother of Today star Savannah Guthrie remains missing after vanishing from her Tucson, Ariz., home on February 1.

The sheriff said on Tuesday that investigators were making progress in terms of finding a suspect(s), declaring, "We've got a lot of intel, a lot of leads."

Chris also shared that the department has a special team from their homicide unit working with the FBI on the case, but "are operating under the belief that [Nancy] is still alive."

He previously said he believes the retiree is the victim of a "targeted kidnapping." A trail of blood confirmed to be Nancy's was notably found on her front porch.

Since her disappearance, the FBI has released surveillance footage of a masked suspect seemingly tampering with her doorbell camera, shared a description of the intruder and revealed they found DNA evidence at the scene.

Meanwhile, it was reported on Thursday, March 5, that Savannah had returned to NBC Studios for the first time since her mom went missing.

Jenna Bush Hager revealed during Thursday's episode of Today With Jenna & Sheinelle that the 54-year-old anchor intends to come back to the morning show at some point.

"Even though it feels like the hardest thing to do, it's her home and where she feels so loved," Jenna shared. "She is beyond loved here. We're happy that she is home."