The maze of unlit streets and lack of traffic dome cameras in Nancy’ Guthrie’s remote Arizona neighborhood would have made it easier for her abductor to take her away in a car and avoid surveillance, a former FBI agent has claimed.
With the search for “Today” show host Savannah Guthrie’s 84-year-old mother now entering its 11th day, on Tuesday, authorities released footage showing a suspect approaching the door of her Tucson, Arizona, home, but no vehicle has yet been identified as belonging to the alleged kidnapper.
That’s because the layout of Nancy’s remote Catalina Foothills neighborhood, according to retired FBI agent James Gagliano, who said that it would have been easy for the suspect to navigate backstreets and avoid cameras.
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“I want you to think about Manhattan. This is exactly the opposite to that. This is almost like a Jackson Pollock painting… The way that the routes go in and out, the ingress could have been one way, and the egress could have been a different way,” Gagliano told Fox & Friends on Wednesday.
“There are multiple exits here. Some of them are covered by those dome traffic lights that keep an eye on traffic, determine whether or not the signals are working on time, and keep in line the traffic patterns. Some of them aren’t,” he continued.
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“So is it possible if the suspect left via vehicle, he would not have been picked up by a license plate reader or one of these cameras? The answer is yes.”
Gagliano said it is unlikely that Nancy’s kidnapper came and left on foot.
But while the abductor making off with an elderly woman without a vehicle seems far-fetched, Gagliano pointed out that there are few fences between properties, which would make an escape via the secluded backyards possible.
“They don’t have fences out here, the properties butt up against each other, there’s no cyclone fencing or anything restricting access between the properties,” he said.
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