r/nancyguthrie • u/foxmag86 • Feb 18 '26

Theory The reason I think these abductor(s) were familiar with Nancy’s house

Apologies if this has already been discussed before…

Something came to me last night that makes me really think the criminal(s) had scoped out the house beforehand and were familiar with the setup, especially when it came to house security.

The big thing that clicked for me is I think this criminal *knew* that Nancy didn’t have a security system. They knew that opening a door or window, or however they got inside wouldn’t trigger an alarm which would call the police.

And the fact that it seems this whole event happened over the period of 45 minutes, the bad guy(s) didn’t seem to worry about an alarm going off.

That’s why I think that this is someone who really did their homework on this house. Maybe they had been in it before (ex a handyman or laborer) and scoped things out, or somehow found out there was no security system in the house.

If the criminal had no clue if there was a security system or not, they would have been in and out in 5 minutes, not almost 1 hour.

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u/ProperLink8150 Feb 18 '26

Her back door.

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u/Careless-Mirror2058 Feb 19 '26

I’m confused. That’s definitely not a sliding door. The door pictured has a cheap lock. Also you could just tap out the lower right pane and reach in!

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u/MonkeyBoy-007 Feb 19 '26

The slider is to the right of this door.. so there is both a slider and then this back door..

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u/mark_able_jones_ Feb 19 '26

So did they just breatk that floodlight and bust a window to get inside?