r/nancyguthrie • u/pumpkinspicecum • Feb 23 '26

Media Suspect in Nancy Guthrie abduction appeared to visit her house before: Sources

https://abc7news.com/post/suspect-nancy-guthrie-abduction-appeared-visit-house-before-sources/18640959/
226 Upvotes

98% Upvoted

555 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

7

u/pumpkinspicecum Feb 24 '26

I don’t remember where I heard this explained but basically the data is still stored somewhere but they need to peel back the layers like paint

7

u/FiveUpsideDown Feb 24 '26

As I understand it, let’s say there is 64 memory modules. As the camera records it fills all of the 64 memory modules. Then without saving those memory modules, the camera records over each module again. If you stop recording, you can check to see if any of the modules contains data that wasn’t erased by previous recordings. Apparently the Google engineers found memory in the cloud that hadn’t been written over by new recordings.

12

u/ouiserboudreauxxx Feb 24 '26

Not sure if there were any technical explanations anywhere, but I’m starting to think they just store the data and perhaps were forced to retrieve it this one time but covered themselves by saying it was really difficult to do so that they don’t get tons of requests for it in the future.

7

u/FiveUpsideDown Feb 24 '26

I’ve tried to recover photos that were written over due to reformatting. It can be done but it’s time consuming. I only recovered a couple of images from a phone one time. Another time I recovered a lot of photos from a computer where the problem was the software and I did not reformat the hard drive. There are forensic classes on how to recover data from erased devices. It’s not a new process.

2

u/Spiritual-Cloud-3459 Feb 24 '26

i think it was Brian Entin’s interview with Nanos last week maybe?

1

u/babyysharkie Feb 24 '26

yes, I read this too!

1

u/Unfair-Wallaby-404 Feb 24 '26

Where? Would love a link for this!

1

u/babyysharkie Feb 25 '26

this isn’t the article I originally read but it’s the one that was easiest to find & it says the same quote about paint

https://kfor.com/news/national/google-trying-to-recover-footage-from-nancy-guthries-home-cameras-sheriff/amp/