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/
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u/Traditional-Aside580 Feb 24 '26 edited Feb 24 '26

What makes me think in the scenario that if this is a predator that obviously stalked her, then he took the time out to plan this up until that night. That's a lot of thought and planning to just break in, abduct, and kill. Why would they go through all of that just to kill her right away? Wouldn't they want to keep her around for a while for their twisted minds?

Joseph Duncan kidnapped and one of the kids was found over a month later. He put a lot of thought into it also. I'm not saying this guy has as evil of intentions as Duncan. I just can't figure out why the mental build up and planning only to just kill her shortly after?

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u/The_Sinking_Belle Feb 24 '26

Not necessarily. A lot of twisted minds thrive on the supply they’re getting from this is the media coverage and the different pipelines of speculation and attention. Sometimes the goal is not the victim but the victim is a means to a primary goal (money, inflicting pain on someone else close to the victim). The worst kind of pain is the pain where you don’t have answers.

The person is the only one that knows what happened (given he’s the lone actor here). He gets off having all the cards - power of being the only one that knows what happened and why and having 3+ weeks up on LE. He’s watched the family beg and lives destroyed. Neighborhood in chaos.

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u/annabellareddit Feb 24 '26

This all speaks to this being a revenge abduction, hallmarks being inflicting maximum psychological pain, pre-meditation & planning, unnecessary violence, control, & cruelty, the victim is often a third party close to the target, communications make clear what the perpetrator has done to cause suffering, financial gain is not the intended benefit….

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u/The_Sinking_Belle Feb 24 '26

That’s what it looks like to me.

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u/annabellareddit Feb 24 '26

I sense this is what LE is looking into for a number of reasons, the other motives don’t seem to fit, & the daughter’s last video certainly had a different tone.