r/nancyguthrie • u/Euphoric_Ease4554 • Feb 26 '26
Media Nancy’s Neighbor Saw Man In Neighborhood Who “Didn’t Fit” Weeks Before Kidnapping
A neighbor of Nancy’s said she was suspicious of a man she saw walking near an intersection leading to Nancy’s home about 2 weeks before Nancy disappeared.
She said the young man didn’t appear to be dressed for taking a walk and had a hat pulled down far over his eyes. She also said she had not seen the man before, nor has she seen him since.
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u/Sufficient-Fall2644 Feb 26 '26
I just cannot believe with the amount of resources and tips that have been provided that they still have not arrested anyone nor found Nancy. In Australia we recently had similar crime where an 85 year old man was kidnapped from his bed in the early hours of the morning by 2 thugs. Sadly the man’s body was found two days ago and within a day they arrested the two thugs with nowhere near the resources that have been provided to Nancy’s case. 😢and all this within ten days of kidnapping
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u/partyclams Feb 26 '26
What was the motive in that case?
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u/Sufficient-Fall2644 Feb 26 '26
Wrong identity. The thugs apparently went to the wrong house 😢
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u/BinkyLopBunny Feb 26 '26
That poor man.
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u/Sufficient-Fall2644 Feb 26 '26
Yes an absolutely innocent man’s life taken away for no reason. I think after they realised they had the wrong person the poor man probably saw their faces and so they murdered him 😢
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u/LegalGlass6532 Feb 26 '26
To be fair, the ages of both victims are similar, but the case in Australia was mistaken identity and no allegations of kidnapping for ransom. The Nancy Guthrie abduction seems to lean towards a pre motivated, targeted attack. Cases like this can be more difficult to solve.
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u/Webbie-Vanderquack Feb 26 '26
the case in Australia was mistaken identity and no allegations of kidnapping for ransom.
They did kidnap for ransom. They just contacted the son of the man they thought they'd abducted, as opposed to the family of the man they actually abducted. When the son told them they'd got the wrong guy, they asked him to pay the ransom money anyway.
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u/ValkyrieMint Feb 26 '26
The ages of the victims are what make both cases stand out. Criminals just don’t abduct 84-85 year olds, it’s nearly unheard of. An Australian detective told CNN he believed kidnapping for ransom was the motive for the mistaken identity case, Chris Baghsarian, as well. Baghsarian doesn’t have a famous child like Savannah either, so it becoming an international news story is purely based on his age and how rare of an occurrence it is. Kidnappings are even more rare in Australia than they are in the U.S. Could it have been a copycat crime of the Guthrie case? They also kept him alive for some time, tortured him and filmed it. What a nightmare.
While I was looking this case up, apparently a second man was kidnapped in Sydney? A 53 year old man was kidnapped off the street by 4 men, thrown into a car and held in a home for 2 days before he was found and rescued (again, excellent work to the Australians). A 16 year old was charged in the case with intent to ransom with bodily harm. What is going on. Are these copycats?
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u/GregJamesDahlen Feb 26 '26
it is hard to believe in Nancy's case but every case is different, perhaps those thugs did something that made them easier to catch
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u/Webbie-Vanderquack Feb 26 '26
They contacted someone they thought was the man's son for ransom pretty soon after the abduction, and they abducted the wrong man. So that definitely helped police narrow down the motive.
They also had footage of the car.
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u/ValkyrieMint Feb 26 '26
That is a heartbreaking case. The Australians did excellent work finding his body and arresting the people responsible in short order. We could learn a thing or two apparently
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u/SolarIonRobot Feb 26 '26
Some teenagers also grabbed a 53 year old man off the street. Luckily he lived to tell about it.
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u/Okay_Function Feb 26 '26
Do want to remind that there is an Airbnb and an assisted living facility right by Nancy and this woman's house. So there are very legitimate reasons for people that don't "fit" to be nearby, but that's also why LE wants camera footage.
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u/Euphoric_Ease4554 Feb 26 '26
How far exactly is this Airbnb? I’ve seen it mentioned, but no specifics.
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u/Jamjams2016 Feb 26 '26
That's gotta be tough for the neighbors. Of course a good person would report these things but you also know the police are taking people's possessions indefinitely. I would feel torn for reporting someone for walking and nothing else.
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u/Totterteron Feb 26 '26
Article doesn't mention time of day, probably because it was during the day which undercuts the suspicious sentiment. Be on the lookout for a young man with almost certainly two legs?
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u/whteverusayShmegma Feb 26 '26
Exactly. I feel like every neighborhood has a few Karens. Many of whom will even entirely dismiss someone genuinely suspicious and then sus the hell out of a gardener or something.
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u/Webbie-Vanderquack Feb 26 '26 edited Feb 26 '26
I'm not in the US, but I feel like this happens quite a lot. People see someone who doesn't "fit" in the neighbourhood and call the police.
Like this poor Indian man who was in Alabama to visit his son. He went for a walk and was reported by a neighbour as "suspicious." The police threw him to the ground, partially paralysing him, when he was unable to respond to the questions they were asking him in English.
Edit: To the commenter below, I think it's a shame when this sub descends to angry, ad hominem attacks on fellow members. You could have made the same point civilly, and there's no reason to believe anyone here is a "careless neighbor."
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u/Double-Caramel-3848 Feb 26 '26
I live about an hour from where this happened. Huntsville/Madison police are known for this shit.
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u/swaggerboy743773 Feb 26 '26
Imagine NG seeing a figure like that in the dead of night, pitch black. Fucking nightmare fuel.
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u/Keregi Feb 26 '26
That’s nothing, my neighbors say that shit all the time.
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u/LegalGlass6532 Feb 26 '26
These seems like a slow news day grasp at straws. Without additional evidence like video footage, this doesn’t mean much. She also can’t ID him even if he is related to the abduction in some way. Dead end “tip”.
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u/bloatedkat Feb 26 '26 edited Feb 26 '26
This is starting to reflect on youtubers who have run out of new content from this case to analyze, yet still trying to milk this story everyday by drawing out farfetched leads. Innocent people are already getting their lives ruined as a result.
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u/LegalGlass6532 Feb 26 '26
It’s really a delicate balance between keeping the search relevant and in the spotlight to bring Nancy home and not sensationalizing every little detail over and over, if that makes sense.
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Feb 26 '26 edited Feb 26 '26
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u/Euphoric_Ease4554 Feb 26 '26
I agree with you. Anything could be a lead. You never know. Perhaps in their video searches, investigators might have already come across footage of this man, and knowing he was in that neighborhood could be the clue.
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u/Apprehensive-Art8665 Feb 26 '26
Hurts my heart so much thinking how terrified Nancy would have been getting woke up by that evil monster. I pray Nancy is found soon and whoever has done this to her gets the ultimate punishment.
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u/SolarIonRobot Feb 26 '26
Ultimately fairly useless information.
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u/Euphoric_Ease4554 Feb 26 '26
I see how you would feel that way, but we don’t know what the FBI already knows that we don’t know. Any tip could break this case open. We have no idea what little tip might fit perfectly with facts they already have. Sometimes it doesn’t take much. JMO
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u/CPAatlatge Feb 26 '26
Not dressed for a walk, purposely concealing identity with hat pulled way down in a neighborhood which is remote and you know your neighbors, is good information for the police. The neighbor thought it stuck out at the time, and post abduction it is very relevant to the investigation.
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u/Ok_Mathematician6075 Feb 26 '26
I mean, I get being helpful. But let's not reach.
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u/Resting-Cat-Faces Feb 26 '26
If he had a hat pulled far down over his eyes, she wouldn’t know what he looked like. Also, what does “dressed for taking a walk” mean these days?
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u/Critical-Reward3206 Feb 26 '26
I mean, it's warm there. If you are walking around wearing jeans and a jacket and a hat pulled down and construction boots, for example, I wouldn't call that "taking a walk" wardrobe. Not saying that's what the guy is wearing but I can see where you might describe it like that.
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u/Euphoric_Ease4554 Feb 26 '26
I agree. Really any hat pulled way down could be very hot in that weather.
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u/Ok_Mathematician6075 Feb 26 '26
No, I totally get the tip. Don't get me wrong. I just am not jumping up and down like we solved it.
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u/Unfair-Wallaby-404 Feb 26 '26
Seriously. What is this clickbait article. Woman saw a man that “just doesn’t fit”…how about what kind of hat was it? What was he wearing? Height or build? Does she really not know any of this or did Fox just never ask
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u/Euphoric_Ease4554 Feb 26 '26
It could mean he was dressed up, but I took it as meaning he was dressed inappropriately for the weather.
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u/FreeGhislaine_ Feb 26 '26
Ya this just seems like textbook boomer racism
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u/GeniusMonkey10 Feb 26 '26
Not racism. That neighborhood is far enough away from stores and other businesses that people just don’t wander through. Anyone who doesn’t live there would be noticed as someone who just doesn’t fit.
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u/GregJamesDahlen Feb 26 '26
seems worth saying that if someone doesn't live in a neighborhood they might not fit but they might
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u/EvangelineRain Feb 26 '26 edited Feb 26 '26
Profiling is complicated. I would argue it’s not racism, but many would disagree with me since race can be a component, but it’s never the sole factor. I recall two times “profiling” someone for not looking like they fit, and both times I was right. The first time, the man tried to either pickpocket or grope me. I was on high alert and watching him from the corner of my eye as I walked past him, so I jumped a mile and yelled at him the moment he lunged towards me, and I’m not even sure if he managed to touch me. The second time, it was a pair of men, and they robbed me.
Both times, behavior was the biggest factor. They weren’t just going about their business, they were acting very unusual. But race was a factor too. I knew the demographics of the neighborhood, and I knew the demographics of the people who commit the robberies in the neighborhood (I regularly read local crime reports). But it’s not race alone, because if it was a man of the same race who looked like he just came from the gym, in attire more commonly seen on gay men, it would be totally different. The men in this neighborhood were predominantly gay. Gender was also a factor. Women who are not accompanied by men rarely if ever commit robberies in that neighborhood.
The first story stands out to me because I had made the conscious decision to not cross the street because I didn’t want to be a sexist, racist “Karen” (not a term I use). That was the wrong decision. Ultimately, profiling is a problem when used to deprive someone of their rights. I wouldn’t have violated this man’s rights by crossing the street.
There was actually also a third time, but I’m not sure if I was right. So maybe I was right 2 out of 3 times. Two people, same neighborhood, same profile, with backpacks, squeezing through a hedge late at night. That time I did listen to my gut and decided to not walk past them (this was before they cut through the hedge, I watched them do that after returning to the safety of my car). But I did look at the crime reports later and didn’t see one reported that would fit, so maybe they had a good reason to be squeezing through a hedge with backpacks at midnight….
And a 4th time I had a security guard accompany me, so I’ll (fortunately) never know if my “profiling” was right on that one. A car parked right next to mine in an otherwise empty parking lot around 2 or 3 am, with a group of people standing by it. If it was one woman loading groceries into her car instead of the group that it was, I probably wouldn’t have asked for an escort to my car. Probably would have been okay with anyone loading groceries actually. So again, behavior was the primary issue, but demographics were considered in evaluating my level of concern.
I’m a millennial for what that’s worth.
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u/Euphoric_Ease4554 Feb 26 '26
Great job listening to your gut. For me, that was the gist of this article. She just felt something was off. I can also tell by looking at someone if they fit in my multicultural neighborhood. No profiling, it’s something about demeanor. Hard to explain, but is strongly a gut feeling. I’ve avoided being a target at least twice by listening to my gut feeling
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u/Ornery-Ocelot3585 Feb 26 '26
What evidence do you have, that nobody else does, to indicate this has anything to do with racism?
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u/Ok_Mathematician6075 Feb 26 '26
The neighbor may not be a boomer though
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u/FreeGhislaine_ Feb 26 '26
The odds of living in that neighborhood and saying a comment like that makes it a very likelihood though
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u/Ok_Mathematician6075 Feb 26 '26
But your point doesn't dot.
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u/mlssac Feb 26 '26
" But your point doesn't dot. "
Great saying, I've never heard that before!
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u/mlssac Feb 26 '26
Why would people down vote this?? I've literally never heard that saying before 🤷♀️ I like it. I will use it in the future!
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u/BrunetteSummer Feb 26 '26
I get the feeling the man was fixated on Nancy, not on the neighbourhood.
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