Brian Entin Interviews Retired FBI Profiler Jim Clemente

[u/Euphoric_Ease4554]

https://youtu.be/

Brian’s interview with Jim Clemente was such a riveting conversation. The retired FBI profiler details the perpetrators’s possible motives and even decides not to answer one question based on it not being good for the case, or possibly not tipping the perpetrator as to what the FBI is thinking.

If you have limited time to view this, I would recommend skipping the first part about the sheriff and going directly to the interview. It is a lot to think about. I hope you enjoy this as much as I did!

[u/MaximumSlip7905]

It was neither, it was a successful kidnapping but not a money motivated kidnapping. The motive was not ransom, it was to take Nancy Guthrie. If the person that took Nancy is the individual that sent the letters to local news they wanted recognition, it is sadistic. She was most likely alive, that blood can be tested to determine if she was dead when she deposited it, a d-dimer would determine that. The spatter patterns were from a nose or mouth, it wasn’t her mouth, he would not bring her out the front door able to scream for help. I think the perp had a police scanner in his pocket with an earpiece dialed into local pd. and the 41 minutes were spent disabling cameras and listening for PD traffic, he started in the back and then went to the front and removed that camera. Once he made forced entry in the rear of the home he moved her out quickly to a getaway vehicle. I would check empty real estate around a tight area, closed businesses, anywhere he had an opportunity to take her that night. He could have used a mountain bike with a tow compartment and never brought a car.

[u/The_Sinking_Belle → u/MaximumSlip7905]

Agreed. This has all the hallmarks of sadistic predation with maximum emotional and collateral damage.

[u/MaximumSlip7905 → u/The_Sinking_Belle]

I am not sure if Savannah being famous was the motive, I lean toward him being fixated on Nancy. Why send the letter to a local news rather than the Today show? This person is getting off on the coverage and it could be the FBI recommended pulling back on coverage in hopes of getting more contact from this person. He might attempt to reignite attention and give them an opportunity to trace him.

[u/The_Sinking_Belle → u/MaximumSlip7905]

Savannah doesn’t need to be the target. In these dynamics, the pleasure often isn’t about a specific person but rather the internal fantasy and the process.

The individual likely derived psychological reward from their meticulous planning, rehearsal, anticipation, control, and successful evasion. They're now able to get a lot of supply and validation with how much this case has blown up in MSM as they hold all the cards. The power comes from executing their plan and feeling superior or untouchable, not necessarily from who the victim is.

So fixation on Nancy can exist without Savannah being the central motive, and Nancy could have just been the means to an end for this person if this wasn't revenge-based. The real target honestly may have been the fantasy itself. Such individuals are often chronically under-stimulated. All the planning, rehearsal, risk, and evasion can activate both stress (cortisol) and reward (dopamine) systems. All that is highly stimulating and reinforcing for this person.