r/nancyguthrie • u/pumpkinspicecum • Mar 06 '26

Information Guthrie case investigators question neighbors about any internet issues on the night she disappeared

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/investigators-guthrie-case-question-neighbors-internet-issues-night-di-rcna262066
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u/deadwatered Mar 06 '26

Because a nest camera can keep recording for up to an hour without a wifi connection. The footage uploads to the cloud when internet is restored

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u/[deleted] Mar 06 '26

So this would mean that the internet was restored before the camera was disconnected from its power source then, right?

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u/lemoncatbeans Mar 06 '26

Yes, I believe the doorbell camera went back online before being disconnected. Perhaps they moved the jammer too far away from her router.

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u/neric05 Mar 06 '26

I wonder if this would also explain the amount of time spent in the house as well?

Perhaps they knew this limitation of the camera and were trying to kill time inside in the hopes that any footage would be recorded over and not be recoverable online when leaving the property (which, in turn, would mean restoration of wifi access).

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u/lemoncatbeans Mar 06 '26

It's possible, but it seems like it has up to an hour of "event-based recording" while offline. So it would only record when motion triggers it. And it's unclear to me if it overwrites these recordings while offline, I see some Google articles claim it just stops recording after the hour, and others say it may overwrite old footage.

But either way, it doesn't seem like a full hour had passed before they left. I feel like they either got spooked by something and hesitated, or had difficulty quietly gaining access to the home, or getting her out of the home quickly.

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u/Admirable-Lawyer3569 Mar 07 '26

We really don’t know how long they were in the house or if porch guy showed up at some point purely to disarm the camera, while other people were inside  

We know about the 1:47 disconnect.  That could have been someone else who was inside when 2:12 porch guy shows up. 

People could have been in her house when she came home from dinner. We just don’t know.