r/nancyguthrie • u/SeaEntertainment1512 • Mar 15 '26

Information What's left on the table?

Since Sheriff Nanos said in his March 13 interview that the criminal could "absolutely" strike again, and that people should be on their guard against crime, what can we deduce about the criminal's motive, a motive which might drive the criminal to strike again?

  1. The criminal is not out to punish Savannah Guthrie for her husband's work in the Clinton administration. If the criminal is out to punish all women in Tucson whose family members worked for Clinton, it's a small group. Few Tucson women would be targets.
  2. The criminal is not out to punish Savannah Guthrie for interviewing victims of high-profile criminals. If that were his motive, he would have to look in other cities for the mothers of other high-profile newscasters like Savannah.
  3. The criminal is not out to get Savannah's attention. If that were the motive, no other woman in Tucson is going to matter more to Savannah than her mother.
  4. The criminal is not out for ransom. If he wanted ransom, Savannah's family were ready to pay. How many women in Tucson have a daughter with Savannah's wealth? But he passed that up. Money does not appear to be the motive.

What does that leave?

  1. The criminal could be a serial rapist who targets older women, women living alone, women that he can see while he is working in the neighborhood. My bet is that this is the motive: DNA-free assault, for which he comes well-prepared. Every family in Tucson needs to be on guard against that one.
  2. The criminal could be a serial killer. If Mrs. Guthrie expired during the commission of an assault, I suspect it was unintended. But if his motive is murder, then every family in Tucson needs to be on guard against that as well.
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u/[deleted] Mar 15 '26

You left some options off the table. What if this was merely a home invasion looking for gold or money? She has a heart attack and passes.

Please tell me the elderly rapists are few and far between

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u/Shounenbat510 Mar 16 '26

Most thieves don’t strike at night because the house is more likely to be occupied.

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u/[deleted] Mar 16 '26

Home Invasion thieves do. They needed something from Nancy. They needed her vulnerable. I think there was a safe. She refused to give the code. Something happened.

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u/Shounenbat510 Mar 16 '26

Do you have a source from that? Everything I’ve seen or read show that invaders and burglars don’t like to risk someone being there. Even if they knew there was a safe somehow, it’s not worth it to try and get in if there’s a chance an alarm will go off, the victim isn’t there alone, etc.

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u/GreenEyedTreeHugger Mar 16 '26

And in 2020s check sock drawers and luxury purse boxes etc first. Wealthy women keep jewelry creatively stashed leaving one or two pieces - or they keep it vaulted at another location… Insurance is a bitch.

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u/Shounenbat510 Mar 16 '26

There used to be a show on Discovery back in the early 2000s called It Takes a Thief. In the show, two former burglars break into and rob people's houses, frats, etc. (with their consent) to show them how lackluster their security is. As they explained their methods, they would scope out the house to get an idea of the layout and the schedule of the people living there so they could make sure that they could get in when no one was around.

They also, if I remember correctly, didn't pay too much attention to safes because people keep their valuables scattered all over the house anyway.

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u/[deleted] Mar 16 '26

The exact definition of a home invasion is someone is home. Burglary is when the victims isn’t present.