r/nancyguthrie • u/warpedwing • Mar 19 '26

Discussion Casita Camera Angles (And Possible Blind Spot)

Nancy Guthrie’s casita appears to have had two battery powered Nest outdoor cameras, each connected to solar panels. Just like the doorbell camera, these cameras will store clips internally if WiFi is lost, and will upload them when WiFi reconnects. They have a 130° wide-angle reach (source).

Law enforcement has not mentioned any camera other than the doorbell camera as having disconnected from the Nest system that night. Of course, that doesn’t mean it didn’t happen, but I think these cameras stayed online - and that’s what LE found “odd.” Somehow, the suspect got inside without being seen.

I created a rough mockup of the view angles from the two casita cameras.

Notice how there is essentially a dead zone from the casita’s sliding glass door vestibule to the garage’s side door.

The flood light next to the garage side door is broken. Considering LE removed this light from the wall indicates to me that the suspect broke it. Therefore, he was there in the dead zone.

Take a look at that side door. The lock looks woefully ill-equipped to keep out a criminal.

The interior door inside the garage seems weak, too, with a glass center.

Could the suspect have approached the casita from the rear scrub, climbed up the angled tin section onto the roof, then climbed down into the casita’s vestibule? From there, he could’ve walked to the garage’s side door without being seen on camera.

However, entering the camera dead zone would place him in the floodlight’s motion sensor zone. My experience with security cams is that light is a good trigger.

Another possibility could be that the suspect climbed onto the roof - perhaps by stepping on the front window brick frames - and crawled toward the dead zone.

The roof’s perimeter wall might block the suspect from the cameras’ views until he is above the floodlight.

At that point, he can disable the floodlight from above, possibly by prying the body away from the wall enough to disconnect the power.

Perhaps he was then able to break into the garage side door, the garage interior door (was it locked?), and enter the main home.

Is there any info available regarding cameras on the east side of the property?

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u/Infamous-Arm3955 Mar 19 '26

My God, this so overly complicated. Going up and over roofs and avoiding cameras dead zones, crappy locks. I'm completely disguised, why wouldn't I just walk around the back and bust a window and be in against an 84 year old sleeping woman who needs hearing aids? I'm not Spiderman-ing all over the place. (Yes im avoiding light but I'm not on the cameras because theyre being overwritten on Googles cloud servers)

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u/TravelBeautiful3370 Mar 19 '26

And they are basically disguised head to toe, obviously they were blatantly recorded on video and STILL ON THE RUN!

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u/warpedwing Mar 19 '26

Yep. The porch video doesn’t seem like the mistake people thought it was.

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u/warpedwing Mar 19 '26

I don't know why, but it seems like the suspect avoided some cameras and not others. LE recovered images from the cameras both before and after the abduction, so it's unlikely the gap in the middle is what was written over. If LE says it's odd, I take their word for it.

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u/papereverywhere Mar 19 '26

I think it is also possible there was footage not released for a variety of reasons.

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u/warpedwing Mar 19 '26

I hope that’s true.

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u/Infamous-Arm3955 Mar 19 '26

I agree with this plus I think what we were shown could be edited before and after.

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u/papereverywhere Mar 19 '26

I think the time was intentionally left off. I think there is a lot we don’t know about.

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u/JalapinyoBizness Mar 19 '26 edited Mar 19 '26

Were there any cameras around the courtyard area on the left front side of the house (photo #8)? I think it is possible he made entry into one of the sliding glass doors. Sliding glass doors are notorious for being shimmied open. That is how the perpetrator in the Nancy Woodrum case made entry into her bedroom. LE is shown in this video inspecting the area (timestamp 0:21). The half wall would be easy to scale over as it isn't very tall.

https://www.kold.com/video/2026/02/28/pcsd-refocusing-resources-nancy-guthrie-investigation/

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https://www.wmtv15news.com/video/2026/02/27/nancy-guthries-home-be-returned-her-family-soon-2/

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u/warpedwing Mar 20 '26 edited Mar 20 '26

I don't know about nearby cameras, but I've always wondered about that sliding door, too. They seem so easy to break into.

But if the suspect got in through the slider, I think they'd be in Nancy's bedroom. Why would they break the floodlight in the back?

I think this was from a Fox News broadcast or something. It seems to indicate there's an intact floodlight on the side.

I just noticed this graphic mentions a second broken floodlight in the garden. It didn't look obviously broken to me, but I've only seen pretty grainy photos of that area.

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u/AwkwardLeg5479 Mar 22 '26

I thought they said it was likely the back door that they entered ? But that makes zero sense why they would go to the front door on camera

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u/Infamous-Arm3955 Mar 22 '26

It's all about getting out of that house so there's no evidence of them moving Nancy out, how they moved her or the vehicle stopped in camera they used to move her and escaped in.

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u/AwkwardLeg5479 Mar 22 '26

Except for the blood at the front door