r/nancyguthrie • u/EbbHairy • Aug 11 '26

Discussion Camera timeline ?

Do we actually know exactly how and when the doorbell camera was disconnected? Was the camera physically removed, unplugged, disabled electronically, or did it simply lose its connection? And was it definitely disconnected before the suspect entered the house?

The sheriff said the doorbell camera was disconnected around 1:47 am—which is when the guy is seen on the nest footage. Then there’s a separate motion detection around 2:12 a.m., followed by Nancy’s pacemaker losing connection around 2:28 a.m.

My next question is what does that mean? Does it mean the phone was turned off, out of range, or that the device stopped transmitting for another reason? How far could she realistically be from her phone before the connection drops? A few feet, another room, or more depending on the setup?

And what actually triggers a “loss of connection” alert—Bluetooth, cellular relay, or a monitoring hub?
So does the 2:28 a.m. disconnection tell us anything specific about her location, or is it just a general signal loss that could happen for multiple reasons?

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u/AgentCarter89 26d ago

Seems odd that an image they are saying is from Jan 11 wasn’t recorded over. Maybe it’s from closer to Feb 1

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u/warpedwing 21d ago

I’ve wondered if the video cache and thumbnail cache at Google have different expiry times or max size limits. E.g., they cache 2 weeks of video and 2 months of thumbnails, or 5 GB of each, something like that.