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The statement further reads: “We continue to believe that Tusonan and the greater southern Arizona community hold the key to solving this case. Someone knows something. Members of this community may have important information that they are not even aware of. We want people to search their memories, especially the critical timeline of January 31st, the early morning hours of February 1st, and the late night of January 11th.”

“We urgently ask this community to return attention to our mother’s case – please review camera footage, diary notes, text messages, observations or conversations that may be significant in retrospect. No detail is too small. That may be the key.”

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“At a certain point, you have to realize this is no longer a missing person. We have to realize Nancy is an 84-year-old man with heart disease,” he said. “At 2 o’clock in the morning you were subjected to violence in your own home. We knew it was violence because there was blood.”

“You still have blood. You still get kicked out of your house. It was a violent confrontation. So my question is, ‘I realize everybody said, well, we want, you know, we want her back,'” he said.

“I’m more of a pragmatist. It’s like when you investigate things you have to use both your left brain and your right brain. You have to compartmentalize,” Wright added. “I say you need to treat this as a homicide by no one because it tells the public what you’re looking at and where you’re looking for something.”

Wright said continuing to treat the case as a missing persons situation could limit the scope of the search.

He explained that in areas like the Catalina Foothills or the Sonoran Desert, if investigators don’t actively look for signs of hidden burials, they may overlook key clues.

“When we have unoccupied homicides, we look for clandestine cemeteries, open cemeteries, hidden cemeteries — those are the things you look for when you’re walking in the foothills.”

Family and authorities have not confirmed Nancy’s death.

His previous positions include senior advisor to the U.S. Department of State’s Counterterrorism Assistance Program, senior law enforcement advisor to the 2012 Republican National Convention, and teaching behavioral analysis at the National Security Agency.