Nancy Guthrie Update: ‘No Body’ Homicide Expert Reveals Factors That Could Hurt Future Prosecutions, ‘No… Is Problematic’

However, if she did die and her body was not found, prosecutors could still file charges.

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“To me, there are two reasons why not doing a search would be problematic,” DiBiase said. “One, because you ignored the opportunity to find the body, which is crucial. But two, when you go to trial, you want to be able to say to the jury, this is all the searches we did, we established that she couldn’t have walked away on her own, she couldn’t have escaped, she couldn’t have killed herself. Any of those things.” Because you don’t know unless you do a very thorough search and you’re able to say to the jury, ‘We can rule out other possibilities for what happened, and all that’s left is that this person was present the night she disappeared, when she seemed to be missing, and that’s the only logical thing to do. ‘”

Investigators have not publicly disclosed plans for further large-scale searches. However, DiBiase believes continued efforts could help find answers and future prosecutions.

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Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos Previously admitting in an interview with People magazine, the Guthries must be “frustrated” by the lack of answers. However, he seems convinced that answers will come.

“My team, I’ve always said, they’re going to fix this,” he said. “I believe that absolutely 100 percent. … When you have the best minds in the country working on problems, I think they’re going to solve them. It’s just going to take a while.”