Nearly 100 days after Nancy Guthrie disappeared, true-crime podcaster Zack Peter publicly asked Today show co-host Savannah Guthrie why she didn’t sit down with the reporter who was most active in covering the case.
Peter posed the question on Billy Bush’s “Hot Mics” podcast on Thursday, May 7, saying: “Am I the only one who finds it weird that Savannah Guthrie hasn’t spoken to Brian Entine in almost 100 days? He’s been the main person trying to find answers about Nancy Guthrie without even a ‘thank you’ from the family?” he wrote on X.
Brian Entin is NewsNation’s senior national reporter who has been leading on-the-ground coverage of the case in Tucson. He has publicly stated that he wants to interview Savannah and has been working hard to make it happen. Entin confirmed to Us Weekly on April 8 that he had been trying to arrange the interview behind the scenes.
Peter criticizes family’s public handling of investigation
Peter also criticized the Guthrie family’s public handling of the case. The family has dropped an emergency disclosure request made early in the investigation, according to the podcast. good magazine.
He questioned why Savannah initially appeared to be pleading with her alleged kidnapper, but later moved to a less urgent public update.
Peter also said the family controlled the narrative by dodging tough questions from independent journalists. He claimed the family was primarily focused on friendly interviews, including Savannah’s exclusive chat with former TODAY colleague Hoda Kotb in late March, rather than with reporters like Entin, who has been covering the case in Tucson.
Aside from her appearance on the “Today” show, Savannah has not given any other detailed interviews about the investigation.
How is the investigation going?
According to ABC 7, a private laboratory in Florida has been working with the Pima County Sheriff’s Department and sent a DNA sample, specifically a hair, to the FBI in mid-April for further processing.
Former CIA officer and FBI agent Tracy Wald tells us news nation “Elizabeth Vargas Reports” said that DNA evidence is very important in this case because there is not much other forensic evidence available.
“This is a situation where we need this information to be able to exclude people or exclude people. So in a situation like this where we don’t actually have a lot of digital forensic evidence, which is obviously what the FBI is very good at, really, it becomes very, very important,” Wald said.
Additionally, on May 6, The CW aired NewsNation Presents: The Nancy Guthrie Mystery, in which Brian Entin discussed DNA evidence in the case with forensic science professor April Stonehouse. Stonehouse said whoever took Nancy may have left biological evidence behind. “We know scientifically that they leave traces of DNA,” she said. “It’s just a matter of locating and finding it,” according to procession.
She also explained that DNA samples involving two people are easier to study, while DNA samples involving three, four or five people are much more difficult and require more time to analyze. “You’re basically at the mercy of whatever the suspect leaves behind,” she said.
However, the investigation is still ongoing and no major breakthrough has been made yet.
