Leads in Nancy Guthrie case could come from car tracking: Detective

(NewsNation) — It has been four months since Nancy Guthrie disappeared from her Arizona home, and investigators are still pouring through tips in hopes of cracking the case.

Authorities believe the 84-year-old mother of NBC host Savannah Guthrie was abducted from her home in the early morning hours of Feb. 1.

Retired detective Jon Buehler told NewsNation’s Brian Entin the suspect’s name could be buried in the thousands of tips investigators received.

He noted a case in 1999, where four women were killed in Yosemite by Cary Stayner, who sent investigators a hand-drawn map to where he left one victim. Investigators missed the clue for several days because it was buried in a stack of mail.

“When tips come in on a case like Nancy Guthrie’s, they’re prioritized as best they can, but you still don’t know for sure if they’re prioritized correctly, and so there might be something in there that we’re waiting on, that could break it wide open,” Buehler said.

It’s also possible that answers may not come in for a long time if people with information are afraid to come forward.

“We had a random murder that went 11 years unsolved, and it was only because the one person that could give us........

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