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The country is watching the baffling disappearance of Nancy Guthrie — the 84-year-old mother of Today co‑host Savannah Guthrie — and investigators have formally treated her Tucson home as a crime scene after blood matching her DNA was found on the porch. Americans who care about law and decency should be horrified that an elderly woman with limited mobility could be taken from her home while the nation looked on.
This week the FBI released chilling black‑and‑white images and video recovered from Guthrie’s doorbell camera showing a masked, gloved individual tampering with the device while wearing a backpack and what appears to be a holstered weapon. Those images are the sort of break that should focus the entire country — not fuel another media feeding frenzy — and the federal release underscores the seriousness of the investigation.
Yet even amid this grave situation, bureaucratic friction has emerged: reports say the Pima County sheriff’s office opted to send glove and DNA evidence to a private lab instead of immediately turning them over to the FBI’s lab, a decision that has drawn criticism and raised uncomfortable questions about coordination in a case that demands speed. When lives are potentially at stake, procedural posturing and inter‑agency turf wars are the last things we should tolerate.
Worse still, the scene outside the Guthrie home has at times looked less like a sober law‑enforcement operation and more like a circus — with media crews, live streamers, and even food deliveries allowed to approach the taped‑off property despite pleas from authorities to stop interfering. That kind of sloppy, attention‑seeking behavior does nothing but contaminate evidence and disrespect a family in pain; the press’s job is to inform, not to grandstand.
A clip currently circulating online claims that Megyn Kelly Show contributor Phil Holloway, who has been reporting from Tucson, witnessed a woman’s dog relieving itself on or near the crime‑scene area — an anecdote emblematic of the sloppy conduct around the investigation if true. That specific episode has not been corroborated by mainstream outlets, and it’s worth noting that Holloway has been present on the ground discussing other careless acts by onlookers and media, which local authorities have publicly rebuked. Readers should treat such viral titillation with skepticism until verified, but the broader point stands: people treating a crime scene like a tourist attraction are part of the problem.
Conservative patriots know what matters here: securing justice for a vulnerable neighbor, ensuring evidence is preserved, and demanding that law‑enforcement agencies work without political theater or bureaucratic gamesmanship. Callous social‑media clout chasing and sloppy local management only undermine confidence; if the sheriff’s office and federal partners can’t coordinate flawlessly in a high‑profile case, imagine what happens in less publicized tragedies.
We must keep pressure on investigators to follow every lead with urgency, and we must insist the media cover this story responsibly rather than using it for clicks and stunts. Pray for Nancy Guthrie and her family, demand transparency from officials, and don’t let the leftist media’s circus overshadow the sober work of bringing whoever did this to justice.
