Nancy was last seen by family members on January 31, 2026, after spending the evening at the Tucson home of her older daughter, Annie Guthrie, and son-in-law. On February 1, her relatives notified authorities that Nancy was missing after she failed to appear for Sunday church services.
More than six weeks have passed since authorities launched the investigation into Nancy’s disappearance, yet no suspects or persons of interest have been publicly identified.
Morgan Wright, CEO and founder of the National Center for Open and Unsolved Cases, said that the 84-year-old’s existing heart condition, along with indications that her abduction was “violent,” suggests the chances of her being found alive are slim.
“At some point, you have to realize it’s not a missing person anymore. We have to realize Nancy is an 84-year-old with cardiac compromise,” he told Brian Entin on his YouTube show Brian Entin Investigates. “You are violently confronted at 2 o’clock in the morning in your own home. We know it’s violent because there was blood.”
Morgan, who has been in state and local law enforcement as a state trooper and detective for 18 years, emphasized that the blood, which refers to Nancy’s blood that authorities found on her porch, and the fact that she was forced out of her home mean it’s a “violent confrontation.”
“You still have blood. Still forced out of your house. That’s a violent confrontation. “So my question was, ‘I realize everybody said, well, we want to, you know, we’re hoping for her return,'” Morgan said.
“I’m more of a pragmatist. It’s like you have to be left-brain, right-brain when you investigate stuff. You have to compartmentalize,” he added. “I said you need to treat this like a no-body homicide because it tells the public something different about what you’re looking at and where you’re looking for things,” the former detective said.
While speaking to Brian Entin, the cybersecurity expert further elaborated that if you’re looking at it as a missing-person case while in Catalina Foothills or the Sonoran Desert, you’re “not looking for anything out of place,” but for a no-body homicide, you would be looking at grave sites.
“When we have a no-body homicide, we’re looking for clandestine grave sites, open grave sites, and concealed grave sites—things that when you’re out walking in the foothills, you need to be looking for these kinds of things.”
Who is Morgan Wright?
Morgan Wright is the CEO and founder of the National Center for Open and Unsolved Cases. According to his website, he is also an internationally recognized expert on cybersecurity strategy, law enforcement, national security, and intelligence.
He has also served as a senior fellow at The Center for Digital Government. Previously, Morgan was a Senior Advisor in the US State Department Antiterrorism Assistance Program, the Senior Law Enforcement Advisor for the 2012 Republican National Convention, taught behavioral analysis at the National Security Agency, and spent a year teaching the FBI how to conduct internet investigations.
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