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International Business Times UK
International Business Times UK
Politics
Jim Manzon

Nancy Guthrie Case Erupts: Ex-Sheriff Calls Scene 'Corrupted' as Department Deputy Faces Kidnapping Charge

Nancy Guthrie, 84, remains missing on Day 59 amid early crime scene missteps and a deputy's arrest rocking the department searching for her. (Credit: X)

The department leading the search for missing 84-year-old Nancy Guthrie is now fighting its own crisis of credibility. A former Pima County sheriff has accused current leadership of 'corrupting' the crime scene, a deputy has been arrested and fired on a kidnapping charge, and the agency's own deputies have voted unanimously to demand their sheriff resign.

Dr. Richard Carmona, who served as the 17th US Surgeon General and spent three decades with the Pima County Sheriff's Department, told NewsNation's Brian Entin that Sheriff Chris Nanos made a critical error by personally ordering the crime scene at Nancy's Catalina Foothills home reopened. 'Once it has been corrupted, that's the end of it,' Carmona said. 'You cannot reconstitute a crime scene.'

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