Former police officer Charles Brewer has told viewers on YouTube that the question 'Why was Nancy Guthrie kidnapped?' may have been framed wrongly from the start, arguing in a video posted on 25 May that the Arizona grandmother could have known her alleged abductor and that money, or daughter Savannah Guthrie's fame in New York, may never have been the real motive.
The comments came after months of public speculation that Nancy's disappearance was a so-called celebrity kidnapping, supposedly aimed at Emmy-winning Today co-anchor Savannah Guthrie. That theory rested largely on Savannah's profile and the assumption of family wealth. But as time has passed with no clear ransom demand, no arrest and almost no public detail from investigators, the idea that Nancy was taken purely because of her daughter's television career has started to look less convincing. None of the alternative motives being floated by commentators has been confirmed by law enforcement, and there is still no official account of what happened.
