As the search for Nancy Guthrie continues, helicopters were reportedly seen flying toward the Mexican border this week.
Crime Stories investigative reporter Dave Mack revealed the latest development in an episode of “Crime Stories with Nancy Grace.”
Mack reported that a helicopter from the Pima County Sheriff’s Department took off early on March 24.
“The Pima County Sheriff’s Department has been using helicopters in the Guthrie investigation since early on,” Mack detailed. “And yesterday, they took off early and flew in a corridor between Tucson and the border with Mexico.”
Mack added that the helicopter flew back later and landed at the FBI office headquarters.
As the day went on, PCSD was joined by helicopters from the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Department, which flew between Tucson, the border, and back to Phoenix, Mack shared.
Nancy Guthrie Update: Expert Weighs In On Latest Helicopter Sighting
Nancy Grace believes that the latest helicopter sightings were related to the Nancy Guthrie case, adding that it’s “too much of a coincidence.”
Joseph Scott Morgan, a forensics professor at Jacksonville State University, explained that investigators may have picked up on something and were checking it in aerial view.
“So if they’re working on any kind of imagery that has been either generated by drones, it’s been generated by satellite imagery, it’s one thing to take that and look at it on a computer screen,” Morgan explained. “But if you got people that are interested in this investigation, they can take those images and go back and say, ‘Okay, we’re going to fly this route.’”
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Meanwhile, former Marine Iraqi war vet Brian Fitzgibbons doesn’t believe that the helicopter sightings were related to the Nancy Guthrie case.
“This looks like movement of personnel to me,” Fitzgibbons noted. “So, for some reason, they went directly to that FBI location.”
He added that the helicopters’ movement differed from previous flights used to scan the area for Nancy’s pacemaker.
“We didn’t see them scanning, similar to the Bluetooth beacon, where they were searching in a slow, methodical grid pattern,” he explained. “These were directed movements of personnel, for a specific reason, back to that FBI location.”
But Grace disagreed, noting that personnel could easily travel by car instead of being transported by helicopter.
“Plus, they’re not going to go in a triangle,” Grace added. “If it was just transferring personnel, they would go from Pima to Phoenix. They would not go on a drive-by at the Mexican border.”
Nancy Guthrie was abducted from her home in the early morning hours of February 1.