Nancy Guthrie update: Investigators have suspect’s name, says retired Pima County detective
Mayer also acknowledged that a lot is still unknown. “This case is so unique. Most of the time we try and find patterns. We can’t in this case,” he pointed out. “These guys came prepared not to leave hair or DNA. Look at how that guy was clothed. They turned off their cell phones.”
"Today co-host Savannah Guthrie‘s mother, Nancy Guthrie, is still missing after being abducted from her Tucson, Arizona home — and a retired Pima County sheriff’s deputy thinks investigators already have suspects’ names.
In a May 20 article published by News 4 Tucson, Robbie Mayer, a former detective with the Pima County Sheriff’s Department who solved Tucson’s infamous “Prime Time Rapist” case in 1986, shared his theories on Nancy’s case.
A man named Brian Larriva (the Prime Time Rapist) was presumed responsible for breaking into Tucson homes to burglarize them and sexually assault female residents from 1983 to 1986. However, he took his own life when police surrounded his house. Much like Larriva’s case, investigators have tens of thousands of leads in Nancy’s case.
“We ended up with more than 4,000 leads,” Mayer recalled of the Prime Time Rapist. “One of the detectives had Larriva’s name as a lead, but he hadn’t gotten to it yet because he had so many leads in front of that.”
He continued, of Nancy’s case, “I believe the suspect’s names are in those 50,000. The question is if they can recognize it when they see it. Being in a case like this is like being in a field with rocks and what you’re looking for is under one rock. You just have to keep turning.” ...
