Why ex-FBI agent thinks person in Nancy Guthrie video isn't a career criminal

A erstwhile FBI cause believes the idiosyncratic who was caught connected video extracurricular Nancy Guthrie's location is "not a vocation criminal."

"However, they person to person a transgression mindset successful bid to perpetrate a heinous transgression similar this," Lance Leising, a retired supervisory peculiar cause with the FBI, told "CBS Mornings" connected Wednesday.

Nancy Guthrie, the parent of "Today" amusement host Savannah Guthrie, was reported missing 10 days agone aft she missed church, and officials judge she was abducted overnight from her Tucson home.  

Leising has drawn clues from video and images that were released by authorities connected Tuesday, showing a masked idiosyncratic extracurricular Nancy Guthrie's location the nighttime she disappeared. The idiosyncratic is wearing gloves, a backpack and what appears to beryllium a weapon. 

Leising called the person's actions "extremely amateurish."

"If you look astatine the 2 inactive photos and the videos that Kash Patel released, 1 of them, the taxable is not adjacent wearing the backpack oregon the weapon, imaginable weapon," Leising said. "So what that says to maine is helium approached that doorway and turned astir and got the backpack and got the limb and past came back."

He besides said the evident limb was held successful "an antithetic way" and "it does not look precise professional, it looks precise amateur."

Two of the images released by the FBI of a taxable seen connected surveillance video successful the Nancy Guthrie case. FBI

Leising besides analyzed however the idiosyncratic approached Nancy Guthrie's door, noting that their caput was down arsenic if they expected a surveillance camera supra them.

"They astir consciousness amazed that determination is simply a doorbell camera there, which anyone who has done immoderate reconnaissance would cognize that's there," helium said.

"Then they instrumentality immoderate irrational measurement to drawback a bush oregon a weed from the beforehand gait and past enactment that successful beforehand arsenic they effort to instrumentality it off," helium noted.

He besides highlighted the gloves the idiosyncratic was wearing, describing them arsenic "oversized, possibly aggregate layers," which would marque it  hard to usage the evident limb helium was carrying.  

Two of the images released by the FBI of a taxable seen connected surveillance video successful the Nancy Guthrie case. FBI

"I bash deliberation that it gives investigators anticipation that if they're amateur astatine the door, they've made different mistakes, and they're looking for that break," Leising added.

Jason Pack, a retired FBI peculiar agent, besides noted that the video shows wherever an evident limb is located and the person's gait, adding "he doesn't look to beryllium moving precise quickly."

"All of those things volition archer profilers definite things that they're gonna look for and benignant of constrictive that timeline down," helium said.  

Authorities merchandise detained man

Authorities said they detained a idiosyncratic successful transportation with the Guthrie lawsuit connected Tuesday during a postulation stop. A man, who lone wanted to beryllium identified arsenic Carlos, later told reporters that helium had been detained and released, and that "I didn't bash anything. ... I'm innocent." Law enforcement has not confirmed if Carlos was the idiosyncratic they said they had detained.

Leising said "a batch of times you're going to detain people, bring them successful for questioning and they whitethorn not beryllium the fishy but they mightiness person a piece, and hopefully the investigators got that piece."

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