🚨 Nancy Guthrie Update: Major Development Revealed in Ongoing Investigation 💔
Nancy Guthrie Update: Sheriff Chris Nanos Reveals Major Shift as FBI Takes Over Key Task
Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos confirmed he’s no longer directly communicating with Nancy Guthrie’s family.
The sheriff told PEOPLE magazine that the FBI is now leading communications with “Today” co-host Savannah Guthrie and her siblings regarding the case.
While Nanos may no longer be in direct contact with Nancy’s family, he’s still in charge of the investigation.
The sheriff maintains that investigators remain focused on solving the case, acknowledging the frustration surrounding it.
“The public is frustrated. Even the Guthrie family,” Nanos told the outlet. “Every passing second must feel like 100 days because they don’t know. What matters is moving forward carefully so we don’t make mistakes or falsely accuse somebody or make a bad arrest.”
Nancy Guthrie Update: Sheriff Chris Nanos Says Investigators Focus on Digital Evidence
Sheriff Chris Nanos also revealed in the interview that investigators are focused on analyzing tips, DNA, and digital evidence in the Nancy Guthrie case.
“Right now, I think our focus is on the tips, the leads and the evidence we have in front of us,” Nanos added. “Digitally — the camera footages as well as biological, the DNA and those types of things.”
PEOPLE reported that the investigation now has an “enormous catalog” of surveillance footage from intersections, neighborhoods, businesses, and home security systems across the area.
“There’s thousands and thousands of videos out there from intersections and Ring cameras that we have to catalog,” the sheriff explained. “Maybe it’s all the white trucks are over here, all the red sedans are over here; you’ve gotta have it so that when you do find a suspect … ‘Hey, the suspect is John Doe, we got him,’ now we go and say, ‘Well, what else do we know about John Doe?’”
DNA Could Still Be Key to Solving the Case
Aside from digital evidence, Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos said investigators are also awaiting DNA analysis, which could prove critical to the Nancy Guthrie case.
Nanos believes they’re getting closer to identifying the perpetrator through DNA, adding that he has “confidence in our labs.”
“When the labs tell us, ‘Hey, there’s nothing else we can do,’ well, then maybe we’ve got a problem… we’ve got a cold case… but right now, the labs aren’t telling us that,” he added.
Nanos also revealed that multiple laboratories across the country are working behind the scenes on the investigation, further boosting his confidence that the Nancy Guthrie case will be solved.
“When you have the best minds of the country working on problems, I think they’re gonna solve them,” Nanos added. “It just takes a while.”
Nancy Guthrie Case: Sheriff Reacts to FBI Director Kash Patel’s Remarks
Meanwhile, Sheriff Chris Nanos responded to remarks from FBI Director Kash Patel claiming the bureau had been kept out of the Nancy Guthrie case during its early days.
“Director Patel has his rights to his opinions,” Nanos told PEOPLE, noting that some of the remarks were “factually inaccurate.”
“The FBI was with us day one,” he added. “We’ve always had a working relationship.”
Nanos also denied claims that the investigators mishandled the scene or delayed search efforts after Nancy disappeared.
“The plane was started immediately,” the sheriff maintained. “They found blood. Search and rescue looked at the scene and realized it seemed suspicious. They did exactly what they were supposed to do.”
Trump Admin Says It Uncovered $10 Billion Obamacare Fraud Scheme
The Trump administration says it has uncovered what it describes as a massive fraud scheme within the Affordable Care Act.
Members of Trump’s administration allege that roughly $10 billion in taxpayer money was improperly paid out between 2021 and 2024 because of weakened enrollment safeguards under former President Joe Biden.
According to a Department of Health and Human Services report, officials have already removed nearly three million fraudulent or improper Obamacare enrollments and estimate another 2.6 million questionable enrollments remain.
Administration officials say the findings are part of a broader government-wide effort to eliminate fraud, waste, and abuse across federal programs.
The report traces the alleged problems to changes made during the Biden administration that expanded enrollment opportunities while relaxing income verification and eligibility checks.
At the start of Biden’s presidency, approximately 10 million people were enrolled through the Affordable Care Act exchanges. By 2024, enrollment had surged to roughly 22 million.
Federal investigators now believe millions of those enrollments were improper, fraudulent, or created without the knowledge of the individuals involved.
“By our estimate, improper, phantom, and fraudulent enrollment peaked at 5.6 million people in 2025,” the report states.
“We estimate 2.6 million improper and phantom enrollments remain, including over 1 million enrollments without a Social Security number.”
According to the report, several different forms of abuse contributed to the alleged fraud.
Officials say some applicants intentionally understated their income to qualify for larger taxpayer-funded subsidies.
Others allegedly received premium assistance despite failing to meet eligibility requirements.
Investigators also identified what they describe as “phantom enrollments,” in which insurance brokers allegedly enrolled people in Obamacare plans without their knowledge to collect federal commissions.
The report argues that reduced verification requirements made those practices significantly easier to carry out.
Since taking office, the Trump administration says it has restored stricter income verification requirements, ended several special enrollment periods, increased screening for duplicate Medicaid enrollment, and launched investigations into brokers suspected of creating phantom policies.
Officials also say they have strengthened oversight of agents participating in the federal marketplace.
As a result of those efforts, nearly three million enrollments have already been removed from the Affordable Care Act exchanges.
Even after those removals, approximately 19.2 million people remain enrolled.
The administration says its goal is not to reduce legitimate coverage but to ensure taxpayer dollars are being spent only on individuals who actually qualify.
“Preserving the fiscal and programmatic integrity of the ACA Exchanges is key to safeguarding taxpayer-funded resources for those that truly need them,” the report states.
“The federal government paying brokers to enroll individuals without their knowledge is not.”
The report also says the administration will continue pursuing additional enforcement actions against brokers and others accused of exploiting the program.
“The Trump Administration continues to aggressively root out fraud, waste, abuse, and corruption by promulgating new regulations to improve program integrity, investigating suspected improper or fraudulent enrollment, and taking action against agents and brokers committing fraud.”
The findings are likely to reignite debate over the Affordable Care Act and how aggressively eligibility rules should be enforced.
Supporters of the administration argue the report demonstrates that stricter oversight is necessary to protect taxpayers and preserve benefits for those legally entitled to receive them.
Critics of previous verification rollbacks have long warned that loosening enrollment safeguards could increase improper payments and fraud, while supporters of the Biden-era policies argued the changes made healthcare more accessible to eligible Americans, Fox News reported exclusively.
The administration says its investigations remain ongoing, with an estimated 2.6 million additional enrollments still under review as officials continue auditing the federal health insurance exchanges.
Trump has been pushing to replace Obamacare for over a decade, and this may give Republicans enough motivation to actually do something.
