Three months after Nancy Guthrie vanished from her Tucson home, a new update from inside the Pima County Sheriff’s Office paints a different picture of the case. The update comes from Sergeant Aaron Cross, who touched upon the initial chaos when Guthrie disappeared. As he talked about a communication breakdown, he claimed it was so severe that even detectives working on the case were reportedly not talking to one another.
Sergeant Aaron Cross says he gathered new information in Nancy Guthrie case
Sergeant Aaron Cross, a current supervisor and the president of the deputies’ union, sat down with Brian Entin to discuss an update on the Nancy Guthrie case, describing the first week of the investigation as a “disorganized mess.”
Cross did not fully back FBI Director Kash Patel’s claim that the sheriff’s office deliberately kept the FBI out for four days. Instead, he claimed they executed “poor communication” during the investigation.
Moreover, the sergeant shared that while many reports indicated that Guthrie’s family resisted the idea that Guthrie had simply wandered off, Cross said his sources told him differently. He claimed, “The family believed that she was out there, you know, that she had walked away,” at least in the very beginning.
Additionally, Cross pointed to Sheriff Chris Nanos’ distrust of the FBI and believed that history played a role in the decision not to fully hand the case over to federal agents. When asked if the sheriff would ever voluntarily give up control, Cross said, “No. Never.”
Even so, Cross noted that some of the early DNA evidence was already en route to a private lab in Florida by the time the FBI offered its plane to Quantico. He also revealed that the union has now asked the Pima County Board of Supervisors to refer Sheriff Nanos to the attorney general for investigation over statements Cross claimed were “provably not true” and sworn under penalty of perjury.
Meanwhile, Nancy Guthrie’s disappearance case is active, with a joint task force of sheriff’s detectives and FBI agents working out of the FBI building to gather any updates they can.
