LAS VEGAS — The FBI has been discussing bringing new tech tools into the Nancy Guthrie investigation, sources told Fox News Digital over the weekend.They declined to elaborate.Morgan Wright, the CEO and founder of the National Center for Open and Unsolved Cases, said he believes the tools are likely focused on one of three areas Monday."The solution to this case is going to be, I think, something technical, something that they come up with — new ways of analyzing data," he told Fox News Digital."I'm looking at the video, the video forensics, signals analysis, blockchain kind of stuff."FOLLOW THE FOX TRUE CRIME TEAM ON XFBI investigators canvass the neighborhood around Annie Guthrie's home in Tucson, Ariz., on Feb.
10, 2026, as the search continues into the disappearance of her mother, Nancy Guthrie.(DWS for Fox News Digital)Video forensics could include technology that enhances publicly known or unknown video to help identify either the suspect or his vehicle.
Signal analysis could include cell-site or ad-tech data analysis.And the blockchain could expose whoever was behind the ransom and extortion attempts, whether they were legitimate or not."If I'm going to put it into three buckets, I'd say it's going to come out of one of those three buckets," Wright, the editor and host of the "Crime: Reconstructed" Substack and podcast, added.SIGN UP TO GET TRUE CRIME NEWSLETTERInvestigators search brush near Nancy Guthrie's house in Arizona as her photo is shown in an overlay.
The image is courtesy of NBC and Fox News Digital.(Fox News Digital; Courtesy of NBC)Investigative genetic genealogy could still provide a major breakthrough, he said, but that's not new tech.NANCY GUTHRIE'S FRONT DOOR BLOOD EVIDENCE POINTS TO ‘SINGLE ABDUCTOR’: FORMER FBI PROFILERHe said he believes the publicly known evidence shows there was only one kidnapper involved, in part because only one person appears on video, and no one has come forward to claim the reward of over $1.2 million.S...