Nancy Guthrie case could be solved with help from armchair sleuths: detective

More than 21 weeks since the suspected abduction of Nancy Guthrie, the FBI and Google made a groundbreaking recovery of Nest doorbell video, two men have been detained and released without charges, thousands of tips have been investigated — and yet her whereabouts remain unknown.Herman Weisberg, a former NYPD detective turned high-profile private investigator, believes one phone call could still crack the case.“You’ve got to have a lot of patience when you’re dealing with that because you might just be on your 7,000th call and your 15th cup of coffee that day, but the 7,001st call could be the one that’s really got a piece of valuable information in this,” the managing director at the New York-based private firm SAGE Intelligence told Fox News Digital.“The 7,001st call could be the one.”With the investigation grinding on for more than 150 days and a steep decline in updates from authorities, Weisberg said the sheer volume of public interest in the case could ultimately become one of investigators’ greatest assets.“The awareness that comes with a high-profile crime like this should be an advantage in solving it,” he told Fox News Digital.Weisberg points to cases like that of Gabby Petito, where ordinary citizens reviewing their own dashcam footage provided the breakthrough investigators needed to find her remains in a remote Wyoming campground.

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Other cases solved with help from the public include the Boston Marathon bombing, where tipsters reported the movements of the Tsarnaev brothers after the deadly attack, and the abduction of Elizabeth Smart, who was abducted as a teenager and rescued after attentive Utah residents recognized her suspected kidnappers from news coverage of the case and called police...