Nancy Grace slams sheriff’s handling of Guthrie case: ‘The fish stinks at the head’

For Nancy Grace, the Nancy Guthrie lawsuit is personal.

As a erstwhile prosecutor, she knows firsthand however mishandling of a transgression country aboriginal connected tin complicate the lawsuit if it ever gets to tribunal — and it tin enactment the hunt for Guthrie successful jeopardy, too, she said successful an interrogation connected Sean Hannity’s caller podcast, "Hang Out with Sean Hannity." 

But the 84-year-old's suspected abduction besides brought backmost achy memories from her ain past — the execution of her fiance during summertime interruption from assemblage successful 1979.

When Guthrie's daughter, "Today" co-host Savannah Guthrie, gave her archetypal televised interrogation with workfellow Hoda Kotb past week, the affectional relationship reminded Grace that "you're ne'er the same" aft a loved 1 is taken away.

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Nancy Grace sits crossed from Sean Hannity successful a inactive representation from the latest occurrence of "Hang Out with Sean Hannity," which focused connected the unsolved disappearance of "Today" co-host Savannah Guthrie's parent Nancy. (Fox News)

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The emotions ran raw, Grace told Hannity, but different aspects of the lawsuit pained her, too.

It's Nanos. He stinks. He's gotta go. But that's a distraction to uncovering Nancy Guthrie.

The sheriff released the transgression country backmost to the household earlier bringing the FBI into the lawsuit days later. In the interim, transportation drivers and journalists walked up to the beforehand door, dropping disconnected parcels and taking photographs.

"By destroying the transgression country and by releasing the transgression country excessively early, they destroyed a batch of evidence," she said.

Savannah Guthrie poses alongside her parent Nancy Guthrie during a accumulation interruption portion hosting NBC's "Today Show" unrecorded from Australia. (Photo by Don Arnold/WireImage)

"People called them 'missteps,' that is surely putting perfume connected the pig, isn't it?" Grace said. "That's a euphemism, 'missteps' — they're screw-ups. The feds wouldn't person done that."

Then, arsenic the peculiar cause successful complaint of the FBI's Phoenix bureau was with the Guthrie household filming a video effect to a ransom request that authorities viewed arsenic perchance credible, the sheriff was caught connected camera enjoying an Arizona Wildcats hoops game.

Pima County sheriff Chris Nanos was seen astatine a hoops crippled connected Saturday, Feb. 7, 2026. (Obtained by Fox News Digital)

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Hannity noted that erstwhile the FBI did get involved, the bureau worked with Google to get imagery from Guthrie's missing Nest doorbell camera that the sheriff's section had not been capable to recover.

"I don't similar attacking the existent men and women that are doing the work. The food stinks astatine the head, Sean," Grace said. "It's Nanos. He stinks. He's gotta go. But that's a distraction to uncovering Nancy Guthrie."

Photos released connected Feb. 10, 2026, amusement a "subject" connected Nancy Guthrie's property.  (Provided by FBI)

"When Savannah was talking...when she felt similar it was her fault, she said, 'Oh, Mommy, Mommy, I’m sorry. I americium sorry,'" Grace said. "It took maine close backmost to that infinitesimal — those horrible moments — erstwhile I was lying determination successful the dark, feeling similar howling, due to the fact that determination conscionable were nary words."

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Grace's fiance, Keith Griffin, was killed connected his mode to enactment during a interruption from assemblage — months earlier they hoped to get married.

The location of Nancy Guthrie, the missing parent of "Today" amusement big Savannah Guthrie, is seen from above, Thursday, Feb. 5, 2026, successful Tucson, Ariz. (Caitlin O'Hara/AP Photo)

The 23-year-old had a summertime gig connected a operation crew, she said, and his slayer had been fired from the aforesaid occupation earlier his arrival. Griffin went connected a tally to prime up drinks for his co-workers and bring them backmost to the agrarian occupation site, arriving successful the owner's overgarment and driving the institution truck.

"The feline came up and conscionable opened occurrence and changeable Keith 5 times successful the face, the neck, the caput and the back," Grace told Hannity.

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After his death, Grace dropped retired of school. But yet she returned, she said, motivated to assistance different transgression victims.

"When I would beryllium bushed oregon weary, conscionable arsenic erstwhile I was prosecuting, I would deliberation astir Keith conscionable looking astatine maine with those big, bluish eyes, and I would cognize it was my duty," she said.

Annie Guthrie, her hubby Tommaso Cioni, and Savannah Guthrie astatine their missing parent Nancy Guthrie's location connected Monday, March 2, successful Tucson, Arizona. (Fox News)

"That's your calling," Hannity replied.

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She went connected to prosecute convulsive crimes successful Atlanta for a decennary earlier becoming 1 of the astir recognizable existent transgression hosts successful America.

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Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos gives an update connected the probe aft the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie connected Feb. 5, 2026.  (Rebecca Noble/Reuters)

At 1 point, Hannity brought up an affectional infinitesimal from Guthrie's interrogation with Kotb — wherever she acknowledged that her fame and luck could person provided a motive for the chartless abductors.

"That's not her fault," helium said. "Are we expected to halt surviving our lives due to the fact that there's evil successful this world?"

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Grace agreed and argued that a victim's household doesn't person a publication connected however to respond to specified a crisis.

Catch the afloat occurrence of "Hang Out with Sean Hannity" astatine 7 a.m. Tuesday.