An FBI source told NewsNation it's "dumb" and "insane" — Sheriff Chris Nanos is allegedly blocking federal agents from accessing key evidence in the Nancy Guthrie case, routing a glove and DNA samples to a private Florida lab instead of Quantico. Nanos called the reports "not even close to the truth." But the documented history of this sheriff's credibility tells a very different story.

From a 98.8 percent no-confidence vote by his own deputies, to an Arizona Attorney General investigation that flagged four policy violations, to placing his political opponent on leave weeks before an election he won by 481 votes — Nanos has spent years denying what the record confirms. And in the Guthrie case alone, he's admitted to releasing the crime scene early, contradicted himself publicly, grounded his best search aircraft over a personal dispute, and sat courtside at a basketball game while the family begged for Nancy's return.

This episode lays out the full pattern — every claim sourced, every quote verified — and asks the only question that matters on Day 13 of this search: whose word has actually held up?

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Eleven days into the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie and the Pima County Sheriff's Department is being questioned from every direction — by its own deputies' union, by county supervisors, and by the Guthrie family itself. Criminal defense attorney and former felony prosecutor Eric Faddis examines the legal damage created by a cascade of documented investigative decisions.

The crime scene was released prematurely. Sheriff Nanos admitted it publicly. His department returned to the home multiple times after the initial release to collect additional evidence — each re-entry creating chain of custody problems that Faddis says any defense attorney would seize on at trial. Evidence recovered after a scene is released and potentially accessed by civilians carries a contamination question mark that never fully disappears.

The department's thermal imaging aircraft, equipped to detect body heat across the Arizona desert, was grounded for five hours after Nancy was reported missing. The pilot had been reassigned to street patrol by the sheriff months earlier over a personal dispute. The union opposed the move. For an eighty-four-year-old woman potentially in the desert, that five-hour gap is not administrative — it's potentially catastrophic. Faddis explains the legal standard for negligence and whether this specific delay, tied to a specific decision by a specific official, could meet that threshold.

The Nest doorbell footage that authorities spent ten days calling permanently unrecoverable was ultimately produced by the FBI from backend server data. Faddis walks through how a defense team would frame that ten-day blind spot — and what it means for every investigative choice made while the department believed its best evidence was gone.

The sheriff told NBC News that Nancy was "taken from her bed" and retracted it the next day. Faddis addresses both the legal risks of inaccurate public statements by the lead investigator and what the family's decision to go around the department tells him about the state of this investigation.

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Mickey Stines' defense team just filed a motion that could reshape the entire trajectory of this case. The former Letcher County sheriff, charged with shooting and killing District Judge Kevin Mullins inside his chambers in September 2024, is now claiming he has a serious intellectual disability or serious mental illness that should legally exempt him from execution under a 2022 Kentucky statute.

But here's what the motion doesn't include: a diagnosis. No named condition. No medical records attached. Just a legal citation and a request for a hearing. Kentucky's HB 269 requires a documented diagnosis of one of exactly four conditions — schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, bipolar disorder, or delusional disorder — with active symptoms at the time of the offense. The law has been used successfully one time in the state's history, in a case where the judge said the evidence of lifelong mental illness was overwhelming.

We go deep on what that precedent looked like, what evidence Stines' defense has assembled so far — including witness accounts of paranoia, a jail evaluation describing active psychosis, and his claim of California encephalitis — and what the prosecution has ready to counter it. The doctor's visit the day before the shooting. The surveillance footage. The sealed psychiatric evaluation that nobody's talking about. And the broader question of whether this motion is about saving Stines from the needle or about building an insanity narrative before a jury is ever seated.

This is the legal chess match underneath the case everyone's been watching. And the next move matters.

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