BROWN: The Guthrie family’s first request underscores the urgency of releasing their 84-year-old mother. We understand that she has serious health issues and is in urgent need of medication. We are now on her ninth day, presumably without taking these medications. There’s no mention of that in this new video. What do you think about this?
Gagliano: Yes, you mentioned that. We have an octogenarian, an 84-year-old female. She apparently had a heart condition and needed medication. Pam, I’ll give you a statistic. Do you know what the proportion of 80-year-olds who are kidnapped is? Like infinitesimally small. Less than one-half of 1%. That’s why this case is once again so confusing and confusing.
BROWN: Are you convinced this was a kidnapping?
GAgliano: Am I convinced that this was a real kidnapping?
BROWN: Like a kidnapping, like they took her–
GAgliano: No, I’ll give you this – yes, I’ll tell you: There are many ways to conduct a kidnapping, right? There’s a new craze that we’re seeing south of the border when I was stationed there, and they go to great lengths to make you believe they have your loved one in the quote, and then unquote “possession” when they don’t. They’re moving quickly and they’re now using artificial intelligence to help create this unpredictable fog that makes families panic and do what they need to do. It’s just that there are so many problems here. In fact, if this was a kidnapping, the kidnapper had already moved forward 14 hours from the moment she was sent home, which was about ten o’clock, until her family notified law enforcement around noon the next day. You can see the law enforcement officers busy back and forth. I see little merit in this. People read too much into this. This is a normal progression in an investigation, one lead may trick another, and then you go from one thing to another. In the end, there are two things that can solve this case: one is good detective work, walking evenly, knocking on doors, talking to people, canvassing, interviewing people. The second and largest part of these are the digital images that investigators are now harvesting from the kidnappers’ “kidnappers” ransom notes. The bell on the door was removed, but they may still be able to collect some forensic evidence there. Something like this might resolve the case and we all hope and pray that it will have a good ending.
