This is simply my perspective, and I apologize if it seems like I keep repeating the same theory. I don’t mean to sound like I’m stuck on it, but I just can’t shake this line of thinking, so please bear with me.
I’ve followed a (now) retired FBI profiler for years, and something she once said has stayed with me. In cases involving an elderly woman who lives alone and is sexually assaulted and murdered, she noted that the most statistically likely suspect is often someone very close by, sometimes even a neighbor’s teenage son.
That’s what makes me wonder whether investigators, both the FBI and local Pima County detectives, might be casting too wide a net because NG is SG’s mother. Given the public profile of the family, it’s understandable that they would consider high-level or complex scenarios. But sometimes the truth isn’t elaborate or far-reaching. Sometimes it’s much closer to home.
I agree. And I sure hope close neighbors are on LE's radar. The neighborhood is a maze of streets and dead-ends, some with pedestrian gates. A true local would know the ways to get through the neighborhood with minimal camera exposure.
For me, either a local sexual predator, stalker, and/or murderer has to stay on the list of possibilities because other theories are making less sense to me now. There are infinite ways to pull off a crime - including modern high tech skills - but the reasons to commit them seems to be one of just a few options. Same selfish, sick human reasons. Sex, money, revenge, etc.
You could get two or more people to go along with a kidnapping for money or ideological reasons. Desires align. Six mil split between two or three? Not bad.
But if this was an actual kidnapping, plans would be in place to ensure Nancy's survival. Communications and demands would come in quick, and proof of life would be sent. Same for ideological reasons. We'd head all about whatever it is they want.
This didn't happen. So, either they're the worst group of kidnappers ever, or it's some other explanation. That's why I'm moving away from more than one person being involved.
Even if it was a solo kidnapping, they blew it. All that RISK for nothing! Maybe, but that'd be just so crazy of a screw up.
So, I think it could be exactly as you said. A sort of new breed of sexual predator where they remove the kind of evidence you can't get away with leaving in 2026. Or maybe it's not sexual and he's just a sick sadist.
Although, it could be a personal vendetta for a real or perceived grudge.
And sorry to go on, but I'm been trying to think about age brackets when it comes to motive. Like, if he's in his 20s, I could see a sexual or sadistic motive, but I can't see this level of hassle for a perceived grudge for a young man. It'd be more impulsive.
Savannah is in her 50s and Nancy in her 80s. If it's a personal vendetta or even an obsessive infatuation, would you expect it to be someone closer to at least Savannah's age? How old could this suspect be, if he's stayed relatively fit?
Hypothetically, if it IS someone from nearby, and it isn't a sicko teen male, then it's someone with money and capability; that sure is a tony neighborhood.
IMO, of course.
