Episode Details

The Nancy Guthrie investigation should be about finding an 84-year-old woman taken from her home in the middle of the night. Instead, the sheriff leading the case has become the story himself.

Former Chief Deputy Richard Kastigar told the Daily Mail that Sheriff Chris Nanos has "great disdain" for the FBI and holds a grudge from a 2015 investigation. The president of the deputies' union says it's become an "ego case." A former lieutenant who ran against Nanos—and is now suing him—calls him "a tyrant."

Nanos says the criticism is political. He says his FBI relationship is great. He says evidence decisions were about consistency, not obstruction.

But the facts tell their own story. The crime scene was released too early—Nanos admitted it. DNA is at a private Florida lab, not the FBI's facility at Quantico, with processing challenges that could stretch months. The county's search helicopter pilot was reportedly disciplined and reassigned during an active kidnapping investigation. And Nanos told reporters he's "not used to everyone hanging onto my every word and then holding me accountable."

Nearly four weeks. No suspects. No arrests. The people who worked with this sheriff for decades are the ones asking whether ego has gotten in the way of justice.

This is the story of what happens when leadership fails under pressure—and who pays the price.

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