Finding Nancy: The Nancy Guthrie Investigation
Nancy Guthrie's family was cleared. That didn't stop the internet from convicting them anyway — and dragging an innocent stranger into it. It's a legal breakdown with defense attorney Eric Faddis and retired FBI special agent Robin Dreeke. Tony Brueski follows the legal fault lines that run through the people accused in this case rather than the person who committed the crime. When Nancy vanished, online sleuths went hunting. They settled on a local schoolteacher who happens to play in a band with her son-in-law, decided he was the masked figure at her door, and turned up at his house. He was home with his kids. He had nothing to do with it. The sheriff publicly told him to find a lawyer and sue for libel. Months later, no suit has been filed — not by him, not by the family, not by anyone. Tony breaks down why. What does a defamation case actually take? Why does a private citizen falsely linked to a violent crime have a stronger hand than Savannah Guthrie, a public figure who'd have to clear a far higher bar? And why does the math fall apart when the people doing the most damage are anonymous accounts with no money to collect? Then there's the other road — the criminal one. Streamers have already been arrested outside Nancy's empty home. Tony lays out where the law draws the line between covering a case from a public street and crossing into something chargeable, and whether the people causing the most harm are the ones most likely to never face a courtroom at all. This is what happens when a real tragedy becomes everyone's entertainment. The bill comes due for people who never asked to be part of it. Listen to the full breakdown. END_LINKS: Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ [https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/] Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1] Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ [https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/] Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ [https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/] Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod [https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod] X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePod [https://x.com/TrueCrimePod] Disclaimer: This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice. Hashtags: #NancyGuthrie #SavannahGuthrie #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #Defamation #Libel #OnlineSleuths #Tucson #PimaCounty #FalseAccusation
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