They claim due to where the house is located that minimal surveillance is available.
Houses are not side by side, homes are set back from the road, often with vegetation and long driveways, lots of space between homes, and few neighbors.
The most striking thing would be the long driveways and vegetation; I assume that would make it hard to get an accurate recording of a car passing by.
But there are missing people that are never found and criminals who are never found, despite all the cameras. At any time, there are over 90,000 missing cases that are never resolved. Why should Guthrie be any different?
The main reason she is different is because she is a national news story compared to the other 90,000 people we have never heard of.
Also her kidnapper was on camera, police know the time and location she was taken from so are 2 huge clues that, on paper, should have made it easier finding the culprit.
I worked with a woman in 2010 whose 19 year old daughter turned up missing. Police were able to track her last cell phone ping to a specific isolated country road, but that was the last of the information they had, so I understand that kidnappings go unsolved, but I think I’ve explained my reasoning why in 2026 with our technology, this shouldn’t be as difficult to solve.
