Nancy Guthrie update: One key police decision could hurt the missing case

When Nancy Guthrie went missing, authorities and private citizens held large-scale searches to find her or clues that could help in her recovery.

However, now, Tad DiBiase, a veteran homicide prosecutor, said the searches seem to have largely stalled.

This is what he said: a major gap in the investigation of Guthrie's case.

In the expert's view, searches are key to building a strong case against a suspect. 

Now, without the searches, it may create problems for the authorities in developing a good case.

Appearing on Brian Entin's show on NewsNation, DiBiase said, “Even given the suspected circumstances of this case."

"The most common disposal area for a ‘no body’ murder is in water," he shared.

"The second most is what I call 'sort of buried in the woods or left behind in the woods,'" the veteran homicide prosecutor noted.

Entin, in addition, added the Pima County Sheriff’s Office shared cadaver dog searches were axed just five weeks after Guthrie disappeared.

DiBiase reacted to the decision, saying it is yet again a wrong move as far as the investigation is concerned.

“To me, there are two reasons why it’s problematic not to do a search,” he shared.

“One is because you overlook the opportunity to find the body, which is critical."

DiBiase continued, "But two, when you go to trial, you want to be able to say to the jury, 'Here are all the searches we did, and we confirm that there’s no way that she walked away on her own, there’s no way that she escaped, there’s no way that she committed suicide.'"

"Any of those things. Because you don’t know that unless you’ve done a very thorough search and you’re able to say to the jury, "We can knock out these other possibilities of things happening, and all that’s left is this guy appeared on the camera the night she went missing at the time she seemed to have gone missing, and that’s the only logical thing."

Nancy has been missing from her home near Tucson, Arizona, since Feb. 1.