Source Close to Nancy Guthrie Investigation Makes Concerning Admission

The Pima County Sheriff's Department has come under increased scrutiny for its handling of the Nancy Guthrie case. Guthrie, 84, has been missing since February 1, with Pima County sheriffs and the FBI both looking for her

In a new interview with NewsNation's Brian Entin, an anonymous law enforcement source questioned the department's inexperienced leadership, including at the top of the homicide unit.

Source raises serious criticism

The full interview will air on Katie Pavlich Tonight at 10 p.m. ET. In the clip provided to Men's Journal, the source, whose face and voice is obscured, tells Entin the first responders to the scene were not homicide veterans.

“The people who were there on the scene were not tenured homicide detectives. They didn’t have a lot of experience in homicide at that point to include the supervisor who, from my understanding, never investigated a homicide before being installed as the supervisor to the homicide unit," the sourced said.

"So the supervisor who first responded to Nancy Guthrie's house had never investigated a homicide? How is that possible?" Entin asked.

“You have decisions made by people that will install friends and people that can do stuff for them, opposed to people that are there under merit and can do the job correctly," the source responded.

Sheriff Chris Nanos 'has gotta go,' says Nancy Grace

The anonymous subject's condemnation of the Pima County Sheriff's Department comes days after legal expert and true crime broadcaster Nancy Grace called for Sheriff Chris Nanos to step down because of his alleged mishandling of the Guthrie crime scene.

Nanos opened the scene early in the investigation before attempting to close it up again.

“By destroying the crime scene and by releasing the crime scene too early, they destroyed a lot of evidence,” Grace explained to Sean Hannity.

“People called them ‘missteps,’ that is certainly putting perfume on the pig, isn’t it?” Grace added. “That’s a euphemism, ‘missteps’ — they’re screw-ups. The feds wouldn’t have done that.”

“I don’t like attacking the actual men and women that are doing the work. The fish stinks at the head, Sean,” Grace later said. “It’s Nanos. He stinks. He’s gotta go. But that’s a distraction to finding Nancy Guthrie.”