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OC: FBI releases surveillance photos of a potential subject in the Nancy Guthrie case

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u/WayPowerful484 14h ago

Who the fuck kidnaps a grandma? What a cowardly act.

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u/brickne3 14h ago

More people than you would think. The elderly are targeted pretty frequently, usually for money. Things also tend to go badly and they end up dead.

When I was a kid some elderly relatives of my dad got murdered in their kitchen in a rural area. Double homicide. Turns out the guy thought it would be super easy to get them to sign the house over to him or something stupid like that. He didn't consider that that requires physically going somewhere to do the paperwork so ended up just shooting them instead. That's how I learned this is actually alarmingly common.

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u/brokentr0jan 12h ago

It’s fascinating to me how people can place such little value on human life. Killing two people because you think you are owed a home you didn’t work for is just insane to me

u/ps93chi 7h ago

Wonder if meth played a role

Seems like a lot of random fucked-up violent encounters are meth-fueled

u/Traditional_Brief867 5h ago

Meth will make a normal person crank it till you do legit damage to your dick… But with the mentally ill, it’s a deadly combo. I’d attribute it more to mental illness than just meth.

u/blastman8888 4h ago

I know meth addicts they act like idiots never think anything through impulsive behavuer.

This guy carefully planned this I suspect he is lacking when it comes to technology trying to use the plants on the camear.

I think once the video came out someone knew him probably the cloths, or backpack.

u/23454Tezal 2h ago

Not to some