Nancy Guthrie's disappearance declared a cold case by former FBI agent

Nearly six months after Nancy Guthrie was reported missing, her disappearance is officially labeled a "cold case" by one former FBI Agent.

"The case is cold. The case is completely cold," Steve Moore told Entin in a video shared to YouTube on Tuesday, July 21. "They don’t close those cases ever, but they’ll give them to new agents who are coming in with a new set of eyes who are not indoctrinated into the way the FBI necessarily investigates everything. And sometimes people see them in a different light."

He added, "What most people would do is start at the beginning and try not to take the same steps that the investigators did before because we know the result of that. Try going off in a different direction. Try anything you can to mix things up a little and see if you don’t bump into something that they didn’t."

Moore went on to say this outcome is "not acceptable" within the FBI, who are under an "immense" amount of pressure to solve every case.

"What you're probably looking at is the FBI is evaluating not just the case, but how they work the case and trying to find what they can do to look at it from a different standpoint," Moore continued. "And so I don't see right now that they are giving up on the case by any stretch of the mind, but I do believe if I were them, I'd be evaluating whether we had the right people on it."

Guthrie, 84, was reported missing on February 1 after friends noticed her absence from her scheduled church service. She was last seen the night prior at a family dinner hosted by her daughter, Annie Guthrie.

In the weeks that followed, the Pima County Sheriff's Department and the FBI's Phoenix Division were able to uncover previously lost footage from Guthrie's front door camera. The images proved that the woman was taken against her will from her Tucson, Arizona, home.

Updates in the case have been non-existent since early April, though investigators continue to ask for the public's help in identifying the masked, armed man seen in the unearthed footage.

Despite Moore's claims that the case has gone cold, he added, "I don't think this is going away. But it may go out of the public view for a while."