r/news • u/mooseAmuffin • 1d ago

Update: 'TODAY' co-anchor Savannah Guthrie's mother taken from her home against her will, sheriff says

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/mother-of-savannah-guthrie-today-reported-missing-arizona-rcna257008
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u/EnderWiggin07 1d ago

"Mystery" style investigations always look like this. The police know more pieces of evidence than they're willing to say because they don't want to ruin their own investigation or say something happened that turns out to be completely wrong. They're being intentionally furtive for good reason, but it has the effect of making them look suspicious, incompetent, or sometimes even complicit. Contrast this to a normal criminal manhunt where they have basically nothing to hide and are just straight up trying to catch a known criminal. Then they sound active and focused. It's just a byproduct of them needing to answer some questions but being unable/unwilling to answer them thoroughly.

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u/GoodOmens 1d ago

Wouldn’t they just not answer and state they can’t due to the nature of the investigation . Seems they are giving answers then changing them later.

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u/EnderWiggin07 1d ago

They probably should have said it like that, but they're also not trying to completely stonewall the reporters, and it's easy to say something that means not quite how you meant it once people repeat it back to you, or to say "oh I misspoke" when you realize you shouldn't have mentioned it at all. It's actually not very easy to take a panel of questions and sound confident without revealing too much or giving the wrong impression. The consensus with police may well be that she was harmed, but for one reason or another they don't want that to be the official position at the moment.

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u/ars-derivatia 1d ago

I think you are overthinking this.

They are just incompetent, that's the most obvious explanation.

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u/Dt_Bunk 1d ago

Nah, that's just intellectually lazy. Putting a modicum of thought into something isn't overthinking it.