Nancy Guthrie has been missing for seven weeks with investigators continuing to search for the kidnapped 84-year-old.

Attention has been heavily focused on her Tucson, Arizona home for multiple weeks now, with both law enforcement and the media, and amateur sleuths flooding the area.

Now retired FBI Agent Maureen O’Connell has shared why it is she thinks Nancy’s famous daughter Savannah Guthrie should be coping well with the attention the case has brought. It comes after a mystery man who claimed he “saw Nancy 5 days ago” offered chilling new proof.

Talking to true crime reporter Brian Entin on Wednesday, March 18, the pair discussed how Savannah is no stranger to a high-profile investigation in her professional life, which should help her cope.

Brian said, “She’s been that person before, and I feel terrible for her now, on the other side of this, I feel so bad for her, but at the same time, she’s also been the one asking these hard questions before, when she’s covered these stories, and she’s also been the one standing outside the house. So even though I feel terrible for her…”

Maureen then interrupted to share her perspective, saying, “I’ve seen her be pretty tough on people that i felt were victims of things in the past.I’m not going to hold that against her obviously. This is a terrible thing. But, it’s to the point that she should almost to a certain extent understand.

“The person I think about all the time for some reason is her brother. The fighter pilot. Because he’s stoic, that he’s handled this whole thing just like the quiet warrior. From the photos he looks just like his dad doesn’t he?”

The comments come after another former FBI agent Steve Moore told Brian he felt “stumped” over why Nancy’s case has not been solved.

He said, “We were talking the other day, a bunch of agents, and we just can’t figure out why it hasn’t been solved, and it’s not because we think we are smarter than the agents, we just don’t know what is the handicap because there is one.”

He continued, “If there wasn’t some kind of road block here, they would have solved it. I trust these agents and I trust the teams they’re on so we’re curious about what happened in the investigation.

“If you look at it, some of the things that happened are inter-agency rivalry, especially from one agency, and a lot of public relations gaps. I think when something has not worked to plan,you have to look at what mistakes were made.”

Elsewhere in his chat with Brian Steve admitted that he doesn’t believe whoever took Nancy is a professional. He said, “I would say the perpetrators getting lucky, because they didn’t seem to be all that competent.”

He added, “When you show me somebody who’s wearing his gun in the wrong holster in his crotch, outside the pants, and he’s trying to cover up a ring camera with leaves, you’ve shown me somebody who is not Lex Luthor.”

It comes as the mysterious disappearance of an Air Force general has several chilling similarities to the Nancy case.