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The masked thug suspected of abducting Nancy Guthrie made amateurish moves that prove he was likely not a “trained assassin,” a former FBI bigwig said — as he predicted a black glove discovered near the 84-year-old’s home could be a “margin of victory” for investigators.
Retired FBI supervisory special agent James Gagliano said the way the suspect was carrying a holstered gun when he was caught on surveillance video approaching Guthrie’s home was unlike anything he’d seen before.
“It does not look like a trained assassin or somebody who’s been doing this a long time,” he told “Fox & Friends” early Thursday.
“I look at the gun, I’ve never ever seen somebody carry a weapon that way. I carried a weapon in the service of my country for 33 years. I have never seen somebody carry it that way,” the ex-FBI official continued.
“This looks like it was thrown together either last minute or the person got a holster from one person and the weapon from somebody else.”
The gun, as well as a black glove recovered by authorities on Wednesday, could potentially prove to be a series of blunders that hopefully blow open the case, Gagliano said.
“If the gloves come back to this person, if there’s DNA on it and they ultimately be the item that undoes him … who commits a crime, a violent crime, abducts somebody and then drops off clues 1.3 miles from the house?” he said.
The former FBI official said the glove, which resembles the pair worn by the armed perpetrator caught on video, could be “part of the margin of victory” for detectives scrambling to find “Today” show host Savannah Guthrie’s mom.
“And why is that? Well, the DNA aspect. So you can pull off the trace fingerprints, hair and fiber, any type of body fluids on it,” he said.
The Post spotted at least one member of the FBI Evidence Response team pulling the glove from desert shrubbery in Guthrie’s secluded desert suburb at the edge of Tucson on Wednesday afternoon.
Investigators refused to comment when asked about the potential piece of evidence.
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