A Fifth grade teacher accused online of being a doable suspect within the Nancy Guthrie investigation is speaking out after his home was once swarmed by newbie sleuths.
Dominic Evans, forty eight, told The Original York Occasions in an interview on Wednesday, February 25, that his home in Tucson, Arizona, was once targeted after the FBI launched surveillance digicam photos on February 10 of a masked man outside of Nancy’s home north of Tucson. The armed particular particular person perceived to tamper with Nancy’s doorbell digicam in photos and photographs recovered by the FBI.
Dominic told the outlet that he has supreme met Nancy, 84, once, in 2011, and was once falsely accused, in share, as a consequence of he’s in a band with Tommaso Cioni, Nancy’s son-in-law and On the present time existing cohost Savannah Guthrie’s brother-in-law. (Tommaso is married to Savannah’s sister, Annie.)
“I’ve esteem any individual’s taken my title,” Dominic mentioned. “I don’t know [for what reason] — monetary, clickbait, to be linked, entertainment — nonetheless there are innocent of us that get effort.”
Dominic and his partner, Andrea, told the outlet that after the FBI photos had been launched, his facial substances had been in comparison to the masked particular person within the surveillance photographs. Folks online additionally introduced up a past beneath the influence of alcohol-driving conviction and an arrest for a 1999 bar theft as extra proof of his involvement.
The couple mentioned they had been too worried to get dangle of their two youngest kids from their grandmother’s home on the day the photos had been launched thanks to the sheer selection of of us that had congregated outside of their home.
“It was once all night having a set up an roar to thru the window, looking out for to no longer let any mild out of our home,” Andrea mentioned, noting that she was once “worried numb” by it all.
Days later, after local police and the FBI coordinated a February 13 home search and placement visitors discontinuance in Tucson, more of us swarmed to the Evans’ home, they mentioned. (The police detained and later launched four of us in connection with a search warrant done on February 13.)
“This one felt in fact, in fact, in fact horrid, as a consequence of it was once esteem all people was once awaiting any individual to system to our home,” Andrea mentioned.
Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos, who is main the peer for Nancy with the FBI, told the Original York Occasions that he felt sorry for Dominic. The teacher spoke supreme once to investigators and had no longer heard from them since, the Occasions reported.
“He’s going thru hell, and it is a long way wrong,” Nanos mentioned. “And I don’t know what to expose him rather then he maybe needs to be speaking with some attorneys and sue most of these of us for libel.”
“I need I’ll maybe maybe bounce out and shield every single surely one of them that’s been falsely accused,” Nanos added.
The Pima County Sheriff’s Division has no longer publicly dominated out any individual in its investigation with the exception of Nancy’s on the spot household, alongside with her son-in-law, who himself confronted scrutiny after an unverified fable that he was once a particular person of curiosity early on within the investigation.
“To be determined … the Guthrie household — to incorporate all siblings and spouses — were cleared as likely suspects in this case. The household has been nothing nonetheless cooperative and gracious and are victims in this case,” Nanos mentioned in an announcement on February 16.
Nanos added, “To counsel otherwise is no longer supreme defective, it is a long way cruel. The Guthrie household are victims, straightforward and simple.”
On Tuesday, February 24, Savannah and her siblings increased a monetary reward for Nancy’s return to $1 million as the peer for the Guthrie matriarch nears the live of its fourth week.
