Ring founder and CEO Jamie Siminoff believes police would have “solved” the Nancy Guthrie case if people had more cameras on their doors—including Guthrie’s.
“I do believe if they had more of it, if there was more cameras on the house, I think we might, you know, have solved” the case, Siminoff told Fortune in an interview.
“The video that they have,” he added, “appears to be the best evidence they have of what happened.”
“The Nancy Guthrie thing has shown just how important video and more video would be in a case like this,” Siminoff said. “I think it’s been clear, but I think this is just another example of, like, how important it is to have video at your house.”
Guthrie last seen on Jan. 31, when son-in-law Tommaso Cioni dropped off the 84-year-old at her Catalina Foothills home. What started as a missing persons case quickly escalated when police found bloodstains at the residence. Forensic testing later confirmed the blood belonged to Guthrie.
In what has since dominated national news as her journalist daughter and her family pleaded with the alleged abductors to return their mother, Nest footage featuring a masked person attempting to shield their face from the doorbell camera has surfaced on the internet, prompting many, including Siminoff, to note how pragmatic it was to have video surveillance at all.
“I think definitely the importance of video has been clear,” Siminoff said. “But I think this is just another example of how important it is to have video at your house, to be able to have systems like Ring. I think it did show the importance of that.”
As the case enters its second month, Siminoff emphasized the company’s active cooperation with local authorities, adding that a video was recently found of a suspicious car two and a half miles away, which was reported through Amazon’s Ring network.
“We’ve been very involved from neighbor alerts, community alerts that go through our network,” he said.
