The sheriff additionally made issues worse for the household when veteran journalist Ashleigh Banfield reported that Nancy’s son-in-law, Tommaso Cioni, “could be the prime suspect” in her disappearance, in accordance with an “impeccable” supply she had.
Up till then, it had been reported that Nancy’s daughter, Cioni’s spouse, Annie, drove her mother dwelling from dinner on the couple’s home on January 31 and was the final particular person to see her.
After Banfield’s report, Nanos informed The New York Occasions that Cioni had pushed Nancy again to her dwelling, going into element about how he had watched to verify she was safely inside. That made Cioni the final particular person to have seen his mother-in-law earlier than her abduction hours later.
Nanos later walked again his feedback to the publication and refused to say who the final particular person to see Nancy alive was, solely sharing that it was a “relative” who dropped her off earlier than she vanished.
Bandfield has continued to face by her reporting, saying on February 13, “Nothing’s modified” about Cioni’s alleged suspect standing.