Though the search is entering its 17th day for “Today” anchor Savannah Guthrie’s kidnapped mother, Nancy Guthrie, Spencer Coursen, founder and CEO of the Coursen Security Group and author of “The Safety Trap,” believes that officials are dealing with amateurs.

“What we do know is that she’s missing. What we do know is that there has been no proof of life. And after that, we really cannot verify much more because of the information flow,” Coursen tells Stu.

“But until there is proof of life, a lot of what we are seeing should be treated more as noise and less as signal,” he adds.

And in the recent door-camera video footage released of the alleged kidnappers, Coursen tells Stu that it looks like “amateur hour.”

“Professional kidnappers control communication. They control their environment. Amateurs engage in chaos. And what I am seeing looks more and more like that of chaos than that of control,” Coursen explains.

Stu points out that at one point in the recently released footage, it appears the kidnappers are “trying to block the ring cam with plants.”

“Exactly. If you’re a professional, you have done research and planning up until that point, and then you either know that there’s a Ring camera or a Nest camera or Google camera or some kind of security deterrent, and you either go in the back door where there isn’t one, or you walk up with a spray can,” he says.

“What you don’t do is walk up and go, ‘Oh, camera. Oh, what do I do?’” he continues.

“Professionals conduct an orchestra. Amateurs bang drums.”

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A former teacher found guilty of grooming and sexually abusing two students — including a teen who impregnated her — has learned her fate.

Julie Rizzitello — who had taught at Wall High School in New Jersey — was sentenced last week for her child sex crimes against two students.

‘This is the psychological impact. This is the devastation.’

Rizzitello, 37, was sentenced to 10 years in state prison for “separately engaging in numerous sexual acts with two of her students over the course of several years,” the Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office said in a Thursday statement.

In addition, Monmouth County Superior Court Judge Jill G. O’Malley said Rizzitello must be on parole supervision for life, must register as a sex offender under Megan’s Law, must permanently forfeit her teaching position, and is barred from contact with her victims.

“These crimes were not isolated incidents constituting moments of poor judgment; they were textbook cases of grooming, involving a defendant who repeatedly leveraged tactics of isolation, manipulation, and control for the sake of her own selfish purposes,” Monmouth County Prosecutor Raymond S. Santiago said of Rizzitello.

Santiago continued, “The egregious nature of the conduct was further compounded by the plain fact that the emotional and psychological harm she inflicted came at the expense of two of the very same young minds she had been entrusted to develop and nurture.”

Wall Township Police Chief Sean O’Halloran added, “I want to commend the courage of those who came forward to report these crimes. It is never easy to speak up, especially when the offender is someone in a position of trust.”

As Blaze News reported in September, Rizzitello pleaded guilty to two counts of second-degree sexual assault. She was was arrested at her Brick Township home on July 3, 2024.

Authorities noted that Rizzitello met one victim when he was a freshman, and the other victim was a junior. Prosecutors said Rizzitello initially spent time with the students alone and developed a “friendly relationship” before it escalated into “sexual activity” that lasted for several months.

The prosecutor’s office stated, “The sexual acts with both victims took place largely in three locations: in Rizzitello’s Brick home, in a vehicle at a Wall Township parking lot, and at the Belmar bagel shop owned by Rizzitello’s family, where each victim was employed, at her suggestion.”

Investigators revealed that Rizzitello urged both victims to “delete evidence of the crimes from their personal electronic devices.”

The Asbury Park Press reported that Rizzitello told one victim she was “unable to get pregnant when she had unprotected sex with him in his family’s home on his birthday in January 2018, when Rizzitello was 29,” according to a court report the judge read during the sentencing hearing.

Judge O’Malley told the courtroom, “Weeks passed, and she wanted him to come over her house, and she wanted to get a pregnancy test. Turns out she was pregnant. And she believed it was his baby.”

O’Malley stated, “She got an abortion. And he knew this because she told him the doctor told her she was eight weeks pregnant, which aligned with them having sex on his birthday.”

The judge said the victim had been Rizzitello’s student.

O’Malley told Rizzitello, “So now not only does he have to deal with the fact that he was groomed throughout his entire high school years, that he was preyed upon by his teacher, someone he believed he loved and trusted, that he was sexually abused by this teacher, and now he’s struggling to come to terms with the fact that this individual had an abortion he wasn’t comfortable with.”

“This is the psychological impact,” the judge declared. “This is the devastation.”

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Citing criminal complaints, the Asbury Park Press reported that Rizzitello sexually assaulted a 17-year-old student multiple times between Nov. 23, 2017, and Jan. 21, 2018.

The second victim was over the age of 18 when sexually abused by Rizzitello. However, New Jersey law prohibits teachers from having sex with students who are younger than 22 years old and who haven’t received high school diplomas.

According to the Coast Star and the Ocean Star, one of the victims submitted a statement that was read during the hearing.

“I still think about how this woman was the one person I trusted with every detail in my life. … She is actually a sexual predator. At one point, I thought I was a special part of her life,” the victim wrote.

The victim said Rizzitello knew she “could control” him.

“I wish it had not happened this way. I wish it had not happened at all,” the victim said.

According to the Coast Star and the Ocean Star, Rizzitello told the judge, “What I’ve done is inexcusable; I know that.”

“I hurt my children, my family, and my friends, people who trusted me. I would do absolutely anything in the world to change my choices,” Rizzitello said in court.

According to the Asbury Park Press, Rizzitello is married with two children — ages 4 and 6.

Rizzitello’s attorney, Mitch Ansell, had asked the judge for a five-year sentence because she has no prior criminal record and because of how her prison stint would affect her children.

“We are left now with two children who are going to be without their mom, and it’s her own doing,” Ansell said, according to the Coast Star and the Ocean Star.

Ansell added, “These children didn’t ask for this, and they have to bear this incredible responsibility at a very, very young age.”

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A week after a trans-identifying man went on a rampage in Western Canada, killing six children and two adults, another man who masqueraded as a woman allegedly took aim at innocents — this time at a local skating rink in Pawtucket, Rhode Island.

Families, students, and supporters flocked to the Dennis M. Lynch Arena on Monday afternoon to watch a boys’ high school hockey game between the Blackstone Valley School and Coventry-Johnson co-op teams.

‘Do not wonder why we Go BERSERK.’

Pawtucket Mayor Donald Grebien noted that “what should have been a joyful occasion” was “instead marked by violence and fear.”

A man dressed as a woman and believed to have been in the possession of multiple weapons fatally shot two people and left another three victims in critical condition. At least two of the victims are reportedly children.

Coventry Public Schools revealed on Monday evening that all of its students present at the incident “have been accounted for and are safe.” Providence Country Day School and St. Raphael Academy also indicated their students were safe.

Arena footage shows players rushing off the ice and fans taking cover as roughly 13 gunshots ring out. The Providence Journal noted that 11 seconds after the first series of shots, a final shot can be heard.

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Police responding to a report of an active shooter around 2:30 p.m. were on the scene within a minute and a half; however, the blood-letting had apparently already come to an end. Pawtucket Police Chief Tina Goncalves indicated that “a Good Samaritan stepped in and interjected in this scene, and that’s probably what led to a swift end of this tragic event.”

The “Good Samaritan” apparently tried to “subdue” the shooter, who police said died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

Sen. Jack Reed (D-R.I.) expressed gratitude for the first responders “who rushed to assist, as well as the good Samaritan who confronted and tried to disarm the shooter.”

Goncalves identified the shooter as Robert Dorgan, 56, and indicated that “he does go by the name of Roberta, also uses the last name of Esposito.” The chief noted further that while his motive is presently unclear, “this was a targeted event” and “looked like it was a family dispute.”

A distraught woman who did not provide her name told WCVB-TV while exiting the PPD station that her father was the shooter.

“He shot my family, and he’s dead now,” said the unidentified woman, adding that the shooter “has mental health issues.”

Court records reviewed by WPRI-TV reportedly show that Dorgan complained in 2020 to the North Providence Police Department that in the wake of his sex-rejection surgery, his father-in-law was trying to kick him out of the family house where Dorgan had lived for seven years.

While the father-in-law was initially charged with intimidation of witnesses and victims of crimes and obstruction of the judicial system, the charges were later dismissed.

The same year, Dorgan accused his mother of assaulting him and acting in a “violent, threatening, or tumultuous manner.” Although his mother was charged with simple assault and battery and disorderly conduct, the case was similarly dismissed.

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Around the time of Dorgan’s dispute with his father-in-law and mother, Dorgan’s then-wife, Rhonda Dorgan, filed for divorce.

While she initially cited “gender reassignment surgery, narcissistic + personality disorder traits” as the grounds for the divorce, WPRI indicates his ex-wife replaced those reasons with “irreconcilable differences, which have caused the immediate breakdown of the marriage.”

An apparently Rhode Island-based user on X who went by “Roberta Dorgano” posted on May 9, 2019, “Transwoman, 6 kids: wife — not thrilled.”

In a recent post, the user who the New York Post suggested was Robert Dorgan, noted, “I have a beloved RHONDA.”

In response to a Feb. 14 assertion by actor Kevin Sorbo that trans-identifying Rep. Sarah McBride (D-Del.) “is a man,” the X user wrote, “Keep bashing us. but do not wonder why we Go BERSERK.”

Dorgan appears to be the latest addition to a growing list of recent trans-identifying mass shooters and would-be mass shooters.

A trans-identifying man murdered six kids and two adults in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia, on Feb. 10.A trans-identifying man shot up a Catholic church full of children in Minneapolis on Aug. 27, 2025, killing two children and injuring 30.A male-identifying woman planned to shoot up an elementary school and a high school in Maryland in April 2024 but was stopped in time by police — then later convicted.A trans-identifying teen stalked the halls of a school in Perry, Iowa, on Jan. 4, 2024, ultimately murdering a child and an adult and wounding several others.A trans-identifying woman stormed into a Presbyterian school in Nashville on March 27, 2023, murdering three children and three adults.

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