Nancy Guthrie has been missing for almost a month, and as fears increase that police may never find the 84-year-old, people have taken matters into their own hands to try to solve the case. That includes accusing one man in Arizona of abducting her. However, they got it all wrong - at least that is what the guy is insisting now. Dominic Evans, a 48-year-old elementary school teacher, opened up to The New York Times on Wednesday about the hell he has been going through because internet sleuths think he took Savannah Guthrie's mother from her home on February 1. Their reasoning? When Evans is not teaching, he plays in a band called Early Black with Nancy's son-in-law, Tommaso Cioni, who was also a target of online speculation after newscaster Ashleigh Banfield claimed she heard from a trusted law enforcement source that he was possibly a "prime suspect" in her disappearance. (Sheriff Chris Nanos has since officially ruled out the Guthrie family as suspects, FYI.) Related: Why Savannah Was Warned AGAINST Offering $1 Million Reward Coupled with his 1999 arrest for drunkenly taking a calculator and a watch while at a bar, along with other supposed clues, some people started digging and automatically assumed that Evans was guilty. But again, here's the thing: the police have not named him as a suspect, though. In fact, he spoke to law enforcement once weeks ago in the wake of her disappearance and has not heard from them since. However, that doesn't matter to those internet sleuths. They think he did it, and they have apparently made his life a nightmare ever since, according to Evans. He told The New York Times that he feels "like someone's taken my name," and he doesn't know why. Evans continued: "I don't know - monetary, clickbait, to be relevant, entertainment - but there are innocent people that get hurt." The teacher explained that he only met Nancy once after joining the band with Tommaso in 2007. It was four years later when Evans brought his oldest son to hunt for Easter eggs at her house. Flash forward to February 1, and he and his wife, Andrea, were putting their two younger sons to bed in separate rooms. While lying with one son until he fell asleep, Andrea saw that Nancy was reported missing on Instagram and texted her husband. Evans said he sent a message of support to Tommaso afterward. And within days, the two men began to face allegations that they kidnapped Nancy. Like we said, people first found out Evans was previously convicted of drunk driving and the bar incident, for which he reportedly served a year and a half on probation. Then, police released footage of Nancy's doorbell camera on February 10, and social media users started to speculate that the man wearing a mask and carrying a pistol in the picture was Evans. They went as far as to post side-by-side images of him online, comparing their eyes, brows, and lashes, and they thought they got a match. Evans told the outlet that eventually, several people showed up outside his home on the same day when the Pima County Sheriff's Office had dispatched a SWAT team on an unrelated search for Guthrie. Those people, Evans said, assumed that's where the SWAT team was heading, and that he was somehow involved. But... he wasn't. At all. In reality, the SWAT unit was sent to a home half an hour away from his. About that, Evans said: "This one felt really, really, really scary, because it was like everyone was waiting for someone to come to our house." So scary... BTW, Sheriff Nanos also spoke about Evan's experiences. He told the outlet: "He's going through hell, and it is horrible. And I don't know what to tell him except he probably should be speaking with some attorneys and sue some of these people for libel." Seriously. We can't even imagine going through something like this - certainly not as a member of the Guthrie family, but also not as a random bystander who has absolutely nothing to do with any of this but now suddenly has their lives overturned. Ugh. Savannah Guthrie and her family are offering up to $1 million for information that leads to the recovery of Nancy Guthrie. NOTE: The family reward of up to $1 million will be paid only for recovery of Nancy Guthrie, consistent with FBI criteria for payment of its reward in this case: https://www.fbi.gov/wanted/kidnap/nancy-guthrie. Authorities have encouraged anyone with information or tips to contact the FBI at 1-800-CALL-FBI, 88-CRIME or tips.fbi.gov. You can also contact the Pima County Sheriff's office by calling 520-351-4900 or submitting a tip HERE. [Image via Savannah Guthrie/Instagram/CNN/YouTube] The post Nancy Guthrie's Son-In-Law's Bandmate Speaks Out After Sleuths Accuse Him Of The Kidnapping -- And Sheriff Reacts! appeared first on Perez Hilton.