FBI releases suspect description, new information on Nancy Guthrie’s disappearance
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Arizona investigators are asking residents near Nancy Guthrie’s home to share surveillance camera footage of suspicious vehicles or people they may have seen in the month before she disappeared.
The warning went out within three kilometers of the areas near where the mother of Today Show host Savannah Guthrie has been missing for the past 12 days, the Pima County Sheriff’s Department said Thursday.
It has requested video of “anything neighbors consider out of the ordinary or relevant to our investigation” since early January.
State and local officials have been going door-to-door in the Tucson area near the home of Nancy Guthrie, 84, as they look for clues about her daughter’s nearby home, which she visited hours before she disappeared.
Investigators have recovered and are analyzing more evidence, including the gloves, the sheriff’s department said.
The prize for knowledge has increased
On Thursday authorities set up a tent in front of Nancy Guthrie’s front door where her blood was found in the early days of the investigation, and where a door camera captured images of a masked man the night she went missing. The FBI released a description of the man on Thursday, now calling him a suspect, in a post on X.
The document describes the suspect as a 5-foot-9-inch or 5-foot-10-inch man with a medium build, and includes photos from multiple angles of a black, 25-liter “Ozark Trail Hiker Pack” backpack, which the agency said was the make and model the suspect was wearing.
“We hope this updated description will help focus the public’s tips we receive,” the FBI said, noting that it has received thousands of tips since Nancy Guthrie’s disappearance.
FBI Phoenix also announced that it has increased its reward to $100,000 US for information on Guthrie’s disappearance.
In two videos released by the FBI on Tuesday, a masked man who appears to be armed is seen tampering with a doorbell camera at the home of Nancy Guthrie, the 84-year-old mother of Today show host Savannah Guthrie who is believed to have been kidnapped ten days ago. FBI Director Kash Patel wrote in the X post accompanying the photo that it was taken the morning of her disappearance.
Authorities said Guthrie was taken against her will. She has been missing since February 1st, and authorities say she is on a lot of medication and there are concerns she could die without it.
While much of the nation is still reeling from the mysterious disappearance, Savannah Guthrie on Thursday shared on Instagram a home video of her mother with her two children, sharing pink flowers. “We will never leave him, thank you for your prayers and hope,” he wrote.
On Wednesday, FBI agents carrying bottles of water to beat the desert heat walked among the rocks and vegetation at Nancy Guthrie’s home. They also ventured out into the surrounding area, knocking on doors and searching the brush and rocks.
“They were asking the usual questions, wondering if there was anything, any information we could get out about the Nancy Guthrie case. We wanted to look at the whole place and after that, the cameras and stuff,” Ann Adams, a neighbor of Nancy Guthrie’s oldest daughter, Annie Guthrie, told The Associated Press on Wednesday.
“They asked directly that it would be on the 31st of January and the first day of February, and they wanted to know if there was anything suspicious that we had seen on the cameras since then,” said Adams.
Two investigators came out of daughter Annie Guthrie’s home Wednesday carrying a paper grocery bag and a white trash bag. Another, still wearing blue protective gloves, also took a stack of mail from a mailbox on the side of the road.
Adams said he was out walking his dog earlier this week when, “it started to get busy and then I heard that they were searching, I looked down the road, and I saw them moving this way and that.”
Savannah Guthrie and her two siblings expressed willingness to pay the ransom. But it is not known whether the ransom notes demanding money with past due dates were genuine.
