Savannah Guthrie and the family do not blame the disappearance of the mother: the sheriff
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Nancy Guthrie’s family has been cleared as suspects in her kidnapping, Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos said Monday, as the case involves the child’s mother. Today hosted by Savannah Guthrie entered week three.
Guthrie’s family, which includes “all the siblings and their spouses,” has been cooperative and kind as authorities investigate the kidnapping, Nanos said.
“To suggest otherwise is not only unfair, it is cruel,” he said in a statement. “The Guthrie family are easy and simple targets.”
Investigators on Sunday said they found a DNA sample on a glove found near the Arizona home of Nancy Guthrie, 84, and it appears to match a pair worn by a masked man seen on doorbell camera footage before he was abducted two weeks ago.
He was last seen on Jan. 31, when the family dropped him off at his home near Tucson after finishing dinner with them, and relatives reported him missing the next day, authorities said.
A glove with DNA was found three miles from Nancy Guthrie’s home. It looks like a glove worn by someone seen outside Guthrie’s home in Tucson, Ariz., the night she disappeared. Her daughter Savannah Guthrie, the host of NBC’s Today show, has released a new video pleading for her mother, who has been missing for two weeks.
Nanos said the elder Guthrie was physically unable to walk and would not have been able to leave his home unassisted, leading investigators to quickly conclude that he was taken against his will.
At least two so-called ransom notes have since disappeared, both of which were brought to the media. But there has never been any known direct contact between Guthrie’s captors and his family, or with the authorities.
Traces of blood found on the front porch were confirmed by DNA testing to be from Nancy Guthrie, officials said last week.
Law enforcement and family members described him as frail and in need of daily medication to survive. He had a pacemaker.
New video released by the FBI shows a masked man with a gun seen outside Nancy Guthrie’s door on February 1, the day authorities believe she was kidnapped.
Savannah Guthrie, 54, co-anchor of the popular NBC News morning show Todaysent several video messages, along with his brother Cameron Guthrie and sister Annie Guthrie, pleading for their mother’s return and asking for the public’s help in solving the case.
Nanos told Reuters that no evidence of life had come to light since her abduction, but added that “there is no evidence that she is dead,” adding that he thought Nancy Guthrie was still alive.
