Investigators searching for Nancy Guthrie are reportedly zeroing in on evidence from two specific dates in the days before she vanished – suggesting her kidnappers may have been casing out her Arizona home for weeks before the crime.
The FBI has been asking the 84-year-old’s Tucson neighbors for any home security footage that may have from Jan. 11 and Jan. 24, NewNation’s Brian Entin reported.
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Agents were adamant about those dates as spoke with neighbors about the disappearance, and even watched over shoulders as the neighbors scanned through their archives for the footage, according to Entin.
Nancy vanished from her home on Feb. 1 – with investigators’ interest in Jan. 11 and 24 suggesting her captors may have been in the neighborhood at least twice before the kidnapping.
The news also suggests that the FBI is retracing the steps of the Pima County Sheriff’s Department, which is accused of botching the investigation.
Nancy – mother of “TODAY” show host Savannah Guthrie — has been missing for six weeks, with next to no known breaks in the case so far or indication that police are any closer to finding her than they were the day she vanished.
The strongest lead came from Nancy’s own home NEST security footage, which captured a masked man carrying a pistol while trying to break into her house on the night she vanished.
But nobody has been identified as that suspect. Several people were detained, but each was cut loose after questioning.
And that footage had to be wrestled from the bowels of Google’s databases, because Nancy had not paid the subscription for her Nest camera system.
Other neighbors have also released their own home security footage, with clips from the night Nancy disappeared showing various cars prowling the dark neighborhood streets.
And other clips from the surrounding miles in the preceding days have captured various people apparently attempting to break into homes, though it remains unclear whether any of them have to do with Nancy’s case.
Nancy was last seen after having dinner with her daughter and son-in-law, who dropped her off at home and watched her safely enter the house.
But she failed to arrive at a friend’s house to watch their church’s livestream the next day, and police were quickly notified.
Signs of a struggle were found at her home, while drops of blood were found splattered across her front steps.
The suspect footage – and her pacemaker disconnecting from her phone, which was left behind – suggested Nancy was taken some time soon after 2 a.m.
