FBI releases suspect description, new particulars in Nancy Guthrie disappearance

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Investigators in Arizona need residents close to Nancy Guthrie's house to share surveillance digital camera footage of suspicious automobiles or folks they could have observed within the month earlier than she disappeared.

The alert went throughout a three-kilometre radius in neighbourhoods near the place the mom of Right now present host Savannah Guthrie went lacking 12 days in the past, the Pima County Sheriff's Division mentioned Thursday.

It requested for video of "something neighbours deem out of the bizarre or vital to our investigation" because the starting of January.

Federal and native officers have been going door-to-door in Tucson neighbourhoods round 84-year-old Nancy Guthrie's home whereas additionally searching for clues round her different daughter's close by house, which she had visited simply hours earlier than disappearing.

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Reward for info elevated Authorities on Thursday briefly put up a tent in entrance of Nancy Guthrie's entryway the place her blood was found within the early days of the investigation, and the place a doorbell digital camera captured photos of a masked particular person the evening she went lacking. The FBI launched descriptors of that particular person Thursday, whom it now calls a suspect, in a submit on X.

The submit describes the suspect as a 5-foot-9-inch or 5-foot-10-inch male with a mean construct, and included images from a number of angles of a black, 25-litre "Ozark Path Hiker Pack" backpack, which the company mentioned is the model and mannequin the suspect was sporting.

"We hope this up to date description will assist focus the general public suggestions we're receiving," the FBI mentioned, noting it has obtained 1000's of suggestions since Nancy Guthrie's disappearance.

FBI Phoenix additionally introduced it has hiked its reward to $100,000 US for info on Guthrie's disappearance.

WATCH | Surveillance digital camera footage launched earlier this week: Nancy Guthrie doorbell footage exhibits masked particular person at door

In two movies launched by the FBI on Tuesday, a masked one who appears to be like to be armed seems to tamper with the doorbell digital camera on the house of Nancy Guthrie, the 84-year-old mom of Right now present host Savannah Guthrie who's presumed to have been kidnapped about 10 days in the past. FBI director Kash Patel wrote in an X submit accompanying the footage that it was taken the morning of her disappearance. Authorities have mentioned Guthrie was taken in opposition to her will. She's been lacking since Feb. 1, and authorities say she takes a number of medicines and there is concern she might die with out them.

Whereas a lot of the nation stays engrossed by the mysterious disappearance, Savannah Guthrie on Thursday shared on Instagram a classic house video of her mother with two youngsters, sharing pink flowers. "We'll by no means quit on her. Thanks in your prayers and hope," she wrote.

On Wednesday, FBI brokers carrying water bottles to beat the desert warmth walked amongst rocks and vegetation at Nancy Guthrie's house. In addition they fanned out throughout a close-by neighbourhood, knocking on doorways and looking out by brush and boulders.

"They had been simply asking some normal questions, questioning if there was something, any info we might shed on the Nancy Guthrie problem. Needed to go searching the property and after that, cameras and such," Ann Adams, a neighbour of Nancy Guthrie's oldest daughter, Annie Guthrie, informed The Related Press on Wednesday.

"They did ask particularly for the thirty first of January and the morning of the primary of February, after which they wished to know if we noticed something suspicious on cameras since then," Adams mentioned.

Two investigators emerged from daughter Annie Guthrie's house Wednesday with a paper grocery sack and a white trash bag. One, nonetheless sporting blue protecting gloves, additionally took a stack of mail from the roadside mailbox.

Adams mentioned she was out strolling her canine earlier this week when, "it began to get actually busy after which I heard about them looking out, appeared down the road, I noticed them slowly transferring this fashion."

Savannah Guthrie and her two siblings have indicated a willingness to pay a ransom. But it surely's not recognized whether or not ransom notes demanding cash with deadlines which have already handed had been genuine.