Nancy Guthrie Case: Law Enforcement Working on Description of Masked Person
Law enforcement is working on an official description of the masked subject seen outside Nancy Guthrie’s home on the morning of her disappearance, Fox News Digital reports.
Newsweek reached out to the Pima County Sheriff’s Department via email Wednesday night for comment.
Why It Matters
Nancy Guthrie, the 84-year-old mother of NBC Today show co-anchor Savannah Guthrie, has been missing for 11 days. The disappearance and search have since sparked nationwide attention. Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos said items at the scene indicated Nancy did not leave “on her own.”
What To Know
Fox News Digital reports that law enforcement is working on an official description of the person captured on recovered video by Guthrie’s Nest camera. There is no guarantee or timeline for release of the description, Fox News Digital notes.
The update comes one day after the FBI publicized images and videos obtained from Guthrie’s doorbell camera showing a masked subject with a holstered handgun at her front door. The person was also seen wearing gloves and a backpack.
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Investigators on Wednesday recovered a black glove about 1 1/2 miles from Nancy’s home, the New York Post reports.
Law enforcement also detained an individual Tuesday night in connection with Guthrie’s disappearance and searched a home in Rio Rico, Arizona, CNN reported, citing the sheriff’s department. The man, identified as delivery driver Carlos Palazuelos, was cleared of any wrongdoing and released, multiple media outlets reported.
The FBI on Wednesday morning conducted an “extensive search” along roads in the Catalina Foothills vicinity related to Guthrie’s disappearance.
In this pH๏τo illustration, the person seen on Nancy Guthrie’s doorbell camera is shown on FBI Director Kash Patel’s X account on a cellphone Tuesday …
What People Are Saying
Democratic U.S. Senator Mark Kelly of Arizona, to local news station KGUN on Wednesday: “They now have I think over 15,000 phone calls that have come in, you know, leads. Some of them have been ᴅᴇᴀᴅ ends. I think the guy in Rio Rico is an example of that. But you can feel how they’re, you know, desperate. We’re in 11 days. She’s elderly. She has health problems. You know, Gabby and I, you know, we live there in Tucson. We live, you know, pretty, pretty close by, probably about five miles away. And we’re, you know, praying for, you know, for Savannah’s mom, for Nancy Guthrie.”
Savannah Guthrie’s husband, Michael Feldman, on Instagram Tuesday, while posting a video of the subject seen outside Nancy’s home: “Someone out there may recognize this person. Please help us. Bring her home.”
