The FBI on Tuesday released new photos of what the agency director described as “an armed man seen tampering with a camera at Nancy Guthrie’s front door this morning.” disappear”.
FBI Director Kash Patel posted the images on social media as the search for Guthrie, 84, continued into its second week, saying the images were “previously inaccessible” but were obtained from “residual data contained in back-end systems.”
Black and white Pictures Depict a masked man with gloves and a backpack approaching the door of the Guthrie home. In one of the images, the person waves what appears to be a plant — and in another, they begin to disassemble the Nest camera.
“Working with our partners [Tuesday] In the morning, law enforcement discovered new, previously inaccessible images showing an armed man tampering with a camera … Guthrie’s front door the morning of her disappearance,” Patel wrote in Ex.
Broadcast journalist Savannah Guthrie, the host of NBC’s Today and Nancy’s daughter, had earlier issued a desperate plea for anyone with knowledge of her missing mother to contact law enforcement.
“We are in an hour of desperation,” Guthrie said. “And we need your help,” Guthrie said.
A day after a deadline set by a ransom note from the octogenarian’s would-be kidnappers passed, the FBI has yet to identify a suspect.
Guthrie’s family said Sunday that they would pay the kidnappers to ensure her safe return home. Officials have not confirmed the genuineness of this ransom demand.
Efforts to contact the kidnappers appear to have dropped, with officials saying Monday night that they “are not aware of any ongoing communication between the Guthrie family and the suspected kidnappers, nor have we identified a suspect or person of interest in this case at this time.”
The FBI said the agency is sending more agents from field offices in the US to Guthrie’s hometown of Tuscany. Arizonaoutside of which her blood was found.
“We currently operate a 24-hour command post that includes crisis management specialists, analytical support and investigative teams. But we still need the public’s help,” NBC News said. Quoted The FBI said. “Someone has information that could help us bring Nancy home. We need that person to share what they know. Please call us at 1-800-CALL-FBI.”
Separately, the Guthrie family’s pastor, Michael Rudzena, described Nancy on television as a “strong woman” and “deeply loving.”
“Prayer opens possibilities in our own hearts,” he said Said today “Keeping a door open to hope is one way to fight that fatalism.”
Authorities believe Nancy Guthrie was taken from her home around February 1st.
One roadblock in the search for Guthrie is that someone disconnected her doorbell camera when she disappeared, they said. And because she was not actively subscribed to the doorbell camera service provider, they said they were unable to get the pictures right away.
