Nancy Guthrie’s neighbor noticed a “suspicious” man walk by her home two weeks before the 84-year-old was believed to have been abducted, according to a new report.
The elderly mother of Today show star Savannah Guthrie has been missing for more than three weeks after police suspect she was taken from her home in the Catalina Foothills outside of Tucson, Arizona, as she slept in the early morning hours of February 1.
Authorities are yet to identify the suspected kidnapper publicly, but have shared video of a masked armed man appearing to tamper with Nancy’s doorbell camera the morning she vanished.
Aldine Meister, who has lived in Nancy’s affluent neighborhood for nearly 30 years, told Fox News Digital about a young man the publication called “suspicious.”
“He didn’t have your typical walking gear on, and he had his hat pulled really far over his eyes,” Meister said of the man she claims she saw walking in the neighborhood, near an intersection leading to Nancy’s home.
Meister said of the man, “He was kind of younger, and he just didn’t look like he was going out for a walk,” adding, “He just didn’t fit.”
Nancy’s neighbor couldn’t pinpoint the exact day she saw the mysterious man. She said she alerted the authorities about him after Nancy vanished.
There has been speculation as to whether Nancy’s suspected kidnapper showed up at her house before the day she disappeared.
In most photos of the suspect shared by authorities, he is wearing a backpack. ABC News reported Monday, citing sources familiar with the investigation, one of the images, which showed the suspect without a backpack, was taken on another day before the alleged abduction.
But the Pima County Sheriff’s Department said in a statement shared with The Independent Monday night, “There is no date or time stamp associated with these images. Therefore, any suggestion that the photographs were taken on different days is purely speculative.”
Authorities are desperate to find Nancy, increasing the reward for valuable information in her case to $200,000 between the FBI and local officials.
The Guthrie family has also offered a $1 million reward for Nancy to be brought home.
“Every hour and minute and second and every long night has been agony,” Savannah said in an Instagram video Tuesday. “We need to know where she is. We need her to come home.”
The visibly emotional TV journalist acknowledged that her beloved mother may already be gone but said she and her family “still believe in a miracle.”
