New photos have been recovered from cameras at Nancy Guthrie’s Arizona home as the local sheriff warns that her kidnapping suspect could “absolutely” strike again.
The 84-year-old mother of Today show star Savannah Guthrie has been missing for more than 40 days and authorities are yet to publicly identify the man they believe abducted her from her home in the affluent Catalina Foothills neighborhood, just outside of Tucson, in the early morning hours of February 1.
Early in the investigation, authorities released video of the armed suspect, appearing to tamper with Nancy’s front doorbell camera the day of her disappearance. Now, several outlets report that new photos have been recovered as authorities try to piece together what happened to Nancy and where she may be.
ABC News reported Friday, citing unnamed sources familiar with the matter, that the new photos were taken from motion-activated cameras pointed at Nancy’s swimming pool, backyard and side yard before the suspected abduction. People were seen in the back and side yards, but nothing was deemed suspicious, according to the sources.
The cameras didn’t catch anything the day Nancy was believed to be taken from her home as she slept, which one source told ABC News was “odd.”
Fox News later reported, citing a law enforcement official, the FBI does not plan to release the new photos yet.
In a statement shared with The Independent Friday, the Pima County Sheriff’s Department said it “continues to analyze various forms of evidence in the Nancy Guthrie case, including material from laboratories as well as images and videos captured by cameras.” The department would not comment further on the analysis.
The FBI’s Phoenix field office told The Independent it “does not comment on ongoing investigations.”
Also Friday, NBC News correspondent Liz Kreutz asked Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos on the Today show whether he believes Nancy’s suspected kidnapper could “strike again.”
“Well, absolutely, absolutely,” he said. “I mean, criminal minds are criminal minds.”
Nanos said authorities believe they know the suspect’s motive but wouldn’t share details.
“We believe we know why he did this, and we believe that it was targeted, but we can’t — we’re not 100 percent sure of that, and so it’d be silly to tell people, ‘Yeah, don’t worry about it. You’re not his target.’ No, you could be,” Nanos warned.
The sheriff said authorities are also looking into a possible internet disruption the day Nancy vanished, telling Kreutz, “There was a timeline when things went offline. So we’re looking into that. Why did that occur? We checked with our power companies. We checked with others in the neighborhood.”
In addition to the combined $200,000 reward the FBI and local officials are offering for valuable information in Nancy’s case, the Guthrie family is offering $1 million to bring her home.
In an Instagram video posted February 24, a visibly emotional Savannah acknowledged that her mother may not still be alive, but said, “We still believe that she can come home.”
Savannah’s last post was on March 2. She shared a photo of yellow flowers at a makeshift memorial outside her mother’s home and wrote, “We feel the love and prayers from our neighbors, from the Tucson community and from around the country.”
“Please don’t stop praying and hoping with us,” the Today show star wrote. “Bring her home.”
