A ‘forensic tent’ has reportedly been seen near the pensioner’s home(Image: savannahguthrie/Instagram)
A forensic tent has reportedly been seen less than two miles from the home of a missing TV host’s mum. Nancy Guthrie, 84 disappeared from her Arizona home in the early hours of February 1.
Earlier this morning a SWAT team was seen at a residence near E Orange Grove Rd & N First Ave related to the investigation into the pensioner’s disappearance, Pima County Sheriff’s Department said in a post on X.
“Because this is a joint investigation, at the request of the FBI – no additional information is currently available,” the department said.
The news comes after the FBI shared new information about the man caught on Nancy’s surveillance camera almost two weeks after she vanished.
A reward of $100,000 for information on her whereabouts or the suspect has been offered. Meanwhile, Nancy’s daughter, journalist Savannah Guthrie, has been pleading for her safe return.
“I wanted to share my thoughts as we enter into another week in this nightmare. Thank you so much for the prayers and the love we have felt, my sister and brother and I,” Savannah said in a video.
“She was taken and we don’t know where… We need your help. No matter where you are, even if you are from Tucson… We are at an hour of desperation.”
She added: “Because we believe that somehow, some way, she is feeling these prayers, and that God is lifting her in this moment and in this darkest place. We need your help, law enforcement is working round the clock tirelessly to try to find you.”
The FBI this week shared chilling surveillance footage from the night she disappeared, which shows a masked man wearing thick gloves try to obscure a Nest doorbell camera on Nancy’s front porch.
Federal authorities now say the suspect is a male, described as approximately five-foot-nine-inches to five-foot-ten-inches with an average build. The man on the footage is seen wearing a black, 25-liter Ozark Trail Hiker Pack backpack at the time.
Since February 1, the FBI has collected over 13,000 tips from the public related to this case. Federal authorities said Threat Intake Examiners at the National Threat Operations Center (NTOC) and FBI personnel are supporting a 24-hour command post in which agents and investigators are assigned leads and tips to action each shift.
Anyone who provides tips that lead to Guthrie’s location or the arrest and conviction of anyone involved in her abduction can now receive a $100,000 reward, an increase from the $50,000 reward the bureau was previously offering, FBI Phoenix said in a post on X.
The Pima County Sheriff’s Department is also expanding its request for security video from Nancy’s neighbors in the Catalina Foothills. People have been asked to check for any video taken from 9pm to midnight on January 11, nearly three weeks before Nancy went missing.
The department has also requested footage from 9.30am to 11am on January 31, hours before Nancy’s abduction, saying a suspicious vehicle was spotted in the area around the time.
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