Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos provided a hopeful update in the ongoing search for Nancy Guthrie. He heads a team of hundreds, including members of his own department as well as FBI agents, who are working hard to find Nancy, the mother of Today host Savannah Guthrie. The 84-year-old was first reported missing over two weeks ago.
On February 10, the FBI released video footage taken from a Nest camera on Nancy’s porch, which shows a masked, armed intruder approaching her door and tampering with the camera. Digital forensics, like this video, may be crucial in identifying Nancy’s kidnapper and bringing the mother-of-three home.
Nanos compared the “hard” technological process of uncovering new information to that of “scratching through layers.”
“Think of it like you have eight layers of paint on your house,” he explained, “They want to go to the sixth or seventh layer and they have to be very delicate about it not to destroy what’s there.”
He hopes that the experts are able to “scrape” a camera shot from the driveway that would help to identify a vehicle.
“Because, my goodness, you can’t put a mask on a vehicle, right?” said Nanos.
The sheriff still believes that Nancy’s disappearance is a kidnapping, not a robbery gone wrong. However, he admitted to being “stuck” on the particular motivation for the abduction.
“We had the one demand where they asked for money, but is it really for money? Or, is it for revenge for something?” he questioned.
An initial ransom letter sent to media outlets demanded millions of dollars in Bitcoin.
On February 11, detectives discovered a black glove roughly two miles from Nancy’s home. The outerwear resembles what was worn by the intruder in the chilling video from her porch camera. The glove is currently undergoing DNA testing.
Nanos expressed confidence that someone out there knows who the masked subject in the video is.
“I believe somebody out there can look at that video and go, ‘I know exactly who that is,’” he said. He added that his “plea” is for a community member to help identify the suspect.
He compared the search for Nancy’s captor to that of the Unabomber, saying that “they were found out because somebody in the community, somebody, a family member, a neighbor, called and said, ‘I think I know who did this.’”
After demanding that the abductors “Let her go,” Nanos ended his interview with a pointed, heartfelt message to Nancy herself, saying that “We’re not giving up on you. We’re gonna find you.”
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