Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos has ruled the children of Nancy Guthrie and all of their spouses out as suspects in the disappearance of the 84-year-old woman, calling anyone who suggests otherwise “cruel” and clarifying the Guthrie family members are “victims plain and simple.”
Key Takeaways
- Nanos, who has spearheaded the search since Gutherie was purportedly kidnapped from her Arizona home more than two weeks ago, issued the statement Monday saying the Guthries have been “nothing but cooperative and gracious and are victims in this case.”
- Guthrie is the mother of “Today” show anchor Savannah Guthrie and two other children who have repeatedly come together to make pleas for help to the public and urged anyone who may have been involved in their mother’s disappearance to return her.
- Savannah Guthrie and her siblings, Annie and Camron, are the first people to have been ruled out as involved in the kidnapping in a case that has so far yielded no arrests despite the execution of several search searches, SWAT raids and over 30,000 tips.
Tangent
President Donald Trump in an interview with the New York Post on Monday threatened Guthrie’s kidnappers with the death penalty if she is not returned to her family alive after previously vowing to deploy “all resources to get (Savannah’s) mother home safely.”
Key Background
Nancy Guthrie was last seen on Jan. 31 at her home and reported missing by her family the next day after she no-showed a planned meeting with a friend. Guthrie, who has limited mobility and requires daily medication, was likely taken from her home in the early hours of Feb. 1, police have said. Authorities have analyzed footage from Guthrie’s doorbell camera, which was disconnected at around 2 a.m. on the night she disappeared, and released photos of a possible suspect, described as a man who is about 5’9” to 5’10” tall with an average build. The suspect was wearing a ski mask and a black Ozark Trail Hiker backpack, and was armed. The Guthrie family has posted multiple videos to social media pleading for Nancy’s return, including one offering to pay a ransom and another suggesting they’d been contacted by the kidnapper, though no such details have been confirmed by law enforcement. On Sunday, the FBI said agents found a glove about two miles from Guthrie’s home that matches the ones worn by the suspect in the doorbell camera footage. The glove contained DNA and is being tested. That same night, Guthrie posted a video telling her abductors it is “never too late to do the right thing.”
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