Disturbing new surveillance camera details have emerged that could explain how Nancy Guthrie’s abductor fled her Arizona home without a trace.
Investigators are looking to identify a truck that may be connected to Nancy’s abduction, but Fox News has since revealed that cameras in the Tucson area may not have ever captured the vehicle.
The City of Tucson and Arizona Department of Transportation both have traffic cameras in the area around Nancy’s home, but officials claim those devices do not record cars.
Pima County does have cameras that record, but officials note they are imperfect and may not actually capture license plate details.
Investigators have asked neighbors and local businesses to turn over their personal surveillance footage to police.
Meanwhile, Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos has made another flip-flopping evidence confession, now claiming investigators did not recover a glove from Nancy’s property.
‘We have no glove. We never found a glove on that property,’ he told Fox News correspondent Matt Finn on Friday.
Savannah Guthrie and mother Nancy Guthrie, who has been missing since February 1
It has since emerged that the cameras near Nancy Guthrie’s street, pictured, may not have actually recorded her abductor’s vehicle coming and going
It comes after Reuters reported Thursday that Nanos blocked the FBI from examining a glove and DNA that were found inside the residence so they could be processed at the FBI’s national crime lab at Quantico, Virginia.
Nanos denied the request, instead sending the evidence for testing at a private DNA lab in Florida, a law enforcement source told the outlet.
The sheriff was accused of ‘further slowing’ the case by not utilizing federal resources, as well as prolonging the ‘Guthrie family’s grief and the community’s wait for justice’.
But Nanos has hit back at the allegations that he blocked the FBI from accessing evidence, telling KVOA that is ‘not even close to the truth’.
‘Actually, the FBI just wanted to send the one or two they found by the crime scene, closest to it – mile, mile and a half… I said “No, why do that? Let’s just send them all to where all the DNA exist, all the profiles and the markers exist.” They agreed, makes sense,’ he told the news outlet Thursday night.
The sheriff, during his Thursday night remarks, claimed ‘quite a number’ of gloves were recovered during the search.
‘We don’t even know the true value of these gloves,’ he added.
The FBI has already analyzed the videos from Nancy’s doorbell camera, which gives close-up view of the suspect trying to cover the camera – first with a gloved hand and then with part of a plant ripped from the yard.
A chilling masked figure was seen outside Nancy Guthrie’s home the night she went missing
Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos has made another flip-flopping evidence confession, now claiming investigators did not recover a glove from Nancy’s property
Nanos has been condemned for failing to find Nancy, 84, after she vanished from her $1 million Tucson home 12 days ago.
He has also come under scrutiny amid the ongoing investigation – including from sources within his own department who alleged he made a series of missteps that slowed the search in its crucial first hours.
Federal and local officers have been going door-to-door in Tucson neighborhoods around Nancy’s house while also looking for clues around her daughter Annie’s nearby home, which she had visited just hours before disappearing.
Investigators have recovered and are analyzing several pieces of evidence.
Authorities on Thursday briefly put up a tent in front of Nancy’s entryway where her blood was discovered in the early days of the investigation, and where a doorbell camera captured images of a masked person the night she went missing.
FBI and SWAT teams also swarmed the brush around the home of Nancy’s daughter Annie Guthrie and her husband Tommaso Cioni on Tuesday night, despite investigators having previously searched it.
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