Nancy Guthrie cops reveal clothes worn by doorbell cam suspect were bought at Walmart as investigators ‘lean away’ from family involvement: Live updates
Nancy Guthrie cops reveal clothes worn by doorbell cam suspect were bought at Walmart as investigators ‘lean away’ from family involvement: Live updates
Investigators are honing in on the clothing worn by Nancy Guthrie’s alleged captor as they ‘lean away’ from any of her family members as suspects, while the search for the 84-year-old enters its third week.
Savannah Guthrie’s mother was abducted from her $1 million Tucson, Arizona home in the early hours of February 1.
Police are hunting for the man seen in chilling footage tampering with Nancy’s doorbell camera shortly before it was disconnected on the night she disappeared.
Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos told CBS News that the clothing and face mask worn by the suspect seen in the chilling doorbell footage were purchased at Walmart.
It comes as investigators are testing DNA from a pair of gloves that appear to match the ones the unidentified masked captor was wearing in the doorbell video captured at Nancy’s front porch.
Nearly 16 gloves were collected near her home, and most of them were used and discarded by searchers at the site, the FBI told the Daily Mail.
Meanwhile, NBC reporter Liz Kreutz said on Monday morning that investigators are ‘leaning away’ from any of Nancy’s family members as suspects, after online speculation stirred about Savannah’s sister, Annie, and her brother-in-law, Tommaso Cioni, who were the last to see Nancy.
Follow along for more details as the investigation unfolds.
Clothes worn by doorbell cam suspect were bought at Walmart, sheriff says
Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos told CBS News that the clothing and face mask worn by the suspect seen in the chilling doorbell footage were purchased at Walmart.
The suspect’s backpack was also identified as a black Ozark Trail Hiker, which is exclusively sold at Walmart.
Nanos said it is unclear whether the items were purchased in-store or online, and investigators are combing through surveillance footage from local Walmart stores.
Walmart has reportedly provided investigators with records of all Ozark Trail Hiker online and in-store purchases over the past several months, including sales beyond the Tucson area.
Savannah Guthrie pleads with captors to ‘do the right thing’
Today show host Savannah Guthrie pleaded with her mother’s captors to ‘do the right thing’ and return the 84-year-old woman two weeks after she went missing.
In a somber video message on Sunday, Guthrie said she and her two siblings, Camron and Annie, ‘still have hope’ and that their mother Nancy is alive and ‘still believe’ she will be returned to them.
‘And I wanted to say to whoever has her or knows where she is that it’s never too late, and you’re not lost or alone, and it is never too late to do the right thing,’ the television host said on Instagram.
‘We are here and we believe, and we believe in the essential goodness of every human being, and it’s never too late,’ she concluded the video, which she captioned ‘bring her home.’
Sheriff disputes claims Nancy vanished after ‘burglary gone wrong’ in Daily Mail chat
Sheriff Chris Nanos told Daily Mail he does not believe Nancy Guthrie’s disappearance was a ‘burglary gone wrong.’
‘This is somebody who’s disappeared from the face of the earth, and now we have a camera that says here’s the person who did this,’ he said.
‘And that’s what makes me say this is a kidnapping. The motivation for it is where we get stuck, right? Is it for money? I mean, we had the one demand where they asked for money. But is it really for money, or is it for revenge for something?’
Investigators ‘leaning away’ from family members
Nancy Guthrie investigators are ‘leaning away’ from any of her family members as the hunt for the missing 84-year-old continues, NBC Today has revealed.
The update was shared on Savannah Guthrie’s own TV show by reporter Liz Kreutz on Monday morning, after online speculation about Savannah’s sister Annie and her brother-in-law Tommaso Cioni, who were the last to see Nancy.
Kreutz said two law enforcement sources had told her that the probe was ‘leaning away’ from a Tucson family whose house was raided by SWAT on Friday and from the driver of a Range Rover stopped by the FBI the same evening.
She added: ‘Those same officials say investigators are also leaning away from any of Nancy’s relatives as potential suspects.’
Nancy’s daughter Annie Guthrie and son-in-law Tommaso Cioni were among the last people to see her before she vanished from her $1 million home.
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Nancy Guthrie cops reveal clothes worn by doorbell cam suspect were bought at Walmart as investigators ‘lean away’ from family involvement: Live updates
