The Arizona sheriff involved in the search for “Today” show co-host Savannah Guthrie’s mother, Nancy Guthrie, suggested in a recent interview that he’s prepared to search for “weeks or months or years” as officials continue testing evidence in the case.
“It’s exhausting, these ups and downs. But we will keep moving forward,” Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos told The New York Times in an interview published on Feb. 13, before he suggested that the search could drag on for a period of time.
“Maybe it’s an hour from now. Maybe it’s weeks, or months, or years from now. But we won’t quit. We’re going to find Nancy. We’re going to find this guy.”
Nancy Guthrie, 84, went missing on Jan. 31, and her disappearance was reported to the authorities a day later. As Nanos has said, authorities believed she was abducted. They’ve also said that DNA testing has shown that the blood found at the residence belonged to Nancy Guthrie, and later released video footage of a masked suspect with gloves on tampering with her doorbell camera around the time she went missing.
“The FBI received preliminary results yesterday on 2/14 and are awaiting quality control and official confirmation today before putting [an] unknown male profile into CoDIS, the national database unique to the bureau,” the FBI told The Epoch Times on Feb. 15.
The FBI added that it obtained 16 gloves during a search in Nancy Guthrie’s neighborhood near Tucson.
“Most of them were searchers’ gloves that they discarded in various areas when they searched the vicinity,” the FBI shared.
The federal law enforcement agency said the person seen in the video is 5 feet 9 inches to 5 feet 10 inches tall, with an average build. He was wearing a 25-liter Ozark Trail Hiker backpack, the FBI added.
Since Nancy Guthrie went missing, Savannah Guthrie and her siblings have released multiple videos pleading for her safe return, including several that addressed purported ransom notes that were sent to news outlets.
A video released by the “Today” anchor on Sunday evening on her Instagram page pleaded with anyone who allegedly took her mother to return her home.
“It’s been two weeks since our mom was taken, and I just wanted to come on and say that we still have hope and we still believe,” she said.
“You’re not lost or alone, and it is never too late to do the right thing,” Savannah Guthrie also said in the video. “We are here. And we believe. And we believe in the essential goodness of every human being.”
The FBI is offering a $100,000 reward for any information that could lead to the suspect’s capture and conviction, or to the location of Nancy Guthrie.
