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RIO RICO, Ariz. (AP) — Fresh surveillance images from Nancy Guthrie’s structure the nighttime she went missing, coupled with aggravated constabulary enactment crossed Arizona and the detention of a antheral raised hopes that authorities were nearing a large break.
By Wednesday, however, it was unclear wherever the probe stood into past week’s disappearance of Guthrie, the 84-year-old parent of “Today” amusement big Savannah Guthrie.
Just hours aft the FBI released videos Tuesday of a idiosyncratic wearing a weapon holster, skis disguise and a backpack and approaching Nancy Guthrie's location successful Tucson, authorities announced they had stopped a antheral adjacent the U.S.-Mexico borderline for questioning.
The man, though, told respective media outlets aboriginal Wednesday that helium was released aft respective hours and had thing to bash with Guthrie's disappearance past week.
Authorities person not said what led them to halt the antheral and had not confirmed helium was released. The sheriff's section said its deputies and FBI agents besides searched a determination Tuesday nighttime successful Rio Rico, a metropolis southbound of Tucson wherever the antheral lives.
It was the latest twist successful an probe that has gripped the federation since Nancy Guthrie disappeared connected Feb. 1. Until Tuesday, it seemed authorities were making small headway successful determining what happened to her oregon uncovering who was responsible.
The achromatic and achromatic images released by the FBI showing a masked idiosyncratic trying to screen a doorbell camera connected Guthrie’s structure marked the archetypal important interruption successful the case.
The videos — little than a combined infinitesimal successful magnitude — gave investigators and the nationalist their archetypal glimpse of who was extracurricular Guthrie’s location successful the foothills extracurricular Tucson. But the images did not amusement what happened to her oregon assistance find whether she is inactive alive.
FBI Director Kash Patel said the videos were pulled from information connected “back-end systems” aft investigators spent days trying to find lost, corrupted oregon inaccessible images.
Even though the images bash not amusement the person's face, investigators are hopeful idiosyncratic volition cognize who was connected the structure that night.
“Even erstwhile you person a idiosyncratic who appears to beryllium wholly covered, they’re truly not. You tin spot their girth, the signifier of their face, perchance their eyes oregon mouth,” said erstwhile FBI cause Katherine Schweit.
Authorities were backmost adjacent Guthrie’s vicinity connected Tuesday, utilizing vehicles to artifact her driveway. A fewer miles away, instrumentality enforcement was going door-to-door successful the country wherever girl Annie Guthrie lives, talking with neighbors arsenic good arsenic walking done a drainage country and examining the wrong of a culvert with a flashlight.
Investigators person said for much than a week that they judge Nancy Guthrie was taken against her will. She was past seen astatine location Jan. 31 and reported missing the adjacent day. DNA tests showed humor connected her structure was hers, authorities said.
Savannah Guthrie posted the caller surveillance images connected societal media Tuesday, saying the household believes their parent is inactive live and offering telephone numbers for the FBI and region sheriff.
The longtime anchor of NBC’s greeting amusement and her 2 siblings person released a bid of video statements pleading for the instrumentality of their parent and indicating a willingness to wage a ransom.
It is not known whether ransom notes demanding wealth with deadlines that person already passed were authentic, and whether the household has had immoderate interaction with whoever took Guthrie.
Authorities person described Nancy Guthrie arsenic mentally dependable but with constricted mobility. She takes respective medications and determination was interest from the commencement that she could dice without them, Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos has said repeatedly.
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Golden reported from Seattle and Seewer from Toledo, Ohio. Associated Press reporters Darlene Superville successful Washington, Ed White successful Detroit, and Mike Balsamo, Eric Tucker and Alanna Durkin Richer successful Washington contributed to this report.
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