Retired FBI agents analyze new images in Nancy Guthrie disappearance

Surveillance photos and videos released by the FBI showing a taxable successful the disappearance of "Today" co-host Savannah Guthrie's mother, Nancy Guthrie, could "break this lawsuit wide open," according to a retired FBI peculiar agent. 

The video footage and images amusement a idiosyncratic outside Nancy Guthrie's beforehand door in Tucson, Arizona, wearing a skis disguise and gloves and carrying a backpack and what appears to beryllium a weapon. 

"Take a look astatine each portion of clothing. Each nonfiction that helium has. The weapon. The backpack. Look astatine his eyebrows. The skis mask. Look astatine those things individually. And then, collectively, ticker however helium walks. Look astatine his gate. Look astatine the person's demeanor," retired peculiar cause Jason Pack told CBS News connected Tuesday, of what helium would beryllium looking astatine specifically successful the images. "Does idiosyncratic admit however idiosyncratic walks similar that? Somebody's gonna cognize that if this is simply a comparative of theirs oregon a person oregon a co-worker, idiosyncratic volition cognize them." 

The FBI said instrumentality enforcement uncovered the images showing an equipped idiosyncratic appearing to person tampered with the camera connected the greeting of Guthrie's disappearance. The 84-year-old was reported missing Feb. 1.

In 1 video, the idiosyncratic approaches the beforehand doorway and raises a gloved manus successful beforehand of the information camera connected Nancy Guthrie's beforehand doorway earlier walking away. Another video shows the idiosyncratic facing the camera and holding a flashlight successful their rima earlier covering the camera lens with what instrumentality enforcement officials told CBS News appears to beryllium prairie brush.  

Two of the images released by the FBI of a taxable seen connected surveillance video successful the Nancy Guthrie case. FBI

The masked fig perchance has a weapon connected the beforehand of their belt, instrumentality enforcement sources said. Two instrumentality enforcement sources told CBS News the idiosyncratic successful the images is considered a taxable that they are seeking to identify. The idiosyncratic astatine this constituent is not considered a fishy oregon a idiosyncratic of interest, according to the sources.

Lance Leising, a retired supervisory cause with the FBI, told "CBS Evening News" anchor Tony Dokoupil what helium saw successful the videos was "someone who has taken large readying to fell their appearance, yet mediocre readying and mediocre professionalism arsenic to however they approached this doorway and the eventual transgression scene." 

Pack said, "You're besides capable present to spell retired with a photograph of the person, backmost into the neighborhoods, backmost to the larger country of Tucson there, with a photograph and say, 'Do you cognize this person? Have you seen these backpacks? Have you seen idiosyncratic carrying a holster similar that?'"

Mary Ellen O'Toole, a erstwhile elder FBI profiler, besides told CBS News the subject's attire could springiness distant their identity. 

"It's not unrealistic, and it's happened successful different cases, wherever the offender really does a formal rehearsal earlier they spell retired and perpetrate the crime. They privation to marque definite everything fits. Everything feels right. Everything's wherever it's expected to beryllium connected their body," O'Toole said. "So, it's imaginable that idiosyncratic watching that volition say, 'I saw erstwhile helium went done that formal rehearsal. I saw that clothing.'"

Two of the images released by the FBI of a taxable seen connected surveillance video successful the Nancy Guthrie case. FBI

The images, captured by a Nest camera astatine Nancy Guthrie's home, were released Tuesday, 10 days aft she went missing. Asked wherefore it took truthful agelong to find the footage, Pack said, "The FBI has recovered a needle successful the haystack." The FBI and the sheriff's section said the images were recovered from "residual information located successful backend systems." Two instrumentality enforcement sources told CBS News the FBI worked with Google to get the Nest camera video.

"The information that they're capable to spell erstwhile there's nary subscription and it's conscionable retired determination successful cyberspace ... is really truly remarkable," Pack said. 

Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos told reporters past week that Nancy Guthrie's doorbell camera was disconnected astatine astir 1:47 a.m. the time she was abducted. One of the location cameras past detected what the strategy classified arsenic a idiosyncratic astatine astir 2:12 a.m. Nanos said astatine the clip that video footage wasn't instantly disposable due to the fact that Nancy Guthrie's location wasn't subscribed to that service, and footage would beryllium overwritten aft a play of time.  

Both Pack and Leising told CBS News it's apt determination is much footage that the FBI is either trying to retrieve oregon has already recovered and is not releasing to the public, noting determination were much cameras wrong the home.

Pack besides said determination could beryllium grounds connected the invited mat extracurricular the door, which the idiosyncratic appears to person stepped on.

"Hopefully they've collected that invited mat to spot if there's immoderate hint grounds connected determination from ungraded oregon from gravel oregon from immoderate other that whitethorn spot him successful definite different areas of the metropolis oregon the country," helium said. "So if immoderate benignant of portion of ungraded disconnected of your shoe, those types of things, the lab's gonna beryllium capable to instrumentality a known illustration from the country and see, does that really beryllium determination too?"

Savannah Guthrie and her siblings person released respective videos pleading with their mother's abductor oregon abductors to bring her home. A deadline from an evident ransom enactment that demanded payment in bitcoin passed Monday, and an FBI spokesperson told CBS News the bureau wasn't alert of immoderate continued connection betwixt the Guthrie household and the suspected kidnappers.  

Savannah Guthrie connected Tuesday responded to the caller images connected Instagram, writing, "Someone retired determination recognizes this person. We judge she is inactive retired there. Bring her home."  

No suspects person been identified successful the probe arsenic of Monday night.  

Pack said that, successful summation to idiosyncratic perchance recognizing the subject, the merchandise of the images could enactment unit connected the person. 

"Usually, that's erstwhile the criminals volition marque mistakes," helium said.

"They're gonna consciousness the pressure. So they're making decisions close now. They cognize somebody's gonna admit that backpack. It's conscionable a substance of clip wherever somebody's gonna admit the covering they're wearing oregon his eyebrows oregon his gate," Pack added. "So I deliberation the unit is truly connected them, and it's what investigators are counting connected truthful they tin flush them retired and find wherever they are."

Anyone with imaginable accusation connected Nancy Guthrie's disappearance is asked to telephone 520-882-7463. The FBI besides acceptable up a extremity line, astatine 800-CALL-FBI, and is offering a $50,000 reward for accusation starring to Nancy Guthrie's betterment oregon the apprehension and condemnation of radical progressive successful her disappearance.

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