The masked particular person seen on the doorbell digital camera footage of 84-year-old Nancy Guthrie’s house the morning she is believed to have been kidnapped was additionally at her doorstep on one other night, a source tells NCS.
The images and video of the masked particular person on Guthrie’s doorstep — launched by the FBI on February 10 — had been taken on two totally different days, fairly than simply on February 1, when authorities consider she was kidnapped, the source mentioned. That’s as a result of the masked suspect shouldn’t be carrying a backpack in a single of them, based on the source.
ABC News first reported the suspect seems to have been at her door before February 1.
The Pima County Sheriff’s Department declined to remark and referred NCS to the FBI. NCS reached out to the FBI Phoenix workplace for remark.
Guthrie disappeared from her house after she was final seen on January 31. Local, state and federal regulation enforcement surged to the space and have spent over three weeks scouring the unruly desert panorama for Guthrie or any proof of the place she went.
Residents in Guthrie’s neighborhood had been beforehand requested by the sheriff’s division to submit video as far back as January 1, however particularly focusing on two dates – January 11 between 9 p.m. and midnight, and January 31 between 9:30 and 11. The sheriff’s division particularly requested footage that features vehicles, visitors, folks or pedestrians, or something that feels out of the unusual or essential.
The FBI released video and photos of a masked, armed man tampering with Guthrie’s doorbell digital camera the morning of her disappearance. From that video, investigators had been in a position to determine the man was carrying an Ozark backpack, based on the Pima County Sheriff’s Department, however are nonetheless making an attempt to determine different objects and the place they could have been bought.
Investigators proceed to assessment “thousands of hours” of video obtained from the better Tucson space, a regulation enforcement official aware of the case advised NCS.
They additionally proceed to run lab evaluation on DNA discovered at Guthrie’s home, Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos mentioned Thursday. DNA on gloves discovered 2 miles from the house didn’t return any matches in the nationwide database often called CODIS, and doesn’t match DNA found the home, both, Nanos said.
Her kids have repeatedly pleaded for her return, taking to social media in an try to deal with purported ransom notes despatched to a number of media shops, in addition to asking the public for assist in her search. Despite the stories of the ransom, neither the household nor regulation enforcement have confirmed in the event that they had been actual or in the event that they made contact with the sender.
NCS’s Ed Lavandera and Josh Magness contributed to this report.