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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
World
Alaina Demopoulos

Amateur YouTube detectives’ constant streams put cases in jeopardy: ‘It’s clickbait’

aerial view of a house amid desert foliage on a sunny day
A drone view of the house of Nancy Guthrie, the mother of Today show host Savannah Guthrie who went missing on 1 February, in Tucson, Arizona. Photograph: Evan Garcia/Reuters

On the 10th day of the search for Nancy Guthrie, reporters camped outside of the missing woman’s home noticed a strange man strut right up to the front door. It had been more than a week since the mother of Today show host Savannah Guthrie had disappeared, and authorities had just announced they had a new lead from Ring footage of what looked like a “potential subject” attempting to tamper with the doorbell camera on the morning of her disappearance. So now who was this unknown person, clad in a gray top and black pants, carrying a large black bag and striding to the door?

It was a Domino’s delivery driver.

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