Federal prosecutors have joined FBI agents at the Arizona home of missing 84-year-old Nancy Guthrie, the mother of 'Today' show co-anchor Savannah Guthrie, in what a retired FBI special agent on Friday called 'great news' for the direction of the case.
The new federal presence signals a shift in tempo and in who is likely to lead the hunt for answers. Until now, the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie from her house in Tucson's Catalina Foothills on 31 January had been handled as a multi-agency effort led locally. The US Attorney's Office is now visibly on the ground and, by its own account, preparing for possible federal charges. What remains unknown is almost everything that matters most: who took her, whether she is alive, and whether investigators are dealing with a kidnapping that has crossed state lines or something closer to home.
