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International Business Times UK
International Business Times UK
Clarizza Potoy

Nancy Guthrie Update: Savannah Returns to Home Where Blood Was Found in Kidnap Search

Savannah Guthrie has returned to her mother's home near Tucson, Arizona, as the search Nancy Guthrie enters a second month with the 84-year-old still missing after authorities said she was kidnapped. The Today presenter and her family were filmed on Monday, March 2, laying yellow flowers at a growing roadside memorial outside the property.

The news came after Nancy was last seen at her home on Jan. 31 and reported missing the following day, with investigators saying drops of her blood were found on the front porch. Police have also said they are concerned about her health because she needs vital daily medication.

Nancy Guthrie has not been located, and investigators have not publicly identified a suspect by name. Savannah Guthrie's family is offering up to $1 million for information leading to Nancy's recovery, while the FBI is pursuing separate lines of inquiry.

Police are reviewing surveillance footage and asking residents to submit relevant video from early January through Feb. 2​

Savannah Returns to the Property

In her first public sighting at the house since Nancy disappeared, Savannah walked arm in arm with her sister, Annie Guthrie, and brother-in-law, Tommaso Cioni, as cameras recorded them placing flowers and embracing by the driveway.

The family did not address the gathered media in the footage circulated by NewsNation and Fox News Digital, but Savannah later posted on Instagram that the family could feel support from neighbours and beyond.

'We are grateful for the love and prayers from our neighbours, the Tucson community, and people across the nation,' she wrote, adding, 'Please continue to pray and hold out hope with us' and, pointedly, 'Bring her home.'

If it reads like a private moment that has been pushed into public view, that is because it has. The memorial, with its yellow ribbons and handmade signs, is not evidence, but it is a marker of how long this case has been left to hang in the air.

And for a family that has already made repeated pleas on social media, the return to the property carries a quieter message, they are still waiting for something solid to arrive.

Video, Vehicles and DNA

Investigators have said they believe Nancy was kidnapped, and on Feb. 10 the FBI released surveillance video from Nancy's doorbell camera showing a masked man on the doorstep the night she disappeared.

Nancy Guthrie Family offers $1M reward; contact FBI tip line. (Credit: Screengrab from FBI Phoenix/X)

The FBI later described that person as a suspect and said he appeared to be a man about 5 feet 9 or 10 inches tall with an average build. The Pima County Sheriff's Department has also warned it is not ruling out the possibility that more than one person was involved.​

One of the more practical lines of inquiry has centred on traffic and timing rather than theatrics. Fox News Digital reported that a Ring camera about two miles from Nancy's home recorded 12 vehicles passing around the time she went missing, footage that former FBI agent Jennifer Coffindaffer called 'one of the best leads' available to law enforcement.

Police, for their part, have described an investigation that is widening outward from the Guthrie residence. The sheriff's department said investigators were 'reviewing surveillance videos of vehicles traveling in the Catalina Foothills area, including areas farther from the Guthrie residence,' while continuing to seek footage from neighbours within a two-mile radius between Jan. 1 and Feb. 2.

Residents who have not submitted relevant footage were urged to do so through the department's website.

There is also forensic work that has, so far, declined to deliver the neat answer people expect from crime dramas. Authorities have said DNA from gloves found a few miles from the home did not match any entries in CODIS, the FBI's national database, even as the FBI said the gloves appeared to match those worn by the masked person in the surveillance footage.

Investigators also collected DNA from the property that did not belong to Nancy or those in close contact with her, and the sheriff's department said it would seek to use investigative genetic genealogy in an attempt to track down whoever left it.​

With the home returned to the family and 'no trespassing' signs now posted, the official messaging has shifted towards endurance rather than breakthroughs.

'This remains an active investigation and will continue until Nancy Guthrie is located or all leads have been exhausted,' the Pima County Sheriff's Department said, adding that it was 'refocusing resources' to detectives specifically assigned to the case while maintaining a patrol presence in the neighbourhood.

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