US officials are facing fresh questions over why, according to FBI Director Kash Patel, the FBI was 'kept out' of the search for missing 84-year-old Nancy Guthrie in Arizona for four days after she vanished at the end of January, even as local authorities insist federal agents were involved from the start.
Guthrie, the mother of Today show co-host Savannah Guthrie, was reported missing from her home in the Catalina Foothills area of Tucson on 1 February after she failed to arrive at a friend's house to watch a church service online. She had last been seen at about 9.45pm the previous night, 31 January, when a family member dropped her off after dinner. The Pima County Sheriff's Department opened an investigation and, four months on, the case is still being treated as an apparent abduction with no publicly named suspect.
