Nancy Guthrie's family members are not suspects in her disappearance, authorities said Monday, as the search for the 84-year-old mother of Today co-host Savannah Guthrie entered its third week. Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos said all of Guthrie's family members, including their spouses, have been cleared, CBS News reports. "The family has been nothing but cooperative and gracious and are victims in this case," he said, adding that suggesting otherwise "is not only wrong, it is cruel."
Nancy Guthrie was reported missing Feb. 1, and investigators believe she was abducted overnight from her Tucson home. Savannah Guthrie and her siblings, Annie and Camron, have repeatedly appealed for her return. In a video posted Sunday on Instagram, Savannah Guthrie addressed whoever may be holding her mother, saying it's "never too late to do the right thing" and that Guthrie's children "still have hope" and "still believe." Investigators are using specialized technology in the search, including a so-called "signal sniffer" mounted on a helicopter to try to pick up signals from Guthrie's heart pacemaker. Officials say data from the pacemaker's app show it disconnected from her phone at 2:28am the night she vanished.
Authorities are also examining security footage from Guthrie's home that shows a masked suspect; the FBI says the man in the video appears to be 5' 9" to 5' 10" with an average build and wearing a black Ozark Trail 25-liter hiking backpack sold exclusively at Walmart. Nanos says the face mask worn by the man also appears to be one sold at Walmart, and the AP reports investigators are working with the retail chain "to develop leads" in the case. Investigators say the rest of the clothing worn by the man in the video may have been purchased at Walmart as well.
A glove matching those seen in the footage was found about two miles from Guthrie's home and has yielded a DNA profile of an unidentified man, which investigators plan to run through the FBI's CODIS database once results are confirmed. Additional DNA not belonging to Guthrie or her close contacts was collected from her property, though authorities have not said where it was found. Between 40,000 and 50,000 tips have come in since Guthrie disappeared, NBC News reports.
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