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FBI agents who are investigating Nancy Guthrie‘s disappearance are reportedly looking into a vacant property in her Arizona neighborhood—as the search for the missing 84-year-old nears the end of its seventh week.
Guthrie, who is the mother of “Today” show host Savannah Guthrie, disappeared from her home in the Catalina Foothills in the early hours of Feb. 1 in what is now believed to have been a “targeted” abduction.
Video footage captured by a security camera mounted in the doorway of her $1 million home showed a masked, armed intruder approaching the dwelling shortly before she is thought to have been kidnapped—however authorities have yet to identify the person in the clip.
For weeks, investigators have been canvasing her Arizona neighborhood, speaking to neighbors, examining security camera footage from local dwellings, and interviewing anyone who might have had contact with her before she disappeared.
Now, NewsNation correspondent Brian Entin—who has been on the ground outside of Tucson for weeks—reports that local FBI agents may have turned their attention to another target: a property in Nancy’s neighborhood that was vacated by its residents before her disappearance.
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“Some of the things that they’re talking about is there’s one neighbor that moved out before Nancy disappeared, and they are asking more questions about that situation,” Entin revealed on a recent episode of his YouTube show, “Brian Entin Investigates.”
Not to say that that has anything to do with what happened. But that is something the FBI agents are asking about.”
While Entin did not share any other details about why the property may have lured interest from the authorities, retired Pima County SWAT commander Bob Krygier shed some light on how the dwelling might have played a role in Nancy’s capture in a new interview with Parade.
Krygier explained that, oftentimes in cases like this, abductors will look for a vacant property or structure near their victim and use it as a kind of hideout from which they can keep tabs on the person they are following.
The former official said that authorities are likely examining any empty homes near Nancy’s dwelling for this reason—investigating whether those responsible for her disappearance used any local property as a “staging area” before carrying out the crime.
“They could look at [these kinds of homes] as possible home bases or staging locations for the suspect(s). It would provide them a cover story to be at those locations at different times,” Krygier noted, adding that these properties would enable a kidnapper to remain “under the radar” while watching “the activity in the neighborhood.”
What is the full timeline of Nancy Guthrie’s disappearance?
Pima County Sheriff Nanos noted during a media briefing on Feb. 5 that, while times are approximate, his team has pieced together several pieces of evidence that indicate Nancy’s movements—and the timeline of her apparent abduction.
Nancy, 84, was reported missing at around 12 p.m. local time on Feb. 1, around 14 hours after she was dropped off at the property following a family dinner. When she failed to turn up at her usual church gathering on Sunday, her friends alerted her family, who found her home was empty.
SATURDAY, JAN. 31
5:32 p.m. Nancy travels to Annie’s house in an Uber for “dinner and playing games with the family.”
9:48 p.m. A garage door at Nancy’s house opens when she was dropped off at the property by her daughter.
9:50 p.m. The garage door closes, indicating that Nancy was inside the home.
SUNDAY, FEB. 1
1:47 a.m. Nancy’s doorbell security camera is disconnected.
2:12 a.m. Movement is detected on a security camera at the home. No footage of this is currently available.
2:28 a.m. Nancy’s pacemaker app indicates that the device has been disconnected from her phone.
11:00 a.m. Nancy fails to arrive at the home of a friend, where she had been due to watch a church service livestream.
11:56 a.m. Nancy’s family travels to her home to check on her and finds the property empty.
12:03 p.m. The family calls 911 to report Nancy missing.
12:14 p.m. Police officers arrive at Nancy’s home.
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