TUCSON, Ariz. — A neighbor of Nancy Guthrie’s within the Catalina Foothills tells Fox Information Digital she noticed the FBI return to look the comb behind the lacking 84-year-old’s residence days earlier than her unsolved disappearance reached the six-month mark.
Whereas a spokesperson for the Pima County Sheriff’s Division stated that no job power investigators had returned to the world just lately, the neighbor stated she acknowledged faces from earlier regulation enforcement exercise within the neighborhood related to the case. The FBI didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.
The neighbor, who lives only a few doorways down, reported seeing them combing by way of the desert brush.
Guthrie, the mom of “Immediately” co-host Savannah Guthrie, is believed to have been taken by power from her residence within the early hours of Feb. 1, in response to authorities.
Bob Krygier, a retired Pima County Sheriff’s Division lieutenant and former SWAT commander, stated there are just a few the reason why investigators would return to the world, starting from new results in the prospect that proof has been shifted round by latest climate.
“There’s a few completely different causes that undergo my thoughts first goes to be they obtained some leads, they obtained some new ideas which might be viable, they usually’re on the market searching for one thing particular or in an space particular to that, as a result of I’m sure that they’ve searched these areas already,” he instructed Fox Information Digital.
It may be that, six months into the investigation, authorities are placing a contemporary set of eyes on the case, he stated.
And heavy rains can also have altered the panorama, doubtlessly exposing or shifting proof investigators hadn’t beforehand seen, he stated.
“A couple of month in the past, monsoon season began right here in Tucson and quite a lot of water has come down — quite a lot of water directly, and it pushes issues,” he stated. “So it’s moved the surroundings. Rocks have been pushed away.”
Relying on the world, floodwaters can rise from only a few inches to as a lot as 12 ft, Krygier stated, with sufficient power to comb away autos, timber, rocks and even folks.
“I’m unsure in the event that they discovered him but, however there was a report of a person within the wash floating down, being pushed downstream by the water — and the Santa Cruz is what that feeds into, which is, you’re taking a look at 20, 30 ft deep when it’s at its peak and 50, 60 ft throughout,” he stated. “All that water, it’s dashing quick, and it’s taken not solely the folks, however it’s taken automobiles, it’s taken timber, branches, rocks, all of these items, and principally changed into an enormous blender.”
Authorities didn’t instantly reply to requests for remark.
Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos instructed Fox Information Digital final week that investigators are nonetheless following up on energetic leads, reviewing “tens of 1000’s” of movies and don’t think about the case chilly.
On Friday, his workplace additionally launched a pair of purported ransom notes within the case, within the hope that somebody within the public may help determine the sender’s “distinctive linguistic fashion.”
Anybody with info on the case is requested to name 1-800-CALL-FBI. Tipsters can stay nameless by calling 520-88-CRIME.
The mixed sum of rewards within the case is over $1.2 million and stays unclaimed.
