The masked, armed intruder seen in Nancy Guthrie’s doorbell digital camera could not having been working alone, the Pima County Sheriff’s Division confirmed on Friday.
“The sheriff has mentioned all alongside that whereas investigators are working to determine the individual seen on doorbell video, they aren’t ruling out that that was the one individual concerned,” a Pima County Sheriff’s Division spokesperson informed Fox Information Digital.
The response comes after rising hypothesis {that a} “second suspect” could have been noticed on digital camera at Nancy’s home the evening she disappeared.
Because the 84-year-old mom of “Immediately” present host Savannah Guthrie went lacking on Feb. 1, authorities have supplied conflicting stories on what number of suspects they’re searching for in her disappearance.
After the launch of doorbell digital camera footage displaying a masked man approaching the entrance door of Nancy’s Tucson, Arizona, dwelling, investigators steered that they had been working beneath the idea that this particular person was the only real individual concerned in her abduction.
Underneath-fire Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos explicitly mentioned that he believed the person within the video is the “main suspect” and “doubtless perpetrator” within the kidnapping.
Nonetheless, federal authorities have stored open the likelihood that a couple of individual was concerned.
FBI Director Kash Patel beforehand mentioned the company was investigating a couple of “individual of curiosity” within the case.
The Submit spoke to gun store house owners in Tucson who mentioned they detectives confirmed them images of a number of folks as they questioned them in regards to the case.
On the identical day as the discharge of the surveillance footage from Nancy’s home, the FBI additionally launched a nonetheless picture that seems to have been taken by the identical digital camera, and displaying a person sporting comparable garments because the one seen within the video.
Nonetheless, he doesn’t seem like carrying a backpack or a holster, sparking hypothesis that he could also be a distinct individual than the one seen on the entrance door.
“Since we don’t have timestamps, I’ve questions on when this nonetheless picture was recorded in relation to the movies. Is that this even the identical man?” Fox Information’ Michael Ruiz wrote in a submit on X.
A pair of floodlights on the rear of Nancy’s dwelling additionally seem to have been smashed, drone video obtained by the Fox Flight Crew exhibits.
Though it isn’t identified for sure whether or not they had been damaged in reference to the crime, this might point out a number of suspects had been concerned within the abduction, in line with retired Las Vegas lieutenant Randy Sutton.
Right here’s the most recent on Savannah Guthrie’s lacking mother
“You’d break these floodlights in order to not be silhouetted. It’s a standard factor,” he informed Fox Information Digital, whereas stating that kidnapping an aged woman with restricted mobility could be troublesome to do alone.
“I feel that the person on the entrance of the home was accompanied by anyone who made entry on the rear of the home, and there was in all probability a driver concerned,” Sutton added. “It might be very unwieldy to have only one individual.”
He known as for investigators to look into tracing walkie-talkie gadgets, as cell tower information has to this point turned up no identified leads.
Pima County Sheriff’s Division didn’t reply instantly to requests for remark.
