Investigators searching for Nancy Guthrie are asking neighbors of the missing 84-year-old to provide month-old security footage to help track down her abductor.
“Some of Nancy’s neighbors say they have received alerts from law enforcement requesting security camera footage from specific dates and times,” Craig Melvin revealed at the beginning of Thursday’s “Today” show.
Reporter Liz Kreutz elaborated on this, explaining that people installing Ring doorbell cameras in the Tucson, Arizona, area were specifically asked to provide video between 9pm and midnight on January 11th, “more than three weeks before Nancy disappeared.”
Additionally, authorities are seeking footage from “January 31st between 9:30 a.m. and 11:00 a.m.”
In particular, Nancy was last seen on the night of January 31st, and on Tuesday, disturbing video was released showing a masked and armed person approaching her front door in the early hours of February 1st.
The first glimpse of Savannah Guthrie’s mother’s alleged kidnapper sparked a massive wave of information, with 4,000 of the 18,000 total requests received since the footage made headlines.
The FBI and Pima County Sheriff’s Department are also questioning neighbors about what kind of cars they drive and whether they have trucks.
“They want the truck,” neighbor David Romano confirmed to NBC on Thursday.
Nancy was reported missing on February 1, and her home was treated as a crime scene because of blood stains and signs of forced entry.
Savannah is absent from the Today show amid a family crisis and is spending time with her siblings Annie Guthrie and Camron Guthrie in Arizona.
Overcoming fear, the journalist begged his Instagram followers for prayers and information about the kidnapping.
On Tuesday, she shared footage of the suspect and wrote, “Someone recognizes this person. We believe she’s still out there. Take her home.”
Savannah and her siblings also sued their alleged captors in multiple social media videos demanding $6 million in Bitcoin after receiving unverified ransom notes.
The Daytime Emmy winner offered to “pay” for Nancy’s return because it was “valued” to his family, and the funds were deposited into his Bitcoin account on Tuesday, after both ransom deadlines had passed.
One person was detained in connection with Nancy’s disappearance, but has been released and maintains his innocence.
Investigators previously said at a press conference that they were “actively investigating everyone” and were collecting DNA from employees employed at Nancy’s home.
They are also testing DNA on a suspicious black glove found during a search of the nearby Catalina foothills.
