The FBI is investigating thousands of hours of video footage as part of its investigation into Nancy Guthrie’s disappearance.
Authorities have not detained a suspect in the case since Guthrie was reported missing from her Arizona home roughly four weeks ago. The FBI said Thursday it has collected up to 10,000 hours of video related to the agency’s investigation. Sifting through the footage has proven to be a lengthy process, as each video must be watched in real time, according to NBC News.
The Pima County Sheriff’s Department said Friday that investigators are also probing Ring camera footage from a neighborhood in Guthrie’s area that was discovered by Fox News Digital. The network reported it obtained the footage from a resident who said police had not yet canvassed their neighborhood, which sits 2.5 miles from Guthrie’s house. It is outside the 2-mile radius of neighbors who received a Ring alert requesting video taken, an effort to aid authorities canvassing the area.
The new street-facing Ring camera footage caught 12 cars passing by on the morning of Guthrie’s apparent abduction. One of the videos was recorded at around 2:36 a.m. on Feb. 1, roughly the time authorities believe Guthrie was kidnapped.
The FBI has had a base at Guthrie’s Tucson home since the investigation began, but is preparing to release the house back to the 84-year-old woman’s family imminently, according to multiple reports. The sheriff’s department has said it “plans to maintain a patrol presence in the Guthrie neighborhood.”
The biggest breakthrough in the case thus far appears to be doorbell camera footage from Guthrie’s home, which the FBI recovered and viewed. The video depicted a masked person prowling on Guthrie’s front stoop and sidewalk shortly before she was reported missing.
Authorities have described the suspect seen in the doorbell footage as a male with an average build, who is 5’9” to 5’10” tall. Time is of the essence in the search, since Guthrie is reliant on daily medication for survival.
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Today show co-host Savannah Guthrie announced on Tuesday that her family is offering a reward of up to $1 million for information leading to her mother’s recovery.
“Please keep praying without ceasing,” she said in an Instagram video. “We still believe. We still believe in a miracle. We still believe that she can come home, hope against hope. As my sister says, ‘We are blowing on the embers of hope.’”