Person detained in disappearance of US TV hosts mother
A suspect in the abduction of US television host Savannah Guthrie’s elderly mother, Nancy, was taken into custody in Arizona on Tuesday, nine days after the 84-year-old woman was reported missing, a US law enforcement official briefed on the case said. The Pima County Sheriff’s Department issued a separate statement online late on Tuesday saying…
A suspect in the abduction of US television host Savannah Guthrie’s elderly mother, Nancy, was taken into custody in Arizona on Tuesday, nine days after the 84-year-old woman was reported missing, a US law enforcement official briefed on the case said.
The Pima County Sheriff’s Department issued a separate statement online late on Tuesday saying that deputies had “detained a subject during a traffic stop” and that the individual was “being questioned in connection to the Nancy Guthrie investigation”.
No further details were immediately available from either the US official or from the sheriff’s office. And it was not clear whether the “suspect” taken into custody and the individual described as a “subject” detained in a traffic stop south of Tucson were the same person.
But the apparent breakthrough came hours after authorities released video and photos of an armed man in a ski mask tampering with the door camera of Nancy Guthrie’s home near Tucson on the morning that she was taken from her residence.
The images released by the FBI and Pima County Sheriff’s Department show the man, also wearing gloves, a backpack and what appears to be a gun in a holster, approaching Nancy Guthrie’s front door.
A law enforcement official said the images recovered from a Google Nest camera on the home’s front doorbell were recorded in the early hours of February 1, about the time that authorities have said Guthrie was presumed to have been kidnapped for ransom.
