The FBI announced a $50,000 reward on Thursday for information that leads to the discovery of missing Arizona resident Nancy Guthrie, the mother of Savannah Guthrie, longtime co-host of NBC’s Today, who disappeared over the weekend from her home in what authorities have called an abduction.
The bureau has deployed agents to work on the case alongside local police in Tucson, Arizona, where the 84-year-old mother of three adult children vanished overnight on Sunday from the home where she lives alone.
“The FBI is now working this case jointly with the Pima County Sheriff’s Department, and we’re going to start today by announcing a $50,000 reward for information leading to the recovery of Nancy Guthrie and or the arrest and conviction of anyone involved in her disappearance,” Heith Janke, Special Agent in Charge of FBI Phoenix said at a press conference held at Pima County Sheriff’s Office.
The FBI has deployed agents, analysts and professional staff to work with the sheriff’s department in Tucson, along with the bureau’s critical incident response group from Quantico, Virginia, and its cellular analysis survey team.
Blood discovered on the porch of the home of Nancy Guthrie has tested positive as her own, authorities in Arizona told reporters on Thursday, as the race against the clock to locate the missing octogenarian enters its fifth day. Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos said that the only DNA evidence they have found at her home was the blood discovered on her front porch.
Sheriff Nanos offered an update in the timeline of the missing Guthrie, a story that has captured national attention, telling reporters that test results from the scene of the crime is slow to trickle in.
Thursday’s press conference came the morning after the Today co-host took alongside her brother, Camron Guthrie, and sister, Annie Guthrie, released a video addressing the suspected kidnappers directly. Authorities have said Nancy Guthrie was likely taken against her will in a “possible kidnapping or abduction,” and her home is being treated as a crime scene.
Nancy Gutherie, who lives alone in Tucson, takes essential medications and has mobility issues. She was last seen by her son-in-law, Tommaso Cioni, Annie’s husband, when he dropped her off at her home on Saturday night. The following day, her family reported her missing after they were informed that she didn’t show up for church.
Sheriff Nanos has shot down media reports that Cioni is considered a prime suspect in her disappearance and had to inform the public that ransom reports sent to media outlets, including TMZ and local news stations in Arizona, have not been substantiated.
This is a developing story. More to come.
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