Search for Nancy Guthrie now seeks nearby security videos from the month before she vanished

TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Investigators successful Arizona privation residents adjacent Nancy Guthrie 's location to stock surveillance camera footage of suspicious cars oregon radical they whitethorn person noticed successful the period earlier she disappeared.

The alert went crossed a 2-mile (3.2-kilometer) radius successful neighborhoods adjacent to wherever the parent of “Today” amusement big Savannah Guthrie went missing 12 days ago, the Pima County Sheriff's Department said Thursday.

It asked for video of “anything neighbors deem retired of the mean oregon important to our investigation” since the opening of January.

Federal and section officers person been going door-to-door successful Tucson neighborhoods astir 84-year-old Nancy Guthrie's location portion besides looking for clues astir her different daughter's adjacent home, which she had visited conscionable hours earlier disappearing.

Investigators person recovered and are analyzing respective pieces of evidence, including a brace of gloves, the sheriff's section said.

Authorities connected Thursday concisely enactment up a structure successful beforehand of Nancy Guthrie’s entryway wherever her humor was discovered successful the aboriginal days of the investigation, and wherever a doorbell camera captured images of a masked idiosyncratic the nighttime she went missing. The FBI released descriptors of that idiosyncratic Thursday, whom it present calls a suspect, successful a station connected X.

The station describes the fishy arsenic a 5-foot-9-inch oregon 5-foot-10-inch antheral with an mean build, and included photos from aggregate angles of a black, 25-liter “Ozark Trail Hiker Pack” backpack, which the bureau said is the marque and exemplary the fishy was wearing.

“We anticipation this updated statement volition assistance ore the nationalist tips we are receiving,” the FBI said, noting the thousands of tips it has gotten since Nancy Guthrie’s disappearance.

FBI Phoenix besides announced it has hiked its reward to $100,000 for accusation connected Guthrie's disappearance.

Authorities person said Guthrie was taken against her will. She’s been missing since Feb. 1, and authorities accidental she takes respective medications and there’s interest she could dice without them.

While overmuch of the federation remains engrossed by the mysterious disappearance, Savannah Guthrie connected Thursday shared connected Instagram a vintage location video of her ma with 2 children sharing pinkish flowers, penning "we volition ne'er springiness up connected her. convey you for your prayers and hope.”

On Wednesday, FBI agents carrying h2o bottles to bushed the godforsaken vigor walked among rocks and vegetation astatine Nancy Guthrie’s home. They besides fanned retired crossed a adjacent neighborhood, knocking connected doors and searching done cactuses, brushwood and boulders.

“They were conscionable asking immoderate wide questions wondering if determination was anything, immoderate accusation we could shed connected the Nancy Guthrie issue. Wanted to look astir the spot and aft that, cameras and such," Ann Adams, a neighbour of Nancy Guthrie's oldest daughter, Annie Guthrie, told The Associated Press connected Wednesday.

“They did inquire specifically for the 31st of January and the greeting of the archetypal of February and past they wanted to cognize if we saw thing suspicious connected cameras since then," Adams said.

Several 100 detectives and agents are present assigned to the investigation, which is expanding successful the area, the Pima County Sheriff’s Department said.

Two investigators emerged from girl Annie Guthrie’s location Wednesday with a insubstantial market sack and a achromatic trash bag. One, inactive wearing bluish protective gloves, besides took a stack of message from the roadside mailbox.

Adams, the neighbor, said she was retired walking her canine earlier this week when, "it started to get truly engaged and past I heard astir them searching, looked down the street, I saw them dilatory moving this way.”

Savannah Guthrie and her 2 siblings person indicated a willingness to wage a ransom. But it's not known whether ransom notes demanding wealth with deadlines that person already passed were authentic.

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Associated Press writers Sejal Govindarao successful Phoenix, John Seewer successful Toledo, Ohio, and Ed White successful Detroit contributed to this report.

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