Suspect in Nancy Guthrie case had been to the house before, source says

The masked antheral seen successful doorbell camera video who is suspected of abducting Nancy Guthrie appears to person been astatine her beforehand doorway earlier than Feb. 1, the nighttime constabulary judge she was kidnapped, a instrumentality enforcement root confirmed to CBS News. The accusation was archetypal reported by ABC News.

The image the FBI released of the suspect astatine her beforehand door, without a backpack, was captured by her Nest doorbell camera connected a time anterior to the suspected abduction. It is unclear however galore days earlier Feb. 1 the video of the antheral without a backpack was taken.

The FBI released the images and video connected Feb. 10 and asked for the public's assistance successful identifying the antheral seen successful the videos. So acold investigators person not identified a fishy successful the case.

Two images of a masked antheral seen connected Nancy Guthrie's Nest doorbell camera, astatine near without a backpack, and astatine close with a backpack aboriginal connected Feb. 1, erstwhile she was abducted. FBI

Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos told CBS News that the accusation astir the timing of the video of the antheral not wearing a backpack is not coming from the Pima County Sheriff's Department oregon the FBI. 

In a erstwhile connection from Feb. 10, Nanos said, "The FBI and Pima County Sheriff's Department person been moving intimately with our backstage assemblage partners to proceed to retrieve immoderate images oregon video footage from Nancy Guthrie's location that whitethorn person been lost, corrupted oregon inaccessible owed to a assortment of factors, including the removal of signaling devices. The video was recovered from residual information located successful backend systems."

A spokesperson for the FBI did not instantly respond to a petition for comment.

A spokesperson for Google, the institution that owns Nest cameras, had antecedently told CBS News that it is assisting instrumentality enforcement successful an probe but could not supply further details owed to the ongoing investigation.

CBS News reached backmost retired to Google astir erstwhile the earlier video of the antheral without the backpack was taken, but a spokesperson did not instantly respond to a petition for comment.

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