The search for Savannah Guthrie’s mother, Nancy Guthrie, is now in its third week, and the sheriff overseeing the operation has expressed concerns that it might take “years” to locate her.
Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos described the investigation as “exhausting,” noting that despite an extensive two-week manhunt involving local police, the FBI, and even the involvement of President Trump, no arrests or suspects have been identified.
“There are ups and downs, and it’s very tiring, but we keep moving forward,” Sheriff Nanos shared with The New York Times. He emphasized, “Maybe it’s an hour or maybe weeks, months, or even years from now. But we won’t give up. We’re committed to finding Nancy and the person responsible.”
During his first media appearance in several days, Sheriff Nanos didn’t offer any new leads or suspects but mentioned that DNA had been collected from Nancy’s home in the Catalina Foothills area, which didn’t match anyone close to her.
He also noted that investigators were analyzing DNA from two gloves found about two miles from her residence. Interestingly, one of those gloves had previously been reported by FBI evidence experts.
However, Sheriff Nanos stressed that there’s “no way” to determine if these gloves belonged to a masked individual seen on her doorbell camera footage during the night of her abduction.
Currently, around 400 individuals are dedicated to the case, and he expressed confidence that Nancy and her kidnappers would eventually be found. Just recently, investigators responded quickly to two locations near her home, sealing off these areas while also towing a gray Range Rover that had attracted their attention.
There were reports of at least four people being taken into custody during a joint operation with the Pima County SWAT team and the FBI, but none have been linked as suspects in Nancy’s case yet.
Authorities are awaiting results from forensic tests conducted earlier. Unfortunately, nothing was found to indicate Nancy’s whereabouts, according to Sheriff Nanos.
This week, the FBI raised the reward for information leading to Nancy’s discovery or the arrest of anyone connected to her disappearance from $50,000 to $100,000.
Additionally, investigators employed a high-tech Bluetooth scanner attached to a helicopter to search for signals from Nancy’s pacemaker, which lost connection with her iPhone app at around 2:30 a.m. on February 1st—roughly five hours after her son-in-law, Tommasio Cioni, last saw her.
