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Authorities detained an individual for questioning in connection with the abduction of “Today” show anchor Savannah Guthrie’s mother, Nancy Guthrie, just hours after the FBI released video showing a masked, armed man at her front door the night she vanished.
New video shows the Nissan SUV the person being detained was driving when pulled over by police. There is also police activity at a nearby home connected to that driver.
The new developments have been unfolding in Rio Rico, a small desert community about 60 miles south of Guthrie’s Tucson home and 20 miles north of the Nogales border crossing with Mexico.
Investigators spent hours conducting a court-authorized search at a location they say is connected to the individual who was detained for questioning during a traffic stop Tuesday.
A woman, who identified herself as Josefina, told reporters that her daughter’s husband, who works as a delivery driver in Tucson, was a target of Tuesday’s search in Rio Rico. Investigators converged on her residence.
“They’re going in and out of my house taking a lot of pictures and everything,” the woman told reporters. “Like I told them, we’re not hiding anything.”
She said authorities searched her home after they received a tip related to the Nancy Guthrie investigation.
“We don’t know her at all. I don’t know who she is,” the woman said. “I don’t know anything about her. They only said that they gave a tip that she was in my house, and I told them, ‘You can go in and search my house, there is nobody there.'”
It’s unclear what, if anything, investigators uncovered.
The developments unfolded the same day investigators released footage from Nancy Guthrie’s Nest camera showing a masked man with a gun as he approached her front door the night she disappeared.
The video shows the man using a plant from the yard to cover the camera. There is no indication the individual detained Tuesday is the same person in the footage.
Former FBI agent Eric Drickersen said investigators will analyze every frame of the video.
“I’m sure they are going frame by frame, painstakingly analyzing every movement, every millisecond to that video to see what can be revealed and what can lead to a substantial break in the case,” Drickersen said.
He said the footage helps build a profile of the suspect but still does not reveal a motive or confirm whether Guthrie was kidnapped for money.
“We don’t have a credible ransom demand, so we treat it as a kidnapping because that employs investigative techniques that can be applied to this,” Drickersen said.
On Tuesday, there was activity for the first time in the Bitcoin account which was mentioned last week in purported ransom notes sent to media outlets demanding millions in Bitcoin for Nancy Guthrie’s return.
The Guthrie family was shown the images before their public release, law enforcement sources told News.
Nancy Guthrie was taken from her home on Sunday, Feb. 1, according to authorities.
News contributed to this report.
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