Where things stand
• Sifting through tips: Law enforcement officials said they “recovered several items of evidence, including gloves” in a new update today. The Pima County Sheriff’s Department also asked Nancy Guthrie’s neighbors to submit video footage dating back to January 1.
• Tribute to mom: Savannah Guthrie shared a home video with her mother, saying the family “will never give up on her.”
• Day 12 of investigation: Her Tucson neighbors have been asked to check any footage from doorbell cameras from about three weeks before the 84-year-old went missing as well as from the day she was last seen by family members.
• Glove found: During a search near the Tucson home yesterday, a black glove was seen being taken into evidence, though it’s unclear whether authorities believe it was worn by the person in the doorbell footage.
Investigators looking into a white van as one of the many tips in Guthrie disappearance
Investigators have gotten a number of leads in the Guthrie case since she went missing, at least one of which involves a white van, law enforcement officials with knowledge of the case told CNN.
The officials cautioned that it is one of many unconfirmed tips that authorities are still working their way through.
Even "well-planned offenders make mistakes," former FBI profiler says
As investigators parse through the images showing a masked person outside Nancy Guthrie’s home, some have zeroed in on specific moments in the videos released by authorities – like the use of shrubbery to try to hide the doorbell camera – to portray the person in the video as inept.
But former Senior FBI Profiler Mary Ellen O’Toole warns against leaping to this conclusion. It’s “unusual,” O’Toole said, to have the moments before a violent offender commits a crime captured on video.
“I can assure you that if we did, we would see well-planned offenders make mistakes,” O’Toole said, adding she’s more focused on the alleged suspect’s ability to regroup after encountering a hurdle.
“He was able to regroup – and not to get what we call ‘discombobulated’ – but come back and maintain control and continue on with the crime,” she said. “For me, it also goes to his ability to land on his feet in a very stressful situation.”
Investigators expand request for neighbors' home surveillance video footage
The Pima County Sheriff’s Department has asked Nancy Guthrie’s neighbors to submit any video footage that includes cars, traffic, people or pedestrians, and anything they feel may be out of the ordinary or important for law enforcement to review as they investigate Guthrie’s disappearance.
Investigators have recovered “several items of evidence, including gloves,” the department said Thursday afternoon.
Remember: During a search near Guthrie’s home yesterday, a black glove was seen being taken into evidence, though it remains unclear whether authorities believe it was worn by the person seen in doorbell footage of an armed person at the 84-year-old’s front door the morning she disappeared.
An official department alert was sent via the Neighbors app to users within a 2-mile radius of Guthrie’s home, requesting that footage be submitted through their online evidence submission portal.
“The FBI is handling all aspects related to any ransom note(s) or communications involving the Guthrie family,” the department said, noting there are no scheduled news briefings today.
"Bring her home" banner hung outside Savannah Guthrie's former news station in Tucson
A Tucson news station where Savannah Guthrie had one of her early journalism jobs has hung a banner that says “Bring her home” in support of Nancy Guthrie.
“Today, News 4 Tucson decided to hang this banner outside of our station and share our own words of support in the effort to bring Nancy home,” CNN affiliate KVOA said in a story about the banner. “We invite you to join us by coming and leaving your own supportive thoughts on it for Nancy.”
CNN spoke with a local woman who stopped by to sign the banner and leave her words of support.
“I just think it’s really important that the Guthrie family knows that Tucson supports them and not to lose hope, not to lose faith,” she said. “… I certainly hope they find her and find some resolution to this, no matter what the outcome is.”
Investigators likely searching "patchwork of video evidence," ex-Secret Service agent says
Jonathan Wackrow, a former Secret Service agent under President Obama, told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer that the latest request for neighbors to review their surveillance footage could lead to “a real break in the case.”
Wackrow, now a security consultant, said the specific dates noted in the request “signal that (investigators) have reason to believe that something relevant happened on that day.”
Law enforcement might be looking to see if someone surveilled Guthrie’s home prior to the kidnapping or if someone was “boundary probing” by testing to see if there were restrictions to entering the property, Wackrow said.
“They’re trying to see, ‘Was there a person there before the attack?’” he said, but added any footage shared by neighbors is not likely to yield a “smoking gun.”
“We may see a sliver of a vehicle in one video that they can then tie to another video,” Wackrow said. “This is going to be a patchwork of video evidence put together.”
But he added the request alone can also indicate “the investigation is moving forward and it’s becoming more precise.”
With old home movie, Savannah Guthrie posts tribute to missing mother
Savannah Guthrie posted a clip Thursday of an old home video and a family photo to Instagram in tribute to her mother, Nancy Guthrie, who remains missing after 12 days.
The video in the new post appears to show Savannah and her older sister Annie Guthrie – as children dressed in matching outfits – joining their mother who is sitting on a bed of flowers. The young girls smile as they hand their mother purple flowers, taking turns smelling the petals.
A photo at the end of the post seems to show Nancy flanked by all three of her children – Camron, Annie and a baby Savannah sitting in her mother’s arms.
“our lovely mom. we will never give up on her. thank you for your prayers and hope,” Savannah Guthrie wrote in the caption of the post.
This post has been updated to include additional information.
A white tent went up temporarily outside Nancy Guthrie's front door
A white tent was put in place directly outside the front door of Nancy Guthrie’s Tucson home Thursday morning before being taken down shortly afterward, according to CNN’s Leigh Waldman, who is on the ground in the area.
The tent was put up just before 8 a.m. local time. A reporter asked the investigators which agency they were with, but the men did not answer.
Investigators were also seen packing up a large black case along with other items they had brought into the home.
In addition to a Pima County Sheriff’s Department vehicle in front of the home, two additional unmarked vehicles were also parked in the driveway.
Remember: Blood stains found on the porch – which officials have confirmed belong to Guthrie – suggest ways her kidnapper may have left traces behind, a forensic expert tells CNN, giving investigators more insight into what may have transpired.
Neighbors asked to check camera footage from 2 days in January
Residents in Nancy Guthrie’s neighborhood have been asked to check their security camera footage from two days in January, according to an alert posted on the Neighbors app by Ring.
The post asks for footage, especially of cars in the area, from:
The post circulating on the app was from a neighbor, not from an official law enforcement agency account, a spokesperson for Amazon, which owns Ring, told CNN in a statement Thursday. The Pima County Sheriff’s Department verified the dates and times in the post, the department told CNN.
The FBI declined to comment due to the ongoing investigation.
The sheriff’s department has posted two “Community Requests” through the app and one public service announcement, all on February 3, Amazon said, adding official accounts on the Neighbors app will always include a blue check mark and the posting agency’s name at the top.
Guthrie was last seen at a family dinner on January 31. Since her disappearance nearly 18,000 tips have come through to the Pima County Sheriff’s Department’s tip line since she was reported missing February 1.
An earlier version of this post reported the request for more footage came directly from authorities.
Tips are flooding in as the search for Nancy Guthrie continues. Here’s the latest
Investigators are sifting through thousands of tips as the search for Nancy Guthrie continues for a 12th day.
It has been exactly a week since authorities briefed the media on the case, with the local sheriff’s department saying it will call a news conference “should a significant development occur.”
Here are the latest developments:
- Thousands of tips: The Pima County Sheriff’s Department said it has received over 18,000 tips since Guthrie was reported missing, with more than 4,000 of those coming in over 24 hours. Investigators are undergoing an intensive process to work through them.
- Search near Guthrie home: FBI agents were out on the roads yesterday in Catalina Foothills, north of Tucson, searching for any new evidence they could find. CNN saw agents searching the ground through thick brush and cacti.
- Glove found: A New York Post reporter witnessed agents pick up a dark glove off the side of the road, about a mile and a half from Guthrie’s home. It’s not clear if it is the same one worn by the person seen in surveillance footage from Guthrie’s doorbell camera released by the FBI.
- Footage scrutinized: Authorities are looking at the type of backpack the person in the doorbell footage was wearing. The person appears to be armed, and the “universal nylon style holster” is not the type of holster someone who regularly carries a gun would use, according to a former police captain.
- New letter: TMZ reported it received a letter from someone purporting to know who Guthrie’s kidnapper is and demanding a single bitcoin in exchange for that information. TMZ says it has handed the email note over to the FBI. There is a $50,000 reward for information leading to the recovery of Guthrie.
Former FBI Assistant Director for the Criminal Investigative Division, Chris Swecker, discussed the investigation last night with CNN’s Laura Coates.
The FBI searched area around Nancy Guthrie's home in Tucson yesterday. Here's the latest
FBI agents were seen searching the desert terrain yesterday outside Nancy Guthrie’s home in Tucson, Arizona.
FBI agents were seen searching the desert terrain outside Nancy Guthrie's home in Tucson, Arizona on Wednesday. A New York Post reporter told CNN that agents picked up and bagged a glove a short distance from Guthrie's house.
Arizona investigators say they've gotten more than 18,000 tips
Nearly 18,000 calls related to the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie case have come through to the Pima County Sheriff’s Department’s tip line since she was reported missing February 1, the department said yesterday.
Authorities have encouraged anyone with information or tips to contact the FBI at 1-800-CALL-FBI, 88-CRIME or tips.fbi.gov. You can also contact the Pima County Sheriff’s office by calling 520-351-4900.
Former detective says the mask worn by person in doorbell footage is a key "error"
Former police detective Mike McCutcheon told CNN’s Laura Coates why the mask worn by the person in the doorbell footage was an “error.”
Residents near Guthrie's home asked to check camera footage from two days in January, affiliates report
Residents living near Nancy Guthrie’s home in the Catalina Foothills, north of Tucson, who have Ring doorbell cameras are being asked to share their footage from two specific days in January, including the morning of the day Guthrie was last seen, CNN affiliates KVOA and KOLD report.
Investigators are looking for footage from January 11, between 9 p.m. and midnight, and from January 31 between 9:30 a.m. and 11 a.m., the outlets report, noting there was reportedly suspicious vehicle seen around 10 a.m. on January 31.
KVOA reporter Jacob Brown posted on X that Ring users in the area were “getting an alert” requesting the footage in regards to the investigation.
The reports from KVOA and KOLD don’t include a description of the vehicle in question, but they say it was seen on Via Entrada, a road near Guthrie’s home in the Foothills.
CNN has reached out to the Pima County Sheriff’s Department, the FBI and Ring for more information.
A resident of the Foothills told CNN he was aware some neighbors were being asked for their Ring footage.
On Wednesday, numerous FBI agents were seen conducting an extensive search along the roads near Guthrie’s home, with some seen by CNN knocking on doors, asking to see surveillance cameras, and looking for discarded items.
Guthrie was dropped off at her home by family members the night of January 31 and was reported missing the next day.
CNN’s Ed Lavandera and Rachid Haoues contributed reporting.
Investigators "aren’t as far along as I thought they were," former FBI assistant director says
Former FBI Assistant Director for the Criminal Investigative Division, Chris Swecker, told CNN’s Laura Coates that the fact that investigators detained a man and had to let him go gives him pause.
What we know about the glove found by FBI near Guthrie's home
A glove recovered by authorities searching for Nancy Guthrie was found about a mile and a half from her home, the New York Post reporter who was there when the item was found told CNN.
Georgia Worrell said she and the photographer working with her saw a black object on the side of the road, and as they got closer, they thought it might be a glove.
It wasn’t until after they were able to see the photographer’s high-resolution photos that they confirmed it was a glove.
The item was bagged as evidence, Worrell said.
It is not clear whether authorities believe it to be the same glove worn by the person seen in doorbell camera footage released by the FBI.
The terrain around Guthrie’s home is rough, making it easy to miss things, Bob Krygier, former commander for the Pima County Sheriff’s Department SWAT, told Burnett.
The recovery of the item leads to a lot of investigative questions, said John Miller, CNN’s chief law enforcement and intelligence analyst.
If the glove is similar to the one seen in the video, investigators will want to see if it is possible to recover DNA, fiber, hair and traces of the plant that was used to cover up the camera, Miller told CNN’s Jake Tapper.
But even if it’s not the glove seen in the video, “it should be probative anyway,” he added.
Firearms expert analyzes gun and holster in doorbell footage
Firearms expert Stephen Gutowski spoke to CNN’s Laura Coates about the doorbell footage showing a masked person outside Nancy Guthrie’s home.
