Masked suspect seen at Nancy Guthrie's home three weeks before her abduction, sources say

Three weeks earlier Nancy Guthrie's evident abduction from her location successful Tucson, Arizona, a masked antheral resembling the 1 suspected of taking her was seen connected her beforehand steps, according to aggregate instrumentality enforcement sources.

Guthrie, the 84-year-old parent of "Today" co-host Savannah Guthrie, is believed to person been abducted against her volition successful the aboriginal hours of Feb. 1, according to the Pima County Sheriff's Department.

On Feb. 10, the FBI released surveillance images recovered from her Nest doorbell camera. As Fox News Digital antecedently reported, 1 of those pictures was taken connected a antithetic day than the others, according to different root with cognition of the investigation.

Authorities have, astatine antithetic times, asked for neighbors to cheque their location information systems for the full period of January, the nighttime of Jan. 11, and the hours surrounding Guthrie’s disappearance, betwixt Jan. 31 and Feb. 2.

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These 2 images were released by the FBI, recovered from Nancy Guthrie's Nest doorbell camera. It's unclear whether they amusement the aforesaid person. (FBI)

Jan. 24 has besides emerged arsenic a day of interest, News Nation reported past week, citing a neighbour who said she was asked for video from then, too. 

"We don't cognize what that indicates, obviously, but the astir hopeful work connected it is that they're looking astatine idiosyncratic and that they're trying to spot that idiosyncratic oregon persons successful the vicinity astatine that hr connected those dates to spot if successful fact, they tin statesman to enactment backwards," retired NYPD inspector and Fox News contributor said connected "Fox & Friends" Wednesday morning. "Less hopeful, is let's accidental they person thing successful the forensics…that shows immoderate benignant of antithetic enactment that they're trying to hone successful on."

The masked fishy remains unidentified. According to FBI analysts, helium is astir 5 feet, 9 inches to 5 feet, 10 inches gangly and has a mean build. Authorities said helium was wearing a 25-liter, achromatic Ozark Trail backpack.

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Other items person not been officially identified, but helium appears to beryllium wearing a holstered pistol adjacent his groin.

The Jan. 11 day is some erstwhile residents utilizing the Ring Neighbors app were asked to cheque video aboriginal successful the lawsuit — and erstwhile 2 instrumentality enforcement sources accidental the masked antheral was pictured without the holster oregon the backpack.

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An undated photograph of Nancy Guthrie and Savannah Guthrie provided by NBC successful repsonse to the disappearance of the 84 year-old parent of the Today Show host. (Courtesy of NBC)

A station connected the app from a neighbour said investigators were seeking video from 9 p.m. to midnight connected Jan. 11 and besides mentioned a "suspicious vehicle" spotted connected Via Entrada, a thoroughfare adjacent Guthrie's home, astir 10 a.m. connected Jan. 31. Pima County authorities noted that it was not an authoritative station from their department.

"Please cheque your recordings earlier they are overwritten," the station reads. "Footage of conveyance postulation is peculiarly helpful."

There was nary statement fixed for the vehicle.

Savannah Guthrie visits the "Today" amusement astatine Rockefeller Plaza connected Thursday, March 5, 2026, successful New York. (Charles Sykes/Invision/AP)

Separately, a neighbour said she saw a unusual antheral walking successful the vicinity successful mid-January.

"He didn’t person your emblematic walking cogwheel on, and helium had his chapeau pulled truly acold implicit his eyes," section homeowner Aldine Meister told Fox News Digital successful February.

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She told Fox News Digital that she knew it was aft Jan. 8, erstwhile she had visitors successful town, and astatine slightest 3 weeks earlier Guthrie’s abduction. 

A structure was placed implicit the beforehand entranceway to Nancy Guthrie's location successful Tucson, Arizona, Thursday, February 12, 2026. The structure is covering wherever Guthrie's humor was found. (Fox Flight Team)

"It could’ve been the 11th," Meister said.

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Michele Young, different longtime nonmigratory of the Catalina Foothills country said investigators came to her location a full of 5 times.

"On that past visit, erstwhile I was talking to the FBI and the sheriff together, they did notation the 11th," Young said. "I had mentioned that the sheriff’s section came backmost for further footage, and they mentioned thing astir a antithetic date."

Investigators look implicit paperwork successful the vicinity wherever Annie Guthrie, whose parent Nancy Guthrie has been missing for much than a week, lives conscionable extracurricular Tucson, Ariz., connected Tuesday, Feb. 10, 2026. (Ty ONeil/AP Photo)

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The Pima County Sheriff's Department has declined to sermon that day specifically, publically asking for section residents to taxable video of immoderate suspicious activity, radical oregon vehicles recorded betwixt Jan. 1 and Feb. 2.

There's inactive a question astir whether the masked fishy had immoderate help.

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Annie Guthrie, her hubby Tommaso Cioni, and Savannah Guthrie astatine their missing parent Nancy Guthrie's location connected Monday, March 2, successful Tucson, Arizona. (Fox News)

"The sheriff has said each on that portion investigators are moving to place the idiosyncratic seen connected doorbell video, they are not ruling retired that that was the lone idiosyncratic involved," a section spokesperson said past month.

At slightest 2 men were detained and released without charges successful the investigation. Police person not publically named immoderate suspects, persons of involvement oregon vehicles connected to the case.

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There is simply a combined reward of much than $1.2 cardinal for accusation that leads to Nancy's recovery.

Anyone with accusation is asked to telephone 1-800-CALL-FBI.