A $10 Walmart gun holster could help identify suspect in Nancy Guthrie case

TUCSON, Ariz. — The holster seen successful surveillance video taken connected the beforehand steps of the missing parent of "TODAY" co-host Savannah Guthrie whitethorn supply cardinal leads to instrumentality enforcement, experts said Friday.

The holster is cheap, easy distinguished and lone disposable astatine a constricted fig of retail stores, according to an active-duty Miami-area constabulary serviceman who shared his investigation with Fox News Digital successful the anticipation it tin assistance investigators find whoever is liable for the abduction of Nancy Guthrie. 

The FBI teamed up with Google successful the groundbreaking betterment of Guthrie’s Nest doorbell camera video past week. It is not publically known wherever the instrumentality itself is, and she didn’t person a subscription that would person stored it successful the cloud. But investigators were capable to retrieve video showing a masked and gloved antheral connected Guthrie’s porch, wherever instrumentality enforcement aboriginal recovered drops of her blood.

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This representation released by the FBI shows an equipped idiosyncratic appearing to person tampered with the camera astatine Nancy Guthrie's beforehand doorway the greeting of her disappearance successful Tucson, Arizona, Sunday, Feb. 1, 2026. (Provided by FBI)

It shows a antheral described arsenic being of mean physique and height, covered from caput to toed and wearing a backpack. He besides has what appears to beryllium an awkwardly worn holster.

The officer, who asked not to beryllium named, told Fox News Digital that the holster’s seemingly light-colored quality is misleading since it appeared successful an infrared recording. The main sheet consists of a antithetic worldly from the piping, helium said. But the signifier and different details align with a Strategy marque hep holster disposable astatine immoderate Walmart stores for astir $10. 

As of Saturday afternoon, the holster was listed arsenic successful banal astatine 5 Walmart stores successful the Tucson area: 1260 E. Tucson Marketplace Blvd., 7150 E. Speedway Blvd., 7635 N. La Cholla Blvd., 1650 W. Valencia Rd., and 8280 N. Cortaro Rd., according to the retailer’s website.

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A surveillance image, left, shows an chartless fishy successful the Nancy Guthrie probe with what appears to beryllium a holstered firearm. On the close is simply a photograph of a Strategy Large Frame Revolver Hip Holster identified by a constabulary adept arsenic the aforesaid holster worn by the fishy successful the surveillance image. (FBI Arizona and Fox News Digital)

According to details connected Walmart’s website, the water-resistant holster is designed to clasp a revolver with a tube measuring 4 to 6.5 inches. The merchandise statement states the holster is designed for right-hand use. The weapon successful the Nest video appears to beryllium a Walther semiautomatic oregon thing similar, the serviceman said, an antithetic and distinctive pairing.

It has a distinctive signifier and retention band and is not considered fashionable among firearms aficionados. As a result, the serviceman doesn’t expect that investigators volition find galore purchases. 

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Another identifiable point the masked fishy wore connected Nest doorbell camera video released by the FBI this week is besides disposable exclusively astatine Walmart stores — the Ozark Trail backpack. 

An Ozark Trails backpack for merchantability successful a Walmart store, Tucson, Arizona, Friday, Feb. 13, 2026.  (Derek Shook for Fox News Digital)

While the backpack is common, fashionable and wide available, the holster was lone successful banal astatine 2 of much than a twelve Tucson-area stores arsenic of Friday, according to Walmart’s online buying site. 

"I deliberation it is much indicative of idiosyncratic who was grabbing his worldly and improvising," said Betsy Brantner Smith, a retired constabulary sergeant and trainer. "But I don't deliberation this feline was a ‘professional’ either. I deliberation his demeanor says that helium was successful connected the kidnapping, the location invasion, immoderate it's going to be."

Investigators tin cross-reference purchases of these 2 items to effort to find a fishy oregon constrictive down the excavation of persons of interest.

"Probably little radical bought the holster than bought the backpack," Brantner Smith told Fox News Digital.

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An FBI billboard successful Albuquerque, N.M., is raising consciousness astir the hunt for missing Nancy Guthrie.  (KRQE)

Neither the Pima County Sheriff’s Department nor the FBI instantly responded to emails astir the holster. 

Guthrie, 84, was taken by unit retired of her location successful bluish Tucson successful the aboriginal greeting hours of Feb. 1, according to the Pima County Sheriff’s Department. 

There is simply a $100,000 reward for accusation that cracks the case. Dial 1-800-CALL-FBI.