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Person Detained in Search for Nancy Guthrie's Kidnapper | Crime Alert 6AM 02.11.26 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Alart hourly update Breaking crime News Now. I'm Drew Nelson.
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  Speaker 1: There's been activity tied to a bitcoin wallet connected to
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  Speaker 1: whoever abducted Nancy Guthrie. The transaction comes from the bitcoin
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  Speaker 1: address found and the ransom note sent to TV station KOLD,
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  Speaker 1: identical to the address shared in other ransom notes. KPHO
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  Speaker 1: was first to report with the outlet withholding the amount
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  Speaker 1: of the transaction. This comes just hours after the FBI
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  Speaker 1: released new surveillance video in the continuing search for Guthrie.
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  Speaker 1: The video shows a masked individual at the front door
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  Speaker 1: of Guthrie's Tucson area home during the early morning hours
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  Speaker 1: of February first. Investigators say the person appears to be armed.
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  Speaker 1: The black and white images and video clips show someone
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  Speaker 1: wearing a ski mask, gloves, sneakers, and a backpack. A
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  Speaker 1: handgun appears to be holstered at the person's waist. In
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  Speaker 1: several frames, the individual is seen facing the doorbell camera.
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  Speaker 1: In one video, the person raises a gloved hand to
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  Speaker 1: block the lens. In another, they bend down, pull foliage
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  Speaker 1: from the yard and attempt to drape it over the
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  Speaker 1: cameraon to block its view. FBI director Cash Pattel says
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  Speaker 1: the footage had long been believed to be unavailable. He
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  Speaker 1: says it was recovered after days of technical work with
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  Speaker 1: private sector partners using residual data stored in back end systems.
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  Speaker 1: Law enforcement sources say Guthrie's family was shown the images
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  Speaker 1: before they were released publicly. Within minutes of their release,
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  Speaker 1: Nancy's daughter, longtime co anchor of NBC's Today, Savannah Guthrie,
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  Speaker 1: shared the images on social media. She writes, quote, we
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  Speaker 1: believe she is still alive. Bring her home. In a
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  Speaker 1: second post, she added, quote someone out there recognizes this person.
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  Speaker 1: Authorities believe Nancy Guthrie was taken from her home sometime
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  Speaker 1: after one forty seven in the morning on February first.
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  Speaker 1: That's when her doorbell camera disconnected. Roughly twenty five minutes later,
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  Speaker 1: software detected motion at the home, but nobody was recorded.
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  Speaker 1: At exactly two twenty eight am, Guthrie's pacemaker lost contact
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  Speaker 1: with its mother monitoring app on her phone. Investigators later
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  Speaker 1: found the phone inside the house. Investigators say that sequence
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  Speaker 1: strongly suggests she was removed from the home around that time.
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  Speaker 1: They also observed blood on the stoop when they responded
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  Speaker 1: Guthrie was last seen the night before, after having dinner
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  Speaker 1: with her daughter Annie. She was dropped off at her
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  Speaker 1: home just before ten pm. Family members and investigators have
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  Speaker 1: said she was mentally sharp, but had limited mobility and
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  Speaker 1: required daily medication. Authorities have warned that missing that medication
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  Speaker 1: could be life threatening. Days into the investigation, multiple news
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  Speaker 1: outlets received messages claiming Guthrie had been kidnapped, one note
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  Speaker 1: demanding six million dollars in bitcoin, threatening her life if
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  Speaker 1: the deadline passed. It did pass Monday evening. The FBI
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  Speaker 1: says it is not aware of any continued communication between
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  Speaker 1: the Guthrie family and anyone claiming to be responsible. Investigators
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  Speaker 1: say no suspect or a person of interest has been identified.
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  Speaker 1: The Pima County Sheriff's office leading the investigation says there
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  Speaker 1: are no scheduled press briefings both the case remains active.
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  Speaker 1: Deputies and FBI agents have been canvassing neighborhoods near Guthrie's
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  Speaker 1: home and near her daughter Annie's home, looking for surveillance
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  Speaker 1: video and witnesses. White House officials confirm President Trump has
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  Speaker 1: been briefed on the case and has reviewed the newly
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  Speaker 1: released images. The White House says the President is urging
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  Speaker 1: anyone with information to contact authorities as the search moves
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  Speaker 1: deeper into its second week. The FBI says it is
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  Speaker 1: operating a twenty four hour command post in Tucson and
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  Speaker 1: has deployed additional personnel to assist local investigators. A fifty
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  Speaker 1: thousand dollars reward remains in effect for information leading to
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  Speaker 1: Nancy Guthrie's recovery or the arrest and conviction of anyone
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  Speaker 1: involved in her disappearance. Anyone with information has urged to
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  Speaker 1: contact the FBI at eight hundred call FBI or tips
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  Speaker 1: dot FBI dot gov. For more on the disappearance of
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  Speaker 1: Nancy Guthrie. Joined Crime Stories with Nancy Grace six pm
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  Speaker 1: More crime and justice news after this. A former Massachusetts
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  Speaker 1: police officer is accused by several women of using information
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  Speaker 1: gathered during official police calls to send unsolicited flirtatious messages.
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  Speaker 1: The new accusations follow the resignation of former Lowell police
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  Speaker 1: officer Dylan de Silva. He resigned in November after multiple
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  Speaker 1: sources tied him to an alleged sexual relationship with a
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  Speaker 1: seventeen year old girl he met while responding to a
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  Speaker 1: call involving a mental health crisis. Two women have now
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  Speaker 1: come forward. They are sisters in law. Both say they
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  Speaker 1: provided their names and private phone numbers during routine police
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  Speaker 1: business in late twenty twenty four. Days or weeks later,
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  Speaker 1: each says she received unsolicited text messages from a man
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  Speaker 1: identifying himself as Officer to Silva. According to WFXT. Alex
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  Speaker 1: Kelley says the contact escalated after a man she identifies
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  Speaker 1: as Da Silva responded to a call at her home
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  Speaker 1: and collected her information, and then.
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  Speaker 2: He started sending photos like he started sending pictures of himself.
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  Speaker 1: Kelly later learned her sister in law, Jen, had a
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  Speaker 1: similar experience. Jen says her only interaction with Lowell Police
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  Speaker 1: came through a nine to one one call made days
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  Speaker 1: before the messages began.
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  Speaker 2: They asked me for my name and my phone number,
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  Speaker 2: and that would be the only way a Lowell police
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  Speaker 2: officer would get my telephone number.
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  Speaker 1: Both women say they only realized the overlap after seeing
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  Speaker 1: coverage of Da Silva's resignation. I saw a story and
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  Speaker 1: I thought that was crazy because I had a similar
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  Speaker 1: situation where I had to call the police.
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  Speaker 2: And then just like a few days later, I got
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  Speaker 2: a text message.
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  Speaker 1: The two compared their phones.
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  Speaker 2: To be related and for both of us to get
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  Speaker 2: those same MAX messages. I was like, there's no way, Well,
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  Speaker 2: let's just compare numbers like this. We both had the
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  Speaker 2: same picture that he said.
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  Speaker 1: Which was weird. Neither woman filed a formal complaint at
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  Speaker 1: the time. Kelly says she mentioned the texts to a
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  Speaker 1: Lowell play police officer she knew. In twenty twenty four,
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  Speaker 1: in an email to WFXT, Deputy Superintendent Mark LeBlanc says
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  Speaker 1: the alleged contact with these women had not previously been
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  Speaker 1: reported to command staff and that the department wants to
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  Speaker 1: speak with them. Calls to the number used to send
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  Speaker 1: the texts went to voicemail. The Massachusetts Peace Officers Standards
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  Speaker 1: and Training Commission has already suspended to Silver's Law Enforcements certification.
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  Speaker 1: Lowell Police continue to withhold internal affairs records, body camera video,
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  Speaker 1: and related police reports, citing privacy law. The Secretary of
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  Speaker 1: State's office is reviewing whether those records can be released
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  Speaker 1: in redacted form. For the latest crime and justice news,
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  Speaker 1: with this crime alert. I'm Drew Nelson.