Latest / Crime Alert Hourly Update / Savannah Guthrie Makes Direct Plea to Missing Mother's Kidnapper | Crime Alert 07.29.26
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Crime Alard hourly update, Breaking crime News.
- 0:03Speaker 2: Now, I'm Sidney Silvanni. More than twenty five weeks after
- 0:08Speaker 2: eighty four year old Nancy Guthrie vanished from her Catalina
- 0:11Speaker 2: Foothills home in Tucson, Arizona, her daughter, Today's Show host
- 0:15Speaker 2: Savannah Guthrie, is appealing directly to her mother's kidnapper. On Monday,
- 0:20Speaker 2: Guthrie posted an emotional video to Instagram, declaring her family
- 0:25Speaker 2: is an agony and will never stop searching. A federal
- 0:28Speaker 2: source close to the investigation says that Guthrie communicated with
- 0:32Speaker 2: law enforcement prior to releasing the message, her first in weeks.
- 0:37Speaker 2: Experts note several word choices showed a marked shift in tone.
- 0:42Speaker 2: For six months, the family asked anyone to bring her home,
- 0:46Speaker 2: but this week Guthrie addressed a single individual, asking the
- 0:50Speaker 2: captor to tell them where to look. Guthrie also urged
- 0:54Speaker 2: the person to do the right thing, shifting her request
- 0:57Speaker 2: from contacting a tip line to reaching out direct. Savannah
- 1:01Speaker 2: Guthrie was absent from Tuesday's Today Show broadcast while filming
- 1:05Speaker 2: NBC's new game show Wordle, having previously stated in June
- 1:09Speaker 2: that she cannot pretend she is not present. Here is
- 1:13Speaker 2: Savannah Guthrie's message broadcast on Instagram.
- 1:16Speaker 3: I'm coming on today with a very specific message. It
- 1:21Speaker 3: has been months since our mom was taken from us.
- 1:27Speaker 3: Our family is in agony. We are in a nightmare
- 1:31Speaker 3: that will not end. Nothing about our situation has changed.
- 1:38Speaker 3: We have done our part, and we will never stop
- 1:41Speaker 3: looking for her. We will always ache for her and
- 1:45Speaker 3: feel that hole in our hearts. The world can be
- 1:51Speaker 3: a cruel and unforgiving place, and I know that you
- 1:55Speaker 3: have tried to do things the right way. So I'm
- 1:59Speaker 3: asking you, you begging you to do the right thing. Now,
- 2:04Speaker 3: make the right choice. Help us find her, Tell us
- 2:08Speaker 3: where to look for her. I truly believe it is
- 2:12Speaker 3: never too late to do the right thing. Help us
- 2:15Speaker 3: bring this situation to an end for all of us.
- 2:20Speaker 3: No matter where we've been and what we've done, I
- 2:24Speaker 3: believe there is always a way home. Please make the
- 2:29Speaker 3: right choice.
- 2:30Speaker 2: While no suspects have been publicly identified since Nancy Guthrie
- 2:34Speaker 2: was taken on February first, the Pima County Sheriff's Department
- 2:37Speaker 2: is actively pursuing all evidence. Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos
- 2:42Speaker 2: tells NBC that investigators are sifting through extensive forensic and
- 2:46Speaker 2: digital material.
- 2:48Speaker 1: We have so much DNA to sort through, We have
- 2:51Speaker 1: so much in terms of video evidence to look at.
- 2:55Speaker 1: So I'm still positive that we're going to resolve this case.
- 3:00Speaker 2: Family is offering a reward exceeding one million dollars through
- 3:03Speaker 2: one eight hundred call FBI, while anonymous tips can be
- 3:07Speaker 2: submitted through Tucson Crime Stoppers at five two zero eight
- 3:11Speaker 2: eight Crime. More crime and justice news after this, A
- 3:16Speaker 2: deadly outbreak of violence at the Seattle Center during the
- 3:19Speaker 2: Bite of Seattle food festival has left three people dead
- 3:23Speaker 2: and four others wounded. Seattle Police Department Chief Sean Barnes
- 3:27Speaker 2: reports that gunfire erupted outside the Seattle Center armory when
- 3:31Speaker 2: small groups clashed, trapping innocent bystanders in the crossfire. Court
- 3:36Speaker 2: documents filed in juvenile court yesterday reveal investigators now believe
- 3:40Speaker 2: three gunmen were involved. A fifteen year old juvenile was
- 3:44Speaker 2: booked into detention on suspicion of firearms violations and first
- 3:48Speaker 2: degree assault. The teen waived his initial court appearance Monday,
- 3:52Speaker 2: and no homicide charges have been filed yet. Seattle Mayor
- 3:55Speaker 2: Katie Wilson confirmed the teenager open fire in the crowd.
- 3:59Speaker 2: Police eight the fifteen year old in a deceased acquaintance
- 4:03Speaker 2: engaged in a gunfight with at least one unknown suspect.
- 4:06Speaker 2: A nineteen year old man and a forty four year
- 4:09Speaker 2: old man died at the scene, while a fifty six
- 4:11Speaker 2: year old woman later died at Harbor View Medical Center.
- 4:14Speaker 2: Four other victims, including a two year old boy, suffered
- 4:18Speaker 2: injuries to their arms, legs, and abdomen. Authorities are investigating
- 4:22Speaker 2: whether a twenty seven year old hospital patient is an
- 4:25Speaker 2: eighth victim, while Washington State Patrol SWAT officers assist Seattle
- 4:29Speaker 2: police in an active manhunt for the third shooter. Washington
- 4:33Speaker 2: Governor Bob Ferguson posted on x that his prayers are
- 4:36Speaker 2: with the victims and responders. In House Springs, Missouri, a
- 4:40Speaker 2: patty neighborhood dispute over property maintenance turned fatal when seventy
- 4:45Speaker 2: three year old Robert Winkleman ambushed his neighbors. The Jefferson
- 4:48Speaker 2: County Sheriff's Office reports Winkleman walked to the home of
- 4:52Speaker 2: thirty eight year old Jessica Lashley on Saturday night, confronting
- 4:55Speaker 2: her about property upkeep before pulling a gun and shooting
- 4:59Speaker 2: her in the head. Lashly's seventeen year old identical twin daughter,
- 5:03Speaker 2: Jersey Greer, rushed to protect her mother, but Winkleman shot
- 5:07Speaker 2: her in the head as well. Greer's aunt hailed the
- 5:10Speaker 2: teenager's heroic final act. Winkleman then chased an uninjured third
- 5:15Speaker 2: person before shooting himself as deputies approached. Both victims died
- 5:19Speaker 2: Monday at Mercy Hospital South after being removed from life support.
- 5:24Speaker 2: Winkleman remains hospitalized in critical condition, charged with two counts
- 5:28Speaker 2: of first degree assault in armed criminal action. Greer's surviving
- 5:32Speaker 2: twin sister, Justice, was at work during the attack. Lashley
- 5:36Speaker 2: worked for her family's tree cutting business while her daughters
- 5:39Speaker 2: played lacrosse at Northwest High School, where teammates flooded hospital
- 5:43Speaker 2: halls and launched a crowdfunding campaign that has raised over
- 5:47Speaker 2: thirty seven thousand dollars. For more crime and justice news,
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- 5:57Speaker 2: on two be with this crime alert, I'm siy Nisilvonni