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A break in the case of TV host’s missing mother · The Front

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  Speaker 1: Today's biggest news from The Australian. I'm Claire Harvey with
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  Speaker 1: the Front's afternoon headlines. Finally, an apparent break in a
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  Speaker 1: missing person case that has captivated the world, with a
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  Speaker 1: person detained over the disappearance of eighty four year old
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  Speaker 1: Nancy Guthrie, mother of American breakfast TV host Savannah Guthrie.
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  Speaker 1: US media are reporting law enforcement sources saying a person
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  Speaker 1: of interest has been detained for questioning in Rio Rico,
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  Speaker 1: a city about an hour south of Tucson, Arizona, near
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  Speaker 1: where Guthrie went missing on February one. Footage already released
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  Speaker 1: by investigators shows a large figure in a balaklava and
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  Speaker 1: heavy gloves approaching the doorbell camera at Nancy Guthrie's home
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  Speaker 1: and pulling leaves from the garden to obscure it.
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  Speaker 2: This person went to great length to conceal their identity.
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  Speaker 2: You can only see their eyes and their mouth, but
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  Speaker 2: experts say what they're wearing, even how they walk, is telling,
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  Speaker 2: and they believe it is only a matter of time
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  Speaker 2: before there's a name.
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  Speaker 1: About forty minutes later, around one am on February one,
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  Speaker 1: Nancy Guthrie's pacemaker disconnected from her mobile phone, which was
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  Speaker 1: found at the scene, along with her keys and other
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  Speaker 1: personal items when her frantic family reported her missing hours later.
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  Speaker 1: The person in the footage is wearing a backpack and
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  Speaker 1: appears to have something that looks like a pistol holstered
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  Speaker 1: on their body. The local county Sheriff's department has activated
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  Speaker 1: a SWAT team that stands for special weapons and tactics
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  Speaker 1: to assist with investigations. Here's Nancy Guthrie's daughter, Today's show
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  Speaker 1: host Savannah Guthrie. We need your help. She was taken
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  Speaker 1: and we don't know where. No matter where you are,
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  Speaker 1: if you see anything that you report to law enforcement,
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  Speaker 1: we are at an hour of desperation. The story has
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  Speaker 1: sparked waves of conspiracy theory and a vast volume of
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  Speaker 1: tips to a investigators, plus several apparent requests for ransom,
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  Speaker 1: at least one demanding payment in bitcoin. The doorbell camera
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  Speaker 1: footage took nine days to be released, prompting speculation it
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  Speaker 1: had to be retrieved from Google's data centers, where images
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  Speaker 1: from the Nest doorbell system are stored if a user
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  Speaker 1: has not set the system up to download images locally.
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  Speaker 1: Nancy Guthrie's house has become a scene of chaos, with
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  Speaker 1: journalists and social media content creators live streaming from the area,
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  Speaker 1: prompting the sheriff earlier today to ask that they not
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  Speaker 1: have food delivered to the address. That's after a Domino's
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  Speaker 1: pizza delivery worker took an order for a YouTuber to
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  Speaker 1: the homes front door. The liberal leadership tension looks to
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  Speaker 1: be heading for a climax, with camera buzzing with speculation
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  Speaker 1: that there will be a spill in coming hours. Our
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  Speaker 1: reporter Greg Brown is reporting Susan Lee's strongest backers are
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  Speaker 1: preparing for a party room meeting to be held on
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  Speaker 1: Friday that his rival Angus Taylor counts his supporters who
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  Speaker 1: may bring on a spill motion that would see leadership
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  Speaker 1: positions vacated and a ballot for a new leader. You
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  Speaker 1: can follow those developing stories live right now at the
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  Speaker 1: Australian dot com dot au