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Savannah Guthrie’s Tearful Plea to Her Mother’s Kidnappers: “It’s Never Too Late to Do the Right Thing” | Crime Alert 6AM 02.16.26 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Alard hourly update, Breaking crime news Now.
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  Speaker 2: I'm Nicole Pardon. Our top story centers on the deeply
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  Speaker 2: troubling disappearance of eighty four year old Nancy Guthrie, mother
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  Speaker 2: of Today Show host Savannah Guthrie, as the search enters
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  Speaker 2: its sixteenth day. Over the weekend, Savannah Guthrie released an
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  Speaker 2: emotional message on Instagram pleading for her mother's safe return.
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  Speaker 3: It's been two weeks since our mom was taken, and
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  Speaker 3: I just wanted to come on and say that we
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  Speaker 3: still have hope, and we still believe. And I wanted
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  Speaker 3: to say to whoever has her or knows where she.
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  Speaker 1: Is, that.
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  Speaker 3: It's never too late, and you're not lost or alone,
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  Speaker 3: and it is never too late to do the right thing.
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  Speaker 3: And we are here. We believe, and we believe in
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  Speaker 3: the essential goodness of every human being, and it's never
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  Speaker 3: too late.
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  Speaker 2: Also on Sunday, the FBI announced a significant development. A
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  Speaker 2: glove discovered Friday near Nancy Guthrie's home in the Catalina
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  Speaker 2: Foothills of Arizona appears to match a pair worn by
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  Speaker 2: a suspect captured on Guthrie's nest doorbell camera. Investigators say
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  Speaker 2: the glove contains male DNA. Preliminary results are in, but
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  Speaker 2: the FBI says they are awaiting official confirmation before releasing
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  Speaker 2: further details. Nancy Guthrie was last seen on January thirty, first,
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  Speaker 2: after dinner at her daughter Annie's home. She was reported
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  Speaker 2: missing the next day when she failed to appear for
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  Speaker 2: an online church service. Earlier this week, FBI Director Cash
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  Speaker 2: Ptail released photos and videos of a possible armed subject.
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  Speaker 2: By Thursday, that person had officially been labeled a suspect,
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  Speaker 2: and on Friday, investigators confirmed that DNA found inside Guthrie's
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  Speaker 2: home does not belong to her or any of her
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  Speaker 2: family members. This discovery comes on the heels of her
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  Speaker 2: own blood being found at the residence a week earlier.
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  Speaker 2: As the investigation intensifies, the FBI has doubled its reward
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  Speaker 2: for information leading to an arrest and conviction. That reward
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  Speaker 2: now stands at one hundred thousand dollars. Authorities are urging
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  Speaker 2: anyone with information, no matter how small, to come forward.
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  Speaker 2: If you know anything about the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie,
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  Speaker 2: called the FBI tip line at one eight hundred call FBI.
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  Speaker 2: You can all so contact the PIMA County Sheriff's Department
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  Speaker 2: at five two zero three five one four to nine
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  Speaker 2: zero zero, War Crime and Justice News. After this, a
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  Speaker 2: woman from Phoenix was taken into custody after medical professionals
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  Speaker 2: found that her infant son had a skull fracture and
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  Speaker 2: other injuries upon his arrival at a hospital. The woman,
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  Speaker 2: twenty four year old Dejeja Walker, was arrested on Wednesday,
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  Speaker 2: February eleven at a Phoenix apartment. She faces two charges
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  Speaker 2: of child abuse. According to local news sources KOLD, this
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  Speaker 2: arrest follows her child, a three month old son, being
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  Speaker 2: put in the hospital. According to court documents cited by
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  Speaker 2: the news outlet, the child's father noticed the baby twitching
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  Speaker 2: on Christmas Day, which prompted him to call nine one one.
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  Speaker 2: The infant was admitted to Phoenix Children's Hospital, where medical
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  Speaker 2: staff identified a right skull fracture, several brain leads, and
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  Speaker 2: healing fractures in his ribs and leg. During a police interview,
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  Speaker 2: the child's father recounted that the baby had been in
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  Speaker 2: Walker's care on Christmas Eve and part of the day
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  Speaker 2: On Christmas. He noticed the twitching while they were celebrating
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  Speaker 2: the holiday at his parents' home. Walker also spoke with police,
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  Speaker 2: claiming she was unaware of how her child sustained the injuries.
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  Speaker 2: She admitted to using marijuana, but initially denied having used cocaine. However,
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  Speaker 2: after a search warrant was executed, she revealed that she
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  Speaker 2: had stopped using the substance before her child was born,
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  Speaker 2: but had relapsed in the last few days. Authorities later
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  Speaker 2: conducted a hair test on Walker which could detect narcotic
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  Speaker 2: usage from the previous three months, and the results came
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  Speaker 2: back positive for cocaine. Additionally, Walker failed to attend two
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  Speaker 2: scheduled polygraph tests arranged by the police, while the child's
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  Speaker 2: father did attend and passed his test. After her arrest,
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  Speaker 2: Walker confused to being the sole caregiver for the child
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  Speaker 2: on Christmas Eve and admitted to using cocaine with a
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  Speaker 2: friend twenty four hours prior to the night the child
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  Speaker 2: was injured, although she insisted she still doesn't know how
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  Speaker 2: the child received those internal severe injuries. She's currently being
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  Speaker 2: held on a seventy five thousand dollars bond, the child
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  Speaker 2: still listed in critical condition.
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  Speaker 4: Kimberly Moore moves from Dallas, Texas to Ringo, Louisiana, to
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  Speaker 4: live with their partner, Vernon Parker, just in time for Thanksgiving.
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  Speaker 4: The couple spends the next month settling in and they
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  Speaker 4: attend a New Year's Eve party together on New Year's Day.
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  Speaker 4: On New Year's Day, Vernon Parker is found shot dead
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  Speaker 4: in the backseat of his running car. The last time
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  Speaker 4: anyone saw Kimberly was at the party the night before.
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  Speaker 4: Police now believed Kimberly Moore may have witnessed Parker's shooting
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  Speaker 4: and could be in danger or worse. Kimberly Moore I'm
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  Speaker 4: missing over a year. If you have info on Kimberly Moore,
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  Speaker 4: please call Bienville Parish, Louisiana Sheriffs at three one eight
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  Speaker 4: two six three two two one five.
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  Speaker 1: Crime Stories, where we do our best to find missing people,
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  Speaker 1: especially children, and help solve unsolved homicides. With this crime alert,
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  Speaker 1: I'm Nancy Grace.