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TV HOST SAVANNAH GUTHRIE'S MOM MISSING, HOME ACTIVE CRIME SCENE · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy Gray.
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  Speaker 2: This is very concerning to us. We don't typically you
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  Speaker 2: don't typically get the sheriff out at a scene like this,
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  Speaker 2: but it's very concerning what we're learning from the house,
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  Speaker 2: and so we'll just continue the detectives there. A homicide
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  Speaker 2: team is out right now looking at the scene as well.
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  Speaker 1: What is it about the scene that concerns you.
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  Speaker 2: I don't want to get into those details. I would
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  Speaker 2: just tell you that it's certainly a great concern to us.
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  Speaker 3: Just what we see there, and we'll continue to look.
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  Speaker 1: So you suspect foul play, I'm not willing it out.
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  Speaker 1: Would you gauge the chances are that it's foul play?
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  Speaker 1: Would you be willing to give us any idea on that.
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  Speaker 2: I hope it's not. I hope we find her.
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  Speaker 1: I hope we find her safe. And so out tonight,
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  Speaker 1: our friend Savannah Guthrie needs our help, including you. Her
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  Speaker 1: eighty four year old mother in Arizona is missing right now,
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  Speaker 1: is being treated as a crime scene. Straight out to
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  Speaker 1: Dave mac joining US investigative reporter Crime Stories, Dave, what
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  Speaker 1: do we know?
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  Speaker 2: We know that Nancy, a relative called nine to one
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  Speaker 2: one yesterday just around twelve noon and reported Nancy Guthrie,
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  Speaker 2: eighty four years old, missing. Now, Nancy, there are several
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  Speaker 2: things to consider here. The Sheriff's department has already said
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  Speaker 2: this looks like a crime scene in that house. They
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  Speaker 2: went out right away and already got boots on the ground.
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  Speaker 2: They even brought in homicide detectives early. Nancy, I do
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  Speaker 2: you want to clarify that Nancy Guthrie, eighty four years old,
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  Speaker 2: lives in Catalina Foothills, which is just north of Tucson, Arizona.
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  Speaker 2: She was last seen Saturday night around nine thirty. It
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  Speaker 2: was on Sunday, as I said, midday when a relative
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  Speaker 2: called nine one one saying we've got a missing woman.
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  Speaker 2: And I've got to assume there's more to it based
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  Speaker 2: on the amount of assets being used right now to
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  Speaker 2: the locator.
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  Speaker 1: Guys at this hour, our friend, my former coworker, Savannah Guthrie,
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  Speaker 1: needs our help. Her mother, her eighty four year old mother,
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  Speaker 1: has gone missing. Nancy Guthrie gone last scene Sunday night.
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  Speaker 1: Missus Guthrie five five, one hundred and fifty pounds, brown hair,
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  Speaker 1: beautiful blue eyes, just like Savannah. There is a tip
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  Speaker 1: line five two zero three five one forty nine hundred
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  Speaker 1: five to two zero three five one forty nine hundred.
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  Speaker 1: Now this is in the Catalina Foothills near Tucson in Arizona.
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  Speaker 1: Please look at this photo. We know what Savannah looks like.
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  Speaker 1: This is her mother. Please help us find this eighty
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  Speaker 1: four year old mom. Another thing I'm learning, Dave, Mike,
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  Speaker 1: hold on, Dave, I'm being joined now by not only
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  Speaker 1: doctor Bethany Marshall, our friend joining us out of LA,
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  Speaker 1: but Brian Fitzgibbons. He is the director of Operations for
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  Speaker 1: USPA Nationwide Security. He leads a team of investigators that
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  Speaker 1: go all over the world specializing in locating missing people
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  Speaker 1: uspasecurity dot Com. Brian, thank you for joining us tonight. Brian.
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  Speaker 1: I know this. I know that we're being told. Up
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  Speaker 1: behind are her keys, her ID, her purse, her phone, everything.
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  Speaker 1: That's what we're learning at this hour. What do we
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  Speaker 1: do now she's limited in mobility. Listen to me, the
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  Speaker 1: share off Chris Nato says, she did not just walk
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  Speaker 1: out of there, Brian, So what do we do right now?
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  Speaker 1: I would immediately bring in canines, both types of k nines,
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  Speaker 1: scent dogs, tracker dogs and cadaver dogs. I bring them
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  Speaker 1: both in right now.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 4: Nancy and Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos has made some
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  Speaker 4: immediate coordination to have those things happen. You had canine
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  Speaker 4: teams brought over from Customs and Border Patrol, helicopter assets
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  Speaker 4: in the air, as well as drones with search and
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  Speaker 4: rescue technologies searching the immediate area, because, as you said,
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  Speaker 4: you know, Nancy, being eighty four years old with some
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  Speaker 4: medical conditions, was not going to walk on her own
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  Speaker 4: power a significant distance. So those assets have been utilized
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  Speaker 4: in Unfortunately, law enforcement has come up with nothing from that.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, Brian Fitzgibbons, I just made a horrible, horrible mistake,
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  Speaker 1: Doctor Bethany Marshall. I just when Brian was talking about
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  Speaker 1: her needing meds, I thought about my mom. Last night,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, quarter of twelve. I was in my
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  Speaker 1: mom's room. She lives with us. She just turned ninety four,
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  Speaker 1: and I saw where she had not had her nightmads.
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  Speaker 1: And they're in one of those big boxes, you know,
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  Speaker 1: where you lay them out. There's so many day by day,
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  Speaker 1: there's morning meds and there's nightmas. And if she doesn't
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  Speaker 1: have those meds, she'll die. They thin her blood, therefore
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  Speaker 1: her heart. That just I don't even know what they
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  Speaker 1: all are. And without those meds, she'll die.
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  Speaker 4: My mom will die.
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  Speaker 1: She has to have those meds. And I was thinking
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  Speaker 1: about what the sheriff said, that she's not mobile. She can't,
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  Speaker 1: you know, just walk out of there. They're treating it
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  Speaker 1: like a crime scene, Doctor Bethany. And I know we
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  Speaker 1: keep showing smiley pictures of Savannah Bethany, but Savannah is
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  Speaker 1: not just a famous TV star. You know, she's the
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  Speaker 1: co host of to the Today Show. I still think
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  Speaker 1: of Savannah when she first came to join me at
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  Speaker 1: Court TV. And she is the same sweet, kind person
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  Speaker 1: now that she was then before she became a huge star.
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  Speaker 1: Just when you see her smiling unlike a lot of
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  Speaker 1: TV people, that's real. That's who Savannah is. And I'm
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  Speaker 1: thinking tonight, doctor Bethany, when you have your mom and
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  Speaker 1: a let's just say a rest time or a retirement community,
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  Speaker 1: and that's what the mom wants. They want to be independent,
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  Speaker 1: they want to live on their own. But the whole
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  Speaker 1: time you're riddled with fear. Yes, you're taking care of
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  Speaker 1: your own children, your own family, your own job. But
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  Speaker 1: every day you're worried. I wonder if Mom's okay. But
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  Speaker 1: I know she must be totally riddled with fear nancy.
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  Speaker 3: She must be terrified, you know, because you have a
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  Speaker 3: ninety four year old mom and I just lost my
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  Speaker 3: ninety five year old dad this past year. When you
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  Speaker 3: have a parent that age, it activates the same feelings
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  Speaker 3: as if you have a baby. You're always wondering, is
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  Speaker 3: the baby okay? Are they being cared for even if
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  Speaker 3: they're in a nursing home. Are their meals being brought regularly?
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  Speaker 3: Is somebody abusing them? Parents want autonomy. Mine did. He
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  Speaker 3: had his car keys until the day he died. He
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  Speaker 3: did not want to go to a nursing facility. I
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  Speaker 3: arranged everybody in the church to visit him on a
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  Speaker 3: regular basis. He just thought he had millions of friends,
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  Speaker 3: which he did, but he didn't realize everybody was kind
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  Speaker 3: of having like a caretaker network, if.
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  Speaker 1: You know what I mean.
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  Speaker 3: So Savannah already is struggling with feelings and has been.
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  Speaker 3: I'm sure she and her sibling group and her family
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  Speaker 3: with how do we take care of mom? And when
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  Speaker 3: a parent goes into a facility of some sort. What
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  Speaker 3: happens is that the caretaker usually needs respite, meaning they're
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  Speaker 3: having caregiver burnout. But on the other hand, it goes
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  Speaker 3: against all of their internalized belief systems about what it
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  Speaker 3: means to care for family members, so it sets in
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  Speaker 3: place like this complex bereavement process. Nancy, I'm so worried
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  Speaker 3: about this mom. I have to say one more thing.
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  Speaker 3: Was she being targeted by somebody who was defrauding her,
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  Speaker 3: taking her money, or targeting her because of a lurid
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  Speaker 3: fascination with Savannah? Was she targeted because of her daughter's notoriety.
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  Speaker 3: There's so much more we need to know about this.
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  Speaker 1: Kid, doctor Bethany. That just adds more suffering onto Savannah
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  Speaker 1: to think that somehow someone targeted her mother because of her.
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  Speaker 1: Dave Matt Crime Story's investigative reporter, we are hearing that
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  Speaker 1: missus Guthrie, Nancy Guthrie vanished shortly after being dropped off
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  Speaker 1: at home by friends. She was coming home from a
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  Speaker 1: church function on Saturday night. Are those the people to
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  Speaker 1: last see her? I wonder if she made a phone
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  Speaker 1: call or anything after that.
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  Speaker 2: Well, that's what we know is that she was dropped off,
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  Speaker 2: and it was family that actually was with her when
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  Speaker 2: they dropped her off Saturday evening. Now she does live
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  Speaker 2: by herself, Nancy. And it was the next morning. I
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  Speaker 2: remember we said she did some with church on Saturday evening.
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  Speaker 2: So when she didn't show up at church on Sunday morning,
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  Speaker 2: members of the church contacted family and they went to
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  Speaker 2: the house and that's when they discovered she was missing.
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  Speaker 2: So we know when she arrived at home, and we
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  Speaker 2: know that she did not go to church the next morning.
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  Speaker 2: A couple of other things to point out, Nancy. Law
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  Speaker 2: enforcement is saying they are not treating this as anything
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  Speaker 2: other than a crime scene at her house. That's important
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  Speaker 2: because usually we're talking about thees as we're looking for
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  Speaker 2: somebody it's a missing person. They're talking this is a
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  Speaker 2: crime scene. She did not leave the home on her own,
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  Speaker 2: and they have at it. You mentioned the medication. Her
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  Speaker 2: not getting her medication within twenty four hours is a
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  Speaker 2: fatal thing for her. So this medication, everything about this,
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  Speaker 2: it is really timely right now. Time is of the essence, Nancy.
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  Speaker 1: Another thing, Dave matt Hey, let me throw this to
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  Speaker 1: Brian because it may weigh in on his opinion of
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  Speaker 1: what should be happening right now, Brian. Nancy Guthrie, Savannah's
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  Speaker 1: mother is not suffering from dementia or Alzheimer's or any
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  Speaker 1: other mental defect at all. She has no cognitive decline.
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  Speaker 1: Okay nothing. It's not like she just wandered out of
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  Speaker 1: the house and she's just wandered into a body of
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  Speaker 1: water and died. That did not happen. Here's what I
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  Speaker 1: wanted to throw at you, Brian. Her front door, we
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  Speaker 1: are told, was wide open. Now, Brian, nobody leaves their
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  Speaker 1: door wide open. Like the last thing my mom says
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  Speaker 1: is I'm walking out of her room at night, shut
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  Speaker 1: the door because she thinks it's colder in her room
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  Speaker 1: if I leave the door open. And she's actually right,
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  Speaker 1: there's no way this eighty four year old mom leaves
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  Speaker 1: her door wide open. That didn't happen. So that said,
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  Speaker 1: what do we do?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, you've correctly highlighted something here. This is not a
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  Speaker 4: standard case of a missing elder where some medical event
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  Speaker 4: has led to temporary confusion or that there was early
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  Speaker 4: on set dementia.
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  Speaker 2: Or something like that.
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  Speaker 4: We have the Pima County Sheriff clearly identifying that this
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  Speaker 4: is a crime scene. We have a door left wide
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  Speaker 4: open right which a woman living alone is not going
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  Speaker 4: of sound mind, is not going to do this. And
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  Speaker 4: he's been very crystal clear about the assets that have
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  Speaker 4: been brought in very quickly. So all of these things
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  Speaker 4: add up to let us know that something happened to
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  Speaker 4: miss Guthrie on the night of the thirty first, after
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  Speaker 4: she was dropped off, and that this is.
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  Speaker 1: And in just a few hours, Brian, we've got a
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  Speaker 1: very narrow timeline. She's dropped off of the church function
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  Speaker 1: Saturday evening, Sunday morning time for church, she's gone. We
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  Speaker 1: got maybe a ten hour window right there. How does
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  Speaker 1: that help Brian or Hurt?
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  Speaker 4: That's incredibly helpful because what law enforcement is doing now
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  Speaker 4: and in the statement that just happened hours ago, they
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  Speaker 4: are beginning an extensive search of license plate readers, all
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  Speaker 4: camera surveillance in the area. They're soliciting tips from the public.
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  Speaker 4: So they're moving they're shifting their focus to a technology
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  Speaker 4: focus now to piece together that timeline. Having it narrowed
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  Speaker 4: down is going to make it a faster process.
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  Speaker 1: Savannah, of course, has the left New York and is
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  Speaker 1: in Arizona, aiding in the search for her mother. There's
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  Speaker 1: no way Savannah Guthrie would sit home while other people
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  Speaker 1: are looking for her beloved mother, Nancy Guthrie, Dave mac
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  Speaker 1: crime story is investigatory. Did I understand that the FBI
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  Speaker 1: has been brought in?
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  Speaker 2: They have been, Nancy, and you know, authorities are not
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  Speaker 2: aware of any threats against Savannah Guthrie. But Nancy, you
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  Speaker 2: mentioned that Savannah Guthrie is a very high profile news
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  Speaker 2: celebrity and co host of the NBC Today Show. Would
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  Speaker 2: not be unusual for threats against her. They're not saying that,
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  Speaker 2: But the FBI is aware of this case, as is
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  Speaker 2: US Customs and Border Protection also assisting Nancy. You know,
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  Speaker 2: they brought in all the asset drones, helicopters and everything
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  Speaker 2: right away, but you know, we have found out they've
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  Speaker 2: all been sent home at this point. I don't know
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  Speaker 2: what they found out, but certain aspects of this investigation
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  Speaker 2: are changing.
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  Speaker 1: Guys, if you know or think you know anything about
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  Speaker 1: the disappearance of Savannah's mom, Nancy Guthrie, please dial five
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  Speaker 1: two zero three five one forty nine hundred, pete five
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  Speaker 1: two zero three five one forty nine hundred, and of course,
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  Speaker 1: please join us in prayer that Nancy Guthrie is brought home,
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  Speaker 1: alive and wealth