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JUST IN: Person Detained for Questioning in Abduction of Nancy Guthrie | Crime Alert 02.10.26 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Alert hourly update, breaking crime news Now. I'm Drew Nelson.
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  Speaker 1: Just into crime Alert. An individual is detained for questioning
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  Speaker 1: in the case of Nancy Guthrie. The FBI and Pima County,
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  Speaker 1: Arizona Police detained the individual south of Tucson. Unknown if
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  Speaker 1: the person is the same person seen in surveillance video
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  Speaker 1: released this afternoon by the Bureau. Officials stress this person
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  Speaker 1: has not been charged. This comes within an hour of
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  Speaker 1: a report of activity tied to a bitcoin wallet connected
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  Speaker 1: to whoever abducted Guthrie. The transaction comes from the bitcoin
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  Speaker 1: address found in the ransom note sent to TV station KOLD,
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  Speaker 1: which is identical to the address shared in other ransom notes.
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  Speaker 1: KPHO was first to report with the outlet withholding the
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  Speaker 1: amount of the transaction. The doorbell video shows a masked
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  Speaker 1: individual at the front door of Nancy Guthrie's Tucson area
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  Speaker 1: home during the early morning hours of February First. Investigators
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  Speaker 1: say the person appears to be armed. The black and
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  Speaker 1: white images and video clips show someone wearing a ski mask, gloves, sneakers,
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  Speaker 1: and a backpack. A handgun appears to be holstered at
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  Speaker 1: the person's waist. In several frames. The individual is seen
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  Speaker 1: facing the doorbell camera. In one video, the person raises
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  Speaker 1: a gloved hand to block the lens. In another, they
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  Speaker 1: bend down, pull foliage from the yard and attempt to
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  Speaker 1: drape it over the camera to block its view. FBI
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  Speaker 1: director Cash Pattel says the footage had long been believed
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  Speaker 1: to be unavailable. He says it was recovered after days
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  Speaker 1: of technical work with private sector partners using residual data
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  Speaker 1: stored in back end systems. Law enforcement sources say Guthrie's
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  Speaker 1: family was shown the images before they were released publicly.
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  Speaker 1: Within minutes of their release, Nancy's daughter, longtime co anchor
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  Speaker 1: of NBC's Today, Savannah Guthrie, shared the images on social media.
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  Speaker 1: She writes, quote, we believe she is still alive. Bring
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  Speaker 1: her home. In a second post, she added quote someone
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  Speaker 1: out there recognizes this person. Authorities believe Nancy Guthrie was
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  Speaker 1: taken from her home sometime after one forty seven in
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  Speaker 1: the morning on February first. That's when her doorbell camera disconnected.
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  Speaker 1: Roughly twenty five minutes later, software detected motion at the home,
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  Speaker 1: but nobody was recorded. At exactly two twenty eight am,
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  Speaker 1: Guthrie's pacemaker lost contact with its monitoring app on her phone.
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  Speaker 1: Investigators later found the phone inside the house. Investigators say
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  Speaker 1: that sequence strongly suggests she was removed from the home
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  Speaker 1: around that time. They also observed blood on the stoop
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  Speaker 1: when they responded. Guthrie was last seen the night before,
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  Speaker 1: after having dinner with her daughter Annie. She was dropped
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  Speaker 1: off at her home just before ten pm. Family members
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  Speaker 1: and investigators have said she was mentally sharp, but had
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  Speaker 1: limited mobility and required daily medication. Authorities have warned that
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  Speaker 1: missing that medication could be life threatening. Days into the investigation,
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  Speaker 1: multiple news outlets received messages claiming Guthrie had been kidnapped,
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  Speaker 1: one note demanding six million dollars in bitcoin, threatening her
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  Speaker 1: life as the deadline passed. It did pass Monday evening.
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  Speaker 1: The FBI says it is not aware of any continued
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  Speaker 1: communication between the Guthrie family and anyone claiming to be responsible.
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  Speaker 1: Investigators say no suspect or a person of interest has
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  Speaker 1: been identified. The Pima County Sheriff's office leading the investigation
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  Speaker 1: says there are no scheduled press briefings. Both the case
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  Speaker 1: remains active. Deputies and FBI agents have been canvassing neighborhoods
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  Speaker 1: near Guthrie's home and near her daughter Annie's home, looking
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  Speaker 1: for surveillance video and witnesses. White House officials confirm President
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  Speaker 1: Trump has been briefed on the case and has reviewed
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  Speaker 1: the newly released images. The White House says the President
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  Speaker 1: is urging anyone with information to contact authorities as the
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  Speaker 1: search moves deeper into its second week. The FBI says
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  Speaker 1: it is operating a twenty four hour command post in
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  Speaker 1: Tucson and has deployed additional personnel to assist local investigators.
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  Speaker 1: A fifty thousand dollars reward remains in effect for information
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  Speaker 1: leading to Nancy Guthrie's recovery or the arrest and conviction
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  Speaker 1: of anyone involved in her disappearance. Anyone within information has
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  Speaker 1: urged to contact the FBI at eight hundred call FBI
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  Speaker 1: or tips dot FBI dot gov. Stay with Crime Alert
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  Speaker 1: for more as news breaks in the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie,
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