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Desperate Search For Nancy Guthrie Enters Week 4 | Crime Alert 6AM 02.23.26 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Alart hourly update, breaking crime news. Now. I'm Nicole
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  Speaker 1: Parton the search for Savannah Guthrie's mother, Nancy Guthrie, who
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  Speaker 1: has been missing for nearly four weeks, remains active, according
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  Speaker 1: to authorities in Arizona, the Pima County Sheriff's Department along
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  Speaker 1: with the FBI. The Pima County Sheriff's Department, along with
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  Speaker 1: the FBI, continues its efforts to locate the eighty four
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  Speaker 1: year old woman, who was last seen at her home
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  Speaker 1: on January thirty one, before being reported missing on February one.
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  Speaker 1: Despite the investigation entering its fourth week without significant developments,
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  Speaker 1: the Sheriff's department assured the public that hundreds of law
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  Speaker 1: enforcement personnel are still committed to the case. They asked me,
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  Speaker 1: do I have proof of life? I asked them, is
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  Speaker 1: their proof of death? I'm going to have that faith
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  Speaker 1: and sometimes that faith, that hope is all we have.
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  Speaker 1: My team, four hundred people out there in the field today.
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  Speaker 1: Woke up this morning and went out there with the
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  Speaker 1: hope and the that they're going to find Nancy. Earlier
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  Speaker 1: this month, the FBI released surveillance footage featuring a mask
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  Speaker 1: person who appeared to tamper with the doorbell camera on
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  Speaker 1: the day Nancy vanished. However, this person has yet to
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  Speaker 1: be identified and all family members have been cleared as suspects.
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  Speaker 1: An increase in incentive. There's a new reward being offered
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  Speaker 1: for information leading to Nancy's return or information leading to
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  Speaker 1: charges in the case, now over two hundred thousand dollars
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  Speaker 1: being offered for information as of February one. Several hundred
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  Speaker 1: law enforcement personnel continued to dedicate their efforts to the investigation,
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  Speaker 1: which will persist until we locate Nancy. Guthrie said the
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  Speaker 1: Sheriff detectives were seen canvassing the Guthrie neighborhood on February
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  Speaker 1: twenty one as part of an ongoing investigation, although further
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  Speaker 1: details were not disclosed. Also happening over the weekend, volunteer
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  Speaker 1: searchers were on foot a backpack was found, although it
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  Speaker 1: does not seem to match the backpack scene in that
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  Speaker 1: surveillance footage. The Sheriff said, we are not quitting. We
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  Speaker 1: will find her. Authorities are still attempting to identify the
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  Speaker 1: mask individual from that doorbell footage, with Sheriff Nanos indicating
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  Speaker 1: that they are making progress in pinpointing additional clothing items
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  Speaker 1: worn by this person. Additionally, DNA samples collected from the
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  Speaker 1: Guthrie residents that do not match Nancy or those close
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  Speaker 1: to her are currently being analyzed. The Sheriff's Department acknowledged
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  Speaker 1: on February twenty one that lab experts are diligently working
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  Speaker 1: on this biological evidence, despite potential complexities in separating DNA profiles.
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  Speaker 1: More crime and justice news after this and now to Florida.
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  Speaker 1: A nurse working at a surgical center in Royal Palm
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  Speaker 1: Beach has been taken into custody following alecations of sexual
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  Speaker 1: assault on patients, with law enforcement officials suggesting there could
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  Speaker 1: be additional victims. Authorities from the Palm Beach County Sheriff's
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  Speaker 1: Office reported that they received separate complaints. Detectives initiated an
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  Speaker 1: investigation into claims of sexual battery involving two female patients
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  Speaker 1: at the Palm's Wellington Surgical Center. The accused is thirty
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  Speaker 1: four year old JOYL. Vega. He's a recovery nurse employed
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  Speaker 1: at the facility. Following a comprehensive investigation, detectives found significant
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  Speaker 1: evidence to warrant charges, leading to Vega's arrest on Saturday
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  Speaker 1: for sexual battery involving those victims. Investigators have expressed concern
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  Speaker 1: there could be more individuals affected. Anyone with information or
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  Speaker 1: suspects that they may have been a victim is encouraged
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  Speaker 1: to call Detective Alvarez at five six one six eight
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  Speaker 1: eight four one four seven. The women say they were
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  Speaker 1: sexually assaulted after waking up from surgery and this man,
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  Speaker 1: mister Vega, was their nurse. An update on a missing
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  Speaker 1: person's case we brought to you earlier. A seventy two
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  Speaker 1: year old Navy veteran from Jacksonville who had been missing
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  Speaker 1: for over a week, has tragically been found dead in Georgia,
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  Speaker 1: according to local authorities. The Liberty County Sheriff's Office shared
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  Speaker 1: an update via social media revealing that Margaret Hanley's vehicle
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  Speaker 1: was located immobilized stuck in the mud on Old Hinds Road.
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  Speaker 1: Authorities reported that her body was discovered next to her
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  Speaker 1: SUV during the search. Her son, Jomo Thompson, expressed concern
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  Speaker 1: when they could not get in touch with her after
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  Speaker 1: reporting her missing. Thompson checked his mother's bank accounts and
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  Speaker 1: noted that she had made several large money transfers to
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  Speaker 1: an unknown person, transaction he described as unusual and alarming.
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  Speaker 1: He suspects she may have fallen a victim to a scam.
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  Speaker 1: She was very friendly and inn intelligence, said her son,
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  Speaker 1: I just don't understand how someone could exploit her like this.
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  Speaker 1: According to her family, Hanley's two thousand and one silver
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  Speaker 1: Toyota RAV four was tracked to Gainesville and Start before
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  Speaker 1: ultimately being found in Hinesville. Thompson mentioned that this kind
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  Speaker 1: of travel was atypical for his mother, especially given her
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  Speaker 1: struggles with short term memory loss. Liberty County Deputies confirmed
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  Speaker 1: that Hanley's vehicle has been secured and impounded, and the
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  Speaker 1: investigation remains ongoing. For the latest crime and justice news,
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  Speaker 1: with this crime Alert. I'm Nicole Parton