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disappear Nancy Guthrie It was the result of a “burglary,” not an intentional kidnapping, CBS 5’s true crime reporter reported Sunday Brianna Whitney.
She also shared another key detail in the report — the NBC star’s mother Savannah Guthrie “Probably still alive,” two weeks after she disappeared from her home in Tucson, Arizona. Whitney said that’s what investigators “generally believed” in her report, which she said was based on “internal sources.”
“We can now report that investigators believe this was a burglary,” Whitney said in a video posted on
Whitney, who works for the CBS affiliate in Phoenix, reported that DNA evidence collected by Land Rover investigators on Friday about two miles from Nancy Guthrie’s home is currently being tested.
Whitney added: “Finally but perhaps most importantly, investigators tonight generally believe Nancy Guthrie may still be alive.”
Whitney’s report comes as local police and federal investigators have been working to find answers to the alleged kidnapping. NBC reported Sunday that investigators are also looking into whether DNA from a glove found a few miles from her home matches anyone in a federal database.
The outlet also reported that “authorities are dropping several people previously under investigation, including the man whose house was searched Friday night, a man named Carlos who was pulled over in his car last week, and any relatives of Guthrie.”
director of the fbi Kashi Patel Photos and video of a masked “potential subject” moving slowly near Nancy Guthrie’s front porch were released Wednesday, but little progress has been made since. The footage and photos were retrieved from surveillance cameras that were “previously inaccessible,” Patel said. As of Sunday evening, no arrests had been made and no suspects had been identified.
Shortly after this report was first published, a Fox News reporter Matt Finn The FBI report on Whitney “has no idea where that came from,” the report said.
On Sunday night, Savannah Guthrie posted a new video saying her family remains hopeful that her mom will be home safe. She also urged the alleged kidnappers: “It’s never too late to do the right thing.”
Watch Whitney’s report above.
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