A neighbor of Nancy Guthrie said that she looked through the doorbell video of a masked man outside the home of the missing 84-year-old woman in the hopes of seeing someone she knew.
In the interview, Laura Gargano, who has lived next door to Guthrie for 11 years, didn’t say if she knew the person on the doorbell video.
“It’s not out of the ordinary for the same yard service to be on three or four different properties. I immediately went to assessing the physique of this person. I immediately could see the physique — the size of the head, the shape of the legs, the approximate weight — just to see if he looked familiar,” Gargano told CNN “OutFront” host Erin Burnett.
“I assumed it was a male. And I immediately started running through the list of people that I’ve worked with here,” Gargano added.
“A lot of times, people share service people in the area. It’s not out of the ordinary for the same yard service to be on three or four different properties, to give referrals to your neighbors or roofers or electricians,” Gargano said.
“I just immediately looked to see if the shape looked familiar to me, and immediately did that more so than being fearful, but also hopeful, because now we have an image to go by. So momentarily I pulled out some hope,” Gargano added.
On Wednesday evening, investigators found a pair of gloves near Nancy Guthrie’s house.
The FBI released surveillance footage earlier this week showing a masked person wearing a set of gloves. It’s not clear if the gloves found are the same ones. The FBI released footage on Tuesday that had been “inaccessible” before. It shows a person in a mask and gloves apparently messing with the camera at Nancy Guthrie’s front door around the time she went missing from her home in Tucson, Arizona, on February 1.
KVOA says that investigators are asking people in the Catalina Foothills area who have Ring doorbell cameras to send them footage from January 11 between 9 p.m. and midnight and from January 31 between 9:30 a.m. and 11 a.m. The outlet said that investigators are looking into a car that might be suspicious during those times.
Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos said that there will probably be more arrests as the police look into Nancy Guthrie’s disappearance on Thursday.
On Wednesday, Nanos told 13 News that investigators are going through thousands of tip calls and messages.
The day before, police had arrested Carlos Palazuelos in connection with the case, but he was later let go.
Palazuelos was stopped for a traffic violation and held for a few hours while his home was searched.
Nanos said they had more than just a tip that led to Palazuelos’ arrest, but he didn’t go into more detail.
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TMZ founder Harvey Levin revealed on Wednesday morning that his outlet received a third alleged letter in relation to Nancy Guthrie as police continue to search for the missing mother of “Today” show host Savannah Guthrie.
“An hour and a half ago, we got a kind of a bizarre letter, an email from somebody who says they know who the kidnapper is and that they have tried reaching Savannah’s sister Annie and Savannah’s brother, to no avail. And they said they want one Bitcoin sent to a Bitcoin address that we have confirmed is active. It’s a real Bitcoin address, and as they put it, time is more than relevant. So we have no idea whether this is real or not. But they are making a demand,” Levin said during an interview on Fox News Channel’s “America’s Newsroom.”
Levin added that the note included a name and email address.
Levin went on to argue that law enforcement is operating on the theory that Nancy Guthrie’s alleged kidnapper lives in the Tucson, Arizona, area.
“Law enforcement has told me they are operating under the theory that this person lives in the Tucson television area, and that’s why they’ve had so much contact with the local television stations there,” Levin said, referring to alleged ransom notes sent to local networks.
“Reading that first note, I think it is an intelligent person. I think it is a tech-savvy person because we were on the phone with the FBI a couple of hours after we got the letter and everybody was trying, including my IT team, trying to figure out something about who sent it, and we hit a dead end,” he added.