A former FBI agent is sharing his theories about the disturbing disappearance of today anchor Savannah Guthrie‘s 84 year old mother, Nancy.
“I think it’s a personal grievance related to the family,” retired FBI agent Scott Curtis explained exclusively Us Weekly on Friday, February 6 of the case. “If this was about SavannahI think there would have been some kind of direct or indirect message in these ransom notes about Savannah. And we don’t see that at all. Or Savannah said something, right? And we don’t see that either, according to what we’ve been told.”
On Sunday, February 1, the news came out that Nancy was reported missing after not showing up for the church service. She was described as a “vulnerable adult” that she was last seen “at his residence” at the Catalina Foothills in Arizona on Saturday, January 31st.
According to Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos, “Regarding the circumstances found” at Nancy’s home prompted homicide detectives to become involved in the search, along with drones, dogs and a helicopter. Authorities believe Nancy “didn’t go off on her own” and “they’re not looking at this as much of a search mission” as a crime scene. “She couldn’t walk 50 meters by herself,” authorities added.
Savannah Guthrie’s brother Camron Guthrie has spoken out amid the ongoing disappearance of mother Nancy Guthrie. “This is Camron Guthrie and I’m speaking on behalf of the Guthrie family,” Camron said in a video shared via Savannah’s Instagram page on Thursday, February 5. “Whoever has our mother, we want to hear from you. We haven’t heard (…).
Savannah and her siblings, sister Annie Guthrie and brother Cameron Guthriethey have since released two videos pleading with their mother’s potential captors, acknowledging the existence of rescue letters.
“As a family, we’re doing everything we can. We’re ready to talk,” Savannah said while appearing in one video alongside his brothers shared on Wednesday February 4th. “However, we live in a world where voices and images are easily manipulated. We need to know without a doubt that she is alive and that you have her. We want to hear from you and we are willing to listen. Please contact us.”
On Friday, the FBI confirmed existence of “a new message regarding Nancy Guthrie,” he added that authorities are working to confirm the authenticity of the message.
Savannah and Nancy Guthrie
Courtesy of NBC News“Allegedly, these ransom notes were sent by email,” said Curtis, who led the largest single-day takedown of members of organized crime in U.S. history in 2011. we on friday “These cryptic email servers (are) service providers that make it difficult to track who you are and if you’re based abroad, especially. But that would also show you that this: there’s elaborate planning here.”
Like other high-profile cases, including the search for convicts Idaho killer Brian Kohberger and the recent shooting at Brown University Curtis said we Authorities must locate a vehicle linked to Nancy’s disappearance in order to get a break in the case.
“We have not identified who these people are,” he explained. “We don’t have an identified device, a cell phone number, for example, and we haven’t identified a vehicle which is, from my experience (and) current investigations, the most important thing to try to do.”
The crime and national security analyst continued: “We saw it in the Brian Kohberger (case) in Idaho. We saw this at Brown University (case). As soon as they identified the vehicle that person was using, they were quickly able to identify and then track and locate them. Now, why haven’t they been able to do it until now? I don’t know.”
Curtis, who has also worked as a government corruption analyst, believes that due to the alleged kidnappers operating “under the cover of darkness,” those responsible for Nancy’s disappearance “knew the residents either directly or through, again, some family member or personal friend who gave them details and sketches and photographs of the residence.”
President Donald Trump says there are new “leads” in the ongoing search for Today co-host Savannah Guthrie’s missing mother, Nancy. “I’ll make a little statement to you: I think we’re doing very well on that front,” Trump, 79, said while speaking to reporters on Air Force One on Friday, February 6. “You will be surprised (…)
“Do you know how difficult it is, how difficult it is to operate under the cover of darkness, to do anything?” he continued “The fact that they were able to pull this off in the dark shows that they had a lot of intelligence and they did a lot of shelling of that location. And you know, it shows that they had this all planned out in detail, like they probably (had) been at that location.”
Curtis said we who believes that the authorities “should be increasing the reward” is currently offering for any information leading to Nancy’s safe return, adding that an increase “should have been made from the beginning to increase incentive cooperation.”
“I think we need law enforcement to get a solid lead with, again, a vehicle, a description of these perpetrators, maybe video footage,” he added. “That’s why they should go back in time with whatever video footage they can get, either through the neighborhood residences or tracking it down to a company that has video.”
The FBI is currently offering a $50,000 reward for any information leading to the recovery of Nancy and/or the arrest and conviction of anyone involved.