‘Today’ show host Savannah Guthrie and her family issued a new statement, desperately pleading with the Tucson community and Pima County officials for new information on her mother Nancy's missing case. This comes as search for the 84-year-old entered its seventh week.
While authorities have released a surveillance video of the alleged suspect, no one has been identified yet. Savannah Guthrie's new statement reads, “We are deeply grateful for the outpouring from neighbors, friends and the people of Tucson. We are all family now,” the broadcaster said.
However, an expert said that he believes that the Nancy Guthrie case is no longer a ‘missing person case’. Morgan Wright, a former law enforcement officer and CEO of the National Center for Open and Unsolved Cases, spoke to Brian Entin, pointing to key evidence suggesting a far more serious scenario.
“At some point, you have to realize it's not a missing person anymore. We have to realize Nancy is an 84-year-old with cardiac compromise,” he said. “You are violently confronted at 2 o'clock in the morning in your own home. We know it's violent because there was blood."
Wright added that the presence of blood at the scene, along with signs she was forcibly removed from her home, indicates a violent encounter.
“You still have blood. Still forced out of your house. That's a violent confrontation. "So my question was, 'I realize everybody said, well, we want to, you know, we're hoping for her return,'" he said.
“I'm more of a pragmatist. It's like you have to be left-brain, right-brain when you investigate stuff. You have to compartmentalize,” Wright added. “I said you need to treat this like a no-body homicide because it tells the public something different about what you're looking at and where you're looking for things.”
