00:00terrifying surveillance video of an armed person in a ski mask tampering with nancy guthrie's home
00:05security camera on the morning she vanished was released by the fbi after authorities feared for
00:11days that all hope was lost in retrieving the footage the individual who had a flashlight and
00:16wore sneakers a fleece and a backpack attempted to cover the camera with a gloved fist and then
00:22pulled a handful of flowers from nancy's gardens and tried to blot out the lens the footage marks
00:28the first time law enforcement has released anything having to do with the possible suspect
00:33since the 84 year old vanished and the first indication that police are zeroing in on any
00:37suspects at all after a grueling fruitless investigation nancy had numerous nest cameras
00:43around her property but had not paid her subscription so feeds from the night she disappeared
00:48were never saved to an account prompting law enforcement to fear they may have been lost
00:53forever but fbi specialists were able to pull them from residual data located in back-end systems
00:59cash patel explained in the next post the startling footage comes just one day after savannah pleaded on
01:06social media for the public's help in finding their missing mother so i'm coming on just to ask you not
01:13just for your prayers but no matter where you are even if you're far from tucson if you see anything
01:20you hear anything if there's anything at all that seems strange to you that you report to law enforcement
01:28we are at an hour of desperation as well as her and her siblings releasing another video just days earlier
01:35to their mother's supposed abductor offering to pay a ransom for nancy's safe return
01:40we received your message and we understand we beg you now to return our mother to us so that we can
01:51celebrate with her this is the only way we will have peace this is very valuable to us and we will pay
02:01guthrie did not elaborate in the brief video on what message she was referring to or if it was one
02:06of the purported ransom notes sent to media outlets shocking details were revealed about one purported
02:13note by tmz boss harvey levin which was sent to the outlet two days after savannah guthrie's mom was
02:18reported missing but i will say the letter begins by saying she is um safe but scared um and they go on to
02:28say she knows exactly what the demand is levin told fox news's sean hannity that the note highlighted
02:36insider details about her suspected abduction including information about her apple watch and
02:41a damaged floodlight at her million dollar home it isn't clear if the purported note sent to tmz was
02:47the same as the ones received by local arizona affiliates according to a letter received by local
02:53station k gun nine the potential kidnappers demanded that the guthries pay six million dollars in
02:59bitcoin and that nancy guthrie's life was in peril if the deadline set for 5 p.m local time on monday
03:05february 9th wasn't met the outlet reported one arizona news anchor who saw the possible nancy guthrie
03:12ransom note told cnn it was clear after a couple of sentences that it might not be a hoax a lot of it is
03:20information that only someone who is holding her for ransom would know some very sensitive
03:25information and things that people who weren't there when she was taken captive would know mary
03:32coleman an anchor for arizona-based cnn affiliate kold13 news also revealed that the note had come
03:39via email and that police were searching for an ip address this came after savannah and her siblings
03:45annie and cameron made a tearful appeal for their mother's safe return via instagram on the evening of
03:50february 4th we are ready to talk we need to know without a doubt that she is alive and that you have her
04:04we want to hear from you and we are ready to listen a purported ransom note was also sent to a local
04:11arizona cbs affiliate which contained details about the 84 year old matriarch's home near tucson
04:18and what she was wearing on the night of her disappearance pima county sheriff chris nanos
04:22told cbs news although he declined to give any specifics in a february 5th press conference
04:28authorities revealed that the drops of blood outside the home visible in scene footage from news nation
04:33had belonged to nancy blood on the porch that was one we did it it came back to nancy the fbi also
04:41revealed that some of the notes had included a demand for money with a 5 pm february 5th deadline
04:47as well as a second deadline for monday february 9th if the first wasn't met both deadlines have now
04:53passed according to a source close to the family a relative made a 911 call around noon on february 1st
05:00to report nancy guthrie was missing after she failed to show up to a friend's house to watch
05:04a church service she was last seen by savannah's brother-in-law tomaso after he dropped nancy off
05:10at her home in catalina foothills north of tucson at around 9 30 pm on january 31st after a dinner
05:16authorities said in the early hours of the following morning at 1 47 a.m nancy's doorbell camera
05:23disconnects and is later discovered to have gone missing at 2 12 a.m a camera at the home detects
05:29movement but none of the footage from the home was able to be accessed until over a week later
05:34on february 3rd fbi agents were spotted at tomaso and savannah guthrie's sister annie's home in arizona
05:40as the search for their missing mother continues savannah was also believed to have been there
05:45the elder guthrie was not known to have illnesses such as dementia or alzheimer's and was of good
05:50sound mind however she was described as being in not of good physical health she cannot walk more than
05:5650 yards on her own and is reliant on life-saving medication a lack of which for 24 hours could
06:02prove fatal making the hunt a race against time today host savannah guthrie who has been with nbc
06:08news for nearly two decades has been absent from her morning talk show since nancy's disappearance
06:14and called off her trip to italy to cover the winter olympics as authorities scrambled to search
06:18for her mother nancy has made various guest appearances on today over the years since savannah
06:24joined the show in 2011. she loves us her family fiercely and her selflessness and sacrifice for us
06:31her steadfastness and her unmovable confidence is the reason any of us grew up to do anything
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