Authorities receive hundreds of ‘credible’ tips over Nancy Guthrie’s disappearance after family offers $1M reward: report
Hundreds of tips have poured into the FBI after the announcement of a $1 million family reward for information in the Nancy Guthrie case, as the search for Today host Savannah Guthrie’s missing mother continues through its fourth week without an arrest.
The bureau has gotten some 750 credible tips since Savannah Guthrie announced the reward earlier today, it told CNN.
“We still believe in a miracle. We still believe she can come home,” the Today show host said in an Instagram video. “But we need to know where she is. We need her to come home. For that reason, we are offering a family reward of up to $1 million for any information that leads us to her recovery.”
“Someone out there knows something that can bring her home,” she added.
Guthrie also announced a $500,000 donation to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.
The $1 million reward adds to the FBI’s $100,000 reward for information about Guthrie, as well as the $102,500 reward from the Pima County and Tucson-area affiliate of the Crime Stoppers organization.
The FBI has fielded more than 22,000 calls regarding Guthrie’s disappearance since she disappeared in the early hours of February 1.
Local news stations have received unverified ransom notes, purportedly from Guthrie’s kidnappers, demanding millions of dollars.
Guthrie relies on daily medication and has medical considerations, including high blood pressure, a pacemaker, and cardiac issues, all of which put her at greater risk with each day she is missing.
Police have announced few leads and have not publicly named a suspect in the 84-year-old’s disappearance.
Investigators have released security footage showing an armed man in a ski mask with a backpack tampering with Guthrie’s security camera the morning of her disappearance.
A pair of gloves found two miles from Guthrie’s home in the Catalina Foothills outside Tucson “did not trigger a match” in the FBI’s national database and “did not match DNA found at the property,” according to the local sheriff’s department.
The masked man, described by investigators as between 5’9” and 5’10” tall with an average build, may have visited Guthrie’s home again on another day, sources have told ABC News and CNN. However, local police dismissed such points as premature.
“We are aware that doorbell images released earlier in the investigation depict a suspect in different stages of attire, including with and without a backpack. There is no date or time stamp associated with these images,” the Pima County Sheriff’s Department told The Independent on Monday. “Therefore, any suggestion that the photographs were taken on different days is purely speculative.”
Police have reportedly asked nearby residents for any relevant video footage from the beginning of January, with a focus on the late-night hours of January 11 and the morning of January 31.
Volunteers have fanned out through the countryside near Guthrie’s home as part of the search, though police have urged the public to leave such work to professionals.
