Reward for details about the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie elevated to greater than $200K | EUROtoday

The reward for details about the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie has elevated to greater than $200,000 between the FBI and native officers.

Nancy, mom of Today present star Savannah Guthrie, has been lacking for greater than two weeks. The 84-year-old was final seen at her residence within the prosperous Catalina Foothills outdoors of Tuscon, Arizona, on January 31. Police imagine she was kidnapped as she slept.

The Pima County Sheriff’s Department stated in a press release shared with The Independent that 88-CRIME, a tip line run by the native legal professional’s workplace, acquired an nameless donation of $100,000 Wednesday. This is a dramatic improve to the $2,500 reward native officers had been initially providing.

The reward provided by native officers is separate from the $100,000 reward that the FBI promised in an X put up for “information leading to the location of Nancy Guthrie and/or the arrest and conviction of anyone involved in her disappearance.”

Authorities have shared pictures and video of Nancy’s suspected kidnapper obtained from her residence’s doorbell digicam. The video confirmed “an armed individual appearing to have tampered with the camera at Nancy Guthrie’s front door the morning of her disappearance,” the FBI’s Phoenix subject workplace wrote on X final week.

The suspect — described by authorities as a 5’9” to five’10” man with an “average build” — was sporting a ski masks and gloves within the video.

The Pima County Sheriff’s Department introduced Tuesday DNA from a set of gloves discovered two miles away from Nancy’s residence “did not trigger a match” within the FBI’s nationwide DNA database and “did not match DNA found at the property.”

Investigators are persevering with to look at “biological evidence” discovered at Nancy’s home, the sheriff’s division informed The Independentincluding that an undisclosed variety of DNA profiles “are currently under lab analysis.”

On Sunday, Savannah posted a video to Instagram the place she stated her household stays hopeful that Nancy will likely be discovered.

“I wanted to say to whoever has her, or knows where she is, that it’s never too late,” a visibly distraught Savannah stated. “It is never too late to do the right thing.”

There have been studies of ransom notes in reference to Nancy’s disappearance, demanding hundreds of thousands of {dollars} in Bitcoin. Police are but to confirm any of those notes.

Savannah and her household have provided to pay for Nancy’s protected return, with the TV host saying in a February 7 Instagram video, “We received your message, and we understand. We beg you now to return our mother to us, so that we can celebrate with her. This is the only way we will have peace. This is very valuable to us, and we will pay.”

Authorities even have shared pictures of the backpack the suspected kidnapper wore within the doorbell video, describing it as a 25-liter ‘Ozark Trail Hiker Pack’ backpack.

Pima County Sheriff’s Chris Nanos informed The Associated Press Monday the suspect’s backpack is offered completely at Walmart and that authorities are working with the retailer’s administration “to develop further leads.”

There have additionally been unverified studies that the FBI has contacted Mexican authorities in reference to the case. Tucson is about an hour’s drive from the Mexican border.

Nanos has additionally made clear that nobody within the Guthrie household is suspected of being concerned in Nancy’s disappearance.

He stated in a press release shared on social media Monday the household “has been cleared as possible suspects in this case. The family has been nothing but cooperative and gracious and are victims in this case. To suggest otherwise is not only wrong, it is cruel.”