Los Angeles (United States) (AFP) – New images released by the FBI on Tuesday show a person in a full-face balaclava apparently tampering with a front door camera outside the home of the mother of a US TV host who has been missing for ten days. The six still photographs and three videos posted by FBI Director Kash Patel on his X account show an individual on a deserted doorstep in the dark, in eerie black and white imagery. The person is described as an “armed individual.”
Nancy Guthrie, mother of NBC News “Today” co-host Savannah Guthrie, is believed to have been kidnapped from her home in Tucson, Arizona, on the night of January 31 or in the early hours of February 1, sparking a massive hunt in a case that has gripped America. The images date to “the morning of her disappearance,” Patel said on X, adding that authorities had worked to recover them from “residual data.”
“As of this morning, law enforcement has uncovered these previously inaccessible new images showing an armed individual appearing to have tampered with the camera at Nancy Guthrie’s front door the morning of her disappearance,” Patel wrote. White House spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt began a media briefing by saying she and President Donald Trump had just reviewed the newly released imagery. “The president encourages any American across the country with any knowledge of the suspect to please call the FBI,” she said.
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