The Guthrie family is clinging to hope that someone in the Arizona community where their missing 84-year-old mother lived has critical information about her abduction, they said in a heartbreaking statement. Nancy Guthrie’s three children expressed their gratitude to residents of Tucson for their support in a statement to KVOA on Saturday, but urged renewed focus on the case as the search for the missing mother enters its seventh week. “We continue to believe it is Tucsonans, and the greater southern Arizona community, that hold the key to finding resolution in this case,” the statement said.
“No detail is too small. It may be the key.” The heartbroken family said they miss their mother deeply and won’t find peace until she is home.
Nancy Guthrie Update: Officials Push to Remove Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos From Office
Nancy Guthrie Update: Officials Push to Remove Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos From Office .Today co-anchor Savannah Guthrie‘s mom, Nancy Guthrie, 84, is still missing nearly 100 days after her abduction in Tucson, Ariz.—and officials are pushing to remove Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos from office. On May 8, CBS News spoke with two members of the Pima County Supervisors Board, who said they plan to file a motion to force Nanos to step down by Tuesday, May 12, or to have the sheriff’s office vacated.
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One of the board’s issues with Nanos stems from his allegedly lying during a deposition for an unrelated lawsuit. During the deposition, he denied under oath having been suspended during his time as an officer in El Paso, Texas, before joining the PCSD in the ’80s. In reality, Nanos was suspended several times, according to records obtained by CBS News. “A unanimous vote of the disciplinary board at that time for a whole host of problems said, ‘Hey, he can’t be a cop anymore. He’s just bad at this and he’s not upholding our standards … he’s got to go,’” Dr. Matt Heinz, a Pima County Board of Supervisors member, told CBS. Heinz continued, of Nanos, “He has definitely lost the confidence of the community. He’s embarrassed himself, and it’s time for him to go.” This content is not available due to your privacy preferences. Update your settings here to see it.
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In a letter to the board, Nanos’ attorney, James Cool, said, per Fox News, “It is 100% correct that Sheriff Nanos was never suspended during his four decades of decorated and faithful service with the Pima County Sheriff’s Department. However, Sheriff Nanos was suspended more than forty years ago while employed by El Paso Police Department.” Cool added, in the 12-page response to the board’s demand for answers, “Sheriff Nanos did not understand the question related to discipline with a different agency not governed by the Arizona Peace Officers Bill of Rights. In reviewing the transcript shortly after his deposition, Sheriff Nanos spotted the misunderstanding and promptly notified his attorney.” The push to remove Nanos as sheriff is not related to Nancy’s ongoing case, which is nearing 100 days. “In no way has the Guthrie investigation ever factored into this. It really hasn’t,” Heinz insisted. However, it comes on the heels of FBI Director Kash Patel criticizing the PCSD’s handling of the investigation, claiming that the FBI was blocked for four days.
Despite a $1 million reward from Savannah and the FBI releasing video clips and images of a masked individual on Nancy’s front porch, no suspect has been named in the investigation.
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Nancy Guthrie case: Former cop shows how missing mom could vanish just y ards from homes
He’s in what locals call a “wash.” They are the pathways that water escapes during heavy rainfall, also known as ephemeral rivers, and they appear all over Tucson and the surrounding Pima County.
“Hundreds upon hundreds [of] these throughout the county and the city, if not thousands,” he told Fox News Digital earlier this week. “They’re just literally everywhere. It’s just the nature of the terrain, the way the geography was made.”
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They can also be natural escape routes, he said.
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He spent almost three decades with the Pima County Sheriff’s Department, the lead agency in the search for the 84-year-old mother of “Today” co-host Savannah Guthrie.
In that time, he said he chased countless suspects into the washes. Authorities have also recovered the remains of other missing persons many times over the years.
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In the same area, deputies responded to an abandoned vehicle discovered on Feb. 2, parked just up the street from the entrance to the wash.
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A Pima County Sheriff’s Department spokesperson previously said the vehicle was not connected to the Guthrie investigation. Fox News Digital has requested but not yet received records about how and why it was there.
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The route itself had been flagged to Fox News Digital by another neighbor — who said she saw a suspicious man walking in the area that same day. She asked not to be named due to concerns for her children’s safety amid the unsolved kidnapping investigation.
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Once inside, power lines lead toward nearby roads, Krygier said, providing guideposts along the way back out.
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Guthrie is believed to have been taken from her home around 2:30 a.m. on Feb. 1. Her family discovered she was missing around noon. Searches on foot, plane and helicopter did not find her.
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“Even with airplanes, even with the FLIR that we have, the infrared, you’re looking down, you can’t see through a lot of different things, so it’s not going to see something that might have been stashed underneath some of this brush,” Krygier said.
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The federal government even provided a high-tech piece of equipment that attempted to pick up the Bluetooth signal from her pacemaker device, with no results.
“At this point, I can’t imagine saying no to anyone offering help, whether it be cadaver dogs, the Cajun Navy has popped up again,” Krygier told Fox News Digital. “Those are just extra feet on the ground that I don’t have to pay, quite honestly. Maybe if they find something, awesome. We probably wouldn’t have found it. If they don’t, great. I personally would be accepting some of that help. There’s no reason not to at this point.”
There is a combined reward of more than $1.2 million for information that cracks the case.
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To remain anonymous, contact Tucson’s 88-Crime tip line at (520) 882-7463.
The family is also urging anyone with information to dial 1-800-CALL-FBI.
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