Law enforcement agents confiscated a SUV parked inside the garage of Nancy Guthrie’s Arizona home Friday, where they also removed a wired device from the roof after they received a tip from a neighbor.
Over 10 police cars converged on Guthrie’s residence in the Catalina Foothills north of Tucson and began searching the property in the late afternoon amid the large-scale search for the missing 84-year-old.
A tow truck was called in and removed a Blue Subaru SUV — believed to be owned by Guthrie — before police escorted the truck to an impound lot near the Pima County Sheriff’s Office, Fox News reported.
Officials did not reveal why the vehicle was taken from the home, where the elderly woman is believed to have been kidnapped sometime between Saturday night and Sunday morning.
Guthrie’s daughter, NBC “Today” show host Savannah Guthrie, alongside her siblings, has pleaded with her mother’s alleged captors to release the matriarch.
Footage captured FBI agents scaling the elder Guthrie’s home and walking around the roof before taking what was believed to be a camera, according to Fox News reporter Michael Ruiz.
Retired NYPD Inspector Paul Mauro said the device was a camera that could have been overlooked during the first days of the investigation.
“Apparently on that roof, the agents recovered a new camera, a camera that apparently they hadn’t been aware of and they took it into their custody. I don’t know anymore than that as to why it hadn’t been recovered, what it might see,” Mauro told Fox News’ Jesse Watters on Friday.
Mauro added that residents of the area put up wildlife cameras that could have potentially picked up human movement.
Guthrie’s neighbor, Laura Gargano, said she tipped off the police to investigate the roof because of how clean it looked compared to other homes in the neighborhood.
“I did notice on an aerial shot that it looked like her roof had been recoated recently,” Gargano told CNN on Friday. “When you recoat your roof it gets dirty pretty quickly and we’ve had lot of rains the previous three weeks, so it would be normal for a roof to be a little dirty.”
The timeline of the disappearance of Savannah Guthrie’s mom:
Gargano suggested that detectives check on the contractors who did the roof work before Guthrie’s disappearance.
“If you’re looking for surface people that visited, that’s just one thing to check,” she added. “It could be nothing but I noticed it.”
Authorities were investigating another car, possibly connected with Guthrie’s vanishing, after receiving a tip about a “vehicle of interest.”
Officers rushed to a Circle K store in Tucson, where employees provided security footage, according to NBC News.
Officials haven’t specified if the vehicle has a known connection to Nancy’s suspected abduction, or if the lead is still relevant
Federal and county law enforcement investigators were probing the authenticity of “new message” sent to a local Arizona news station that was similar to a purported first ransom note sent to other outlets earlier in the week.