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EXCLUSIVE: The hold successful allowing nan FBI to assistance successful nan investigation into Nancy Guthrie's suspected abduction whitethorn person costs important video grounds owed to nan elaborate process progressive successful recovering Nest doorbell footage from nan crime segment erstwhile nan unfortunate did not person a unreality subscription and her beingness camera was missing arsenic well, according to nan FBI director.
Guthrie, nan mother of "Today" co-host Savannah Guthrie, was taken from her Tucson, Arizona, location successful nan early hours of Feb. 1, according to authorities.
The FBI worked pinch Google to retrieve cached video from Guthrie's Nest camera that was not intended for semipermanent retention and was connected nan verge of deletion, Director Kash Patel told Fox News Digital.
If location was more, it was mislaid earlier nan FBI became involved, and its evidentiary worth remains unknown.
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Nancy Guthrie was abducted from her Tucson location connected Feb. 1. (Getty Images)
"We were looking for nan needle of each needles successful each haystacks, because since she didn't salary for it, they didn't grounds that data," he said. "But location was a chance that it was located successful their cache conscionable earlier it was being deleted."
That's wherever investigators recovered nan video and still images that Patel made nationalist connected Feb. 10, successful nan dream that personification would admit nan fishy and move him in.
A short clip later, FBI experts had generated a unsmooth beingness description. The masked fishy is described arsenic betwixt 5 feet, 9 inches and 5 feet, 10 inches gangly pinch a mean build. He was wearing a achromatic Ozark Trail backpack.
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This image released by nan FBI shows an equipped individual appearing to person tampered pinch nan camera astatine Nancy Guthrie's beforehand doorway nan greeting of her disappearance successful Tucson, Arizona, Sunday, Feb. 1, 2026. (L) An undated photograph of Nancy Guthrie provided by NBC successful consequence to nan disappearance of nan 84-year-old mother of Today Show big Savannah Guthrie. (Provided by FBI; Courtesy of NBC)
A masked man appeared connected Guthrie's Nest camera astatine slightest doubly — erstwhile connected nan time of her Feb. 1 abduction, and erstwhile astir 3 weeks earlier, Fox News Digital has reported previously. Authorities person not publically ruled retired nan imaginable for further suspects successful nan case.
There is only a azygous still image publically disposable from nan earlier visit. Experts opportunity it's apt that video existed astatine 1 point.
If nan FBI were progressive sooner, agents whitethorn person been capable to retrieve further evidence, which perchance whitethorn person included a fishy vehicle, much footage of nan masked intruder aliases moreover further imagery from a anterior sojourn to Guthrie's home, Patel said.
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Photos released connected Feb. 10, 2026, show a "subject" connected Nancy Guthrie's property. (Provided by FBI)
"What we do cognize is that nan longer you wait, there's nary chance of recovering nan video," said Morgan Wright, nan CEO and laminitis of nan National Center for Open and Unsolved Cases. "The earlier you get started, nan amended your chances. Waiting 4 days whitethorn person been fatal to nan betterment of immoderate video that could person been much illuminating."
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Time is nan force of each investigations and nan thief of captious evidence. You tin ne'er spell backmost and get this grounds erstwhile it's gone. Time is nan astir captious facet successful immoderate investigation whether it's uncovering nan suspect, uncovering nan victim, aliases uncovering nan evidence.
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Because Google and nan FBI were capable to retrieve astatine slightest immoderate video done this process, it's adjacent to infer that earlier video would person existed arsenic well, Wright told Fox News Digital.
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"If this was recovered from a backend cache and it was almost deleted, that implies that different video was deleted because they would person been capable to retrieve much than what they did," he said. "Timing is ever an issue."
At this point, however, immoderate whitethorn aliases whitethorn not person existed remains chartless and unavailable to investigators.
FBI investigators hunt Catalina Foothills successful Tucson, Arizona, Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2026. The investigations into nan disappearance of Nancy Guthrie continues. (DWS for Fox News Digital)
"Time is nan force of each investigations and nan thief of captious evidence," Wright said. "You tin ne'er spell backmost and get this grounds erstwhile it's gone. Time is nan astir captious facet successful immoderate investigation whether it's uncovering nan suspect, uncovering nan victim, aliases uncovering nan evidence."
Patel has antecedently said nan FBI was fresh to thief connected time 1 and explained this week that he wanted to deploy scores of FBI unit from nan outset. However, section authorities didn't petition nan FBI's assistance for 4 days.
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FBI investigators canvass nan vicinity astir Annie Guthrie's location successful Tucson, Arizona, Tuesday, Feb. 10, 2026. (DWS for Fox News Digital)
By nan clip nan FBI arrived, nan crime segment had already been released. People had been allowed to sound connected Guthrie's beforehand door, wherever her humor was connected nan porch. It was secured erstwhile more, and FBI agents spent hours examining nan location and nan yard, collecting further location information cameras.
Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos has countered that an FBI task unit personnel was coming during nan first stages of nan investigation — nevertheless that serviceman is not a national agent.
The sheriff's section declined to remark for this story.
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Anyone pinch accusation connected Guthrie's kidnapping is asked to dial 1-800-CALL-FBI aliases 520-88-CRIME to stay anonymous.
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