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Speaker 1: Crime Alert hourly update, breaking crime news Now. I'm Drew Nelson.

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Speaker 1: Just into crime Alert. An individual is detained for questioning

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Speaker 1: in the case of Nancy Guthrie. The FBI and Pima County,

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Speaker 1: Arizona Police detained the individual south of Tucson. Unknown if

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Speaker 1: the person is the same person seen in surveillance video

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Speaker 1: released this afternoon by the Bureau. Officials stress this person

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Speaker 1: has not been charged. This comes within an hour of

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Speaker 1: a report of activity tied to a bitcoin wallet connected

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Speaker 1: to whoever abducted Guthrie. The transaction comes from the bitcoin

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Speaker 1: address found in the ransom note sent to TV station KOLD,

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Speaker 1: which is identical to the address shared in other ransom notes.

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Speaker 1: KPHO was first to report with the outlet withholding the

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Speaker 1: amount of the transaction. The doorbell video shows a masked

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Speaker 1: individual at the front door of Nancy Guthrie's Tucson area

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Speaker 1: home during the early morning hours of February First. Investigators

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Speaker 1: say the person appears to be armed. The black and

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Speaker 1: white images and video clips show someone wearing a ski mask, gloves, sneakers,

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Speaker 1: and a backpack. A handgun appears to be holstered at

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Speaker 1: the person's waist. In several frames. The individual is seen

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Speaker 1: facing the doorbell camera. In one video, the person raises

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Speaker 1: a gloved hand to block the lens. In another, they

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Speaker 1: bend down, pull foliage from the yard and attempt to

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Speaker 1: drape it over the camera to block its view. FBI

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Speaker 1: director Cash Pattel says the footage had long been believed

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Speaker 1: to be unavailable. He says it was recovered after days

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Speaker 1: of technical work with private sector partners using residual data

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Speaker 1: stored in back end systems. Law enforcement sources say Guthrie's

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Speaker 1: family was shown the images before they were released publicly.

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Speaker 1: Within minutes of their release, Nancy's daughter, longtime co anchor

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Speaker 1: of NBC's Today, Savannah Guthrie, shared the images on social media.

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Speaker 1: She writes, quote, we believe she is still alive. Bring

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Speaker 1: her home. In a second post, she added quote someone

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Speaker 1: out there recognizes this person. Authorities believe Nancy Guthrie was

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Speaker 1: taken from her home sometime after one forty seven in

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Speaker 1: the morning on February first. That's when her doorbell camera disconnected.

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Speaker 1: Roughly twenty five minutes later, software detected motion at the home,

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Speaker 1: but nobody was recorded. At exactly two twenty eight am,

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Speaker 1: Guthrie's pacemaker lost contact with its monitoring app on her phone.

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Speaker 1: Investigators later found the phone inside the house. Investigators say

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Speaker 1: that sequence strongly suggests she was removed from the home

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Speaker 1: around that time. They also observed blood on the stoop

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Speaker 1: when they responded. Guthrie was last seen the night before,

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Speaker 1: after having dinner with her daughter Annie. She was dropped

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Speaker 1: off at her home just before ten pm. Family members

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Speaker 1: and investigators have said she was mentally sharp, but had

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Speaker 1: limited mobility and required daily medication. Authorities have warned that

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Speaker 1: missing that medication could be life threatening. Days into the investigation,

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Speaker 1: multiple news outlets received messages claiming Guthrie had been kidnapped,

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Speaker 1: one note demanding six million dollars in bitcoin, threatening her

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Speaker 1: life as the deadline passed. It did pass Monday evening.

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Speaker 1: The FBI says it is not aware of any continued

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Speaker 1: communication between the Guthrie family and anyone claiming to be responsible.

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Speaker 1: Investigators say no suspect or a person of interest has

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Speaker 1: been identified. The Pima County Sheriff's office leading the investigation

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Speaker 1: says there are no scheduled press briefings. Both the case

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Speaker 1: remains active. Deputies and FBI agents have been canvassing neighborhoods

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Speaker 1: near Guthrie's home and near her daughter Annie's home, looking

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Speaker 1: for surveillance video and witnesses. White House officials confirm President

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Speaker 1: Trump has been briefed on the case and has reviewed

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Speaker 1: the newly released images. The White House says the President

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Speaker 1: is urging anyone with information to contact authorities as the

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Speaker 1: search moves deeper into its second week. The FBI says

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Speaker 1: it is operating a twenty four hour command post in

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Speaker 1: Tucson and has deployed additional personnel to assist local investigators.

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Speaker 1: A fifty thousand dollars reward remains in effect for information

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Speaker 1: leading to Nancy Guthrie's recovery or the arrest and conviction

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Speaker 1: of anyone involved in her disappearance. Anyone within information has

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Speaker 1: urged to contact the FBI at eight hundred call FBI

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Speaker 1: or tips dot FBI dot gov. Stay with Crime Alert

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Speaker 1: for more as news breaks in the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie,

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