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Speaker 1: Crime Alart hourly update, breaking crime news. Now. I'm Nicole

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Speaker 1: Parton the search for Savannah Guthrie's mother, Nancy Guthrie, who

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Speaker 1: has been missing for nearly four weeks, remains active, according

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Speaker 1: to authorities in Arizona, the Pima County Sheriff's Department along

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Speaker 1: with the FBI. The Pima County Sheriff's Department, along with

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Speaker 1: the FBI, continues its efforts to locate the eighty four

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Speaker 1: year old woman, who was last seen at her home

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Speaker 1: on January thirty one, before being reported missing on February one.

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Speaker 1: Despite the investigation entering its fourth week without significant developments,

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Speaker 1: the Sheriff's department assured the public that hundreds of law

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Speaker 1: enforcement personnel are still committed to the case. They asked me,

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Speaker 1: do I have proof of life? I asked them, is

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Speaker 1: their proof of death? I'm going to have that faith

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Speaker 1: and sometimes that faith, that hope is all we have.

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Speaker 1: My team, four hundred people out there in the field today.

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Speaker 1: Woke up this morning and went out there with the

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Speaker 1: hope and the that they're going to find Nancy. Earlier

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Speaker 1: this month, the FBI released surveillance footage featuring a mask

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Speaker 1: person who appeared to tamper with the doorbell camera on

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Speaker 1: the day Nancy vanished. However, this person has yet to

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Speaker 1: be identified and all family members have been cleared as suspects.

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Speaker 1: An increase in incentive. There's a new reward being offered

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Speaker 1: for information leading to Nancy's return or information leading to

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Speaker 1: charges in the case, now over two hundred thousand dollars

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Speaker 1: being offered for information as of February one. Several hundred

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Speaker 1: law enforcement personnel continued to dedicate their efforts to the investigation,

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Speaker 1: which will persist until we locate Nancy. Guthrie said the

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Speaker 1: Sheriff detectives were seen canvassing the Guthrie neighborhood on February

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Speaker 1: twenty one as part of an ongoing investigation, although further

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Speaker 1: details were not disclosed. Also happening over the weekend, volunteer

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Speaker 1: searchers were on foot a backpack was found, although it

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Speaker 1: does not seem to match the backpack scene in that

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Speaker 1: surveillance footage. The Sheriff said, we are not quitting. We

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Speaker 1: will find her. Authorities are still attempting to identify the

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Speaker 1: mask individual from that doorbell footage, with Sheriff Nanos indicating

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Speaker 1: that they are making progress in pinpointing additional clothing items

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Speaker 1: worn by this person. Additionally, DNA samples collected from the

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Speaker 1: Guthrie residents that do not match Nancy or those close

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Speaker 1: to her are currently being analyzed. The Sheriff's Department acknowledged

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Speaker 1: on February twenty one that lab experts are diligently working

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Speaker 1: on this biological evidence, despite potential complexities in separating DNA profiles.

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Speaker 1: More crime and justice news after this and now to Florida.

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Speaker 1: A nurse working at a surgical center in Royal Palm

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Speaker 1: Beach has been taken into custody following alecations of sexual

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Speaker 1: assault on patients, with law enforcement officials suggesting there could

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Speaker 1: be additional victims. Authorities from the Palm Beach County Sheriff's

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Speaker 1: Office reported that they received separate complaints. Detectives initiated an

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Speaker 1: investigation into claims of sexual battery involving two female patients

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Speaker 1: at the Palm's Wellington Surgical Center. The accused is thirty

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Speaker 1: four year old JOYL. Vega. He's a recovery nurse employed

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Speaker 1: at the facility. Following a comprehensive investigation, detectives found significant

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Speaker 1: evidence to warrant charges, leading to Vega's arrest on Saturday

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Speaker 1: for sexual battery involving those victims. Investigators have expressed concern

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Speaker 1: there could be more individuals affected. Anyone with information or

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Speaker 1: suspects that they may have been a victim is encouraged

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Speaker 1: to call Detective Alvarez at five six one six eight

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Speaker 1: eight four one four seven. The women say they were

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Speaker 1: sexually assaulted after waking up from surgery and this man,

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Speaker 1: mister Vega, was their nurse. An update on a missing

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Speaker 1: person's case we brought to you earlier. A seventy two

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Speaker 1: year old Navy veteran from Jacksonville who had been missing

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Speaker 1: for over a week, has tragically been found dead in Georgia,

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Speaker 1: according to local authorities. The Liberty County Sheriff's Office shared

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Speaker 1: an update via social media revealing that Margaret Hanley's vehicle

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Speaker 1: was located immobilized stuck in the mud on Old Hinds Road.

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Speaker 1: Authorities reported that her body was discovered next to her

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Speaker 1: SUV during the search. Her son, Jomo Thompson, expressed concern

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Speaker 1: when they could not get in touch with her after

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Speaker 1: reporting her missing. Thompson checked his mother's bank accounts and

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Speaker 1: noted that she had made several large money transfers to

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Speaker 1: an unknown person, transaction he described as unusual and alarming.

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Speaker 1: He suspects she may have fallen a victim to a scam.

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Speaker 1: She was very friendly and inn intelligence, said her son,

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Speaker 1: I just don't understand how someone could exploit her like this.

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Speaker 1: According to her family, Hanley's two thousand and one silver

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Speaker 1: Toyota RAV four was tracked to Gainesville and Start before

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Speaker 1: ultimately being found in Hinesville. Thompson mentioned that this kind

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Speaker 1: of travel was atypical for his mother, especially given her

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Speaker 1: struggles with short term memory loss. Liberty County Deputies confirmed

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Speaker 1: that Hanley's vehicle has been secured and impounded, and the

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Speaker 1: investigation remains ongoing. For the latest crime and justice news,

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Speaker 1: with this crime Alert. I'm Nicole Parton