Chilling evidence points to Nancy Guthrie kidnapping in pitch-black conditions as search ‘radius’ widens: Live updates

Nancy Guthrie’s captors could have taken her in pitch-black conditions, according to reports.

The City of Tucson and Pima County code requires outdoor lighting must be shut off between 11pm local time and sunrise the following day, leading to a lack of visibility.

Additionally, footage from the Fox Flight Team showed the floodlights on Nancy’s house appeared to be broken, meaning they may not have been working when she was abducted.

Pictured: Nancy Guthrie’s house

Nancy Guthrie’s neighbor, Laura Gargano, said she has been ‘very alarmed’ by the abduction that has rocked their community.

‘I just don’t want to imagine what happened that night and what she might have felt at that moment,’ Gargano told the Associated Press.

Gargano said Nancy is a ‘very sweet woman,’ and described their neighborhood as ‘very, very safe.’

Despite the shock kidnapping, she said, ‘I think most people haven’t been overly concerned’ about their safety.

Pictured: Laura Gargano

Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos reiterated concerns about Nancy Guthrie’s deteriorating health.

‘Her conditions, I would imagine, are worsening day by day,’ he told the Associated Press on Friday.

‘She requires medication. And I have no way of knowing whether they’re getting that medication to her.’

The sheriff leading the investigation into Nancy Guthrie’s disappearance was asked directly on Thursday whether her son-in-law, Tommaso Cioni, is being treated as a suspect.

Cioni, who is married to Savannah Guthrie’s sister, Annie, was believed to be the last person to see Nancy, 84, before she vanished at 1.47am on Sunday morning.

Now, sheriffs are less certain that he alone drove her home.

Nancy Grace weighed on who she thinks could be responsible for Nancy Guthrie’s abduction and why they blood outside the front door is promising.

She told Entertainment Tonight that the person who allegedly abducted Nancy is a man because of ‘statistics.;

Grace also said the blood on the porch indicates it was ‘not a bludgeoning.’

‘It’s not a gunshot wound. It’s not a cohesive amount of blood from a knife wound. It looks like Nancy Guthrie was walking out and that she was upright,’ she said.

Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos admitted that investigators are not sharing everything they know about what happened to Nancy Guthrie.

‘That’s not how we do police investigations. There has to be some control of your case,’ he told the Associated Press on Friday.

He also called the lack of video footage in the case a disappointing setback.

Investigators found that Nancy’s home’s doorbell camera was disconnected early Sunday, but software data detected a movement at the home minutes later.

However, Nancy did not have a subscription with the doorbell camera service and none of the footage was recovered.

‘It is concerning, it’s actually almost disappointing because you’ve got your hopes up,’ Nanos said.

Nancy Guthrie could have been kidnapped from her Arizona home as part of a ‘revenge’ plot, a retired FBI agent has suggested.

Former FBI supervisor agent James Gagliano says the ransom note demanding Bitcoin funds is the ‘most compelling piece of evidence thus far.’

TMZ shared new details about the ransom note sent to their newsroom that indicates where Nancy Guthrie could be held.

‘Arizona, California, Nevada, Utah, Idaho, Colorado, New Mexico, Texas, and slivers of Kansas and Oklahoma all would seem to be places Nancy might be,’ TMZ said.

‘There are also parts of Mexico in the radius, but that would require border crossings both ways.’

Thursday night, TMZ founder Harvey Levin noted, ‘there is a radius around Tucson, that they kind of disclose in this demand letter.’

‘There are real reasons, based on what’s written there, that I believe that this person is in the radius of the Tucson area,’ he said. ‘Authorities have a radius, and that’s something.’

A pacemaker does not have a GPS and cannot track a person, experts say.

Amy Kleinhans, lead nurse practitioner for the electrophysiology group and clinical manager for the device clinic at HonorHealth Heart Care, told USA Today a pacemaker is use to help with heart rates.

‘The purpose of a pacemaker is to fix a low heart rate. The heart rate is too low. It’s not responding appropriately to activity,’ she said. ‘So we put devices in that can kind of speed the heart up.’

She explained that while pacemakers connect with apps to communication information about a patient, it is not a GPS locator device,

‘There’s no locator on these things,’ Kleinhans said. ‘It’s purely a communication tool for the device [pacemaker] to send us information. It sends us information. We can’t send it information.’

Just under three months ago, Savannah Guthrie returned to her hometown of Tucson, Arizona, for a nostalgic tour visiting the place that shaped her upbringing.

The special segment, which aired on NBC’s Today show in November, framed Tucson as the city where her ‘soul is home’, with a focus on family and community.

Her mother, Nancy Guthrie, 84, made a rare on-air appearance, toasting to the ‘gentle’ desert town she had lived in since the 1970s.

Now, however, there is growing concern behind the scenes at NBC that the feature may have inadvertently placed Nancy in danger, the Daily Mail has learned.

Data from Nancy Guthrie’s pacemaker might mean she was involved in some kind of struggle with her potential captors just before she was kidnapped, a top cardiologist has theorized.

A retired FBI explained how proof of life plays an important role in kidnapping cases like the abduction of Nancy Guthrie.

‘I think eventually, if it’s a legitimate kidnapping, there has to be a proof of life. There has to be some sort of connection between the kidnappers and the family, the police or online that says, “We have her and this is our demands,”‘ retired FBI agent Steve Hooper told KTAR News 92.3 FM’s The Mike Broomhead Show on Friday.

Hooper said he would consider it a red flag in a case like this if the deadline keeps moving.

‘I think at some point they have to decide whether this is someone who’s just who’s just using this opportunity and is trying to figure out a way to get some money, but I think eventually proof of life and some more significant connection with the family or law enforcement has to be made,’ he said.