Investigators are “actively looking at everyone” as a suspect in Nancy Guthrie’s mysterious disappearance, Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos said in a press conference Thursday afternoon.
When a reporter asked whether Nanos was investigating Guthrie’s son-in-law Tommaso Cioni, Nanos replied, “We’re actively looking at everybody we come across in this case. Everybody. We would be irresponsible if we didn’t talk to everybody.”
Nanos went on to list “the Uber driver,” who drove Guthrie, 84, to Cioni and his wife Annie Guthrie’s home for dinner Saturday evening, “the gardener” and “the pool person.”
It’s unclear whether there actually is a gardener or pool person being investigated at this time.
“It’s so cliché, but everybody’s still a suspect in our eyes. That’s just how we look at things and think as cops. Does that mean we have a prime suspect? No,” Nanos explained, adding that “the family’s been very cooperative” and “done everything” asked of them.
“We want that relationship to continue,” he stressed, “and sometimes people can be mean out there, and that can really harm us and our efforts.”
During the presser, Nanos revealed that an Uber driver took Nancy to Annie and Cioni’s house for dinner just after 5:30 p.m.
Though he initially told Us Weekly that Annie was the last person to see Nancy before she went missing, Nanos later told the New York Times that Cioni drove her back to her house around 9:45 p.m. and ensured she made it inside before leaving.
According to Nanos, the garage door closed at 9:50 p.m.
Around 1:45 a.m. Sunday, Nancy’s doorbell camera was disconnected, and about 30 minutes later, the software detected a person, but there is no video available.
Just before 2:30 a.m., Nancy’s pacemaker disconnected from the app on her phone.
At around 11 a.m., a parishioner at her church called her family to let them know that she did not attend that morning’s service, which was unusual.
The family then went to Nancy’s house to look for her and called 911 just after 12 noon.
Nanos previously said that he and investigators — which now includes local, state and federal law enforcement agencies — believe Nancy was abducted in her sleep and “harmed” in the process.
A trail of blood was seen just outside her front door, which Nanos confirmed Thursday belongs to Nancy.
The FBI is offering a reward of up to $50,000 for information leading to the recovery of Nancy and/or the arrest and conviction of anyone involved in her disappearance.
On Wednesday night, Annie, her sister, Savannah Guthrie, and their brother, Camron Guthrie, posted a gut-wrenching Instagram video in which they publicly pleaded with their mom’s purported captor for her safe return.
Annie explained that the “light is missing” from their family’s lives without their mom.
“Nancy is our mother. We are her children. She is our beacon. She holds fast to joy in all of life’s circumstances. She chooses joy day after day despite having already passed through great trials of pain and grief,” she said as an emotional Savannah held her head down.
“We are always going to be merely human. Just normal human people who need our mom. Mama, Mama, if you’re listening, we need you to come home. We miss you.”
On Tuesday afternoon, investigators went to Annie and Cioni’s home for a two-hour meeting.
While it is not known when Cioni wed into the Guthrie family, Annie referred to him as her husband in a 2013 interview with “Women’s Quarterly Conversation,” gushing that he is her “greatest teacher” and a “great manifester” who “writes poetry with his lifestyle.”
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