Security camera footage from the night Savannah Guthrie’s mom, Nancy, went missing can’t be recovered because she didn’t pay for the subscription service.
During Thursday’s press conference, Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos revealed Guthrie’s doorbell camera disconnected around 1:47 a.m. on Sunday.
“At 2:12 a.m. [local time], software detects a person on a camera, but there’s no video available; they had no subscription and therefore it would rewrite itself,” he said.
“It just kind of loops and covers up. That’s what our analysis teams have told us,” Nanos added. “Could [the movement] be an animal? I imagine that’s possible. We don’t know that. We just have no video.”
According to the sheriff, investigators have “run out of [any] way to recover any video” from Guthrie’s home.
Nancy’s pacemaker device disconnected from her phone app around 2:28 a.m.
The 84-year-old matriarch failed to attend church on Sunday morning, leading her family to check on her around 11:56 a.m.
Police were called to her Arizona home at 12:03 p.m. and arrived at 12:15 p.m. Blood was located outside of Nancy’s home, and police confirmed Thursday it was hers.
Investigators are currently looking into ransom notes demanding something unspecified by 5 p.m. local time, Heith Janke, FBI Phoenix’s special agent, said at the presser.
“And if a transfer wasn’t made, the second demand was for next Monday,” he shared. “I’m not going to go beyond that.”
Janke, however, noted that there was mention of an “Apple Watch” and a “flood light” in the notes, explaining that “any action taken on any ransom is ultimately decided by the family.”
Two news stations, including TMZ, received ransom notes with a threatening message that read, “Or else.”
According to TMZ, their note asked for millions in Bitcoin.
The FBI has also offered a $50,000 reward for information to find Nancy, “or the arrest and conviction of anyone involved in her disappearance.”
Officers are “actively looking at everyone” as a suspect, though no one has been named.
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