Nancy Guthrie Update: Wanted Woman May Hold Clues to Case Says Ex-Cop
What To Know
- Pima County authorities are seeking a career criminal wanted for a recent kidnapping near the area where Nancy Guthrie disappeared.
- While there is no direct evidence linking the cases, a retired detective said investigators will want to question the suspect.
- Nancy has been missing since the early hours of February 1.
The Pima County Sheriff’s Department, which is investigating the Nancy Guthrie disappearance, issued an alert this week for a woman wanted in connection with a kidnapping that took place within 7 miles of the missing 84-year-old’s home.
While investigators have not suggested any link between the suspect, 40-year-old career criminal Coral Michelle Smith, and Nancy’s case, a retired police detective said that the crime could still hold clues, especially as it happened so close to the neighborhood where Nancy was allegedly abducted.
“In any major missing person or abduction-type of investigation, the investigators are going to cast a wide net,” retired homicide detective Chris McDonough said on Jesse Weber Live, per NewsNation, noting that law enforcement will be especially interested in those with a “violent kidnapping history.”
Smith is reported to have been involved in a crime that happened on May 29 at the intersection of River Road and La Cholla Boulevard, just under 7 miles from Nancy’s home in the Catalina Foothills neighborhood of Tucson, Arizona. Pima County officials have asked the local community to “be on the lookout for the woman.
Court records show that Smith has previously been accused of kidnapping, assault, robbery, and disorderly conduct and has served four separate prison sentences. Her most recent prison stint came in 2023 after she was found guilty of aggravated assault with physical injury.
“This would be a very standard protocol to try to find [Smith] and see if they can connect her in any way, shape or form [to Nancy’s case],” McDonough added.
Nancy, the mother of Today‘s Savannah Guthrie , has been missing since February 1, when police believe she was abducted from her home in Tucson. Investigators have released doorbell camera footage of a masked suspect and sent DNA for testing at the FBI lab in Quantico, but no suspects have been named.
If Smith is found and taken into custody, McDonough said investigators would most likely ask her if she has any knowledge about Nancy’s disappearance or activity in the Catalina Foothills area.
“They’re going to ask her about any familiarity around the Guthrie home,” he explained. “What’s the word on the street? She may not be involved in any way, shape or form, but she may have information that may connect something.”
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I think that Pima Co screwed up this investigation from the beginning & now trying to cover their tracks. The amount of "no information has been rediculous!
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(SO SAD) TO THE PEOPLE.. THAT TOOK THIS POOR LADY MOM ...PKEASE PLEASE... LET GER GO AND IF SHE GONE PLEASE LET HER KNOW Two so THEY CAN MOVE ON AND PUT THERE DEAR MOTHER TO REST SO PLEASE....,BUT WHAT I WANT TO NO WHY DDID THEY TAKE HER OUT OF MANY OTHER IT SO WRIED BUT THESE NICE PEOPLE DONT DESEAVED.... THIS SO Okey you all READY MADE YOUR POINT now to please let her go please I beg you please 😢 ❤️. I'm here I be here since the first time I read it I hope and pray that you get your mom keep your head up . And for the people that took her let her go please .........
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Ya..bc the million dollar reward isn't enough.your text will do it for sure
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Since the beginning, I told my mom and family that is a woman in the picture of Nancy Gutheries porch . It doesn’t appear to me , to be that of a male . The person has characteristics of a woman. And that just may be why their is no capture R
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Savannah Gutrie's husband was the bleach bit guy for Hillary Clinton's deleted emails and servers. Coincidence? Probably not.
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Savannah Guthrie's husband did not delete Hillary Clinton's emails. Her IT technician at Platte River Networks was the individual who used the data-wiping software BleachBit. The technician, an employee named Paul Combetta, was the one responsible for the email server deletion.Savannah Guthrie's husband is Michael Feldman, a public relations consultant and former political advisor who served as a traveling chief of staff to Vice President Al Gore. He had no connection to the IT infrastructure or email deletion involving the Clinton server.
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