The Arizona sheriff leading the search for Nancy Guthrie made a resounding promise Friday that his investigators are “going to find Nancy” — but stopped short of saying when her rescue could come.
Pima County’s Chris Nanos described the two-week-long mission for “Today” show host Savannah Guthrie’s missing mom as “exhausting,” but emphasized that law enforcement will not quit until the case is cracked.
“Maybe it’s an hour from now,” Nanos told The New York Times Friday.“Maybe it’s weeks or months or years from now. But we won’t quit. We’re going to find Nancy. We’re going to find this guy.”
Nanos and his team, with the aid of federal investigators, thought they were on the verge of closing the case earlier this week when they detained a delivery driver whose description matched that of the armed and masked creep spotted lurking outside Nancy Guthrie’s home in the lead-up to her apparent abduction.
But the lead was a dead end – and marked the first of several detainments and subsequent releases by cops who are chasing leads mostly generated by hotline tips, sources told The Post.
“This has to be it, the evidence, everything’s there,” Nanos reflected on the delivery driver let down. “Then you talk to people, you learn, you do your search, and you think, ‘Maybe not.’”
“It’s exhausting, these ups and downs,” Sheriff Nanos said. “But we will keep moving forward.”
In recent days, authorities announced that DNA found at Guthrie’s home did not belong to her or anyone “in close contact” with her.
Authorities are also running tests on the gloves that were found about two miles from her home that seem to match the ones worn by the trespasser seen on her doorbell surveillance footage, but Nanos admitted he had “no way” of knowing whether they are connected to the crime.
Around 400 people are working on the case and investigators are still “looking hard,” Nanos promised.
The only thing the investigators would say for certain is that they would find the missing 84-year-old and the person responsible for her abduction.
Guthrie was last seen alive on Jan. 31, and a trail of blood in her Tucson home was found the following day — leading investigators to believe she was kidnapped.
Multiple ransom notes have surfaced since she vanished at the hands of her self-proclaimed kidnappers.
The suspect is a man, approximately 5 feet 9 inches to 5 feet 10 inches tall and has an average build, according to the feds.
The FBI also doubled its reward to $100,000 for information leading to Guthrie or her captor.
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