Nancy Guthrie reported missing in Arizona

I believe it was around noon yesterday we got *** call to the Guthrie residents that Nancy Guthrie, 84 years old. Um, was missing. We expended *** lot of resources for missing person that we typically always do. Our search and rescue volunteers, our search and rescue teams, um, uh, other agencies, BA from Border Patrol sent their canines out. Uh, they worked tirelessly all day yesterday and all day tonight. I’m sorry, all day yesterday and all last night. To no avail, as I said yesterday, we saw, um, some things at the home that were concerning to us. We believe now after we process that crime scene that we do in fact have *** crime scene, that we do in fact have *** crime. And we’re asking the community’s help. This community has always stepped up. To help us solve some pretty tough crimes. I’m looking for that again. Uh, this is *** Uh, 84 year old lady who um. Suffers from some physical ailments. has some physical challenges. is in need of medication. Medication that if she doesn’t have in 24 hours. It could be fatal So we make *** plea to anyone who knows anything about this, who has seen something, heard something. To contact us, call 911. We, we, we don’t, um, we don’t need uh uh. Another bad tragic ending. We need some help. Our team is, is, is. The best I couldn’t speak any higher. I think you know that we have done some great work with our partners in the valley, you know this community. I have to give *** lot of thanks to our law enforcement agencies all across this valley, whether it’s the Tucson Police Department or some of the smaller agencies. They’ve all reached out. They’ve all offered to assist. Uh, the FBI, uh, uh, all of them, we work so close with them and they are all plugged in. We’ll continue to work closely with them, but what I really need is I need this community to step up and start giving us some, some, um, calls. Let us know if you’ve seen something, um. We are right now at *** time, and I apologize, I Everybody tells me I talk too softly. Um, we are at *** time where in this investigation we’re now moving forward where we need To depend on technology, you know, our license plate readers, our, our camera systems throughout the community, um, uh, anything, everything, and we will download all that data we have from the home from, uh, different pieces of technology we’ve gotten. And we will use that to our advantage, but the reason I bring this up is that you know I’m *** cop. I hate politics, but I have to remind our political leaders that they need to quit this this banter of uh every time law enforcement leaders come to you for *** need that you give up these these ridiculous remarks about. How it’s going to be misused. AI is *** bad evil word. The cameras are very bad and evil. I’m tired of that. Those tools in the right hands with the right minds and the right approaches are extremely valuable to solving crimes just like this. Um, we need that, we need, we need more staffing, we need *** lot of things, but what I really need is I need the committee’s help with this, so I want to make sure I didn’t before I take any questions, um. It is *** crime scene. We know that. We, she needs her daily medication. And anybody that sees anything that even looks, hey, maybe that’s her, just take *** quick picture and take *** video, send it to us. The number is real easy here locally it’s 911. Uh, you can contact our 88 crime and remain anonymous. Um, you can call me, anybody. Uh, I am here to take any questions you may have. It will be *** little limited. Uh, I, I apologize for that, but we do have *** crime that we need to protect its integrity. I have here Sergeant David Stivers from our homicide team. He has been up all night, so, uh, uh, bear with us if we are *** little bit, um. Fuzzy in our answers and responses, but we’re both here for any questions you may have. Let’s start, please recognizing your limitations, but can you elaborate at all on what makes you believe it’s *** crime scene as opposed to someone who left home and just couldn’t find out what happened. Well, I think I told you she is very limited in her mobility, right? We know she didn’t just walk out of there. That is, that we know. There are other things that the that the scene that indicate there was, there was *** *** um um. She did not leave on her own. We know that if you, if you’re not that plate readers, is there *** vehicle associated with we’re, we’re, when I told you we’re now at the phase where we’re looking at all the technology, all of that is being, being evaluated as we speak. Uh, let me say this, we’ve, um, we’ve not just thrown our search and rescue team out there. They’re, they’re gonna be doing some door to door with our criminal investigation team. It is not just our homicide unit. All of our criminal. Detectives, I went out last night to the scene. There were probably 100 cars out there, all from the sheriff’s department, all working this case. It takes *** lot of manpower and *** lot of energy. This team of mine worked throughout the night. They continue to work. David’s had zero sleep, but he and his team are working as hard as they can. Is there anybody else associated with her, *** caregiver, *** family member, acquaintance who is also No, no, no, no. The family, all of the family has been very cooperative with us. They’re working with us. They’re staying in touch with us. Uh, they have complete access to anybody in this department. Um, uh, Savannah has been in touch with us as well. Um, we, we, uh. Our hearts go out to them. This is their mom. She’s ***, yeah, just *** great lady, um, from what I’ve heard, and I feel for the family. We, we just want to find her and bring her back safe. Sheriff, you mentioned, uh, that she didn’t just walk out, but was, is there any like additional information that you can give us on what may have alluded to this being *** crime scene? Yeah You know, I wish I could. I, I, I really do. I know that everybody wants to know certain things. But I can’t do that for the just it, it, it would be inappropriate at this time. Are there any signs of breaking and entering or any forced entry or anything like that? I’m not, I, I again don’t want to get into that. David, do you, can you see anything here? Do you? At this time it’s still *** very active investigation. There were circumstances on scene that we believe are suspicious in nature, I think is the best way to put it, but we can’t really get into *** whole lot of details with that. Do you believe that this was targeted or they just happened to hit Savannah Guthrie’s mom or if this was just random? We don’t know that. We look at all of that, but we just don’t know that. Do, do they have cameras in the home? They do, and we’re looking through some of that, yeah, but this being an active crime scene, is there any threat to the general public? I should figure out my phone. Well, you know, uh No, I don’t think there’s an active threat, but I hate to say that because, you know, we’re going to canvass that neighborhood and maybe there’s *** prowler been seen around. There’s *** lot of work still to do. We don’t have any indication that that the public is in danger. And what does that search look like today beyond what you’ve already told us about? So we have, we have shut down our search and rescue mission. Um, and we’ve given them, sent them home to rest. Uh, they were out all night. Um, look, we, we put all our air assets into this, uh, our drone systems, our, our air aircraft, our helicopters, uh, heat sensors, infrared, everything we’ve had, we’ve thrown at this. They’re going to step aside. We’ll call them out again if we need to to do more searching, but right now we don’t see this as *** search mission as much as we do *** crime scene. Sheriff, can you tell us *** little bit about that map? That is, and David probably can better answer it than I, but that is our search patterns, I believe. So with all the assets that we deployed yesterday with the search and rescue teams, the map that’s on the screen is basically tracks that were followed. Those are all. The colored lines are all ground tracks of different teams and different assets that were used on the ground to include the canines, the volunteers, and our own search and rescue team. The circles are going to be representative, if not necessarily perfect, of our air circulation with both our helicopter and our fixed wing aircraft at night working with the nighttime cameras. Difficult to see where the house is. The house is basically pretty close to center in that and then all of the searching that went on throughout the day with those folks out there on the ground. What this really helps with is our search teams when they come back and reassess maybe they’ve missed an area, we can look at it and say, hey, you know what, this area could use *** little more coverage. And so they concentrate again. Our search and rescue team is top notch. They, they’re, they’re out every single day. If it’s not *** lost person, it’s *** hiker, it’s somebody who’s wandered away from *** care home, whatever it may be. I want to stress to you. And it’s really important. Miss Guthrie, Nancy Guthrie. Is of great sound mind. This is not *** dementia related. She is as sharp as *** tack. Uh, the family wants everybody to know this isn’t somebody who just wandered off. She, her, her physical limits are based on just age and you know. We get old and and and so it’s more physical but clearly she is as sharp as *** tack. Do you have her cell phone and does that prevent, uh, present any tracking potential? We’re, we’re looking at that as we speak. But do you have it or do you not? We do have it. Can you give us *** little bit more of ***, of *** timeline because you said she didn’t leave on her own. That she was last seen at 9:45. She wasn’t reported missing until noon, but I, I believe what happened there was it at, um, 9:45 in the evening her children left her off. At some time earlier that morning they got *** call from somebody at the church who said, hey, your, your mom’s not here. Um, the family went to the house. I’m thinking they, they spent some time looking for her themselves before they called us, so I’m guessing maybe they got there around 11, so they did some searching and realized we need some help and they called 911. Do you have any idea what time Nancy would have been taken from the home? There’s *** lot of things working there and I, I just can’t say that right now. Has Savannah, has she had any threats to herself? We, we, we’ve spoken to her. Um, we’ll continue to work with that. Uh, she has *** security team that’s been in touch with us throughout the night, um, but we, we’re not, we’re not going to dismiss any angles for sure. But right now, immediately we don’t know of anything like that. Is she in town or on the way here? She’s here. Can you give us any more? What should somebody be looking for, because when I was out in the neighborhood, the neighbors are obviously incredibly concerned, but is there anything, *** tip? I mean, one neighbor stopped me and he was, he didn’t know if he should call you or not. Oh my goodness, what should, what should somebody be looking? Well, first of all, I’d, I’d ask them, go through their cameras. Go through their their ring cameras, whatever cameras they may have don’t dismiss it that oh well we really can’t see the house they still might see something maybe it’s somebody walking by, maybe it’s *** vehicle driving by at that time of day but go through all your cameras in that neighborhood and tell us if you see something maybe some. Somebody already we know this happens, right? Oh I I saw something suspicious but I didn’t think it was worth calling in so I didn’t call it in. Well now it’s suspi call in anything you’ve seen or heard maybe it’s *** neighbor telling you, you know, I saw this or I heard that. Call us. Don’t tell the neighbor to call us. Tell the neighbor to call us, but you call us as well. Um, we’ll put it together. We’ll get it, trust me, we’re, I’m sure we’re gonna get inundated with *** lot of calls. We’ll handle that. Did she live alone? I believe, yes, she did, yeah. Were there any caregivers you’re normally associated with her? Well, she has, um, she has, um. House staff that comes by, takes care of the yard, whatever that in her house and that, but uh those people we’ll be talking with and have talked to some of them already, but nobody’s like *** live-in or anything. Nobody actually lives with her. No, no. Like I say, she’s *** great sound mind and she is mobile. It’s just it’s *** challenge for her to get as *** family says she couldn’t walk 50 yards by herself, so. I ask about that. I’m sorry about the FBI. The, the, we like I said, we, we work closely with all of our partners whether they’re FBI, ATF, ICE, whoever, uh. We know that they have certain capabilities and certain resources just as we have certain capabilities and resources. So yes, we’ll continue to work with them and they’ve offered assistance to us. We accept that assistance and we offer assistance just last week the FBI called us to handle *** shooting that border patrol. That’s you need to know that that’s just. Day to day routine work for the law enforcement in Pima County in Tucson. We work very closely with our partners. With the amount of time that’s gone by, how wide do you cast in the net statewide, national? Well, yes, national for sure. That’s I’m hoping the national media’s picked up on this. We’ve, we’ve gotten *** lot of reports, but statewide as well with Amber Alerts, things like that, we’ll all of those things we use, um, uh, every tool we have, we will use. OK. You guys are too easy. Thank you so much. I apologize for being late. I apologize for my political rhetoric of, of the board of supervisors or the city council. I just get so frustrated and, and, um. You know, we just can’t do this job without their support. We don’t need. Political statements from the dice and and mumbo jumble we need them to to listen to their law enforcement leaders and and really pay attention to the fact that we understand that there’s *** great potential for abuses in today’s world with the technology that’s available to us, but you have to at some point in time have some faith and trust in your leadership in the law enforcement community to know and understand that that we too were elected here. To provide *** service to our community, I, I can’t think of *** community in this planet that wouldn’t tell you number one is public safety. Everybody just wants to be able to know that they can go outside and enjoy the the their community and come home and be safe at night in their rooms asleep in bed. And this lady. Wasn’t able to accomplish that, that, that’s *** sad statement. We need to, we need her back. We need to find her, um, and time is very critical. She’s 84. She needs her meds. Her family needs her too. Thank you so much for being here.