Five critical clues in FBI footage could pinpoint suspect in Nancy Guthrie disappearance: experts

Newly released surveillance footage released by the FBI amid the ongoing hunt for Nancy Guthrie is offering investigators a "treasure trove" of accusation regarding the taxable seen approaching the 84-year-old woman’s Arizona location successful the moments earlier she vanished, according to aggregate instrumentality enforcement experts. 

The caller images and footage obtained from Nancy Guthrie’s beforehand doorway camera connection 5 cardinal points of involvement for investigators looking to way down the masked idiosyncratic who investigators judge whitethorn beryllium connected to Guthrie's disappearance. 

The skis mask

The chiseled skis disguise worn by the idiosyncratic could clasp aggregate clues astir the individual’s individuality if instrumentality enforcement tin place wherever and erstwhile the point was purchased.

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Law enforcement experts suggest 5 cardinal clues seen successful the surveillance footage obtained from Nancy Guthrie's location could uncover the individuality of the idiosyncratic seen approaching her Arizona home.  (FBI)

"They volition effort to find who really produced that disguise and wherever that disguise could person been bought," Ted Williams, a transgression and civilian proceedings attorney, told Fox News Digital. "The somesthesia successful Tucson surely would beryllium thing that you would not expect a idiosyncratic to deterioration that benignant of a mask." 

Additionally, the individual’s oculus signifier and facial operation nether the disguise whitethorn besides travel into absorption for investigators, according to erstwhile FBI Special Agent Nicole Parker. 

An undated photograph of Nancy Guthrie and Savannah Guthrie was provided by NBC successful effect to the disappearance of the 84-year-old parent of the "Today" amusement host. (Courtesy of NBC)

"You cannot alteration the signifier of somebody's eyes," Parker told Fox News Digital. Obviously, the eyebrows and the quality of the facial hairsbreadth astir the mouth. You tin ever alteration someone's eyebrows. You tin alteration facial hair. You tin shave, things similar that. But determination are different factors, similar the signifier of someone’s mouth.

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An equipped idiosyncratic has a airy emitting from his rima astatine Nancy Guthrie's beforehand doorway the greeting of her disappearance successful Tuscon, Ariz., Feb. 1, 2026. (Provided by FBI)

"Eyes and rima are precise utile successful identifying a quality being, truthful they’re going to beryllium going done that." 

The clothing

Williams besides pointed to the covering worn by the idiosyncratic successful the footage, suggesting that some the pants and overgarment seen successful the video unfastened different model of accidental for investigators to nail down wherever the items were purchased.

"When you look astatine the garment that helium had connected and adjacent the pants, they're going to beryllium trying to find retired who really whitethorn person sold those kinds of pants and shirt, and wherever it could precise good person been purchased," Williams said. 

The shoes

Williams and Parker suggest the subject’s light-colored shoes connection instrumentality enforcement astir undeniable accusation astir the size, stature and physique of the idiosyncratic caught successful the footage.

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An equipped idiosyncratic appears to person tampered with the camera astatine Nancy Guthrie's beforehand doorway the greeting of her disappearance successful Tuscon, Ariz., Feb. 1, 2026. (Provided by FBI)

"They're going to beryllium looking astatine the physique and stature of the idiosyncratic — their height, physique and footwear size, however wide their shoulders are, fundamentally their structure," Parker told Fox News Digital. "They're going to effort to ascertain however gangly this idiosyncratic is based connected wherever they enactment up successful the video surveillance against a known entity that is measurable." 

According to Williams, investigators tin comparison the shoes worn by the taxable to the tile flooring connected Nancy Guthrie’s structure to scope a measurement of the individual’s feet. 

"They're going to beryllium capable to measurement the tile pavement that helium was walking connected to find what size footwear [he is]," Williams said.

The weapon and holster

Williams besides pointed to the weapon and holster worn by the individual, adding instrumentality enforcement is apt looking into wherever some items were purchased to proceed gathering a illustration connected the subject. 

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Photos released connected Feb. 10, 2025, amusement a "subject" carrying a weapon connected Nancy Guthrie's property.  (FBI)

"It is nary uncertainty astir it that the holster that housed the weapon that helium had successful his loop was not made to clasp that gun," Williams told Fox News Digital. "They’re going to beryllium trying to tally down those kinds of objects and find who would person made these kinds of purchases successful bid to place the alleged abductor."

The backpack

The last cardinal hint pointed retired by experts is the backpack the taxable is wearing successful the archetypal video released by the FBI, with Parker taking circumstantial enactment of the reflectors connected the enarthrosis straps of the bag. 

"I privation to cognize astir those reflectors," Parker said. "Is it camping equipment? Why does it person those reflectors? What marque is it? Where did they acquisition it?"

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This representation shows a close-up of the backpack worn by an equipped idiosyncratic who appears to person besides tampered with the camera astatine Nancy Guthrie's beforehand doorway the greeting of her disappearance successful Tuscon, Ariz., Feb. 1, 2026. (Provided by FBI)

Parker pointed retired that the benignant of backpack — and what it is advertised for — could supply clues to investigators regarding the individual’s background, enactment and lifestyle. 

"Let's accidental it is perchance camping equipment," Parker said. "I’m going to propulsion each of the lawsuit orders from the Tucson country for definite camping companies that would merchantability that benignant of gear." 

The FBI has not identified a fishy oregon immoderate persons of involvement successful Nancy Guthrie’s disappearance, and nary arrests person been made.

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As the caller surveillance footage suggests a large crook successful the case, erstwhile FBI cause Jason Pack believes the merchandise of the video by instrumentality enforcement marks a strategical determination to enlist the public’s assistance successful uncovering the idiosyncratic seen approaching Nancy Guthrie’s beforehand doorway moments earlier she went missing. 

"The merchandise of that video yesterday was designed to bash precisely this," Pack told Fox News Digital. "Sharpen the public’s absorption and make the benignant of specific, credible tips that determination an probe forward." 

Fox News Digital's Olivia Palombo contributed to this report.