Terrifying surveillance photos and videos of an armed person in a ski mask tampering with Nancy Guthrie’s home security camera on the morning she vanished were released by the FBI on Tuesday.
The skin-crawling black and white stills and footage were pulled from a Nest camera mounted by the front door of 84-year-old Nancy’s Tucson home, and showed the armed individual staring straight into the lens.
They attempted to cover the camera with a gloved fist and then pulled a handful of flowers from Nancy’s gardens and tried to blot out the lens.
The suspect seemed to have a flashlight in their mouth — and lumbered about Nancy’s patio in sneakers, a fleece and a backpack.
The footage marks the first time law enforcement has released anything about a possible suspect since the mother of “Today” show star Savannah Guthrie vanished 10 days ago.
The release also flags the first indication that police were zeroing in on any suspects at all after a gruelingly fruitless investigation.
“Law enforcement has uncovered these previously inaccessible new images showing an armed individual appearing to have tampered with the camera at Nancy Guthrie’s front door the morning of her disappearance,” FBI Director Kash Patel wrote while releasing the images on X.
The images were obtained this morning, with the help of Arizona law enforcement, FBI specialists, and “private sector partners,” Patel said.
Nancy had numerous Nest cameras around her property, but had not paid her subscription, so feeds from the night she disappeared were never saved to an account — prompting law enforcement to fear they might be lost forever.
But FBI specialists were able to pull them from “residual data located in backend systems,” Patel explained — resulting in the startling first images released.
“Over the last eight days, the FBI and Pima County Sheriff’s Department have been working closely with our private sector partners to continue to recover any images or video footage from Nancy Guthrie’s home that may have been lost, corrupted, or inaccessible due to a variety of factors — including the removal of recording devices.”
The footage also appeared to be from a camera that had been taken from Nancy’s home on the night she went missing.
It remains unclear exactly what time the clips were taken, but police previously disclosed that Nancy’s front door camera was disconnected at 1:47 a.m. Feb. 1.
Then at 2:12 a.m., the camera detected a person moving — with cops noting that footage had been lost because of Nancy’s non-subscription.
And finally, at 2:28 a.m., Nancy’s pacemaker disconnected from her phone — suggesting she had been taken from the home by then while her phone was left behind.
Nancy was last seen alive hours earlier, around 9:45 p.m. Jan. 31, after being dropped at home by her son-in-law. She was reported missing the next day when she didn’t show up at a friend’s house to stream Sunday church together.
The search for her was declared a criminal investigation on Feb. 2, with a supposed ransom note demanding $6 million in bitcoin arriving at news outlets soon after.
But the note provided no proof of life, and a final deadline for ransom — which said Nancy would be in danger if it wasn’t paid — came and went on Monday with no apparent change.
And all the while, cops have admitted they have no suspects and no leads, with the clock ticking and Nancy in dire need of daily medication for health troubles.
The frightening new images were also the first definitive indication that Nancy really had been kidnapped — and Savannah turned to social media to spread them to her 1.7 million followers.
“We believe she is still alive. Bring her home,” Savannah wrote.
“Anyone with information, please contact 1-800-CALL-FBI (1-800-225-5324) or the Pima County Sheriff’s Department 520-351-4900.”