One Photo Of Man On Nancy Guthrie's Porch May Be From An Earlier Date, Before Her Disappearance - Beritaja

A bid of wide circulated images of a man connected Nancy Guthrie's structure were not each taken the greeting she vanished from her Tucson-area location — 1 was captured earlier, 2 rule enforcement sources acquainted pinch the investigation said Monday.

The image successful question showed the personification dressed successful acheronian clothing pinch a mask, gloves and — dissimilar different images released by FBI Director Kash Patel — without a backpack.

Patel said the image came from the aforesaid camera astatine Guthrie’s beforehand doorway arsenic different images captured connected the greeting of her disappearance connected Feb. 1.

A spokesperson pinch FBI office declined to remark Monday connected imaginable dates tied to the image aliases whether the personification is the aforesaid personification seen successful the different information video released by the agency.

The Pima County Sheriff's Department said successful a Monday connection that there's nary day aliases timestamp associated pinch the image and that immoderate proposal it was taken connected a different time is "purely speculative."

"That’s each it is speculation," Sheriff Chris Nano told Beritaja. "We understand the reasoning down it, but again, I punctual everybody, we travel the rules of evidence. And correct now we person nary grounds to propose that it occurred that time aliases days before.”

The 84-year-old mother of "TODAY" co-anchor Savannah Guthrie was past seen connected Jan. 31. She was reported missing astatine about noon the pursuing time erstwhile she didn't show up to watch a virtual religion work pinch friends.

The weekslong investigation into her disappearance now involves local, authorities and national rule enforcement agencies and has garnered world attention. While authorities judge Guthrie whitethorn person been taken from her home, nary suspects aliases persons of liking person been publically identified.

The images released Feb. 10 by the FBI signaled a important improvement successful the investigation into Guthrie's imaginable abduction. They showed a masked, equipped man later identified arsenic a fishy appearing to tamper pinch Guthrie's Google Nest camera.

Recovering those images appears to person been a challenge.

Guthrie did not person a subscription that would person saved the video, and Nanos has said the camera was disconnected astatine 1:47 a.m. There were aggregate cameras wrong Guthrie's home, he said, and a personification was detected astatine 2:12 a.m., though it's unclear which camera was responsible for detecting that motion.

Patel has said the bureau and the Pima County Sheriff's Department worked pinch "private assemblage partners" to retrieve the images from "residual information successful backend systems."

Based connected the images, officials person offered identifying specifications about the man, describing him arsenic a man of mean build, 5 feet, 9 inches to 5 feet, 10 inches tall. He was wearing a black, 25-liter Ozark Trail Hiker Pack backpack, sold exclusively astatine Walmart, authorities person said.

Investigators discovered aggregate sources of DNA successful and about the crime scene, but testing has yielded nary results.

Officials are moving to get samples recovered astatine Guthrie’s home — which did not lucifer her aliases anyone who was known to beryllium location precocious — tested through a process called forensic familial genealogy successful the hopes of identifying a suspect.

The sheriff has said the DNA sample is mixed and contains familial accusation from astatine slightest 2 people, which could return longer to test.