Neighbor Saw 'Suspicious' Activity Near Nancy Guthrie's Home Weeks Before Disappearance
Nancy Guthrie remains missing, with the search for the 84-year-old Tucson, Arizona resident now in its sixth week.
In a new conversation with NewsNation's Brian Entin, Aldine Meister, a neighbor of Guthrie's in the Catalina Foothills, said she saw a suspicious man walking near the Guthrie home in the weeks leading up to her disappearance.
'He just didn't fit'
Guthrie, the mother of Today cohost Savannah Guthrie, was last seen on Jan. 31 and reported missing the following day. Meister told NewsNation she saw the unknown man in the area around Jan. 11, which is the date authorities have asked local residents for doorbell camera footage.
“I’m getting ready in the morning, and I saw him out there, so I couldn’t make out his face. He was in kind of street clothes, not shoes that you’d walk in, and he had a baseball hat really low, and he was kind of hunched over, and he was kind of looking around, and he just didn’t fit,” she said.
“He wasn’t going terribly quickly like a normal person who’s getting exercise. He was kind of going slowly, and when he walked by this street, he really took a long look at it.”
A consistent story
It should be noted that Meister has provided these apparent details before, first discussing the suspicious interloper in a conversation with Fox News Digital back in February.
At the time, she said the date of the sighting "could've been" the 11th, and was definitely after Jan. 8, when the 30-year Catalina Foothills resident had visitors in town.
On Feb. 10, FBI Director Kash Patel released surveillance images taken from the camera on Nancy Guthrie's door around the time of her suspected kidnapping.
The footage showed a masked man regarded as a potential suspect. So far, the man has not been identified.
Guthrie family keeps hoping
Last week, Savannah Guthrie visited her Today colleagues for the first time since her mom went missing.
The longtime journalist indicated she intends to return to work at some point and was maintaining hope that her mother would be found.
“I wanted you to know that I’m still standing, and I still have hope, and I’m still me,” Guthrie reportedly said. “And I don’t know what version of me that will be, but it will be.”
“I’m holding onto my faith,” she continued. “I still believe. And as my mom would say, ‘Where else would I go?’”