Man questioned about Nancy Guthrie’s disappearance says he was released
The news is the latest twist in a case that has gripped the US, after the FBI released images of a masked man at the missing woman’s home
By Wednesday, however, the man said he had been released after questioning, leaving it unclear where the investigation stood into last week’s disappearance of Guthrie, the 84-year-old mother of Today show host Savannah Guthrie.
Just hours after the FBI released videos on Tuesday of a person wearing a gun holster, ski mask and backpack and approaching Nancy Guthrie’s home in Tucson, authorities said they had stopped a man near the US-Mexico border for questioning.
The man told several media outlets early on Wednesday that he was released after several hours and had nothing to do with Guthrie’s disappearance last week.
Authorities have not said what led them to stop the man and had not confirmed he was released. The sheriff’s department said its deputies and FBI agents also searched a location on Tuesday night in Rio Rico, a city south of Tucson where the man lives.