Someone made a haunting 911 call to police the night that Nancy Guthrie, mother of “Today” show co-host Savannah Guthrie, disappeared, according to newly uncovered audio of the conversation revealed by the show “Inside Edition.”
Host Eva Pilgrim noted that “an avalanche of tips” has begun “flooding in” to authorities after Savannah increased the reward for information leading to her mother’s discovery to $1 million earlier this week.
“And now this. A mystery 911 call made the night of the kidnapping. A woman screams for help. The question: was it Nancy? Here is Jim Moret,” Pilgrim said, introducing the new evidence.
“We are now learning that a chilling 911 call was made to police the night Nancy Guthrie was kidnapped. After receiving a 911 call, a police dispatcher sent out an alert about a woman hanging out of a window of a car, and she was screaming,” show correspondent Moret began before playing audio of the call.
“A car drove by my house, female out of the vehicle window screaming. The vehicle was a dark Chevy Malibu. The female was hanging out of the window, wearing all black. The door was also open,” the caller said.
“Was the woman in the car 84-year-old Nancy? The alert went out shortly after 2:00 A.M. The location given by the undetermined 911 caller is just 3 miles from her house. The disturbing call was revealed last night by Nancy Grace,” Moret continued.
“Is it connected? We don’t know. But it is close to her home, around the time she was taken. We can’t really discount anything,” Grace intoned.
“Meanwhile, volunteers are searching the complex of large flash flood drainage tunnels beneath Tucson, in the hopes of finding some evidence that Nancy was held there for a time,” Moret said, adding that he spoke to NewsNation correspondent Brian Entin, “who combed through one of the largest tunnels.”
“There are the tunnels that go beneath Tucson, in the area where Nancy lives, in the footholds. They go under roadways, under neighborhoods. There are drainage tunnels when they are a lot of rain in the area. Right now, they are totally empty. I went into the tunnels. There’s a lot of homeless people that stay down there but volunteers have been looking in the tunnels, just in case there could be any evidence down there or any sign of Nancy,” Entin reported.
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An Arizona couple reported finding a pair of black gloves and a rock with what appeared to be dried blood in the desert about a mile from Nancy Guthrie’s home days after she was reported missing, Conservative Brief reported earlier this week.
The couple, who asked to remain anonymous, told KVOA they discovered the gloves about 10 feet apart off Campbell Avenue in the Catalina Foothills area of Tucson on Feb. 11.
They said one glove appeared ripped and had what looked like blood near the wrist and on the index finger. The couple said they did not touch the gloves because they feared contaminating potential evidence.
They said they also observed what appeared to be a dried blood droplet on a rock beneath one of the gloves. The pair contacted authorities and provided photographs. Investigators responded to the scene and remained there until about 2 a.m., according to the report.
The Pima County Sheriff’s Department said it could not confirm whether the gloves found by the couple were among those collected for DNA testing.
“We cannot confirm at this time. Detectives and agents have collected multiple gloves from the area, and analysis is part of the investigation,” the department said in a statement.
Authorities previously said DNA recovered from gloves found in the area did not match any profiles in the FBI database and did not match DNA collected inside Guthrie’s home.
