Nest camera bracket removed from Nancy Guthrie’s house after investigators erect tent to shroud evidence gathering
Investigators asking for all video footage pertaining to Nancy Guthrie’s disappearance covering the month before the 84-year-old went missing removed the remaining Nest doorbell camera equipment from her door while shrouded by a white tent outside her house Thursday.
The white tent was erected hastily and stayed up for about an hour as investigators gathered evidence in secret. The only discernible difference when the tent came down was the missing bracket that once held a Nest camera a masked suspect was caught tampering with, according to footage released earlier this week.
It’s unclear what else investigators recovered while working in secrecy outside Nancy’s home.
The remaining Ring camera equipment appeared to have been taken down from the front of Guthrie’s house.Andy Johnstone for NY Post
In a subsequent alert, authorities requested all footage from vehicles, people, and houses taken between Jan. 1 and Feb. 2, the day after Nancy was announced missing.
The alert was sent out to all users of the Neighbors App within a two-mile radius of Nancy’s home in the Catalina Foothills neighborhood north of Tucson, Arizona.
In a statement, authorities confirmed they had recovered several potentially key pieces of evidence, including a pair of black gloves, one of which The Post saw the feds recover from the side of a nearby road on Wednesday.Nancy was last seen alive at around 9:45 p.m. on Jan. 31 when she was dropped off at home by her son-in-law, Tommaso Cioni.
Her pacemaker lost contact with her Apple Watch at around 2 a.m. on Feb. 1, and both the device and her iPhone were found in her house.
A close-up of the front door with the Ring camera mount earlier this month.BACKGRID
The FBI erected a tent outside Nancy Guthrie’s home, which was later taken down along with the Nest camera.Andy Johnstone for NY Post
A fellow worshipper alerted Nancy’s family when she failed to show up at her house for virtual church later that morning.
On Feb. 5, Savannah and her two siblings released their first video message begging for their mother’s safe return.
In a second short video released on Savannah’s Instagram account on Feb. 6, her brother, Camron, urged “whoever is out there holding our mother,” to contact the family.
Investigators have asked for all video footage pertaining to Nancy Guthrie’s disappearance.Nathan Congleton/NBC via Getty Images
On Feb. 7, the three siblings put out a third message addressed to their mother’s abductors.
“We beg you now to return our mother to us so that we can celebrate with her,” Savannah said in the video.
“This is very valuable to us, and we will pay,” she added.
On Feb. 9, with no major new updates, Savannah admitted that the family were “at an hour of desperation,” and begged for the public to come forward, in a fourth video on Instagram.
In a bombshell the following day, the FBI and Pima County Sheriff’s Department released the videos and stills of a person of interest in the case, taken from Nancy’s doorbell camera.
The chilling video showed a figure wearing a ski mask, gloves, and a backpack, with a gun holstered in front of their waist, approaching Nancy’s front door and attempting to block the camera lens with plants.
Later on Feb. 10, police detained FedEx delivery driver Carlos Palazuelos in the nearby town of Rio Rico, south of Tucson. He was released early Wednesday morning without charges.
By Wednesday, more than 18,000 tips had been sent in to the Pima County Sheriff’s Department, with more than 4,000 of them coming in the 24 hours after the release of the doorbell footage.
