84 year-old Nancy Guthrie may have been taken by someone intimately familiar with the interior of her home, according to a new report.
In a Thursday report, unnamed sources confided to Radar Online that Nancy Guthrie – the mother of Today Show host Savannah Guthrie — had cameras inside of her home, which her family had installed in order to be able to respond quickly if she fell or had a medical episode. However, when she was abducted nearly two weeks ago, her kidnappers reportedly knew where those cameras were and destroyed them.
"The signs point to an inside job. Cameras that were smashed inside the home were there to protect their mother," Radar Online's source said. "Only a very few people have access to them — they were installed to make sure nothing happened to their mom, like if she fell when home alone."
"Whoever this possible abductor is, they went inside the house and knew where those cameras were pointing," the source continued. "They were able to smash the cameras before their motion was visible in the recordings or streams. To do this, it takes a chilling level of intel."
Guthrie's abductors have demanded payment via Bitcoin in exchange for Nancy Guthrie's return. Investigators on Thursday found a discarded pair of black gloves near her home. The gloves resemble those worn by the apparent kidnapper — who wore a backpack and carried a firearm — seen in doorbell camera footage on the night Guthrie was abducted.