A prowler wearing a mask and gloves has been spotted in Nancy Guthrie’s neighborhood — as cops continue to hunt for the grandmother’s suspected kidnapper, who was filmed in similar garb.
The mystery man pulled up to a home in Guthrie’s neighborhood near Tucson in a grey pickup truck last Wednesday night, according to Ring camera footage obtained by News 4 Tucson.
The thief stole plants from the front porch before driving away.
The incident came three months after the 79-year-old mother of “Today” show host Savannah Guthrie vanished from her house in the Catalina Foothills neighborhood.
The footage was feverishly circulated among the normally safe, quiet community, with neighbors noting chilling similarities between the prowler and Guthrie’s suspected kidnapper, locals told News 4.
That suspect was also caught on doorbell camera footage wearing a mask and gloves.
Police also seemed to be on the lookout for a large, grey vehicle in the hunt for Guthrie. Pima County Sheriff’s deputies pulled over two suspicious vehicles in their initial search, and detectives seized a grey Range Rover from one neighbor’s garage.
Catalina Foothills had a reputation as a safe, secure community even before law enforcement began patrolling every street and cul-de-sac — making the recent prowling incident all the more troubling.
“It is someone walking on your property late at night, uninvited, it might be a small crime but committing a crime, and it is disturbing,” Jeff Lamie told News 4.
Catalina Foothills is full of secluded homes connected by winding, desert roads, making it particularly difficult to track the movements of Guthrie’s kidnapper.
In the first weeks of the investigation — which will hit its 90th day on Friday — authorities went door-to-door looking for security camera footage that may have caught a glimpse of the kidnapper.
They also rounded up at least 16 black gloves to test for genetic evidence, but most of them turned out to be discarded by the searchers themselves, and none yielded a DNA match to a suspect.
