<div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Pictures of a masked man on the doorstep of </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/usa" rel="" target="_blank" title="US"><span>US</span></a><span> TV anchor Savannah Guthrie's missing mother Nancy have been released for the first time, as the urgent search for her continues.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>FBI Director Kash Patel posted the images online early this morning (Australia time), saying they had been recovered "from residual data located in backend systems".</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"Over the last eight days, the FBI and Pima County Sheriff's Department have been working closely with our private sector partners to continue to recover any images or video footage from Nancy Guthrie's home that may have been lost, corrupted, or inaccessible due to a variety of factors - including the removal of recording devices," Patel wrote on X.</span></div></div><div><div id="adspot-mobile-medium"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE:</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/rental-market-australian-rents-surge-almost-three-times-faster-than-wages-new-cotality-research-shows/bf31a33d-9916-4750-8417-627f683473ff" rel="" target="_blank" title=""><strong><span>Australian rents surge almost three times faster than wages, data shows</span></strong></a><strong><span></span></strong></div></div><div class="tweet" data-tweet-id="2021281103454072983" data-user="9NewsAUS"></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"Working with our partners - as of this morning, law enforcement has uncovered these previously inaccessible new images showing an armed individual appearing to have tampered with the camera at Nancy Guthrie's front door the morning of her disappearance."</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The images and video show a man wearing gloves, long sleeves, pants, and with a balaclava over his face, apparently attempting to block the door camera at the home, including by holding up a handful of plants.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Nancy Guthrie, 84, is believed to have been abducted from her home in Tuscon, Arizona, on January 31, and was reported missing when she failed to attend church the next day.</span></div></div><div><div class="OUTBRAIN" data-reactroot="" data-src="//www.9news.com.au/world/nancy-guthrie-kidnapping-pictures-of-suspect-released-fbi-us/bf45a55f-6e64-4d61-be29-83155b0f47d3" data-widget-id="AR_5"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE:</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/world/venice-ferry-crash-rialto-bridge-italy/fb2bfd08-91f1-4bfc-9ac2-b82dbb7ec8aa" rel="" target="_blank" title=""><strong><span>Tourists narrowly escape after malfunctioning ferry ploughs into gondolas</span></strong></a></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Her daughter, journalist and long-term co-anchor of the US Today television news program Savannah Guthrie, has issued repeated pleas for information and even appealed to the presumed kidnappers, offering to pay a ransom.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Law enforcement investigating Nancy's disappearance have confirmed they had received some demands for ransom from different sources, but have not said if any of them are considered credible.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>In a number of video messages released in the days since their mothers' disappearance, Nancy Guthrie's children, including Savannah, appear to have addressed the kidnappers, including one video in which Savannah says, "We have received your message" before pleading for her mother's return.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE:</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/world/donald-trump-paedophile-protector-ford-worker-factory-usa-news-update/243f734d-e827-4434-b693-7e105c881f49" rel="" target="_blank" title=""><strong><span>Surprise fate for worker who called Trump a 'paedophile protector'</span></strong></a><strong><span></span></strong></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>However, law enforcement </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/world/savannah-guthrie-mum-nancy-missing-new-plea-instagram/669ff3a1-a7e8-4527-8a67-5381e570190c" rel="" target="_blank" title="say they are unaware of any ongoing communication"><span>say they are unaware of any ongoing communication</span></a><span> between the Guthries and any purported kidnappers.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Nor have investigators identified any persons of interest in the case.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>In her latest message yesterday, Savannah Guthrie, this time speaking alone, appealed to the public for the first time, asking anybody who noticed anything suspicious to report it to law enforcement immediately.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"We are at an hour of desperation," she said.</span></div></div><div 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