Savannah Guthrie’s Sister’s Home Searched into the Night as Officials Address Reports Her Husband Is the Prime Suspect in Her Mom’s Abduction
Jason Pham
Savannah Guthrie‘s sister Annie Guthrie’s home in Arizona was searched the night of Saturday, February 7, as the investigation into their mother Nancy Guthrie’s abduction continues.
TMZ reported that officials were inside Annie’s home for several hours, photographing multiple rooms, with the site claiming that one officer was seen carrying a silver briefcase into the residence. “Update from Annie Guthrie’s house where investigators remain inside. They’ve been here for almost 3 hours,” tweeted NewsNation reporter Brian Entin, along with a video of officials searching Annie’s home.
Annie’s home is located approximately four miles from Nancy’s residence in Catalina Foothills, Arizona, where she was taken in the middle of the night on January 31. Tracy Walder, a former CIA and FBI agent told People ahead of searching Annie’s home that officials “may have either asked Annie’s permission,” obtained a search warrant or both.
According to People, authorities, including at least one official with the Pima County’s Sheriff’s Department, searched Annie’s home from 8 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. local time. Two and a half hours into the search, an official was seen leaving Annie’s home with a white suitcase and a brown bag, while another was seen wearing blue gloves. “All that white case is — is evidence processing tools. The brown bag is for evidence,” Walder told People.
Walder also gave her reaction to the case. “The back and forth is of course odd and we don’t see that a lot,” she said of the searching parties’ behavior, which she attributed “so many things” such as “reactions to ransom note details, new suspects emerging, request by the family, etc.”
Saturday night marks the second time Annie and her husband Tommaso Cioni’s home was searched after the residence was first investigated on February 4, three days after Nancy went missing. Annie was the last person to see Nancy before her disappearance, according to Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos. Annie was the last person to see Nancy, according to Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos. “We have a start point,” Nanos told Us Weekly in a report published on February 4, adding that there were no “red flags” about Nancy’s behavior before she disappeared. “The family took her home from dinner at about 9:30 to 9:45 [p.m.]. So we would back that up to even say 9 or 8:30 p.m. to start looking.”
Around the time of Nanos’ statement, NewsNation reporter Ashleigh Banfield also reported that Cioni “may be a prime suspect” in Nancy’s abduction,” which officials later denied. “We don’t have anybody here listed as a suspect,” Nanos said at a press conference at the time, maintaining that there were no persons of interest. “Nobody’s eliminated, but we just really don’t have enough to say, ‘This is our suspect, this is our guy, we know — or our gal.’ We don’t know that. And it’s really kind of reckless to report that someone is a suspect when they could very well be a victim.”
Banfield, however, told The Hollywood Reporter that she “stands by her reporting,” claiming that an “ironclad” source gave her that information.
Police’s second search of Annie’s home also came hours after Annie, Savannah, and their brother Camron appeared in a second social media video pleading for Nancy’s kidnappers to release her. “We received your message and we understand,” Savannah said. “We beg you now to return our mother to us so that we can celebrate with her. This is the only way we will have peace. This is very valuable to us, and we will pay.”
