30 MINUTES AGO – Blood found in Savannah Guthrie’s missing mom’s home, which showed signs of forced entry
Blood was found in the home of “Today” co-host Savannah Guthrie’s missing 84-year-old mom, — with the local sheriff confirming that authorities fear “a possible kidnapping or abduction.”
The blood was found alongside signs of forced entry and a struggle in the house in Catalina Hills, Arizona, law enforcement sources told The Post. It was not immediately confirmed whose blood it was.
Nancy Guthrie, whom Savannah calls her “best friend,” was reported missing Sunday, hours after returning from dinner the night before.
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Blood was reportedly found in the home of “Today” co-host Savannah Guthrie’s mom.
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“At this point, investigators believe she was taken from the home against her will, possibly [in the] middle of the night,” Pima County Sheriff’s Department spokesperson Kevin Adger confirmed to the LA paper.
“Detectives are looking into a possible kidnapping or abduction.”
Police also announced a $2,500 reward while asking for images, videos, or details that lead to the alleged abductor’s arrest.
Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos appealed directly to anyone involved.
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Savannah Guthrie with her mom, Nancy, 84, in an undated photo. Nancy is believed to have been abducted.savannahguthrie/Instagram
“Just call us. Let her go. Just call us. The family will tell you, there’s no questions asked here,” he told NBC News. “We don’t need another bad, tragic ending.”
DNA evidence found at the home is being combed over, according to KVOA.
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Nancy Guthrie’s house in Tucson, Arizona.Rebecca Noble for the NY PostNancy Guthrie left her car and cellphone at the scene, according to investigators who hope data from the phone might help point to when she was snatched, according to ABC News
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Nancy was reported missing at noon Sunday after failing to show up for a church service.
She cannot walk more than 50 yards on her own and is reliant on life-saving medication, according to cops.
The hunt is a race against time because the missing woman needs medication, lack of which for 24 hours could prove fatal.
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Savannah Guthrie with her mom, Nancy, who went missing and is believed to have been abducted.
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Savannah Guthrie with her mom, Nancy, 84.savannahguthrie/Instagram
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Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos gave an update on Nancy Guthrie’s disappearance.Pima County Sheriff
“We’re doing all we can to try to locate her,” Nanos said. “Every tool we have, we will use.”
Top DHS Special Agent And His Wife Found Dead
A Department of Homeland Security special agent and his wife were found dead in their New Jersey home in what appears to be a murder-suicide, prosecutors said.
Police in Sayreville responded to the couple’s home on Glynn Court around 8 p.m. July 3 and found Kelly Latauro, 46, dead inside the residence, the Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office said.
Her husband, 52-year-old Christopher Latauro, was discovered dead in the backyard.
Both appear to have been shot.
Authorities said Christopher is believed to be the shooter and the case is being investigated as a murder-suicide.
Police told residents to keep away from Glynn Court, from Deerfield Road to Scarlet Drive, briefly because of police activity.
The area was reopened about 40 minutes later, but police remained on scene.
According to NJ101.5, citing DHS records from 2019 and 2020, Christopher was a special agent for the Department of Homeland Security.
Authorities have not said what may have sparked the violence.
Kelly’s sister-in-law Robyn Perlman-Spencer confirmed her death in a Facebook post on July 7, remembering her in a heartbreaking tribute.
“As many of you may now know, my beautiful sister in law Kelly Iatauro was senselessly and suddenly taken from us on Friday. Kelly was a bright light- kind, thoughtful, hysterical, inappropriate, and just one of the most amazing people I’ve ever known. She left a lasting impression on anyone that was lucky enough to know her,” Robyn wrote in part.
Sayreville police confirmed officers responded to the Glynn Court residence on July 3 and found both people dead of gunshot wounds.
The incident is being treated as a murder-suicide, and Christopher is suspected to be the shooter, the spokesperson said.
The Department of Homeland Security and Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office did not immediately respond to additional requests for comment on the case.
What began as a heavy police response to a deadly scene left two people dead and the quiet Middlesex County neighborhood stunned.
Investigators are still trying to piece together what happened inside the home leading up to the gunfire.
Separately, Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin made headlines last week with an election-related announcement.
Mullin on Friday said officials who don’t cooperate with the administration’s election security efforts may be slapped with fines — and potentially prison time.
“If the election officials, once we gave them the information they need to secure their elections — and they chose not to — then those individuals can also be held accountable by fines, by penalties, and even, depending on how far it goes, prison time,” Mullin said during a press conference at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building.
Mullin also promised DHS would work to “speed up our security enhancements” for states.
He vowed to hold up federal election security grants until state officials took steps the administration demanded, including running their voter registration lists through a system that checks for non-citizen voters on the rolls.
Mullin made his comments after President Donald Trump’s primetime address on election security Thursday night, when he repeated already known concerns about the security of voting systems, alleged Chinese efforts to get into voter rolls, and aired old gripes about the results of the 2020 election, which he lost to Joe Biden.
In his remarks on Friday, the DHS secretary focused on DHS’s work with states to secure election systems and scrub voter registration rolls for fraud and concerns about noncitizen voting.
The Justice Department also sent letters this month threatening prosecution to election officials across the country if they don’t remove noncitizens from their voter rolls.
On Friday, Mullin seemed to suggest that the agency was able to estimate the numbers using the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) system at the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services and said 23 states are already working with DHS to analyze voter rolls.
And he criticized the legal challenges that are hindering the administration’s efforts: Last month, a judge blocked the Trump administration from creating a database of information about Americans, including Social Security numbers and citizenship status.
