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A 3rd Email Ransom Demand & Sheriff Nanos Confirms Details as Deputies Search for Nancy Guthrie

·1 hr 27 min

Day 13 opens with Nancy Guthrie still missing in Tucson, Arizona. The reward rises to $100,000. New physical descriptors are released for a person investigators say may be a potential suspect. Pima County says there will be no press conference that day. The search continues on the ground in the Sonoran Desert. The hosts keep pushing on what is known and what is still not known. The timeline stays anchored around the night of January 31 into February 1. Surveillance video has already entered the picture. Reports about gloves recovered during the search keep coming up. One claim about a glove in the home is pushed back against in the conversation. Attention also stays on a backpack. At least one person was detained briefly and then released. Sheriff Chris Nanos speaks about the investigation directly. He says every decision is being discussed with the FBI. He explains that recently found gloves may be sent to a Bureau lab. He also says the gloves found near the scene should go to the lab with the DNA profiles and markers available there. He notes that gloves have been found as far west as Oracle and as far east as Craycroft. He does not give a count. The story treats that spread as a real investigative detail, not background noise. The show also includes a reported new demand letter tied to the case. There is public chatter about the sheriff and about the investigation drawing criticism. Even with all that motion, the focus stays on finding Nancy. The conversation ends with the sense that investigators will keep working the case until they run out of road or the desert gives something up.

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Fast-moving missing-person coverage that keeps the case front and center.

This episode follows Nancy Guthrie's disappearance in Tucson, with the case still moving on day 13, the reward up to $100,000, and Sheriff Chris Nanos walking through recovered gloves, lab testing, and FBI coordination.

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You want day 13 updates on the Nancy Guthrie case, minus the polished-TV lull.

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