Terrifying masked figure in latex gloves with gun seen on Nancy Guthrie’s doorstep on morning of her kidnap

On the morning of Nancy Guthrie’s disappearance, a masked figure wearing black latex gloves, carrying a backpack and a gun was filmed tampering with the doorbell camera.

Nightmarish footage was released by the FBI on Tuesday as the search for Savannah Guthrie’s 84-year-old mother entered its tenth day.

The figure wearing a balaclava was seen tampering with Nancy’s Nest’s doorbell camera. It is not clear whether the person is a man or a woman, but some images show a beard above his upper lip.

Nancy did not have a Nest subscription to upload and save images to a cloud storage platform. This meant it took researchers longer to extract images from the camera.

FBI Director Kash Patel, who released the images, said teams with the bureau and the Pima County Sheriff’s Department were working to recover data in back-end systems.

He said: ‘As of this morning, law enforcement has uncovered this new, previously unavailable footage showing an armed individual who appears to have tampered with the camera at Nancy Guthrie’s front door on the morning she disappeared.’

The gun-like thing inside the holster appears to be clipped to them; One picture shows them with what looks like a pen light in their mouth.

The suspect ripped the Nest camera from its holder in the door frame; The camera was missing when sheriff’s deputies arrived at the scene that morning.

Video later released by authorities shows the man trying to cover the lens with a clenched fist before searching the area around the door and plucking a bunch of flowers from the entryway and waving it at the camera.

The footage was released after investigators asked Nancy’s household staff to submit DNA samples that they wanted to compare to samples found at the grandmother’s home.

Savannah shared the haunting photos on her Instagram page and said: ‘We believe he is still alive. Bring him home.’

The 84-year-old man was last seen entering his home in Tucson, Arizona, on the evening of January 31 after having dinner with his daughter Annie and son-in-law Tommaso Cioni.

Another terrifying image captured suspect looking into the lens of a Nest doorbell camera and removing it

In this photo, the figure’s latex gloves can be clearly seen and the hair on his face can also be seen.

Another image shows a figure with a clenched fist as Nancy’s doorbell camera is removed

The entrance of the house can be seen from here in daylight

Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos said he was reported missing after failing to attend a virtual church service with friends the next morning.

Since then, as law enforcement continues to scour the house, which sits on a large lot on an unlit street, Savannah and her two siblings, Anne and Camron, are pleading for help finding their mother.

The Pima County Sheriff’s Office said Annie and Cioni noticed her missing around 11:10 a.m. last Sunday.

They reported his disappearance to the police at 12.15pm. His phone, wallet, vital daily medications and car were still at his home in Catalina Foothills.

Cioni said he saw his mother-in-law enter his house from the garage before leaving the night before around 9:45 pm MT.

Investigators found drops of blood on Nancy’s front porch, later confirmed to be hers, and said the doorbell camera was disconnected around 1:45 a.m.

Less than 30 minutes later, the security camera detected movement. His pacemaker soon stopped transferring data to his Apple Watch and phone, indicating he was moved out of range of the devices.

Nancy needs medication every 24 hours, and it’s unclear if her kidnapper has access to the medications.

The Pima County Sheriff’s Office said no suspects have been identified and little new information has been obtained in the case since last week.

The person scanned the area around the door after shaking his fist at the camera, apparently to close the door.

They then grabbed a bunch of flowers from the entrance, walked back to the camera, and waved them towards the lens.

The Today Show host’s mother, Nancy Guthrie, was kidnapped from her $1 million home in the Catalina Hills neighborhood of Tucson, Arizona, in the early morning hours of February 1.

Guthrie was kidnapped from the $1 million home he lived in for more than 50 years

Savannah and her two siblings, Camron and Annie, are seen here in a video they shared on social media asking for help.

A ransom note sent to multiple news outlets last week stated that the initial deadline would be Thursday evening and the deadline would be Monday evening.

The notes are said to make specific reference to damage to Nancy’s home and the placement of an item; Neither detail was shared with the public.

It is unclear whether this specific information is accurate.

Guthrie said he and his family took the requests seriously, but there has been no official update on whether the contents of the notes have been verified and whether the senders are actually holding Nancy captive.

Efforts to negotiate with his alleged kidnappers also came to a halt because the digital wallet referenced in the initial letter for a potential transaction remained empty, according to TMZ, which was sent a copy of the note.

Once the payment was made, the alleged kidnappers claimed they would return Nancy to Tucson within 12 hours, the news outlet reported.

After Monday’s deadline passed, the FBI said it was ‘not aware of any ongoing communications between the Guthrie family and the suspected kidnappers.’

The Bureau is currently handling all aspects of the investigation in connection with Nancy’s kidnapping, including the ransom notes.

This announcement comes after Savannah posted a video message on her social media asking for help finding her mother.

The search escalated further Friday when forensic officers returned to his home for a third time to collect new evidence, including a car from his garage and a camera from his roof.

Earlier the same day, PCSD Sheriff Chris Nanos told NBC News he believed Nancy was ‘still alive.’

While Nanos offered an optimistic perspective on the research, he had previously acknowledged that researchers were in a race against time.