The Arizona sheriff leading the search for Nancy Guthrie made a resounding promise Friday that his investigators are “going to find Nancy” — but stopped short of saying when her rescue could come.
Pima County’s Chris Nanos described the two-week-long mission for “Today” show host Savannah Guthrie’s missing mom as “exhausting,” but emphasized that law enforcement will not quit until the case is cracked.
“Maybe it’s an hour from now,” Nanos told The New York Times Friday. “Maybe it’s weeks or months or years from now. But we won’t quit. We’re going to find Nancy. We’re going to find this guy.”
Nanos and his team, with the aid of federal investigators, thought they were on the verge of closing the case earlier this week when they detained a delivery driver whose description matched that of the armed and masked creep spotted lurking outside Nancy Guthrie’s home in the lead-up to her apparent abduction.
But the lead was a dead end – and marked the first of several detainments and subsequent releases by cops who are chasing leads mostly generated by hotline tips, sources told The Post.
“This has to be it, the evidence, everything’s there,” Nanos reflected on the delivery driver let down. “Then you talk to people, you learn, you do your search, and you think, ‘Maybe not.’”
