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By Khaleda Rahman
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As the search for 84-year-old Nancy Guthrie continues for a sixth week, investigators have released information about the person suspected of kidnapping her.
Nancy Guthrie, the mother of Today show co-host Savannah Guthrie, was last seen at her home near Tucson, Arizona, on January 31 and was reported missing the following day. Authorities said they believe she was taken against her will and that her blood was found on the front porch.
The FBI on February 10 released video from a doorbell camera showing a masked man, whom they later said was a suspect, on Nancy Guthrie's porch on the night she disappeared.
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Here’s what we know about the suspect more than a month into the investigation.
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The video footage and clues
The surveillance footage showed a man wearing a ski mask, a jacket, long pants, gloves, a backpack and a handgun holster.
Authorities have not publicly identified the person, but the FBI has released a brief description saying the person is a male about 5-foot-9 or 5-foot-10 with an average build and that he was carrying a 25-liter Ozark Trail Hiker Pack backpack.
In an interview with NBC News last week, Time County Sheriff Nanos said investigators had not identified any of the clothing the suspect was wearing but that they were looking into the possibility the suspect's backpack, which is sold exclusively at Walmart, may have been purchased online.
Tracking down the suspect
In last week's interview, Nanos said that investigators were "definitely closer" to tracking down the suspect.
In another interview with NBC News on Thursday, he did not provide an update on how close investigators were to locating the suspect. But he warned that although investigators believe Nancy Guthrie's kidnapping was targeted, the suspect could "absolutely" strike again.
"We believe we know why he did this, and we believe that it was targeted," he said. "But we can't—we're not 100 percent sure of that, so it would be silly to tell people: 'Yeah, don't worry about it. You're not his target."
In the interview, Nanos declined to talk about the suspect's possible motive, saying it was to protect the integrity of the investigation.
"I think from Day One, we had strong beliefs about what happened and those beliefs haven't diminished," he said.
Nanos also said he is hopeful that DNA evidence found in Nancy Guthrie's home could lead law enforcement to the suspect. The Pima County Sheriff's Department previously said investigators would seek to use investigative genetic genealogy in the investigation.
The sheriff's department previously said the DNA did not belong to Nancy Guthrie or anyone in close contact with her. Nanos previously said that investigators were facing challenges processing the DNA, which he said was mixed and could contain DNA from several people.
Is there an accomplice?
The sheriff's department has previously said that although investigators were seeking information "related to the person seen on video, investigators are not ruling out the possibility that more than one person may be involved."
The sheriff's department previously said it was aware of differences in the masked person's clothing depicted in various images that were released, namely with and without a backpack. That came after reports that said the masked man seen in the footage was spotted at Nancy Guthrie's house at an earlier date. But the sheriff's department said there was "no date or time stamp associated with these images" and "any suggestion that the photographs were taken on different days is purely speculative."
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