The FBI today that based on video analysis, the backpack seen on the man on Guthrie’s porch the night she disappeared was a black, 25-liter Ozark Trail Hiker Pack.
The Ozark Trail brand is a private label brand exclusive to Walmart. So, when bought new, it can only be purchased at Walmart.
Walmart did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Images posted to X by FBI Phoenix on Thursday show security footage of a masked man and a black Ozark Trail brand backpack. via FBI Phoenix
With porch video, investigators got the ‘game changer’
After 10 excruciating days without much to go on, authorities looking for Guthrie finally got a big break: video of an armed, masked person at her doorstep the morning she went missing.
The black-and-white video captured by Guthrie’s doorbell camera, which the FBI and the Pima County Sheriff’s Department made public, gives investigators clues that could help their search.
“When you get video, it opens up many new avenues and details,” said Eric Draeger, a former Milwaukee police detective who specialized in high-tech tools. “Detectives hope to get something like this in a case like this.”
Bryanna Fox, a criminology professor at the University of South Florida, agreed. “This is the game changer we were waiting for,” she said.
Guthrie’s neighbors are united in their show of support for family
Tucson residents and neighbors of Nancy Guthrie continue to drop by her Catalina Foothills home, leaving flowers and notes of hope.
This afternoon, Kourtney Rose, who considers herself a Tucson native who has lived in the neighborhood for about a year, stopped by with sunflowers.
“Yellow for hope,” Rose told NBC News. “We hope they find her; I hope she comes home.”
Yesterday, the Catalina Foothills Association emailed residents encouraging them to bring yellow flowers to the curb outside Guthrie’s home. Yellow flowers and ribbons are often a sign of awaiting someone’s return.
“I think it shows our community and how we support each other,” Rose said. “This isn’t the first tragedy we’ve had in Tucson, and we really do come together.”
Man seen in security video near gate of Tucson home is cleared in Guthrie disappearance, officials said
Law enforcement officials have cleared a man who was seen near the gate of a Tucson home in a security video from the night Guthrie disappeared, according to two officials briefed on the matter.
The video, which was shared on the Neighborhood app and circulated online, shows a man in a gray hooded top, jeans and two backpacks near the gate of a home at 1:52 a.m. That home is 4.2 miles from Guthrie’s home.
The Pima County Sheriff’s Department said it is aware of the video and is looking at all investigative leads. It did not say it’s in any way connected to the Guthrie case.
California man accused of sending fake ransom note appears in Arizona court
Derrick Callella, 42, the California, man accused of sending a fake ransom note to Nancy Guthrie’s family, made his initial appearance in federal court in Tucson today.
Callella, of Hawthorne, is charged with transmitting a demand for ransom in interstate commerce and using a telecommunications device with intent to abuse, threaten or harass a person.
Prosecutors, citing the criminal complaint, alleged he sent the demands in the form of two text messages to Guthrie’s family on Feb. 4 and made a 9-second phone call to a family member,
He was released before trial. His conditions of release are the same as those that were agreed upon by a judge in Los Angeles last week, which include device monitoring and limited travel only from California to Arizona. He’s not allowed to contact potential witnesses or victims, NBC affiliate KVOA of Tucson reported.
Tom WinterTom Winter is NBC’s National Law Enforcement and Intelligence Correspondent.
The FBI’s new details about the man captured on Nancy Guthrie’s doorbell camera could explain why the agency was seen putting up a white tent over the front entry of her home in Tucson today.
The FBI’s Operational Technology Division may have been taking precise measurements of the previous location of the doorbell camera and other fixed points of the arched entryway.
Armed with the knowledge of the camera angle and other fixed points on the porch, as well as some math, investigators would be able to determine the height of the person they’re now describing as a suspect. (In a statement tonight, they said the man was 5’9″ to 5’10” tall with an average build.)
The FBI has a history of success in getting accurate measurements of a person captured on a fixed camera with other fixed objects around.
A woman walks her dogs past Nancy Guthrie’s house on Feb. 12, 2026, where a tent has been erected outside her door.
A woman walks her dogs past Nancy Guthrie’s house, where a tent has been erected outside her door.
FBI bumps reward for information up to $100,000
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The FBI tonight also announced that the reward for information leading to Nancy Guthrie or an arrest or a conviction of anyone involved in her disappearance has increased to $100,000.
The FBI said it hopes the updated description of the suspect will help “concentrate” tips, saying it has received more than 13,000 tips from the public since Feb. 1.
FBI zeros in on details about suspect’s height and backpack
The FBI today released new identifying details about the suspect in Nancy Guthrie’s disappearance after a forensic analysis of doorbell camera video.
The suspect is described as a male, 5’9″ to 5’10″ tall, with an average build.
He was wearing a black, 24-liter Ozark Trail Hiker Pack backpack based on the video.
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FBI Director Kash Patel shared six black-and-white photos and three videos of a potential subject in the Guthrie kidnapping case on social media this week. The images and video clips appear to have been captured by Guthrie’s doorbell camera, which the perpetrator later disconnected, officials have said.
The images show a person wearing a mask and gloves and carrying a backpack, walking up to the home, trying to cover the doorbell camera with their hand and using a brush pulled from the front yard.
Patel said, “The video was recovered from residual data located in backend systems” of the camera.
Savannah Guthrie shared home movies on Instagram of herself, her siblings and her mother when they were younger. In her caption she wrote: “Our lovely mom. We will never give up on her.”
A tent was placed outside Guthrie’s front door today from 7:35 a.m. to 9 a.m.; it’s not clear what it was used for.
Gloves were recovered as evidence and are being sent out for analysis, the Pima County Sheriff’s Department said today. Pictures and videos released this week by the FBI depicting Guthrie’s possible kidnapper showed a person wearing black gloves.
Authorities expanded their call for video. Police sent an alert through the Neighbors App to users within a 2-mile radius of Guthrie’s home.
Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos has said Guthrie does not have cognitive issues, characterizing her as “sharp as a tack.” However, he said, she has limited mobility and needs to take medication daily or “it could be fatal.”
“She is mobile. It’s a challenge for her to get, as the family says, she couldn’t walk 50 yards by herself,” he said.
Guthrie has a pacemaker — a device typically implanted under the skin to regulate heartbeat — which disconnected from its monitoring app on her phone early Feb. 1.
In an emotional video posted on her Instagram page, Savannah Guthrie pleaded for her mother’s return, noting her health is fragile.
“She lives in constant pain. She is without any medicine. She needs it to survive, and she needs it not to suffer,” Savannah Guthrie said in the video, flanked by her sister, Annie Guthrie, and brother, Camron Guthrie.
The FBI is looking into ransom notes or communications involving the Guthrie family, the sheriff’s department said.
No news briefings are scheduled at this time, and Nanos, the sheriff, is not conducting one-on-one interviews; however, he sheriff the department’s spokesperson.
A news conference will be called when there is a significant development.
The Pima County Sheriff’s Department is asking for all video, including video of vehicles, vehicle traffic, people, pedestrians and anything “neighbors deem out of the ordinary or important to our investigation” from Jan. 1 to Feb. 2.
Police also sent an alert through the Neighbors App to all users within a 2-mile radius of Guthrie’s home. In addition, app users may receive requests from the sheriff’s department for security video from doorbell cameras.
