All posts tagged "Missing Person"

Authorities on Wednesday confirmed that eight skiers who went missing following an avalanche in California's Sierra Nevada mountains were found dead; one other remained missing.

The skiers, who were between 30 and 55 years of age, were confirmed dead as rescuers struggled to search due to weather conditions near Truckee, California, Nevada County Sheriff Shannan Moon said during a news conference.

"Due to the ongoing challenges of the weather, the avalanche conditions, the effort remains ongoing as well as our search for the remaining skier, but the weather is a factor," Moon said. ...

A former top FBI official flagged unusual details in images and video released Tuesday in the disappearance of "Today" show co-host Savannah Guthrie's 84-year-old mother.

Andrew McCabe, former FBI deputy director, told CNN that the way the armed suspect moved in the footage captured on a home security device outside Nancy Guthrie's Arizona home appears to show him "not moving with purpose" and handling a handgun in an unusual way.

"Yeah, it's a remarkable series of images. The still images are much better than I expected," McCabe said. "There's a lot of detail in the images of the clothing and the gloves and all this stuff that by themselves would not mean much. But when you put them all together might very well inspire someone who actually knows this person to say 'hey, I know who that is.' This is not, in my opinion, this is not someone, first of all who was ever trained to carry a gun." ...

The FBI Tuesday released the first images of a potential suspect in the disappearance of Today host Savannah Guthrie's 84-year-old mother.

In four images captured by a home security camera, a person wearing a face mask, jacket with reflective material, backpack and black Nitro gloves appears at the door of Nancy Guthrie's home in Arizona.

The suspect, who appears to be a man, has a light source or small flashlight in his mouth and stands on the front porch of Guthrie's Tucson home. ...

The Pima County Sheriff's Department was forced to respond Tuesday as TMZ reported it had received an unverified "ransom" demand in the abduction of "Today" co-host Savannah Guthrie's 84-year-old mother.

TMZ said it received the demand on Tuesday but had not confirmed whether the ransom note was authentic.

"The note, which was sent to us Tuesday morning, demands a specific substantial amount of Bitcoin ... the amount is in the millions, and the note demands the cryptocurrency be sent to a specific Bitcoin address," TMZ reported. ...