A volunteer search group, Buscando Corazones Nogales, in northern Mexico, conducted a large-scale search for Nancy Guthrie after receiving an anonymous tip, per Mexican newspaper El Imparcial.
According to the head of the group, Ramona Guadalupe Ayala Ortiz, who spoke to El Imparcial, the tip claimed that the Tucson grandmother had been buried in an unmarked grave near the US-Mexico border.
The search did not uncover any remains linked to Guthrie, but organizers say they will continue searching the area and investigating the information they received.
Nancy, the mother of NBC host Savannah Guthrie, disappeared from her home in the Catalina Foothills area near Tucson, Arizona, during the early hours of February 1. Authorities have not announced any arrests, and investigators continue to treat the case as a suspected abduction.
“…the woman’s [Guthrie’s] remains were in the Mariposa area”
Buscando Corazones Nogales is a volunteer organization that searches for missing persons in Mexico.
It received information from an anonymous caller. The caller alleged that Guthrie’s remains were buried in a grave near a stream in the Mariposa area, northwest of Nogales, Sonora.
Ayala Ortiz said, “We received an anonymous call telling us that the woman’s [Guthrie’s] remains were in the Mariposa area — in a grave over a stream.”
Ayala Ortiz told the news outlet that volunteers conducted an initial investigation based on the information provided. The search focused on terrain where the group previously discovered 25 unmarked graves during earlier recovery operations.
This story is being updated.
