Sheriff Says All Family Members Of Nancy Guthrie Cleared Over Her Disappearance: ‘victims Plain And Simple’

All members of Nancy Guthrie's family, including NBC News' Savannah Guthrie, her siblings, and their spouses, person been cleared arsenic imaginable suspects, according to nan Pima County Sheriff’s Office.

Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos made nan announcement connected Monday afternoon.

He said successful a connection that nan Guthrie family has been "nothing but cooperative and gracious and are victims successful this case."

"To propose different is not only wrong, it is cruel," he said. "The Guthrie family are victims plain and simple."

The sheriff's section said successful an earlier connection that location are nary scheduled news conferences regarding nan lawsuit today.

The memo issued by nan section does not look to person been successful consequence to immoderate caller grounds aliases breakthroughs, but alternatively arsenic a wide connection connected nan position of nan Guthrie family.

Nancy Guthrie, 84, was reported missing from her location successful Arizona connected February 1. Local investigators and nan FBI person been searching for her for much than 2 weeks.

While rule enforcement has been engaged moving down leads, Savannah Guthrie and her siblings person been making affectional pleas connected societal media asking nan expected kidnapper to scope retired and supply impervious of life and further instructions for really they tin get their mother back.

Earlier connected Monday, TMZ laminitis Harvey Levin announced that his publication had received a 4th missive from an individual claiming to person knowledge of who kidnapped Nancy Guthrie. The individual reportedly is refusing to uncover nan accusation without costs first.

Levin said he had been successful interaction pinch nan FBI and posted a video telling nan tipster to supply nan accusation to him, and that he would activity pinch nan FBI to unafraid a payment. The TMZ laminitis believes that nan individual who sent Monday's missive is nan aforesaid 1 who has sent 3 erstwhile letters demanding costs for accusation astir Nancy Guthrie's whereabouts.

"A 4th missive from nan aforesaid personification who says he knows wherever Nancy Guthrie is, and he wants money successful return for nan information,” Levin said. “Essentially, he wants nan reward."

During his address, Levin besides publication a chilling statement from nan letter.

”‘I cognize what I saw 5 days agone southbound of nan border, and I was told to unopen up, truthful I cognize who he is, and that was decidedly Nancy pinch them,’” he read.

Meanwhile, nan Pima County Sheriff's Office is reportedly moving pinch Walmart aft it discovered nan marque of backpack nan suspected kidnapper wore connected nan nighttime Nancy Guthrie vanished was sold exclusively astatine nan retailer.

The backpack is simply a 25-liter “Ozark Trail Hiker Pack." The "Ozark Trail" marque is simply a private, Walmart-owned outdoor marque that is only sold successful its stores and connected its website. However, it is imaginable nan individual bought nan battalion from a backstage seller aliases from a second-hand sports retailer.

“This backpack is exclusive to Walmart and we are moving pinch Walmart guidance to create further leads,” Nanos said.

The clothing nan fishy was wearing nan nighttime of nan alleged abduction whitethorn besides person been purchased astatine Walmart, but investigators noted that nan clothing isn't exclusively offered by Walmart.

“This remains a anticipation only," nan sheriff's agency said successful a connection connected Monday.

Investigators searching adjacent Guthrie's location person collected respective gloves and has sent them to a forensics laboratory for testing, according to nan Pima County Sheriff's Office. Deputies noted that galore of nan gloves recovered successful nan area were from volunteers who were searching for Guthrie. It's unclear what benignant of gloves were sent for further analysis.

The FBI and nan sheriff's agency are besides still collecting tips astir nan case. According to nan FBI, it has collected mofe than 13,000 calls astir Guthrie since February 1, and nan sheriff's section said it has taken astatine slightest 18,000 calls.

Investigators person not said whether immoderate of those calls person proven adjuvant to nan search.

Guthrie has been missing for much than 2 weeks, resulting successful immoderate disapproval of nan investigation. Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos told nan Daily Mail connected Sunday that he doesn't attraction astir nan "haters" who opportunity nan section released nan crime segment excessively early.

"My officers were location for almost 20 hours, and they processed their scene, sewage it done, and brought successful each nan evidence," he told nan outlet. "Then nan FBI came and did their thing."

He besides told nan publication that claims he was blocking nan FBI from accessing important grounds were wrong.

"Why would I do that?" he said. "It makes nary sense."