TheFBIhas finally got something. After 10 days of dead ends and unanswered questions about what happened to Nancy Guthrie, investigators have released surveillance footage showing exactly who they're looking for. And it's absolutely chilling.

Theimages and videoreleased on Tuesday show a person in a ski mask, armed with a gun on their hip, standing right at Nancy's front door in Tucson. They're staring directly into her Nest doorbell camera. First, they try covering the lens with their gloved hand. When that doesn't work, they grab a handful of flowers from Nancy's own garden and shove them in front of the camera to block the view. It's the kind of thing you'd see in a film. Except this is real, and somewhere out there, 84-year-old Nancy Guthrie is still missing.

Here's what makes this remarkable: this footage wasn't meant to exist. Nancy had Nest cameras around her property in the Catalina Foothills, but she hadn't paid her subscription. That meant when she disappeared on 1 February, there was no cloud storage. Police thought they'd lost it all.

But FBI specialists managed to pull the footage from what Director Kash Patel called 'residual data located in backend systems'. Basically, they went digging through Nest's servers and found fragments of video that hadn't been completely wiped. The video shows someone wearing a dark fleece jacket, light-coloured trousers, trainers, and a backpack. They're carrying what looks like a torch in their mouth. The gun's clearly visible on their hip.

Nancy was dropped off at her home by her son-in-law around 9:45 pm on 31 January after dinner with family. Everything seemed normal. The front door camera wasdisconnectedat 1:47 am on 1 February. At 2:28 am, Nancy's pacemaker disconnected from her phone—that's when investigators reckon she was taken. Her phone was left behind. By noon the next day, when she didn't turn up at a friend's house to stream Sunday church together, her family knew something was badly wrong.

Police found blood on the porch that tested positive for Nancy's DNA. They've been treating this as a kidnapping from day one, but until Tuesday, they had absolutely nothing to go on. No suspects. No persons of interest. Just a ransom note demanding $6 million in bitcoin that may or may not be genuine.

Savannah Guthrie, the 'Today' show co-anchor whose mother has been missing for 10 days now, immediately shared the FBI footage on herInstagram. She's got 1.7 million followers, and she's using every single one to try and find her mum.

'Someone out there recognises this person. We believe she is still alive. Bring her home,'Savannah wrote. She included the FBI hotline number and urged anyone with information to call immediately. It's the fourth video Savannah's posted since her mother vanished. The first three were increasingly desperate pleas directly to whoever took Nancy. Former FBI agents watching this case say the shift from addressing the kidnapper to appealing to the public suggests one thing: there's no established line of communication.

Multipleransom noteshave supposedly been sent to news outlets demanding $6 million in bitcoin, with deadlines that have now passed. The FBI said on Monday evening that they're 'not aware of any continued communication between the Guthrie family and suspected kidnappers'. Which raises the obvious question: if there's no communication, who sent those notes?

Nancy's 84 years old with health issues requiring daily medication. Her family has said she's in 'constant pain' without it. She's got a pacemaker, which is how investigators knew roughly when she was taken.

Source: International Business Times UK