"The 84-year-old mother of television journalist Savannah Guthrie went missing from her Arizona home earlier this month in what police believe was a targeted kidnapping. Nearly three weeks on, despite emotional public appeals, puzzling ransom notes and an army of online sleuths dissecting every detail, the investigation appears stalled. With hundreds of thousands of disappearances reported every year in the US, what is it about this story that has fueled such intense, and at times morbid, public fascination?"
"And as the information hotline lights up with calls from around America, just how useful is the general public in cases like this? On today's Indo Daily, Tessa Fleming is joined by Terry Sheridan, news director WSHU Public Radio, and by John Pistole, former deputy director of the FBI, to examine the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie, and to ask who may be behind it and why."
Nancy Guthrie, age 84, went missing from her Arizona residence and police suspect a targeted kidnapping. The case reached three weeks with the investigation appearing stalled. Emotional public appeals and puzzling ransom notes emerged while online sleuths dissected details. The disappearance has drawn intense, sometimes morbid, public fascination despite hundreds of thousands of annual disappearances in the US. An information hotline has attracted calls from across America. Law enforcement and experts are assessing leads, motives and suspects while evaluating how useful mass public tips and attention are to progressing the investigation.
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