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<\/p>\nThe man detained for questioning in the investigation into the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie, the mother of US show host Savannah Guthrie, has been released.<\/p>\n
The suspect was detained hours after the FBI released footage and images from the 84-year-old woman’s porch on the night she went missing.<\/p>\n
The video showed a person wearing a ski mask, gloves, a backpack and what appeared to be a gun in a holster.<\/p>\n
FBI director Kash Patel said investigators had also spent days trying to recover lost, corrupted, or inaccessible images from the surveillance system.<\/p>\n
Even though the images do not show the person’s face, investigators are hopeful someone will know who was on the porch.<\/p>\n
FBI agents fanned out across a neighbourhood near Nancy Guthrie\u2019s home and searched through the desert for clues on Wednesday, local time.<\/p>\n
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Several hundred detectives and agents are now assigned to the investigation, which is expanding in the Tucson area, the Pima County Sheriff’s Department said.<\/p>\n
A resident said an FBI agent told her they were looking for anything that might have been thrown from a car.<\/p>\n
A day earlier, authorities said they had stopped a man near the US-Mexico border.<\/p>\n
The man told media outlets early on Wednesday, local time, that he was released after several hours and had nothing to do with Ms Guthrie’s disappearance last week.<\/p>\n
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Savannah Guthrie has not been on the Today Show since the disappearance of her mother Nancy. \u00a0 (Supplied: Instagram)<\/p>\n
Authorities have not said what led them to stop the man, but confirmed he was released.<\/p>\n
The sheriff’s department said deputies and FBI agents also searched a location in Rio Rico, a city south of Tucson, where the man lived.<\/p>\n