{"id":163223,"date":"2026-02-13T14:03:33","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T14:03:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/163223\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T14:03:33","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T14:03:33","slug":"houston-crime-sketch-artist-releases-portrait-of-masked-suspect-in-nancy-guthrie-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/163223\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston crime-sketch artist releases portrait of masked suspect in Nancy Guthrie case"},"content":{"rendered":"

Famed Houston crime sketch artist<\/a> Lois Gibson has released a sketch in the case of missing Nancy Guthrie based on a masked person seen on a doorbell camera at her home.<\/p>\n

Guthrie, 84,\u00a0the mother of “Today” show host Savannah Guthrie, was reported missing from her Tucson, Arizona, home Feb. 1. Arizona law enforcement and the Federal Bureau of Investigations believe she was taken from her home and that she is still alive.<\/p>\n

HOUSTON BILLBOARDS: FBI posting billboards in Houston seeking tips about Savannah Guthrie’s missing mother<\/a><\/p>\n

Earlier this week, the FBI released images of a person in a ski mask believed to be at Guthrie’s front door.<\/p>\n

The images show “an armed individual appearing to have tampered with the camera at Nancy Guthrie’s front door the morning of her disappearance,” FBI Director Kash Patel said in an ABC News story<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Gibson, who retired from the Houston Police Department<\/a> in 2021, holds the world record as “The World’s Most Successful Forensic Artist,”<\/a> with her work helping to identify more than 750 criminals.<\/p>\n

Wednesday night, Gibson posted a picture of her sketch on her Facebook page.<\/p>\n

“I guessed at the parts of face covered with ski mask on this Nancy Guthrie kidnapping suspect,” she said in her Facebook post. “I used the surveillance photos shown. I spent 43 years at job trying to help detectives with similar photos.”<\/p>\n

She only had the eyes, lips and mustache shown in the photos to go on and said: “I’ll take the hit if I’m wrong.”<\/p>\n

The Houston Chronicle reached out to the FBI’s National Press Office for comment.<\/p>\n

Several hundred detectives and agents are investigating the case as a kidnapping and are searching the Tucson area and beyond, the AP reported.<\/a><\/p>\n

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