As little evidence has been made public in the abduction of “Today” show host Savannah Guthrie’s mother, a renowned Houston forensic artist says she felt compelled to attempt sketch a masked suspect at the center of the case.<\/p>\n
“It’s the worst torture in the world,” Lois Gibson said, recalling the stories families of kidnapping victims have told her over her career.<\/p>\n
Gibson is not associated with the Guthrie case, but with a long history of nailing suspect’s likeness for some of Houston’s most notorious crimes, she feels this guess is going to be a good one.<\/p>\n
“I’m brave, and I’ll take the hit. If I messed up and he is way different and he has tattoos, yeah, oh well, you can criticize me,” Gibson said.<\/p>\n
With nearly four decades of experience as a former forensic artist for the Houston Police Department, Gibson has spent countless hours talking to people who were in the same position as the Guthrie family.<\/p>\n
Those stories were all Gibson said she could think of when the Pima County Sheriff’s Office in Tucson, Arizona, released video of a person of interest. In the doorbell video, we see a masked person on the front porch of Nancy Guthrie’s home the night of her abduction.<\/p>\n
“I printed up the surveillance images, and I went to the easel, and I just drew it, something, just to get a ballpark,” Gibson said.<\/p>\n
Nancy is the mother of “Today” show host, Savannah Guthrie. Police say she was kidnapped from her Tucson, Arizona, home on Feb. 1 in the middle of the night.<\/p>\n
Gibson said she decided she couldn’t stand by and do nothing.<\/p>\n
“I went ahead and was brave, because I know what it feels like to be with people who have had a loved one kidnapped,” Gibson said.<\/p>\n
Gibson put pen to paper and tried to look behind the mask.<\/p>\n
“And if you have this, you know how far down the nose is going to go, generic nose, and you can tell here, it’s not a great big hook nose, it’s slight, not a great big old nose, it doesn’t stick out that far and it does not stick out that wide,” she said.<\/p>\n
The latest official identifying information from the Pima County Sheriff’s Office is that the masked suspect is a man between 5’9″ and 10″ tall. Law enforcement is looking for tips in the case from anyone who knows something.<\/p>\n
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