of the Madres Buscadoras de Sonora collective will formally request humanitarian visas to support U.S. authorities in their efforts to locate Nancy Guthrie, mother of NBC television host Savannah Guthrie.
The collective, which has experience finding human remains in clandestine graves, as well as tracking missing persons alive, has been collaborating this week in the search in Mexico for the 84-year-old woman, who will have been missing for 22 days this Sunday.
Guadalupe Tello, who has been part of the collective for five years since the disappearance of one of her sons, said they will begin searching for Nancy Guthrie in cities and areas near the site of her disappearance.
“The Madres Buscadoras de Sonora collective has found many people alive. Some of us mothers organize ourselves and go out into the streets to search, ruling out one area and moving on to another. We talk to residents, distribute flyers, and post missing person posters with the photo of the person we are trying to locate,” the activist explained.
The Pima County Sheriff reinforced the security perimeter around Nancy Guthrie’s residence, located in the Catalina Foothills area, north of Tucson, Arizona, about 106 kilometers from the Mexican border.
Furthermore, the Sheriff requested that the area be left to specialist investigators and that the search for the victim be left in the hands of professionals.
Nancy Guthrie was last seen on Saturday, January 31, at her home after having dinner with her eldest daughter. The family reported her missing the following day after she failed to show up for a meeting with a friend to go to church.
