Nancy Guthrie sheriff says he’s ‘exhausted’ and it may

The man accountable for the investigation into Nancy Guthrie’s disappearance has acknowledged the toll the case is taking, saying the search may stretch on for years.

On February 13, an in a single day operation unfolded about two miles from Nancy’s Arizona dwelling, when members of the Pima County Sheriff’s Department executed a search warrant after reportedly performing on a tip.

Speaking to The New York Times on Friday, February 13, Nanos was requested how lengthy it might take before the mom of Savannah Guthrie is discovered. “Maybe it’s an hour from now, maybe it’s weeks or months or years from now,” he told the outlet. “But we won’t quit. It’s exhausting, these ups and downs, but we will keep moving forward.”

“We’re going to find Nancy. We’re going to find this guy,” he added. Nanos’ comments come after a collection of developments that have difficult the case. The sheriff had beforehand been criticized for attending a school basketball game days into the search.

The latest blow got here Saturday morning following experiences that three people had been detained during a SWAT raid at a property close to Guthrie’s dwelling.

Authorities said one man was taken in for questioning however later launched. FBI brokers had been also seen inspecting a Range Rover parked in the lot of a restaurant in Tucson a few blocks from Guthrie’s dwelling. However, a regulation enforcement official later told CNN on Saturday that no arrests had been made as a result of the operation.

On the morning of Saturday, February 14, Nanos told Arizona’s Family sister station, KOLD News 13, that the searches had been “Nothing more than a lead tracked down that led to a search warrant.”

The update adopted recent criticism of the investigation. Just hours earlier, Nanos was accused of blocking the FBI from accessing key bodily proof, and the sheriff’s division confronted backlash over what had been described as “earlier setbacks.”

Nanos pushed again on those claims in an interview with NBC affiliate KVOA, saying they’re “not even close to the truth.”

Earlier this week, investigators detained a supply driver in reference to Guthrie’s disappearance however launched and cleared him just hours later.

Authorities have beforehand admitted they don’t have any suspects and no energetic leads. The only individual they’re still overtly trying to find is a masked intruder captured in doorbell footage from the evening Guthrie vanished.

A separate man seen in surveillance video dumping a backpack over a brick wall 5 miles from her dwelling has since been dominated out as a suspect.

As the case stands, investigators are specializing in figuring out the masked intruder seen the evening Guthrie disappeared. Officials have also confirmed that thriller DNA discovered at her dwelling doesn’t belong to anybody “close” to her.