Walmart gun holster may provide break in identifying Nancy Guthrie abductors

TUCSON, Ariz. – The holster seen in a surveillance video taken on the doorstep of “TODAY” co-host Savannah Guthrie’s lacking mom might present vital results in legislation enforcement, consultants stated Friday.

The holster is reasonable, simply distinguishable and solely accessible in a restricted variety of shops, in response to a Miami-area police officer who shared his evaluation with Fox Information Digital in hopes it could assist investigators discover whoever is answerable for kidnapping Nancy Guthrie.

The FBI labored with Google final week on the groundbreaking restoration of Guthrie’s Nest doorbell digital camera video. It isn’t publicly identified the place the system itself is, and he or she didn’t have a subscription that may have saved it within the cloud. However investigators have been in a position to get well video displaying a masked and gloved man on Guthrie’s porch, the place police later discovered drops of her blood.

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This picture launched by the FBI reveals an armed particular person who seems to have tampered with the digital camera at Nancy Guthrie’s entrance door on the morning of her disappearance in Tucson, Arizona, Sunday, February 1, 2026. (Supplied by FBI)

It reveals a person described as of common construct and top, coated from head to toe and carrying a backpack. He additionally has what seems to be an awkwardly worn holster.

The officer, who requested to not be named, instructed Fox Information Digital that the apparently light-colored look of the holster is deceptive because it appeared on an infrared picture. The principle panel is fabricated from a special materials than the pipes, he stated. However the form and different particulars match a Technique model hip holster, accessible at some Walmart shops for about $10.

As of Saturday afternoon, the holster was in inventory at 5 Walmart shops within the Tucson space: 1260 E. Tucson Market Blvd., 7150 E. Speedway Blvd., 7635 N. La Cholla Blvd., 1650 W. Valencia Rd. and 8280 N. Cortaro Rd., in response to the retailer’s web site.

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A surveillance picture, left, reveals an unknown suspect within the Nancy Guthrie investigation with what seems to be a firearm in a holster. On the proper is a photograph of a Technique Giant Body Revolver hip holster, recognized by a police knowledgeable as the identical holster the suspect within the surveillance picture was carrying. (FBI Arizona and Fox Information Digital)

In response to particulars on Walmart’s web site, the waterproof holster is designed for a revolver with a 4- to 6-inch barrel. The product description states that the holster is designed for right-handed use. The gun within the Nest video seems to be a semiautomatic Walther or one thing comparable, the officer stated, an uncommon and distinctive mixture.

It has a particular form and retention band and isn’t thought-about standard amongst firearms fans. The agent due to this fact doesn’t anticipate that investigators will discover many purchases.

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One other identifiable merchandise the masked suspect was carrying within the Nest doorbell digital camera video launched by the FBI this week can also be accessible completely at Walmart shops: the Ozark Path backpack.

An Ozark Trails backpack on the market at a Walmart retailer, Tucson, Arizona, Friday, February 13, 2026. (Derek Shook for Fox Information Digital)

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Whereas the backpack is widespread, standard and extensively accessible, as of Friday the holster was solely in inventory at two of greater than a dozen shops within the Tucson space, in response to Walmart’s on-line buying website.

“I feel it is extra indicative of somebody who packed up and improvised,” stated Betsy Brantner Smith, a retired police sergeant and coach. ‘However I do not assume this man was a ‘skilled’ both. I feel his conduct says he was concerned within the kidnapping, the house invasion, no matter it should be.”

Investigators can examine purchases of those two objects to attempt to discover a suspect or slim down the group of individuals of curiosity.

“In all probability fewer individuals purchased the holster than the backpack,” Brantner Smith instructed Fox Information Digital.

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An FBI billboard in Albuquerque, NM is elevating consciousness concerning the seek for lacking Nancy Guthrie. (KRQE)

Neither the Pima County Sheriff’s Division nor the FBI instantly responded to emails concerning the holster.

Guthrie, 84, was forcibly faraway from her north Tucson house within the early morning hours of Feb. 1, in response to the Pima County Sheriff’s Division.

There’s a $100,000 reward for info that solves the case. Name 1-800-CALL-FBI.