FBI releases detailed description of Nancy Guthrie suspect and backpack he was carrying as reward for information is raised to $100,000: Live updates

The FBI released more information about the suspect in the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie on Thursday.

‘The suspect is described as a male, approximately 5’9” – 5’10” tall, with an average build,’ read a statement from Phoenix FBI.

‘In the video, he is wearing a black, 25-liter ‘Ozark Trail Hiker Pack’ backpack.’

The agency added that they have received more than 13,000 tips in the case and the reward amount has increased from $50,000 to $100,000.

Retired Houston sketch artist Lois Gibson created an unofficial sketch of an unidentified police suspect captured in Nancy Guthrie’s home surveillance footage from the night she disappeared.

Gibson has not been brought on by Arizona police in the search and the sketch has not been officially released by authorities.

The forensic artist created a mock up of what the suspect could look like based on what little the surveillance footage reveals: eyes, lips and facial hair beneath the mask.

‘I couldn’t stop myself, I just couldn’t stop myself, I wanted to help, I felt the pain,’ Gibson told KHOU 11.

‘I’ve been in the room with people, their babies have been kidnapped and it takes you by the throat, it makes you feel like you’re choking over what they’re going through, so I wanted to help them.’

Nancy Guthrie’s neighbors have shown an outpouring of support since her disappearance from her home nearly two weeks ago.

Yellow bows have been seen tied to trees on the street of Nancy’s home in the Catalina Foothills in solidarity for the Guthrie family.

Yellow ribbons have been used for to show hope and support for someone’s safe return in missing persons cases.

A makeshift memorial has also been set up outside Nancy’s home, where flowers, handwritten messages, posters and candles have been laid in tribute

Nancy Guthrie has been missing for 13 days after she was abducted from her home in Tucson, Arizona, in the early hours of Feb 1.

She was first reported missing on after she did not show up to attend a virtual church service at a friend’s house.

Authorities began searching for her that night. They confirmed the following day that her disappearance was being treated as a crime.

Nancy Guthrie made posts on a neighborhood app that revealed she had previous run-ins with criminals outside her $1 million home and the reason she decided to buy a doorbell camera.

The 84-year-old mother of Today Show host Savannah Guthrie was taken from her home in the upscale Catalina Foothills neighborhood of Tucson, Arizona in the early morning hours of February 1.

She had lived in the home since 1975, raising her three children there, according to her profile on Nextdoor.

An Arizona sheriff was said to be blocking FBI access to key evidence in the investigation into the abduction of Savannah Guthrie’s mother, a source told Reuters on Thursday.

The FBI asked Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos for physical evidence in the case, including a glove and DNA from the home of 84-year-old Nancy Guthrie, to be processed at the FBI’s national crime laboratory in Quantico, Virginia.

Sheriff Nanos has insisted instead on using a private lab in Florida.

He slammed claims that his department was ‘withholding evidence’ as ‘Not even close to the truth.’

‘Actually, the FBI just wanted to send the one or two they found by the crime scene, closest to it – mile, mile and a half…’ he continued.

‘I said “No, why do that? Let’s just send them all to where all the DNA exist, all the profiles and the markers exist.” They agreed, makes sense.’

The sheriff also argued that the gloves found at the scene by FBI investigators may not be as valuable as initially thought as police found multiple pairs on the side of the road near Nancy’s home.

‘We don’t even know the true value of these gloves,’ Nanos said, claiming there was ‘quite a number of them.’

Authorities announced on Thursday that the suspect who was seen trying to obscure a Nest doorbell camera outside Nancy Guthrie’s home on the night of her disappearance had been carrying a 25-liter ‘Ozark Trail Hiker Pack’ backpack.

The brand is exclusive to Walmart, and can only be bought new from the store.

Derrick Callella, 42, the California man accused of sending a fake ransom note to Nancy Guthrie’s family, made his initial appearance in federal court in Tucson today.

Callella is charged with transmitting a demand for ransom in interstate commerce and using a telecommunications device with intent to abuse, threaten or harass a person.

He allegedly sent the demands as text messages to Guthrie’s family on February 4 and made a nine-second phone call to a family member.

Callella was released before trial, on the condition that he limit travel only from California to Arizona and is not allowed to contact any potential witnesses or victims, KVOA reports.

A man who was seen wearing a backpack near a gate of a Tucson home in a security video from the night Nancy Guthrie was abducted has been cleared of any wrongdoing, NBC News reports.

In the video, the individual, wearing a grey windbreaker and a backpack, appeared to unsuccessfully attempt to scale a fence before walking out of camera view.

Earlier in the week, the FBI released surveillance footage of a subject wearing similar attire and a ski mask from February 1, shortly before Nancy was taken from her home.

The Pima County Sheriff’s Office on Thursday asked the public for any more video surveillance they could get from one month before Nancy Guthrie’s disappearance from a two-mile radius around her house.

‘This is a fairly remote area,’ CNN Law Enforcement contributor and retired supervisory FBI agent Steve Moore told CNN’s Laura Coates on Thursday.

‘If you went into that neighborhood, you mean to go to that neighborhood, it’s not a thoroughfare.’

Because of the isolation, Moore said investigators can quickly identify residents’ vehicles and eliminate them as suspicious.

‘They will probably have by now a list of all the vehicles owned by people within that neighborhood,’ he said.

‘Then what you’re looking for are vehicles that don’t belong there, that entered in the last month. And you’re going to cross‑reference those.’

‘Hopefully they’re looking for somebody who’s been there several times for casing purposes and other reasons,’ Moore concluded.

The father of Gabby Petito said he empathized with the family of Nancy Guthrie amid a series of false leads and missteps in the heartbreaking search for the missing woman.

Joe Petito spoke to Fox & Friends about the recent developments on the mother of Today show host Savannah Guthrie nearly five years after his own daughter Gabby disappeared.

‘A lot of outside influence will try to give an opinion,’ the father said about the investigation in the missing 84-year-old.

‘They’re the only ones that have all of the information or as much as possible. So I just hope they’re listening to what they feel is best.’