The FBI has scaled back its now nearly month-long search for Nancy Guthrie in Tucson, Arizona, it has been revealed.
Agents will move to a new command post more than 100 miles away in Phoenix, sources with knowledge of the investigation told ABC News.
The move does not indicate investigators are giving up in the search, the sources disclaimed.
Some agents will stay behind in Tucson, they said.
Nancy, 84, was abducted from her Tucson home by an unknown suspect in the early hours of February 1. No suspects have been named. There have been no arrests.
The senior is the 84-year-old mother of Today show star Savannah Guthrie.
The unsolved case has shocked and disturbed much of the country.
Agents were seen outside the residence Wednesday, combing through portions of the home and lawn that had already been searched.
The FBI has scaled back its search for Today star Savannah Guthrie’s elderly mother, Nancy, in Tucson, Arizona
Law enforcement officials were seen returning to Nancy’s $1 million home in the Catalina Foothills on Wednesday but are now set to pull out and recenter in Phoenix, roughly 110 miles away
The flurry of activity was related to an FBI effort to turn the home back over to the Guthrie family, officials told NBC News.
Drops of blood were already found on the front porch. Investigators are under the impression Nancy was taken against her will.
Footage recovered from the elderly woman’s Nest doorbell camera showed an unidentified suspect in a ski mask in front of her door early February 1, before Nancy’s pacemaker suddenly stopped transmitting data to her iPhone.
Sources told ABC News Thursday there was no more work to be done at the home, hence the relocation. Phoenix has the largest FBI headquarters in the state.
Pima County Sheriff’s Department deputies are still searching Tucson, though, with help from an unspecified number of feds.
Agents in Phoenix, meanwhile, will work the case from there, sources said.
At this stage, investigators are scrutinizing things such as security footage, DNA samples, and Walmart sales receipts – as well as more than 1,500 tips that have flooded in since Savannah said the family was now offering a $1 million reward on Tuesday.
Following a quick surge Tuesday, the number of calls to the sheriff’s department has since dissipated, sources told ABC News.
Pima County Sheriff’s Department deputies are still searching Tuscon, though, with help from an unspecified number of federal agents
In an Instagram video that contained the announcement, Savannah publicly acknowledged that her mother may be dead for the first time.
She said: ‘We also know that she may be lost, she may already be gone. She may have already gone home to the Lord that she loves.
‘But we need to know where she is. We need her to come home. For that reason, we are offering a family reward of up to $1 million for any information that leads us to her recovery. Somebody knows and we are begging you to please come forward now.’
The search for Nancy entered its 26th day on Thursday.