Oliver Conway

Sheriff Chris Nanos is leading one of the biggest and most unusual investigations of its kind this country has ever known.

Where do you think Nancy Guthrie is?

I think she's somewhere here in our community.

Locally?

What makes you think that?

I just do.

I don't know why.

I don't have any evidence to prove that.

As he spoke, detectives were once again combing the dried brush around Nancy Guthrie's home in a desperate search for clues.

Excuse me, can you tell us what you're looking for?

Any leads in the case so far?

I can't talk about it, I'm sorry.

Their presence sending reporters and camera crews into a frenzy.

Kelly Himes lives nearby and felt compelled to stop by and say a prayer alongside the growing array of flowers.

All cases have a progression, right, a starting point.

The sheriff's initial insistence that everyone was a suspect in this case prompted feverish speculation online about the possible involvement of a family member.

Sheriff Nanos now says any such doubts have been firmly laid to rest.

We not just interview them, we take their cars, we take their houses, we take their phones, all this stuff.

They have been 100% cooperative with us.

Savannah Guthrie's latest appeal to her mother's kidnappers seems designed to appeal to their better nature.