One of Nancy Guthrie’s neighbors has claimed she saw a suspicious young man walking around the neighborhood several weeks before the 84-year-old went missing.
“He didn’t have your typical walking gear on, and he had his hat pulled really far over his eyes,” Aldine Meister, who lives in Catalina Foothills, along with “Today” show host Savannah Guthrie’s mother, told Fox News Digital Wednesday.
Meister saw the unknown man walking close to an intersection leading to Nancy’s home, and hadn’t seen him before or since, she said.
“He was kind of younger, and he just didn’t look like he was going out for a walk,” she added. “He just didn’t fit.”
Meister mentioned the strange man to her husband, but did not report the sighting to cops at the time, she said.
Following Nancy’s suspected kidnapping at around 2:30 a.m. on Feb. 1, Meister told authorities about what she saw, but had no video or photographs to give detectives.
The Catalina Foothills neighborhood, north of Tucson, Arizona, is affluent and sees a relatively low rate of crime.
Meister said she couldn’t be specific about the day she saw the stranger, although authorities have reportedly brought up Jan. 11 when speaking to other residents.”It could have been the 11th,” Meister said, adding that she was certain it was after Jan. 8 when she had visitors in town.
The 30-year resident of Catalina Foothills now plans to increase security around her home, including adding more surveillance cameras.
Her existing cameras did not record anything on the night of Nancy’s disappearance, Meister said.
Nancy’s three children, including Savannah, 54, are now offering a $1 million reward for information leading to the discovery of their mother.
More than three and a half weeks after Nancy’s disappearance, investigators have identified no suspects or persons of interest in the case.