Ring camera near Nancy Guthrie's home captured 12 vehicles the night she vanished, but neighbors say police never knocked

A Ring doorbell camera sitting 2.5 miles from Nancy Guthrie's Tucson home recorded 12 cars passing between midnight and 6 a.m. on Feb. 1, the same morning the 84-year-old mother of "Today" co-host Savannah Guthrie is believed to have been forcibly abducted. The homeowners who own that camera say no one from law enforcement has visited their neighborhood in the 25 days since she disappeared.

The footage, captured by a street-facing camera belonging to Catalina Foothills residents Elias and Danielle Stratigouleas, has now been shared with both the FBI and the Pima County Sheriff's Department. Whether it proves useful remains unknown. But the fact that it sat untouched for nearly a month, on a plausible route from the crime scene, raises harder questions about how aggressively investigators have worked the surrounding area.

What the Camera Caught

The Stratigouleas home sits roughly a seven-minute drive from Guthrie's residence on North Camino Escalante. One vehicle was recorded at approximately 2:36 a.m., roughly eight minutes after Guthrie's pacemaker last synced with her iPhone, according to the sheriff's timeline. That pacemaker sync is the closest thing investigators have to a timestamp for whatever happened inside her home that night.

According to Fox News. Retired NYPD detective and national security expert Pat Brosnan reviewed the video with his team and told Fox News Digital he believes the 2:36 a.m. vehicle is a Kia Soul, noting its vertical brake lights. It was not immediately clear whether the vehicle had ever been on Guthrie's street or whether the footage holds investigative value.

Still, activity near the 2:30 a.m. mark on a road that connects to the crime scene deserves a look. The question is why it took a homeowner, not a detective, to flag it.

Neighbors Left Uncanvassed

Fox News Digital approached five homes near the Stratigouleas residence. Three homeowners said law enforcement had never visited them. No one answered at the other two. A Ring alert did go out to neighbors within a 2-mile radius requesting footage from Jan. 1 to Feb. 2, but a mass digital notification is not the same as a detective knocking on doors and asking what people saw.

Danielle Stratigouleas called the absence of law enforcement "odd," particularly given the severity of the case. She told Fox News Digital she had seen deputies searching a wash near her office, so she knew they were active in the broader area. But her street, which sits along a logical escape route, apparently didn't make the list.

She also pointed to roads that someone familiar with the area might use to slip away unnoticed. Danielle noted that Camino Escuela, which runs behind Camino Real, would be a smart choice for anyone who had cased the neighborhood beforehand:

"There's never anybody on it, and never a police car to be seen."

She added that Camino La Brinca and Camino Piedra Seca also connect to Camino Real and offer a route from Camino Zorella. For someone who planned this, the area's quiet residential roads would provide cover.

Suspicious Figures, No Answers

The Ring footage isn't the only thread that went unpulled for weeks. A neighbor who asked not to be named reported seeing a suspicious man walking near an abandoned car on Feb. 2, the day after Guthrie vanished. She described him as approximately 5 feet, 9 inches tall. A dark red Honda SUV nearby reportedly didn't move for three days.

The Pima County Sheriff's Department did not return multiple phone calls and emails about the man or the vehicle.

Separately, neighbor Aldine Meister recalled spotting an unidentified man in mid-January who stood out for all the wrong reasons:

"He didn't have your typical walking gear on, and he had his hat pulled really far over his eyes."

"He was kind of younger, and he just didn't look like he was going out for a walk."

Meister said she mentioned it to her husband at the time but did not report it to investigators until after Guthrie's disappearance. These are the kinds of details that canvassing is designed to surface. When you don't knock on doors, you don't hear what people know.

An Investigation That Hasn't Produced Charges

As of Thursday morning, no one has been charged with a crime. Authorities have briefly detained and released several people and towed multiple vehicles, including cars belonging to family members and those detainees. More than three weeks into the case, police have not publicly identified any suspects or vehicles of interest.

FBI Director Kash Patel released still images and video on Feb. 10, though two sources with knowledge of the investigation told Fox News Digital that one of the doorbell images was taken on a different date than the others. The FBI and Google also teamed up to recover footage from Guthrie's Nest doorbell camera, which is physically unaccounted for and lacked a cloud subscription. That kind of technical resourcefulness is encouraging. The gap between that effort and the failure to walk a neighboring street is not.

Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos has called the timeline surrounding the released images "speculation." That framing may be technically defensible, but it does little to inspire confidence when residents 2.5 miles away are doing their own evidence review because investigators never asked.

When Citizens Do the Legwork

Savannah Guthrie, a Tucson native, is asking anyone with information to dial 1-800-CALL-FBI or contact her directly. That a victim's family member is publicly soliciting leads a month into an investigation speaks for itself.

Danielle Stratigouleas said she hopes more people in the area will check their own cameras. The road her house sits on, she noted, "is always buzzing even on a Saturday night," which means 12 cars between midnight and 6 a.m. isn't necessarily unusual. But unusual and irrelevant aren't the same thing. In a case with no suspects, no charges, and no public theory of the crime, everything within a reasonable radius deserves scrutiny.

An 84-year-old woman was taken from her home in the middle of the night. A month later, her neighbors are the ones combing through footage. That's not community spirit filling a gap. It's a gap that should never have existed.