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Rachel Morin's mom shares the detective's advice that kept her going before her daughter's killer was caught

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Rachel Morin's mom shares the detective's advice that kept her going before her daughter's killer was caught
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Rachel Morin's mother offers hope to Savannah Guthrie's family as Nancy Guthrie's abduction case remains unsolved after four difficult months.

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For eight months, Patty Morin worried her daughter's killer might never be caught — then a detective pulled her aside and said something that changed her perspective. NANCY GUTHRIE CASE: SHERIFF NANOS SAYS 'WE ARE' CLOSER TO SOLVING 84-YEAR-OLD'S ABDUCTION A photograph of Nancy Guthrie is displayed on a sign where people can leave messages in Tucson, Ariz. , on Feb. 26, 2026.

Law enforcement officials continue to search for Guthrie, the 84-year-old mother of journalist and television host Savannah Guthrie, after she went missing from her home on Feb. 1. Her 37-year-old daughter was killed on a Maryland running trail by a man who fled his native country of El Salvador while suspected of killing another woman.another mother and her 9-year-old daughter in a California home invasion, leaving a DNA trail. Police ultimately captured him at a bar in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

MULTIPLE SUSPECTS ARE POSSIBLE IN NANCY GUTHRIE'S ABDUCTION For Morin, two months before police announced a suspect and an arrest, she said the lead detective quietly inspired confidence when he pulled her aside. Speaking at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, Patty Morin holds a picture of her daughter, Rachel, who was killed by an illegal immigrant in Maryland in 2023.

, and I had networks and associations that wanted to do documentaries on this cold case and give her all that kind of stuff," she said.

"And for him to just say, 'I understand how you're feeling, but just have hope. Don't let your emotions get carried away with you' — it was really encouraging.

"Two photos of the suspect captured on Nancy Guthrie's porch were taken on different days, a source familiar with the matter told Fox News Digital. "I just need to trust the process and have hope, and lucky for our family, we have an amazing sheriff's department," she said. "Everyone that worked on the case, it was multiple agencies, they treated our family like we were their family. ""Just have hope," she said.

"I mean, the process is long. It takes, sometimes it takes up to a year to have DNA returned back to you.to the Guthrie case, although it's unclear whether either will lead them to a suspect. There is a mixed sample, which Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos said is complicated to untangle, as well as a hair sample that was transferred from a private lab in Florida to the FBI last month.

Law enforcement and news broadcasters are stationed outside Nancy Guthrie's residence in Tucson, Ariz. , on Feb. 10, 2026, as searches continue for the 84-year-old mother of journalist Savannah Guthrie.

Possible abductors set a ransom deadline of 5 p.m. on Feb. 9 for a $6 million payment after she went missing on Feb. 1.bringing new technology into the investigation, which has already seen the use of a state-of-the-art Bluetooth signal detector and the groundbreaking recovery of surveillance video from a missing Nest doorbell camera.

"I would say no tip, nothing is too small to share and you never know if that's the little linchpin that holds all the stuff together," Morin told Fox News Digital.

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