The mother-in-law of Carlos Palazuelosthe person who was detained for questioning associated to the disappearance of Savannah Guthrie’s mom, Nancy Guthrieis sharing perception into his whereabouts on the time Nancy went lacking.
“He works from Monday via Friday. He’s dwelling Friday,” Palazuelos’ mother-in-law, Josefinainstructed NewsNation in an interview revealed on Wednesday, February 11, following Palazuelos’ launch from police custody. “He stays dwelling Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Goes again to work on Monday. So on the weekends, he stays at my home. He doesn’t go nowhere.”
Addressing the place Palazuelos was on the evening of January 31 — the evening that Nancy, 84, was final seen by her household — Josefina stated, “Yeah, he was right here (at my home). … I’m constructive he was right here at my home. He was right here for his children on the weekend.”
Josefina additionally stated her son-in-law is a “good man” with no prison historical past.
The Pima County Sheriff’s Division in Arizona, with help from the FBI, introduced Palazuelos in for questioning on Tuesday, February 10.
“Earlier at present, Pima County Sheriff’s Division deputies detained a topic throughout a trafic cease south of Tucson,” Sheriff Chris Nanos stated in a press release by way of X. “The topic is at present being questioned in connection to the Nancy Guthrie investigation. Extra info will likely be launched because it turns into accessible.”
The sheriff’s division additionally confirmed that it was conducting a “court-authorized search” of a house in Rio Rico.
Palazuelos was launched after being questioned by authorities. In an interview with ABC15 Arizona’s Ford HatchettPalazuelos stated his automobile was pulled over in Rio Rico, Arizona, south of Tucson. He was instructed he was being “detained for kidnapping.”

“I requested, ‘The kidnapping of who?’ and so they instructed me this girl … I don’t know her identify,” Palazuelos stated earlier than confirming Nancy’s identify with Hatchett’s assist. “I instructed (officers), ‘I work in Tucson for GLS. I may need delivered a package deal to your own home, however I by no means kidnapped anyone.’”
Palazuelos denied having any information of Nancy’s disappearance, which was reported on February 1.
Earlier on Tuesday, the FBI launched black-and-white surveillance images from outdoors of Nancy’s dwelling the evening she disappeared. The images confirmed a person carrying a ski masks and seemingly carrying a firearm in his waistband.
When requested if the person appeared like her son-in-law, Josefina stated, “He doesn’t seem like that.”
“New photos within the seek for Nancy Guthrie,” FBI Director Kash Patel stated in a press release. “During the last eight days, the FBI and Pima County Sheriff’s Division have been working intently with our non-public sector companions to proceed to get better any photos or video footage from Nancy Guthrie’s dwelling that will have been misplaced, corrupted, or inaccessible because of a wide range of components – together with the elimination of recording units. The video was recovered from residual information situated in backend methods.”
Patel continued, “Working with our companions – as of this morning, regulation enforcement has uncovered these beforehand inaccessible new photos displaying an armed particular person showing to have tampered with the digicam at Nancy Guthrie’s entrance door the morning of her disappearance. Anybody with info, please contact 1-800-CALL-FBI or go to http://ideas.fbi.gov.”

