After being detained along with his mom by police following a SWAT raid at his dwelling in Arizona and a automotive search in connection to Nancy Guthrie’s alleged kidnapping, Luke Daley has damaged his silence.
“It’s not me,” Daley, 37, instructed True Crime Arizona host Briana Whitney in an interview launched on Monday, March 2, denying that he was the person caught on video outdoors of Nancy’s dwelling previous to her disappearance in January.
He added, “I don’t see the resemblance of it trying like me. Completely not. I’ve nothing to do with this case.”
Daley recalled driving dwelling in February when he seen “two sheriff’s automobiles following me.”
At this time cohost Savannah Guthrie has regularly appealed to the general public for assist following the mysterious disappearance of her 84-year-old mom, Nancy Guthrie, in Arizona. Pima County police suspect that Nancy was kidnapped from her dwelling within the Catalina Foothills north of Tucson, Arizona, within the early hours of February 1, 2026. Per regulation enforcement, a (…)
As soon as he was pulled over, he was cuffed and put at the back of a police automobile. Daley claimed the officers “wouldn’t inform me something,” however his first thought was, “‘Oh, that is most likely in regards to the Guthrie case.’”
Daley claimed that though he lived within the Tucson space, he was not concerned in Nancy’s disappearance. (Savannah Guthrie’s mother, Nancy, went lacking from her dwelling on January 31. She is 84.)
“The entire time throughout the questioning, it appeared like extra of a fishing expedition to get me to say one thing,” Daley alleged, revealing that he instructed the police that they may see his location by taking a look at his cellphone.
Daley stated it was “powerful” sitting within the cop automotive for “4 or 5 hours” because the police searched his automobile. “I’m panicking,” he recalled of the ideas going by way of his thoughts.
Luke Daley.
YouTubeHe added that he was certain he was “going to be framed for this” as a result of the authorities allegedly “didn’t inform me any data” whereas he was being searched.
Daley remains to be uncertain what led the police to him, noting that one of many scarier moments was when he acquired dwelling and his mom, 77, wasn’t on the home.
“I don’t have my cellphone to come up with her,” he recalled of returning dwelling to an empty home, saying his mother went to a neighbor’s residence however he didn’t determine that out till the following day.
Daley famous that his mom, whom he known as “aged,” has been “much more burdened” since his title was pulled into the investigation.
“It’s been laborious. By way of collectively as a household, it’s been a nightmare,” Daley confessed.
Daley was the topic of a search warrant on February 13. After being detained for hourshe was launched with out being charged.
His mom was additionally detained by regulation enforcement whereas their dwelling was looked for a potential connection or clues about Nancy’s alleged abduction.
“Daley and his mom have been each detained by regulation enforcement whereas the search warrants have been being executed,” Daley’s lawyer Chris Scileppi stated in a press release to Individuals on the time. “Neither Daley nor his mom have been arrested in connection to this case or some other.”
Savannah, Nancy and Annie Guthrie.
Courtesy of Savannah Guthrie/InstagramScileppi claimed, “Daley has no hyperlink in any respect to Nancy Guthrie and has no data associated to her kidnapping. Like all the Tucson neighborhood, each Daley and his mom are hopeful that Nancy will probably be returned to her household unhurt.”
Daley, for his half, stated on Monday that he looks like he was “collateral harm” as a result of somebody stated one thing after which police “simply go off of it based mostly on no proof, no fact.”
Daley maintained his innocence, including that his prayers exit to the Guthrie household as they proceed to search for clues as to what occurred to Nancy.
“I, like everybody else, simply need Nancy to come back dwelling and be protected,” he stated. “I hope that she’s protected. I hope that they discover her.”
Authorities have discovered “DNA apart from Nancy Guthrie’s and people in shut contact to her” because the investigation into her disappearance continues. The DNA proof was found and picked up at her property, the Pima County Sheriff’s Division shared in a press release with a number of media shops on Friday, February 13. “Investigators are working to determine who (…)
Daley concluded that he desires to “transfer on” along with his life with out having this “shadow of doubt casted (sic) over me.”
Nancy has been lacking for the reason that finish of January. Savannah confirmed in a video shared through Instagram on February 24 that her household’s reward for Nancy’s restoration had been elevated to $1 million.
“We all know that tens of millions of you may have been praying. So many individuals have been praying of each religion and no religion in any respect, praying for her return, and we really feel these prayers,” the At this time cohost stated in a social media launch that very same day. “Please preserve praying with out ceasing. We nonetheless imagine. We nonetheless imagine in a miracle.”
Savannah continued, “We additionally know that she could also be misplaced. She might already be gone. She might have already gone dwelling to the Lord that she loves and is dancing in heaven together with her mother and her dad and together with her beloved brother, Pierce, and with our daddy, then if that is what’s to be, then we are going to settle for it. However we have to know the place she is. We want her to come back dwelling.”
Us Weekly has reached out to the Pima County Sheriff’s Division for remark.