MICHAEL RUIZ: 'Today' segment may explain key Apple Watch detail in Nancy Guthrie ransom note, expert says

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A retired detective says Savannah Guthrie's "Today" show Tucson segment may have sparked her abductor's interest in Nancy Guthrie before her kidnapping.

A year after "Today" co-host Savannah Guthrie highlighted her hometown roots and introduced viewers to her mother and favorite haunts, the broadcast is drawing new scrutiny over whether it could have helped make Nancy Guthrie a target in her still-unsolved kidnapping.

According to several experts who have been following the case, the same segment could have provided information that influenced the kidnapping — or allowed someone to fake inside knowledge afterward.

"There's nothing about the house, but you could easily infer that she would still be wearing that watch two months later," said Morgan Wright, the CEO and founder of the National Center for Open and Unsolved Cases and an expert on digital forensics. "And again, it's not an unreasonable assumption to think that elderly people would take their watch off at night."

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