"BREAKING: SUSPECT DETAINED NEAR MEXICO BORDER IN GUTHRIE KIDNAPPING, MANGIONE'S DOUBLE JEOPARDY OUTBURST & DEADLY DIVORCE VERDICT"

0:03 Caalaroga Shark Media. Good morning, I'm Reed Carter. Wednesday, February eleventh, twenty twenty six. As of one am Eastern Time. These are the latest details in a rapidly changing story. A man has been detained near the Mexican border in connection with the kidnapping of Nancy Guthrie, eighty four year old mother of Today Show host Savannah Guthrie, taken from her million dollar home in Tucson, Arizona, ten days ago. The Pima County Sheriff's Department announced Tuesday night that the unidentified individual was taken into custody following a traffic stop in Rio Rico, Arizona, small town south of Tucson, right on the US Mexico border. He was driving a silver SUV.

0:57 Witness Crystal Bachica told The Daily Mail she saw five or six unmarked cars and a marked Marana police vehicle. Two guys were out of a car and their hats said FBI. They pulled the car right in front of my apartment building. The suspect is currently being questioned. A court ordered search of a home near Interstate nineteen is underway. SWAT teams, a bomb squad, and the FBI's Elite Hostage Rescue team have been deployed to the area. FBI Director Cash Ptel told Fox News Tuesday night there are multiple persons of interest, said the bureau's outreach to the private sector has shown there might be persons of interest in and around the area related to this event. This comes hours after the FBI released doorbell camera footage showing an armed, masked figure at Nancy's front door at one forty seven am, the night she was taken. TMZ reports the detained individual is not a member of the Guthrie family. Also today, Luigi Mangione erupted in Double Jeopardy by any common sense definition, and William Long convicted of murdering his ex wife Michelle in Ohio Life without Parole. I'm Red Carter. Today a suspect detained, a kidnapper caught on camera, and the Guthrie case breaking wide open. This is celebrity trials. Let's start with the detention, then walk backwards through the day because

2:28 Tuesday was the biggest day in this investigation since Nancy disappeared. Tuesday night. Rio Rico, Arizona population about eighteen thousand sits along Interstate nineteen roughly thirty miles south of Tucson and less than fifteen miles from the Negals border crossing into Mexico, a silver SUV was pulled over five or six unmarked vehicles FBI agents Marana police. A man was taken into custody and is being questioned in connection with the kidnaping of Nancy Guthrie. The Pima County Sheriff's Department confirmed it the subject is currently being questioned in connection to the Nancy Guthrie investigation. Authorities are now executing a court ordered search of a home near Interstate nineteen associated with the detained individual. Court ordered meaning a judge signed off, meaning investigators presented enough evidence to convince a judge there's probable cause to search that property. That's significant. That's not a consent search like the one conducted over the weekend at Annie Guthrie and Tomasocioni's home. This is a warrant. This is we have evidence connecting this person to this crime.

3:41 TMZ reports the detained person is not a member of the Guthrie family. That's the first thing everyone wanted to know. Not family, but FBI Director Cash Patel went on Fox News Tuesday, night and said something important. There are multiple persons of interest. The bureau's outreach to the private sector has revealed there might be persons of interest in and around the area related to this event. Patel didn't elaborate on who. Said. Authorities are working to eliminate anyone who might not actually be involved, but his first priority is finding Nancy. Right behind that is to find any others involved in this kidnapping case to make sure they're brought to justice. Others plural, This may not be a one man operation. Local SWAT teams, a bomb squad, and the FBI's elite hostage rescue team have been deployed to the area.

4:34 You don't deploy a hostage rescue team unless you believe a hostage might still be alive. That's the most hopeful detail we've had in ten days. Now. Let me walk you back through Tuesday, because the detention was the climax of a day that started with a bombshell. Hours earlier, the FBI released the doorbell camera footage, images and video of an armed, masked figure on Nancy's front porch time stamp approximately one seven a m. On February first, the night she was taken Here's what you see. A person dressed head to toe in dark clothing, tight zipped up ski mask, what appears to be facial hair visible black latex gloves, a backpack that appears full, and a gun and a holster on the left side of his waistband.

5:20 The figure approaches the door hunched over head bowed, finds the doorbell camera, tries to cover the lens with a clenched fist, searches the area around the door, rips a bunch of flowers from the entranceway and waves them at the camera, then rips the camera itself from its holder on the door frame. The device was missing by the time sheriff's deputies arrived that morning. Former FBI Assistant director Chris Swecker called the footage the lynchpin. Said, this is when it all breaks loose. The clothes are the key here and the mannerisms. If you know this guy, you are going to recognize him. That head shape is something people who know him will recognize. Swecker noted how relaxed the suspect appears, moving slowly deliberately. He's working at his leisure.

6:08 It's dark, it's one forty seven in the morning, and he believes he's not being observed. That comfort level suggests he either knew the property or scouted it beforehand. Swecker also suspected the suspect wasn't acting alone, pointing to what appeared to be headlights in the background. The area has no yard lighting, a getaway driver possibly The gloves huge, puffy, hard to work with, but effective. He came ready, not to leave any DNA, Swecker said. Retired homicide detective Chris McDonough looked at the same footage. What's in the backpack? This isn't his first rodeo. He has a gun in his waistband, a light, gloves, a mask, and tightly zipped clothing. He's purposely trying to conceal himself. But here's the contradiction that puzzled experts. If this was a sophisticated, professionally planned kidnapping, why didn't the suspect bring a tool to properly re move the doorbell camera? Why improvise with flowers and then just rip it off. That suggests he may have been surprised by the camera's presence, had to adapt not quite as polished as we were told. Former FBI Special agent doctor Bryanna Fox noticed something else interesting. The gun sits on the suspect's left side, suggesting he's right handed, but he used his left hand to place the flowers over the camera. Inconsistency between his dominant hand and where he carries the weapon. Small detail, but details are how these cases get solved. Former FBI crisis negotiator Jason Pack said

7:39 the release of the images put enormous pressure on the suspect. Drew parallels to Luigi Mangioni, identified and arrested after his image went national. The Boston marathon bombers caught after their photos were released. The photo release accelerated everything because the suspects knew their window was closing. Looks like it worked. Hours later traffic stop Rio Rico Silver SUV. FBI hats detention. Now the ransom situation. The bitcoin account referenced in the ransom notes sent to TMZ and two Tucson stations saw activity Tuesday. TMZ's Harvey Levin confirmed we have seen activity in the account. Local outlet Kgun later reported the activity amounted to less than three hundred dollars, not the six million dollars demanded. Unclear who made the transaction or why, but here's a detail from earlier reporting that matters now.

8:38 Sources told TMZ that investigators believe the ransom notes were in fact written by the kidnapper, not a hoax, not a copycat, the real deal, and the notes reportedly contained details not shared with the public, specific references to damage at Nancy's home, the placement of some of her possessions, information only someone who was inside the house would know. The notes also reportedly provided clues about where the suspect lives. Sources said the person who sent the letters was intimately familiar with the media in Tucson, knew which stations to send them to, knew the media landscape, local knowledge. Rio Rico is about thirty miles south of Tucson, right along IYE nineteen, close enough to know the area, close enough to know the media market, close enough to have scouted Nancy's home in the Catalina Foothills and then retreated south toward the border. Meanwhile, throughout the day Tuesday, investigators were going door to door again around Annie Guthrie and Tomaso Chioni's home, searching a junkyard bushes behind their house, another property at the far end of their street, neighbor John Grove told The Daily Mail that investigators asked to search a dry river bed on his property. The cops wanted to know if they could go through that wash next to my house. I asked if it was related to the kidnapping, and they said, we can't tell you that.

9:59 They're playing their the cards close to their chest. Grove added, something chilling. I just hope she didn't get into any difficulties around here. It's very harsh terrain. We had a guy the other day who just moved here and got lost and died. For someone like her, well, it wouldn't end well. Let me reset the full timeline. January thirty, first Saturday, Nancy took an uber to daughter Annie's house dinner and games around nine forty five pm Mountain time. Annie's husband Tomaso, drove Nancy home, saw her enter through the garage. Garage door closed at nine fifty pm. One forty seven am. Doorbell camera captures the masked figure. Camera is ripped off two twelve am. Smart home software detected movement.

10:48 Two twenty eight am, Nancy's pacemaker app disconnected from her phone. She was out of Bluetooth range. Gone phone wallet daily medications, car all left behind, blood on the front porch confirmed as Nancy's DNA. Next morning, Nancy was supposed to watch a church live stream with a friend. Never showed. Annie and Sioni checked on her around eleven am, called nine one one at noon. Patrol didn't arrive until after two pm. Ransom notes demanding six million dollars in bitcoin, two deadlines passed, no proof of life. Bitcoin wallet showed less than three hundred dollars in activity Tuesday. FBI said Monday it was not aware of any continued communication. Investigators searched Annie and Sioni's home over the weekend, consent search not a warrant.

11:39 A vehicle of interest was spotted at a circle k near Nancy's home during the abduction window. A car was towed from near her property Friday night, and now a man detained in Rio Rico. Court ordered search of his home, multiple persons of interest, per the FBI director, hostage rescue team deployed the biggest break in ten days. It's not clear whether the man detained Tuesday night is the same person seen in the doorbell footage. That's the question everyone's asking, but the timing isn't coincidental. FBI releases the footage hours later. Someone's in custody near the Mexican border. Nancy Guthrie has been missing for ten days. She's eighty four years old, has a pacemaker, needs daily medication for high blood pressure and heart conditions. Her family doesn't know if she's alive.

12:29 America doesn't know if she's alive. But the FBI deployed a hostage rescue team, and that team exists for one reason, to bring hostages home alive. Make it make sense. We're trying to. We'll be right back with Luigi Mangione's courtroom outburst and the deadly divorced verdict in Ohio. Welcome back to celebrity trials. I'm reed Carter. Quick update on the CEO killer. Luigi Mangoni appeared in court Friday, New York State case, and for the first time since his arrest fourteen months ago, he spoke out. As court officers escorted him out of the courtroom, Mangione turned and addressed the judge directly. It's the same trial. Twice one plus one is two double jeopardy by any common sense definition. Here's the issue Mangone faces both state and federal charges for the December twenty twenty four assassination of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson. Two separate prosecutions, two separate trials, and they're stepping on each other. Judge Gregory Caro set the state murder trial for June eighth. Mangioni's defense attorney, Karen Friedman Agnifilo objected, said the defense would be consumed preparing for

14:01 the federal trial at that point, mister Mangioni is being put in an untenable situation. This is a tug of war between two different prosecution offices. Be ready, Caro replied. The federal trial is set for September eighth, with opening statements and testimony beginning October thirteenth. Last week, the federal judge ruled prosecutors can't seek the death penalty. Also dismissed a federal murder charge as technically flawed, but the remaining federal charges still carry life in prison. Here's the double jeopardy problem Mangioni was complaining about. Under New York law, if the federal trial happens first and a jury is sworn, the Manhattan DA could be barred from trying Mangione on state murder charges, double jeopardy protections kick in. That's why the state is racing to go first, and why the federal prosecutors, who originally said the state could have first crack, appear to have changed their tune. Manhattan prosecutors accused the federal government of renegging on an agreement. Judge Caro said it plainly, it appears the federal government has renegged on its agreement to let the state, which has done most of the work in this case, go first. If the state trial gets delayed, there's a backup date of September eighth, same day as the federal trial begins. Someone's going to blink. Meanwhile, Mangioni's defense is fighting to exclude key evidence, the nine millimeter handgun prosecutors say matches the murder weapon, and a

15:32 notebook where Mangione allegedly wrote about his intent to whack a health insurance executive. Federal judge already ruled those items admissible. State judge hasn't decided yet. Mengione has pleaded not guilty to all charges, both state and federal. He remains in custody. Next state court appearance in May two jurisdictions, two trials, one defendant screaming double jeopardy on his way out of the courtroom. Welcome to justice in America, Welcome back to celebrity trials. I'm reed, Carter Lisbon, Ohio, Columbiana County. Monday, the jury came back. William Long Junior, fifty one years old, guilty on all counts aggravated murder, murder, discharging a firearm over a public road three additional specifications. Immediately sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole, plus fourteen consecutive years. The victim, his ex wife, Michelle Long, fifty years old, school teacher at lee Tonia High School, track coach, STEM program coordinator, mother, shot six times as she sat in her pickup truck in her own driveway November twenty ninth, twenty twenty three, after a judge's ruling went against William in their contentious divorce proceedings. The day Michelle died, let

17:07 me walk you through it. Michelle and William Long married and built a life together. Had a son, Brandon, but the marriage deteriorated. Michelle filed for divorce in April twenty twenty two. It got ugly fast, the kind of divorce where money becomes a weapon and hatred fills every filing. April twenty twenty three, the divorce was finalized. Michelle got the marital home, custody of Brandon, spousal support, child support, and William was ordered to pay one hundred thousand dollars to equalize the property division, plus hand over his share of a retirement account worth over two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Her attorney, Lewis Katz, believed she should have received indefinite spousal support, but Michelle chose not to fight it further too much stress. She just wanted it over.

17:56 William didn't comply, didn't transfer the deed, didn't follow court orders, found in contempt multiple times, appeals denied, The court kept ruling against him, and William kept getting angrier. His girlfriend's daughter, Alexis Kelly, testified that William was furious about the divorce, once said he wished Michele would die of ass cancer. His girl friend, Leanne Beadnell, described a tumultuous relationship with frequent arguments, often related to William's drinking. His cousin Robert Morris, said William drank more during the divorce, drank alone in his garage, became increasingly hostile toward Michele. There were text messages, video evidence, a history of verbal abuse, and threats by William toward Michele, including a direct threat to killer. The day before Michele died, another judgment went against William. More money he owed, more compliance he'd have to follow, more reminders that the courts weren't on his side, that he was losing. November twenty ninth, twenty twenty three, Michelle left work visited her attorney's office. Her lawyer later told detectives she'd expressed concern for her safety due to William's behavior.

19:10 She stopped at Arby's, went to Walmart, arrived home around five forty five pm. Her neighbor, Robert Saltzgiver heard gunshots loud, close, unusual for the area despite hunting season, rural neighborhood, no street lights, quiet until it wasn't. Michelle's body wasn't found for hours. Around nine twenty eight pm, a nine to one to one call reported the shooting. Michelle's sister, Sarah Lewis, and Sarah's boyfriend, Robert Morris, had gone to check on her after she didn't pick up, Brandon found her truck on the road near the mailbox, glass scattered, Michelle inside, gunshot wounds, blood, unresponsive, six gunshot wounds head, face, left eye, lip, jaw, neck, right arm, torso plus a gray's wound. The medical examiner for found only caffeine in her system. Cause of death, gunshot wounds, manner of death, homicide. Morris called nine to one one described the scene. Police arrived, family gathered, Then William showed up about thirty minutes after the first deputy arrived.

20:17 His demeanor disinterested, according to Deputy Rob Vokovich, didn't ask about Michelle's condition, tried to enter the house, was stopped, mirandized after inconsistencies in his statements. The investigation revealed William's movements cell phone data Life three sixty tracking surveillance video. He left his location at five eighteen PM. But here's the critical detail. Investigators believe he left his phone behind and drove a different vehicle to Michelle's house. William owned two trucks, a white Chevy and an older blue Chevy. His nephew, Kellen, testified that William sometimes drove the blue truck to keep it running on that day, William left in the blue truck, left the white one behind. The murder weapon was never recovered, but the evidence pointed to one gun, a Ruger point four to four magnum revolver that William owned listed in the divorce documents. Ballistic analysis confirmed the projectiles recovered from Michelle's body came from a point four to four magnum caliber revolver. A single point four to four magnum round was found in William's red charger, and the springfield pistol found in his white truck tested and eliminated not the murder weapon, but Alexis Kelly, his girlfriend's daughter, dropped the hammer. She testified that William kept a revolver in his night stand. After the incident, she deliberately checked the gun was gone. She last saw it

21:50 at the end of October twenty twenty three, one month before Michelle's murder. William took the stand on day four, denied everything, said he had nothing to do with Michelle's death, but the evidence said otherwise. Cell phone data, digital evidence from his truck, the missing gun, the motive. Written across eighteen months of court filings closing arguments, the jury deliberated, came back guilty on all counts, life without parole plus fourteen years. William Long will die in prison. Here's the pattern we see over and over on this show. Contentious divorce. Man loses control, loses the house, loses custody, loses money, loses the power he thought he had over his wife, and instead of accepting it, instead of moving on, he decides, if I can't have her, nobody will Michelle Long saw it coming. She told her attorney she feared for her safety.

22:48 She knew William was dangerous, and she was right because on the day after another court ruling went against him, he allegedly left his phone behind, drove his other truck to her house, and shot her six times while she sat in her pickup. The call is coming from inside the house. It always is. Michelle Long was fifty years old, school teacher, track coach mother. She spent her career shaping young minds, running STEM programs, coaching athletes. She should be grading papers right now, should be at track practice, should be watching her son grow up. Instead, she's gone because her ex husband couldn't accept that. The court said no. Rest in peace, Michelle. Someone has to say your name that celebrity trials for Wednesday, February eleventh, twenty twenty six, as of one am Eastern. These are the latest details in a rapidly changing story breaking. A man detained near the Mexican border in connection with Nancy Guthrie's kidnapping traffic stop in Rio Rico, Arizona. Court ordered search of his home under way. FBI Director Cash Patel confirms multiple persons of interest, hostage rescue team deployed. Hours earlier. FBI released doorbell footage of a masked, armed suspect at Nancy's front door at one forty seven am, the night she was taken.

24:12 If you recognize this person, call one eight hundred, Call FBI fifty thousand dollars reward. Luigi Mangioni screaming double jeopardy as state and federal prosecutors fight over who tries him. First state trial June eighth, Federal in September, and William Long convicted of murdering ex wife Michelle in Ohio, shot six times in her truck Life without parole. I'm Red Carter. This story is moving fast. If an arrest comes in the Guthrie case, we'll be here with a breaking News episode, This is Celebrity Trials