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The search for the 84-year-old mother of US presenter Savannah Guthrie has moved into a third week.
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The sheriff's department in the US state of Arizona and FBI declined to confirm they had contacted authorities across the border to help trace Nancy Guthrie.
But her family has contacted a Mexican non-profit that works to find missing people in the region.
Investigators have been sifting through 40,000 leads since the 84-year-old was reported missing this month, but a breakthrough has eluded them despite emotional public appeals for help from her NBC presenter daughter.
US news website TMZ reported on Wednesday that the FBI had contacted authorities in Mexico, believing it was possible Guthrie could have been taken across the border.
ABC News cited law enforcement sources as saying the FBI had notified Mexican authorities of Guthrie's disappearance, although they had no evidence she had been taken across the border.
'I just believe she's somewhere here locally', Pima County sheriff tells BBCA Mexican security official told the New York Times the FBI had contacted officials in the state of Sonora, which shares a border with Arizona, to investigate an alleged "purchase" in the case, although that potential lead had apparently fizzled.
It is standard practice for federal investigators to talk with Mexican counterparts, especially in cases so close to the border, Fox News reports.
The Searching Mothers of Sonora, a Mexican non-profit dedicated to finding missing people in that state, often in cases linked to drug cartels, confirmed to CBS, the BBC's US partner, that it had been asked by a Guthrie family member to help the search.
There has been no suggestion from officials that Guthrie was abducted by narco-traffickers.
Watch: Video shows masked person outside Nancy Guthrie's homeTMZ also said it had received a new ransom note via email demanding about $6m (£4.5m) in cryptocurrency.
The outlet, which previously reported receiving
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