A group of Mexican mothers with years of experience looking for missing people in Mexico’s Sonora state has arrived in Arizona to help in the search for Nancy Guthrie.
Initially, the Madres Buscadoras de Sonora (Searching Mothers of Sonora) applied for a permit to carry out a field search in the Arizona desert. They had hoped to start on Tuesday, but the local sheriff denied the application on the grounds it could disturb the official investigation.
The Madres – a national network comprised of volunteers, mothers and wives – are undeterred, however. Some of them have traveled to Arizona to distribute flyers bearing Guthrie’s image while others have remained in Mexico to search in the border town of…