Democracy Dies in Darkness

Their family members disappeared. Now these moms are searching for Nancy Guthrie.

The Searching Mothers of Sonora are looking for Nancy Guthrie in Arizona and Mexico. They said officials aren’t doing enough to find the missing 84-year-old.

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The Searching Mothers of Sonora, flanked by Mexico law enforcement, walk through a canyon during their search for Nancy Guthrie on Wednesday in Nogales, Mexico. (Rebecca Noble/For The Washington Post)

NOGALES, Mexico — Lidia Hernandez has been searching for her son, lost to drug violence in Mexico, for seven years. But she spent this week scouring rocky dirt for clues in the disappearance of a far more well-known crime victim — Nancy Guthrie.

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