Before the sun rose over a barren desert landscape, YouTuber Jimmy Williams watched as hundreds of subscribers took to his online chat room.
A laptop balanced precariously on his knees, his iPhone framed by a ring light, he spends several hours a day dissecting the details of Nancy Guthrie's sudden disappearance with his rapidly growing audience of fellow true crime enthusiasts.
Nancy Guthrie disappeared from her home in Tucson, Arizona, and authorities believe she was taken against her will in the early hours of 1 February.
Williams is just one of dozens of curious observers and amateur sleuths who have descended on the area.
The influx of spectators has turned a quiet mid-size city, popular with retirees, into a global media spectacle.
