AZ NANCY GUTHRIE: Missing from Tucson, AZ - 31 Jan 2026 - Age 84

Authorities believe 'Today' show host Savannah Guthrie's mother was taken against her will

Authorities believe the 84-year-old mother of “Today” show host Savannah Guthrie was kidnapped, abducted or otherwise taken against her will.

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‘Today’ show host Savannah Guthrie’s mother is missing in Arizona and authorities suspect crime​

The disappearance of the 84-year-old mother of “Today” show host Savannah Guthrie over the weekend is being investigated as a crime based on what authorities saw at her home, an Arizona sheriff said Monday.

Asked to explain why investigators believe the Tucson-area home is a crime scene, Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos said Nancy Guthrie has limited mobility and said there were other things indicating she did not leave on her own, but he declined to further elaborate.

“I need this community to step up and start giving us some calls,” Nanos said during a news conference.

The sheriff said Guthrie, who lived alone, was of sound mind.

“This is not dementia related. She’s as sharp as a tack. The family wants everyone to know that this isn’t someone who just wandered off,” Nanos said, adding that she needs her daily medication.

Guthrie was last seen around 9:30 p.m. Saturday at her home in the Tucson area and her family reported her missing around noon Sunday, the sheriff said.

Nanos said a family member received a call from someone at church saying Guthrie wasn’t there, leading family to search for her at her home and then calling 911.

“From what the family’s told us and everything we’ve learned, she could not walk out of that home 50 yards. We believe she was taken out of the home against her will, and that’s how this investigation is moving,” the sheriff told NBC’s Tom Llamas.


On Monday morning, Nanos said search crews worked hard but have since been pulled back.

“We don’t see this as a search mission so much as it is a crime scene,” the sheriff said.

Even so, a sheriff’s helicopter flew over the desert Monday afternoon near Guthrie’s home in the affluent Catalina Foothills area on the northern edge of Tucson. Her brick home has a gravel driveway and a yard covered in Prickly Pear and Saguaro cactus.

Savannah Guthrie issued a statement on Monday, NBC’s “Today” show reported.

“On behalf of our family, I want to thank everyone for the thoughts, prayers and messages of support,” she said. “Right now, our focus remains on the safe return of our dear Nancy.”


MEDIA - NANCY GUTHRIE: Missing from Tucson, AZ - 31 Jan 2026 - Age 84

 

[Tresir]

When I worked for ADT they had a signal that would only ever be sent to the monitoring center like a glassbreak signal, or a motion sensor detection etc...

It was a signal that showed the alarm system was being jammed at the source.

It was treated very lightly 20 years ago. I sent many a technician to a house to correct whatever was causing the signal to trigger.

The people who's video was shut down must not be paying for monitoring. I'd think you'd have to have a full home system being monitored, in order to have that feature.

What's very surprising is that Nancy didn't have a full system installed in her house.

We used to roll our eyes when people thought their alarm system would save their lives.

If someone wants to kill you, they'll kick your door in and shoot you. They'll be gone by the time the police arrive. (Back then, video monitoring at homes was really rare.) So the cops would have a solid time of death, and not much else.

However, in this case, it may have saved her life. If not that, it would have caught the perps in the act. Especially, if the 41 minutes is accurate.

She may have had a full system, but like a lot of people, never used it. A lot of people see them as a pain in the ass to use.

I don't know how you gauge it may have saved her life. She is nowhere to be found, presumed kidnapped, murdered or worse.

Where the heck is she?

 

[Kimster]

I wonder all those things, but especially what that guy was doing in there so long.

 

[Guess Who]

I wonder all those things, but especially what that guy was doing in there so long.

Trying to find something or trying to get info from her??? Both?

 

[Kimster]

Trying to find something or trying to get info from her??? Both?

Yeah, I was wondering if he was trying to get her to open a safe or something.

 

[Cousin Dupree]

I don't know how you gauge it may have saved her life. She is nowhere to be found, presumed kidnapped, murdered or worse.

Where the heck is she?

If an alarm was triggered after they broke in, the police would have been there in under ten minutes, approximately.

 

[Guess Who]

If an alarm was triggered after they broke in, the police would have been there in under ten minutes, approximately.

But it's pretty obvious she had no alarm. She didn't even have a cloud service.

 

[Kimster]

I have the latest Brian Entin on now and they are talking about the fact that she was terribly hard of hearing. I didn’t think of that before, or I missed it somehow.

 

[Kimster]

The Pima County Sheriff’s Department is investigating a damaged utility box around the corner from Nancy Guthrie’s home as the desperate search for Today cohost Savannah Guthrie’s mother continues in its second month.

Investigators believe it could be connected to a reported internet outage that occurred around the time she disappeared in the early morning hours of Feb. 1, which disrupted nearby home surveillance cameras.

Nancy Guthrie latest updates: Damaged utility box under investigation for possible link to internet outage when she disappeared

A reported internet outage disrupted nearby home surveillance cameras around the time Savannah Guthrie's mother was taken.

www.yahoo.com

 

[Tresir]

If an alarm was triggered after they broke in, the police would have been there in under ten minutes, approximately.

Well know we are hearing there could have been an outage so maybe the alarm didn't activate. Did she have an alarm ? I haven't heard it mentioned.

 

[Tresir]

Shouldn't LE have checked all this out already? Why is some of this only just coming up? They are beginning to look like the Keystone Kops.

 

[Guess Who]

The Pima County Sheriff’s Department is investigating a damaged utility box around the corner from Nancy Guthrie’s home as the desperate search for Today cohost Savannah Guthrie’s mother continues in its second month.

Investigators believe it could be connected to a reported internet outage that occurred around the time she disappeared in the early morning hours of Feb. 1, which disrupted nearby home surveillance cameras.

Nancy Guthrie latest updates: Damaged utility box under investigation for possible link to internet outage when she disappeared

A reported internet outage disrupted nearby home surveillance cameras around the time Savannah Guthrie's mother was taken.

www.yahoo.com

How did the utility box owner now know that it was damaged IF it is related to an outage, especially after all this time? Those connections don't just fix themselves usually. Have they been having intermittent connection issues and if so, why is this just now being looked at?

 

[Cousin Dupree]

Shouldn't LE have checked all this out already? Why is some of this only just coming up? They are beginning to look like the Keystone Kops.

Beginning?

 

[Guess Who]

Beginning?

Exactly.

 

[Kimster]

Shouldn't LE have checked all this out already? Why is some of this only just coming up? They are beginning to look like the Keystone Kops.

Yeah, the whole thing seems like it wasn’t handled very well. Either that or we’re just getting bits and pieces that make it look that way.

 

[Tresir]

Yeah, the whole thing seems like it wasn’t handled very well. Either that or we’re just getting bits and pieces that make it look that way.

Doesn't reflect well on the FBI either that neither they nor the local fuzz can find an 84 year old woman.

 

[Tresir]

Beginning?

I was being polite.

 

[Guess Who]

Doesn't reflect well on the FBI either that neither they nor the local fuzz can find an 84 year old woman.

Especially after saying whomever did it wasn't very bright.

 

[RoundPeg]

Doesn't reflect well on the FBI either that neither they nor the local fuzz can find an 84 year old woman.

I don’t think they have the foggiest idea where to look. It does happen.

 

[Cousin Dupree]

I don’t think they have the foggiest idea where to look. It does happen.

If I were rich I'd bet, if this is ever solved, the key will be something they knew day one.

I don't think Banfield was far off. Her reporting may have scared the perps dungless.

Also, finding out that the bitcoin could be easily traced might not have helped.

 

[Guess Who]

If I were rich I'd bet, if this is ever solved, the key will be something they knew day one.

I don't think Banfield was far off. Her reporting may have scared the perps dungless.

Also, finding out that the bitcoin could be easily traced might not have helped.

I'm fairly certain it will end up being something they possibly dismissed in the beginning.