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AZ NANCY GUTHRIE: Missing from Tucson, AZ - 31 Jan 2026 - Age 84 (2 Viewers)

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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
 
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Guess Who said:
and how did they not know that he had been suspended from his job 8 times after he said he had never been suspended? They did absolutely no background on him, evidently. Why was that? Seems pretty important for that position to not just take a dude's word for it without doing any kind of background check. So we get either not bright people in charge of this or corruption. Take your pick.

Both could be true though, too.
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Who's they? Those who elected him or those who chose him? I just hope he doesn't get in again.
 
Guess Who said:
and how did they not know that he had been suspended from his job 8 times after he said he had never been suspended? They did absolutely no background on him, evidently. Why was that? Seems pretty important for that position to not just take a dude's word for it without doing any kind of background check. So we get either not bright people in charge of this or corruption. Take your pick.

Both could be true though, too.
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I wouldn't necessarily call it corruption, just cops being too lazy. He was a cop after all. Cops don't lie.

There's a Forensic Files episode about a cop sent to prison for a crime he didn't commit, and is exonerated by evidence.

At the end he says he used to be sure that everyone in prison was guilty, not anymore.
 
Cousin Dupree said:
I wouldn't necessarily call it corruption, just cops being too lazy. He was a cop after all. Cops don't lie.

There's a Forensic Files episode about a cop sent to prison for a crime he didn't commit, and is exonerated by evidence.

At the end he says he used to be sure that everyone in prison was guilty, not anymore.
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Funny how it can't be true until it actually happens to them .
 
Cousin Dupree said:
Oh, I didn't know Arizona is corruption free. Sorry.
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Nowhere is corruption free and i knew who you were talking about but don't think it's something to joke about when an 84 year old is missing. I also don't think equating Catalina foothills area with the whole of Tucson is useful. One is 50k and the other is 500k. I just cannot understand why they cannot find her, with all the resources they have.
 
Guess Who said:
and how did they not know that he had been suspended from his job 8 times after he said he had never been suspended? They did absolutely no background on him, evidently. Why was that? Seems pretty important for that position to not just take a dude's word for it without doing any kind of background check. So we get either not bright people in charge of this or corruption. Take your pick.

Both could be true though, too.
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I know someone who applied for an IT job for a small town and they did a very thorough background check on them. They even asked for a reference and then they would call that reference and ask for a reference from the reference.
 
Kimster said:
I know someone who applied for an IT job for a small town and they did a very thorough background check on them. They even asked for a reference and then they would call that reference and ask for a reference from the reference.
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Yeah, but all cops are not evil. Anything bad said about a cop is a lie. <-----A LOT of cops believe that.
 
Kimster said:
I know someone who applied for an IT job for a small town and they did a very thorough background check on them. They even asked for a reference and then they would call that reference and ask for a reference from the reference.
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Exactly! You would think just a very simple background check would have found out he had been suspended at least once out of at least 8 times. Then we have the other issues they seemed to not know about that would have easily been found out if they had only done their job in vetting him.
 
Guess Who said:
and how did they not know that he had been suspended from his job 8 times after he said he had never been suspended? They did absolutely no background on him, evidently. Why was that? Seems pretty important for that position to not just take a dude's word for it without doing any kind of background check. So we get either not bright people in charge of this or corruption. Take your pick.

Both could be true though, too.
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He got voted in so i presume no background checks. Just guessing but it's the only thing that would explain why they didn't know.
 
Guess Who said:
and we also have this

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Difficult to know who to believe.

"During an interview on NewsNation, Nanos strongly denied reports he was blocking the FBI from accessing evidence, calling such claims “completely false” and “furthest from the truth.”

“To suggest that this sheriff would tell the FBI ‘no’ on anything, that’s crazy,” he told NewsNation on Friday.

The sheriff explained his department sent some evidence to a private lab in Florida that has won competitive bids to work with the department for years, while sending cameras, phones and computers to the FBI because “the FBI has the best resources for those items to be analyzed.”

TMZ gets third email in Nancy Guthrie case seeking money for info

“We called them that morning, at 8 o’clock. They immediately said, ‘Sheriff, whatever you need,’” Nanos said, referring to the morning after Nancy Guthrie was reported missing.

When asked about a glove found about two miles from Nancy Guthrie’s home, Nanos said investigators wanted to keep all evidence in one place at the same lab.

“I have a lab that has all of our evidence. They have our markers for the family and people we want. Maybe it’s the landscaper, the pool guy, all of those there,” he said. “Why would I send them? And then we had another crime scene. At a scene, we did a search on one. All of that stuff went to our labs.” "


FBI releases description of masked suspect at Nancy Guthrie home

The revelation comes 12 days into the search for Nancy Guthrie, 84, mother of “Today” show host Savannah Guthrie, who was last seen Jan. 31. The disclosure of tensions between local and federal authorities raises questions about coordination in the high-profile investigation.

Local investigators have expressed concerns for days about how the sheriff has handled the case. Investigators working the case still don’t know who is in charge — whether it’s the sheriff or the FBI.

NewsNation learned that as recently as Wednesday, the Pima County Sheriff’s Office was not sharing critical information with the FBI."
 
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