AZ NANCY GUTHRIE: Missing from Tucson, AZ - 31 Jan 2026 - Age 84 (56 Viewers)

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

 

[Guess Who]

She has a point.

Our neighborhood can relate. The news crews are slobs and so not care one little bit about traffic flow or about dumping they trash right outside their windows.
We started driving by then when they were blocking the roads doing their live shots on a 4 wheeler that smoked like crazy with a radio blasting the most awful, profanity laced songs we could find. They did not appreciate that at all! I think they finally got the point and at least started not blocking the entire road. So rude! Oh, and they were parking their huge news van right in front of a stop sign, where you could not see it whatsoever and it totally blocked your view of the cross street. We would call the cops to have them move but since they all were listening to the scanners, they knew to move before they got there and would move right back after they left.

 

[Sunburst]

Geofencing (in law enforcement) is also a huge legal issue in the courts right now. Some higher courts have classified them as a "general" warrant, which are prohibited by the 4th amendment (too broad, violating privacy, etc.). Other jurisdictions have allowed them.

Sounds like geofencing issues will eventually end up with SCOTUS deciding.

 

[Sunburst]

There is a fake story making the rounds of social media (looking at you, facebook) about underground tunnels and a secret room in SG's sister's house...

 

[RoundPeg]

There is a fake story making the rounds of social media (looking at you, facebook) about underground tunnels and a secret room in SG's sister's house...

I haven't seen that yet. How exciting.

 

[Sunburst]

I haven't seen that yet. How exciting.

It came across my fb feed about an hour ago. Hopefully it gets taken down.

 

[SheWhoMustNotBeNamed]

I guess "near" is also "a mile and a half away".

https://www.newsnationnow.com/missing/fbi-glove-nancy-guthries-home-search/

FBI finds glove near Nancy Guthrie’s home as search continues​

FBI teams found a black glove during a search on a roadway about a mile and a half from Nancy Guthrie’s home Wednesday.

There is no confirmation that it is related to her disappearance. The New York Post took photographs, shared with NewsNation, of the FBI officials.

“It’s either connected, and it’s legit; it’s noise, it’s just unrelated; or it’s misdirection. I hate to say misdirection, but with some of the notes we’ve been getting … at this point, you have to put extra scrutiny on every piece of evidence you find,” Wright said.

 

[Cousin Dupree]

I guess "near" is also "a mile and a half away".

https://www.newsnationnow.com/missing/fbi-glove-nancy-guthries-home-search/

FBI finds glove near Nancy Guthrie’s home as search continues​

FBI teams found a black glove during a search on a roadway about a mile and a half from Nancy Guthrie’s home Wednesday.

There is no confirmation that it is related to her disappearance. The New York Post took photographs, shared with NewsNation, of the FBI officials.

“It’s either connected, and it’s legit; it’s noise, it’s just unrelated; or it’s misdirection. I hate to say misdirection, but with some of the notes we’ve been getting … at this point, you have to put extra scrutiny on every piece of evidence you find,” Wright said.


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That, to me, doesn't look like one of the gloves the guy was wearing "near" her house.

 

[Cousin Dupree]

I'm exhausted from all of this. I can’t imagine what the family feels.

 

[RoundPeg]

 

[RoundPeg]

Sounds like geofencing issues will eventually end up with SCOTUS deciding.

I think it should be a last resort warrant, maybe?

 

[Guess Who]

At nearly 2 weeks later??? What's the point after allowing everybody to traipse all over the place for so long? I'm not understanding this "investigation" at all.

 

[Cousin Dupree]

At nearly 2 weeks later??? What's the point after allowing everybody to traipse all over the place for so long? I'm not understanding this "investigation" at all.

Keystone cops.

 

[Guess Who]

Keystone cops.

That or blatantly doing it on purpose like Boston?

 

[Kimster]

At nearly 2 weeks later??? What's the point after allowing everybody to traipse all over the place for so long? I'm not understanding this "investigation" at all.

This was my first thought, too.

 

[Guess Who]

 

[Guess Who]

Our neighborhood can relate. The news crews are slobs and so not care one little bit about traffic flow or about dumping they trash right outside their windows.
We started driving by then when they were blocking the roads doing their live shots on a 4 wheeler that smoked like crazy with a radio blasting the most awful, profanity laced songs we could find. They did not appreciate that at all! I think they finally got the point and at least started not blocking the entire road. So rude! Oh, and they were parking their huge news van right in front of a stop sign, where you could not see it whatsoever and it totally blocked your view of the cross street. We would call the cops to have them move but since they all were listening to the scanners, they knew to move before they got there and would move right back after they left.

I also bet that they have left piles of cigarette butts all over the place. Those things do not go away in their own.

 

[Tresir]

At nearly 2 weeks later??? What's the point after allowing everybody to traipse all over the place for so long? I'm not understanding this "investigation" at all.

They have only just got the camera footage back haven't they? So now they must be doing forensics on that porch.

 

[RoundPeg]

They have only just got the camera footage back haven't they? So now they must be doing forensics on that porch.

They may have been working on height/weight estimate, too.

 

[Tresir]

They may have been working on height/weight estimate, too.

Good point.

ETA This article states that they were removing the Nest camera from the porch when they put up that tent.

Nest camera bracket removed from Nancy Guthrie’s house after investigators erect tent to shroud evidence gathering

Investigators have asked for all video footage pertaining to Nancy Guthrie’s disappearance covering the month before the 84-year-old went missing.

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Nest camera bracket removed from Nancy Guthrie’s house after investigators erect tent to shroud evidence gathering

By

Anthony Blair

Published Feb. 12, 2026

Updated Feb. 12, 2026, 3:41 p.m. ET

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Today's Video Headlines

Investigators asking for all video footage pertaining to Nancy Guthrie’s disappearance covering the month before the 84-year-old went missing removed the remaining Nest doorbell camera equipment from her door while shrouded by a white tent outside her house Thursday.

The white tent was erected hastily and stayed up for about an hour as investigators gathered evidence in secret. The only discernible difference when the tent came down was the missing bracket that once held a Nest camera a masked suspect was caught tampering with, according to footage released earlier this week.

It’s unclear what else investigators recovered while working in secrecy outside Nancy’s home.

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The remaining Ring camera equipment appeared to have been taken down from the front of Guthrie’s house.Andy Johnstone for NY Post

In a subsequent alert, authorities requested all footage from vehicles, people, and houses taken between Jan. 1 and Feb. 2, the day after Nancy was announced missing.

The alert was sent out to all users of the Neighbors App within a two-mile radius of Nancy’s home in the Catalina Foothills neighborhood north of Tucson, Arizona.

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In a statement, authorities confirmed they had recovered several potentially key pieces of evidence, including a pair of black gloves, one of which The Post saw the feds recover from the side of a nearby road on Wednesday.

Follow The Post’s live updates on Savannah Guthrie’s missing mom

Nancy was last seen alive at around 9:45 p.m. on Jan. 31 when she was dropped off at home by her son-in-law, Tommaso Cioni.

Her pacemaker lost contact with her Apple Watch at around 2 a.m. on Feb. 1, and both the device and her iPhone were found in her house.

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A close-up of the front door with the Ring camera mount earlier this month.BACKGRID

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The FBI erected a tent outside Nancy Guthrie’s home, which was later taken down along with the Nest camera.Andy Johnstone for NY Post

A fellow worshipper alerted Nancy’s family when she failed to show up at her house for virtual church later that morning.

Here’s the latest on Savannah Guthrie’s missing momInvestigators ask for month’s worth of Nancy Guthrie footage from before disappearance in latest measureSavannah Guthrie heartbreakingly posts old home video of a young Nancy with her children: ‘We will never give up’Key giveaways in Nancy Guthrie case that show suspected kidnapper is not ‘a trained assassin’: former FBI special agentArizona authorities received nearly 18,000 tips since Nancy Guthrie was allegedly kidnapped from her homeMysterious black glove found near Nancy Guthrie’s home could hold crucial DNA evidence: former FBI agent

On Feb. 5, Savannah and her two siblings released their first video message begging for their mother’s safe return.

In a second short video released on Savannah’s Instagram account on Feb. 6, her brother, Camron, urged “whoever is out there holding our mother,” to contact the family.

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Investigators have asked for all video footage pertaining to Nancy Guthrie’s disappearance.Nathan Congleton/NBC via Getty Images

On Feb. 7, the three siblings put out a third message addressed to their mother’s abductors.

“We beg you now to return our mother to us so that we can celebrate with her,” Savannah said in the video.

“This is very valuable to us, and we will pay,” she added.

On Feb. 9, with no major new updates, Savannah admitted that the family were “at an hour of desperation,” and begged for the public to come forward, in a fourth video on Instagram.

In a bombshell the following day, the FBI and Pima County Sheriff’s Department released the videos and stills of a person of interest in the case, taken from Nancy’s doorbell camera.

The chilling video showed a figure wearing a ski mask, gloves, and a backpack, with a gun holstered in front of their waist, approaching Nancy’s front door and attempting to block the camera lens with plants.


Later on Feb. 10, police detained FedEx delivery driver Carlos Palazuelos in the nearby town of Rio Rico, south of Tucson. He was released early Wednesday morning without charges.

By Wednesday, more than 18,000 tips had been sent in to the Pima County Sheriff’s Department, with more than 4,000 of them coming in the 24 hours after the release of the doorbell footage.

 

[Sunburst]

At nearly 2 weeks later??? What's the point after allowing everybody to traipse all over the place for so long? I'm not understanding this "investigation" at all.

I think they were measuring the bricks at the front entrance in order to get an estimated height of the masked person in the video. Recreating darkness by using a tent, plus blocking the view of any reporters as to what they were doing.