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AZ NANCY GUTHRIE: Missing from Tucson, AZ - 31 Jan 2026 - Age 84 (21 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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If it was them surely they would have cracked it by now. They have a video of the perp but there doesn't appear to be any cctv or vehicle cams on the roads there at all. And these are million dollar homes. No audible alarm and no monitoring either. A burglars paradise. They don't appear to have stated what, if anything was stolen, eg jewellery etc.
 
Cousin Dupree said:
NBC News just said the Sheriff's going to make a statement about whether or not NG was targeted.

I guess we'll see.
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Well, if she was not specifically targeted, there's nothing to announce, right?
So, unless they found specific evidence that she or her home was targeted...which they wouldn't know unless they had a suspect/motive...
Sounds like a lotta nothing.
 

Major mistakes made by Sheriff Nanos in Nancy Guthrie investigation: Azari​

84-year-old Nancy Guthrie has been missing for over a month in a case that’s sent shockwaves throughout the nation for all the wrong reasons.

As a criminal defense attorney of over two decades, allow me to break down the investigation and whether the Pima County Sheriff’s Office has failed, and if so, can anyone hold them legally accountable?


So first, we have the idea of a crime scene contamination.

The crime scene was reportedly left open and unprotected: There was no security tape or perimeter, and two reporters allegedly were allowed access to the crime scene area, which is a big no-no.

The scene has been described as grossly contaminated, which can destroy a prosecution long before it even begins.

Pima County deputies also reportedly overlooked a roof-mounted camera during their very initial inspection. So a lot of lost time initially.


Nanos is accused of failing to deploy a thermal-imaging search plane until three hours after Guthrie was reported missing.

The reason? He reportedly clashed with the only deputy who knew how to fly this plane.

What did he do? He reassigned the guy to street patrol. Three hours in a kidnapping case is a lifetime.


What really irks me is that Nanos has turned away federal resources; he should’ve immediately deferred to the FBI, but didn’t.

Nanos should have allowed the FBI to use its infinite resources in a timely way, but instead took critical evidence and sent it to a private lab rather than the FBI lab in Quantico, Virginia.

We have recently learned that the nonprofit United Cajun Navy submitted a detailed, 41-page operational plan to Nanos in late February offering to assist in the search for Guthrie.

The plan offers dozens of search dogs and advanced drone technology to sweep the rugged Catalina Foothills terrain around where Guthrie was last seen.

Nanos still hasn’t signed off, citing concerns about contaminating a live criminal investigation. Well, sir, you’ve already contaminated the crime scene. What are you talking about?

The president of the Pima County Deputies Association has even said publicly that more bodies are always better than one.


It’s becoming increasingly evident that Nanos has had inconsistent messaging and has made many missteps, failures, omissions, and untimely responses, yet he is still not letting go of this investigation.

Retired SWAT commander Lieutenant Bob Kreider has said that 98% of the department had given Nanos a no-confidence vote, meaning “please step down from your position.”

And the most, I think, experienced homicide detective has only three years of experience in this Pima County Sheriff’s Department, because all the really good veteran detectives have left because of Nanos.


There’s a Supreme Court case from 1989 called DeShaney v. Winnebago County that basically says that the government has no constitutional duty to protect you from private harm, and that the Constitution protects against government action, but it’s not a guarantee of government services.

Law enforcement’s failure to solve a crime does not automatically create civil or criminal liability.

There’s also qualified immunity that shields law enforcement from personal liability under conduct that violates clearly established law. There is an extraordinarily high bar, and courts routinely dismiss these cases even when there’s absolute negligence, incompetence or sloppy law enforcement work.

And then you have Arizona, as a state, its own sovereign immunity, the idea that government entities enjoy sovereign immunity for discretionary acts. He can very well say, “Well, in my experience, according to my discretion, I did everything that I was supposed to do in this investigation.”

So the law may not give the Guthrie family a lawsuit, but it cannot take away the truth.
 
SheWhoMustNotBeNamed said:
Well, if she was not specifically targeted, there's nothing to announce, right?
So, unless they found specific evidence that she or her home was targeted...which they wouldn't know unless they had a suspect/motive...
Sounds like a lotta nothing.
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He basically said nothing. I can’t believe it was even aired. I'm not paying full attention to the TV and caught about half of it with full attention.

I really think that Nanos is why this hasn't been solved yet. He sure likes cameras.
 
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