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The Guthrie family is clinging to hope that someone in the Arizona community where their missing 84-year-old mother lived has critical information about her abduction, they said in a heartbreaking statement.
Nancy Guthrie’s three children expressed their gratitude to residents of Tucson for their support in a statement to KVOA on Saturday, but urged renewed focus on the case as the search for the missing mother enters its seventh week.
“We continue to believe it is Tucsonans, and the greater southern Arizona community, that hold the key to finding resolution in this case,” the statement said.
“Someone knows something. It’s possible a member of this community has information that they do not even realize is significant. We hope people search their memories, especially around the key timelines of January 31 and the early morning hours of February 1, as well as the late evening of January 11.
“We desperately ask this community for renewed attention to our mom’s case – please consult camera footage, journal notes, text messages, observations or conversations that in retrospect may hold significance,” they added.
“No detail is too small. It may be the key.”
The heartbroken family said they miss their mother deeply and won’t find peace until she is home.
“We cannot grieve; we can only ache and wonder,” they said.
“Our focus is solely on finding her and bringing her home. We want to celebrate her beautiful and courageous life. But we cannot do that until she is brought to a final place of rest.
Nancy, mother of “Today” show star Savannah Guthrie, is believed to have been taken from her Tucson, Arizona, home during the early hours of Feb. 1.
She was reported missing after she failed to show up at church, and security footage recovered from her doorbell camera captured a masked man loitering around doorstep the night police believe she was kidnapped.
Police have still not identified any suspects.
One of the board’s issues with Nanos stems from his allegedly lying during a deposition for an unrelated lawsuit. During the deposition, he denied under oath having been suspended during his time as an officer in El Paso, Texas, before joining the PCSD in the ’80s. In reality, Nanos was suspended several times, according to records obtained by CBS News.
“A unanimous vote of the disciplinary board at that time for a whole host of problems said, ‘Hey, he can’t be a cop anymore. He’s just bad at this and he’s not upholding our standards … he’s got to go,’” Dr. Matt Heinz, a Pima County Board of Supervisors member, told CBS.
Heinz continued, of Nanos, “He has definitely lost the confidence of the community. He’s embarrassed himself, and it’s time for him to go.”
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In a letter to the board, Nanos’ attorney, James Cool, said, per Fox News, “It is 100% correct that Sheriff Nanos was never suspended during his four decades of decorated and faithful service with the Pima County Sheriff’s Department. However, Sheriff Nanos was suspended more than forty years ago while employed by El Paso Police Department.”
Cool added, in the 12-page response to the board’s demand for answers, “Sheriff Nanos did not understand the question related to discipline with a different agency not governed by the Arizona Peace Officers Bill of Rights. In reviewing the transcript shortly after his deposition, Sheriff Nanos spotted the misunderstanding and promptly notified his attorney.”
The push to remove Nanos as sheriff is not related to Nancy’s ongoing case, which is nearing 100 days. “In no way has the Guthrie investigation ever factored into this. It really hasn’t,” Heinz insisted. However, it comes on the heels of FBI Director Kash Patel criticizing the PCSD’s handling of the investigation, claiming that the FBI was blocked for four days.
Despite a $1 million reward from Savannah and the FBI releasing video clips and images of a masked individual on Nancy’s front porch, no suspect has been named in the investigation.
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Nancy Guthrie case: Former cop shows how missing mom could vanish just yards from homes
TUCSON, Ariz. — Walking down a desert path carved through the neighborhood just a mile and a half from Nancy Guthrie’s home in the Catalina Foothills, retired Pima County Sheriff’s Lt. Bob Krygier points into the dense brush.
“You can throw something under the tree right there, in this brush right back here,” he says. “We could walk past… I guarantee you we’ve walked by things that are probably suspicious in nature, dead animals, things like that, and you’re just not going to see them the terrain itself acts as a natural hide for things.“
He’s in what locals call a “wash.” They are the pathways that water escapes during heavy rainfall, also known as ephemeral rivers, and they appear all over Tucson and the surrounding Pima County.
“Hundreds upon hundreds [of] these throughout the county and the city, if not thousands,” he told Fox News Digital earlier this week. “They’re just literally everywhere. It’s just the nature of the terrain, the way the geography was made.”
They can also be natural escape routes, he said.
He spent almost three decades with the Pima County Sheriff’s Department, the lead agency in the search for the 84-year-old mother of “Today” co-host Savannah Guthrie.
In that time, he said he chased countless suspects into the washes. Authorities have also recovered the remains of other missing persons many times over the years.
Some are narrow. Some are wide, like one just east of Guthrie’s neighborhood, which at some points stretches more than an estimated 150 yards across. In a situation like that, a vehicle could fit inside.
“We’re here within five minutes. And you could, you saw, we could drive down this road for 10 seconds and be completely out of sight from any roadway,” he said. “So then you now have what you need, which is time, and some cover from prying eyes.”
In the same area, deputies responded to an abandoned vehicle discovered on Feb. 2, parked just up the street from the entrance to the wash.
A Pima County Sheriff’s Department spokesperson previously said the vehicle was not connected to the Guthrie investigation. Fox News Digital has requested but not yet received records about how and why it was there.
The route itself had been flagged to Fox News Digital by another neighbor — who said she saw a suspicious man walking in the area that same day. She asked not to be named due to concerns for her children’s safety amid the unsolved kidnapping investigation.
Investigators search brush near Nancy Guthrie’s house in Arizona as her photo is shown in an overlay. The image is courtesy of NBC and Fox News Digital.
In the same neighborhood, Fox News Digital obtained Ring camera video from another resident that shows a vehicle headed in the direction away from Guthrie’s home a few minutes after her suspected abduction. The video was provided to the FBI in February, and there have been no updates since.
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Once inside, power lines lead toward nearby roads, Krygier said, providing guideposts along the way back out.
FBI agents canvass homes near Nancy Guthrie’s residence in Tucson, Ariz., on Friday, Feb. 6, 2026, as the investigation into her disappearance continues.
“I think they’d have to be very familiar with it because you’re not gonna stumble upon this area from Nancy’s house,” Krygier said. “But it’s close enough to where if you did some scouting days and weeks ahead of time, which there’s some evidence that says they might have been out here prior to that night, this would be an area that I would look at and say, ‘All right, let’s figure this out. I can get here to there without being seen.’”
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Guthrie is believed to have been taken from her home around 2:30 a.m. on Feb. 1. Her family discovered she was missing around noon. Searches on foot, plane and helicopter did not find her.
Law enforcement agents search vegetation areas around Nancy Guthrie’s home in Tucson, Ariz., on Feb. 11, 2026.
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“Even with airplanes, even with the FLIR that we have, the infrared, you’re looking down, you can’t see through a lot of different things, so it’s not going to see something that might have been stashed underneath some of this brush,” Krygier said.
Aerial drone shots show the home and grounds of Nancy Guthrie in Tucson, Ariz., on Tuesday, Feb. 3, 2026. Nancy Guthrie, mother of ‘Today’ show host Savannah Guthrie, is suspected of being abducted from her home earlier this week.
The federal government even provided a high-tech piece of equipment that attempted to pick up the Bluetooth signal from her pacemaker device, with no results.
“At this point, I can’t imagine saying no to anyone offering help, whether it be cadaver dogs, the Cajun Navy has popped up again,” Krygier told Fox News Digital. “Those are just extra feet on the ground that I don’t have to pay, quite honestly. Maybe if they find something, awesome. We probably wouldn’t have found it. If they don’t, great. I personally would be accepting some of that help. There’s no reason not to at this point.”
There is a combined reward of more than $1.2 million for information that cracks the case.
Two images showing a masked man wearing gloves on Nancy Guthrie’s porch
The FBI released two images recovered from Nancy Guthrie’s Nest doorbell camera showing a masked man wearing gloves on her porch. It is unclear if both images show the same person.
Retired FBI profiler Jim Clemente believes the suspect accused of kidnapping Nancy Guthrie “bumbled” his way through the alleged abduction and may have left behind enough evidence to eventually be identified, RadarOnline.com can reveal.
Nearly 100 days after the 84-year-old vanished from her Tucson-area home, Clemente claimed the masked intruder’s alleged mistakes suggest he was “not a sophisticated offender.”
‘Bumbling His Way Through This’
“There was a concentration of round droplets near the front door, then a thinning trail toward her driveway,” he told Fox News Digital, explaining he believes Guthrie coughed up blood while close to the ground.
The former profiler claimed the suspect appeared unprepared despite allegedly scouting the home in advance. According to Clemente, the intruder used nearby foliage to try to block the Nest doorbell camera instead of disabling it properly.
“In the process of doing that, I believe he revealed what looked like a tattoo on his wrist,” Clemente said. “So it tells me that he is not a sophisticated offender. He was sort of bumbling his way through this.”
Authorities previously released recovered Nest footage showing a masked man arriving at Guthrie’s home around the time she disappeared on Feb. 1.
The suspect was described as above average height and build and allegedly wore gloves, a ski mask, long sleeves, and a black Ozark Trail backpack. A holstered pistol was also visible in the footage.
Although the doorbell camera itself reportedly disappeared from the scene, investigators were still able to recover imagery from the device with help from Google and the FBI.
Clemente claimed the release of those images may have rattled the alleged kidnapper.
“Because of all the mistakes this guy made, because of his ineptness and non-professional behavior in this, I believe that he exhibited a great degree of stress when the images were first released,” he said.
Hair Sample Could Crack Case
Investigators also reportedly recovered an unidentified hair sample from Guthrie’s home that was eventually sent to the FBI for advanced analysis after initially being processed by a private lab in Florida.
“If it is a hair from the offender, then it will lead to his identification,” Clemente claimed. “They will have his name.”
Authorities have not publicly identified any suspects in the case.
Profiler Suggests Savannah Guthrie May Have Been Target
The mystery surrounding Guthrie’s disappearance was also recently examined during the special NewsNation Presents: The Nancy Guthrie Mystery, which aired May 6 on The CW.
During the program, veteran profiler Dr. Ann Burgess weighed in on a possible motive behind the alleged abduction.
When asked who may have been intended to suffer most from the crime, Burgess suggested the answer may not have been Nancy herself.
“It could be somebody in the family. Somebody — Savannah,” Burgess said, referring to Today co-host Savannah Guthrie.
When asked directly whether the motive could have been to make Savannah suffer, Burgess replied, “Yes.”
