Nancy Guthrie missing case investigation latest big update
Nancy Guthrie Abduction: The investigation into the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie has entered its third month, and authorities have not yet arrested any suspect despite extensive search efforts and the pursuit of several leads in the case. Nancy Guthrie, the 84-year-old mother of NBC’s *Today* show host Savannah Guthrie, disappeared from her Tucson home on January 31, 2026, and was reported missing by her family on February 1, 2026.
Within days of the investigation, the FBI and the Pima County Sheriff’s Department launched a joint probe. Surveillance footage showed a masked suspect, and authorities believe Nancy was taken against her will. The FBI and the Guthrie family have offered rewards for any piece of information on Nancy, but those efforts have so far yielded no results. Amid the ongoing search, multiple theories from detectives and FBI agents have emerged.
Retired FBI Supervisory Special Agent Jim Clemente and fellow retired profiler Jim Fitzgerald both believe the abduction is connected to Savannah Guthrie, and that the real target may not have been Nancy.
“This has something to do with Savannah in a stalking-type scenario,” Fitzgerald told NewsNation investigative reporter Brian Entin. He said investigators should examine every piece of correspondence Savannah Guthrie has received over the past five years. The theory suggests that someone who could not gain access to the television personality directly instead turned their attention to her mother.
“This is something to do with Savannah in a stalking-type scenario. And that’s why this is so out of the ordinary in terms of not having been solved, because a lot of the usual causation factors for these types of abductions—seemingly it wasn’t a kidnapping for profit. I said that almost from the very first day. It has to do something with Savannah. Again, I’m being very careful here,” Fitzgerald stated.
“Not that she had anything to do with it, herself or her family, but there’s some stalker, someone out there who couldn’t get close to her, so he did the next best thing and translated that however you choose to and went after her mother. And therein I think the answer lies. And therein the behavioralist can best help. Show me a couple emails in a row from someone, even over the course of a few years, and let’s focus on that person and find out where they were, you know, in early February of this year,” he added.
Within days of the investigation, the FBI and the Pima County Sheriff’s Department launched a joint probe. Surveillance footage showed a masked suspect, and authorities believe Nancy was taken against her will. The FBI and the Guthrie family have offered rewards for any piece of information on Nancy, but those efforts have so far yielded no results. Amid the ongoing search, multiple theories from detectives and FBI agents have emerged.
Retired FBI Supervisory Special Agent Jim Clemente and fellow retired profiler Jim Fitzgerald both believe the abduction is connected to Savannah Guthrie, and that the real target may not have been Nancy.
“This has something to do with Savannah in a stalking-type scenario,” Fitzgerald told NewsNation investigative reporter Brian Entin. He said investigators should examine every piece of correspondence Savannah Guthrie has received over the past five years. The theory suggests that someone who could not gain access to the television personality directly instead turned their attention to her mother.
“This is something to do with Savannah in a stalking-type scenario. And that’s why this is so out of the ordinary in terms of not having been solved, because a lot of the usual causation factors for these types of abductions—seemingly it wasn’t a kidnapping for profit. I said that almost from the very first day. It has to do something with Savannah. Again, I’m being very careful here,” Fitzgerald stated.
“Not that she had anything to do with it, herself or her family, but there’s some stalker, someone out there who couldn’t get close to her, so he did the next best thing and translated that however you choose to and went after her mother. And therein I think the answer lies. And therein the behavioralist can best help. Show me a couple emails in a row from someone, even over the course of a few years, and let’s focus on that person and find out where they were, you know, in early February of this year,” he added.
