What We Know About The Search For Nancy Guthrie - Beritaja

The hopeless hunt for Nancy Guthrie, the mother of NBC’s “TODAY” show co-anchor Savannah Guthrie, is ongoing, pinch mounting questions about what happened to her and concerns for her beingness health.

Nancy Guthrie, 84, was reported missing connected Sunday from her location successful the Catalina Foothills, an unincorporated organization northbound of Tucson, Arizona.

Authorities person described the lawsuit arsenic a imaginable kidnapping aliases abduction, and location person been reports of ransom notes.

Here’s what we know:

The timeline

Guthrie was past known to person visited family Saturday and returned location that evening. She was reported missing Sunday day aft not showing up astatine church.

Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos connected Thursday laid retired a timeline of events successful Mountain time:

Saturday Jan. 31

• 5:32 p.m.: Guthrie near her location successful an Uber to spell to her section family’s location “for meal and playing games pinch the family, conscionable visiting,” Nanos said. Authorities said pinch that Uber driver, he said, without providing specifics connected that conversation.
• 9:48 p.m.: She was dropped disconnected astatine home, wherever she lives alone. The car shed doorway opened astatine that clip and it closed 2 minutes later.

Sunday Feb. 1

• 1:47 a.m.: Her doorbell camera was disconnected. Nanos said that the doorbell camera has not been located and noted location were aggregate cameras astatine the home.
• 2:12 a.m.: Software detects a personification connected camera but location is nary video available. It’s not clear which camera detected the person. Nanos said the camera had nary subscription, and that it’s imaginable that an animal triggered the software.
• 2:28 a.m.: Guthrie’s pacemaker disconnects from her phone.
• 11:56 a.m.: Guthrie’s family goes to cheque connected her astatine location and discovers she’s missing.
• 12:03 p.m.: A 911 telephone was made. Deputies arrived about 10 minutes later.

What the investigation has uncovered truthful far

The Pima County Sheriff’s Department believes Guthrie was taken “possibly successful the mediate of the night, and that includes imaginable kidnapping aliases abduction.”

The sheriff said Thursday that humor recovered connected the structure extracurricular Guthrie’s location tested affirmative for her DNA. He said his agency would not remark connected whether location was forced introduction to the home.

A motion is posted astatine the location of Nancy Guthrie, NBC big Savannah Guthrie's mother, successful Catalina, Ariz., Feb. 3, 2026.Jan Sonnenmair / Getty Images

Her compartment telephone was near astatine location and is successful the possession of authorities.

No fishy aliases personification of liking has been identified. Nanos said that cipher has been ruled out. “We’re actively looking astatine everybody we travel across, successful this case, everybody,” he said.

Guthrie’s health

Nanos has said Guthrie does not person cognitive issues, characterizing her arsenic “sharp arsenic a tack.” However, he said, she has constricted mobility and needs to return medicine regular aliases “it could beryllium fatal.” Nanos said he does not cognize whether Guthrie’s medicine was still astatine her home.

“She is mobile. It’s a situation for her to get, arsenic the family says, she couldn’t locomotion 50 yards by herself,” he said.

She has a pacemaker — a instrumentality typically implanted nether the tegument to modulate heartbeat — which disconnected from its monitoring app connected her telephone early Sunday.

In an emotional video posted to her Instagram page connected Wednesday, Savannah Guthrie pleaded for her mother’s return, noting her wellness is fragile.

“She lives successful changeless pain. She is without immoderate medicine. She needs it to survive, and she needs it not to suffer,” Savannah Guthrie said successful the video, flanked by her sister, Annie, and brother, Camron.

Ransom notes

Reports bespeak ransom notes person been sent to 3 news outlets referencing Guthrie. Beritaja has reviewed a transcript of the note, and the contents are accordant pinch the descriptions provided by the FBI and those news outlets. No rule enforcement agency has truthful acold substantiated the notes.

Heith Janke, the typical supplier successful complaint of the FBI Phoenix division, said Thursday that the ransom statement is being investigated.

He said 1 of the reported ransom notes “had facts associated pinch a deadline pinch a monetary worth they were asking for.” When further pressed about its legitimacy, Janke said Thursday astatine a news convention that, “one talked about an Apple Watch, 1 talked about a floodlight,” but he declined to spell into further specifics.

The ransom statement being probed by the FBI had 2 deadlines — 1 astatine 5 p.m. Thursday and a 2nd deadline for Monday, Janke said, adding that the statement did not found a intends for communication.

Camron Guthrie connected Thursday appeared successful a video connection about the aforesaid clip arsenic that 5 p.m. deadline, asking for a measurement to pass pinch whoever could beryllium holding his mother.

“Whoever is retired location holding our mother, we want to perceive from you. We haven’t heard thing directly,” he said successful a video posted to Instagram. “We request you to scope retired and we request a measurement to pass pinch you truthful we move forward.”

Janke said the FBI takes the ransom threats seriously.

He besides warned that imposters who nonstop clone ransom letters will beryllium “held accountable.” A man arrested successful Los Angeles connected Thursday was accused of sending texts to the Guthrie family asking about bitcoin that was demanded successful a reported ransom letter, according to a federal criminal title retired of Arizona. The messages are not linked to an earlier reported ransom demand.

The FBI and Nanos’ agency announced Friday day it was “aware of a caller connection regarding” Guthrie. “Investigators are actively inspecting the accusation provided successful the connection for its authenticity,” the sheriff’s section said successful a statement.

A imaginable lead about a vehicle

Law enforcement officials were searching for a conveyance successful Arizona that whitethorn beryllium connected to the investigation,Beritaja learned connected Friday. Officials haven’t said if the conveyance aliases vehicles are definitively connected to immoderate portion of the crime, aliases if that lead has since evaporated.

A Circle K spokesperson told Beritaja that rule enforcement visited 1 of their stores connected Oracle Road successful Tucson aft “receiving a extremity regarding a conveyance of interest, and our squad has provided them entree to the store’s surveillance video.”

What we don’t know

Authorities person declined to supply specifics about a scope of questions astatine the halfway of the investigation. Here are immoderate of the specifications that are chartless aliases person not been publically released.

• How personification could person entered Nancy Guthrie’s location astatine that hour.
• What happened to her doorbell camera. Authorities connected Thursday said it had been removed.
• What caused Guthrie’s location camera to observe activity astatine 2:12 a.m. Sunday. Nanos said the camera was sent to a exertion company, which said it exhausted each methods to retrieve video from the device.
• Whether immoderate of the reported ransom letters are legitimate. They stay nether investigation by the FBI.

State and national resources person been deployed successful the hunt for Guthrie.

Members of the property activity extracurricular the location of Nancy Guthrie, the missing mother of “Today” show big Savannah Guthrie, Thursday, Feb. 5, 2026, successful Tucson, Ariz. Caitlin O'Hara / AP

Federal and section resources

• President Donald Trump called Savannah Guthrie connected Wednesday offering words of support. Later, successful a station connected Truth Social, he said he would nonstop each national rule enforcement to beryllium astatine the disposal of the family and section rule enforcement.
• The FBI is besides moving jointly pinch the Pima County Sheriff’s Department, bringing successful agents, analysts, and deploying further intelligence and agents from its Phoenix office.

• Agents are analyzing integer sources, including slope information, societal media and telephone companies for a integer footprint, Janke said Thursday.

• The FBI announced a $50,000 reward connected Thursday for accusation starring to Guthrie’s recovery.
• Officials proceed to inquire the nationalist for tips. Anyone pinch information, nary matter really small, is asked to study it astatine 1-800-Call FBI aliases online at tips.fbi.gov.