Sheriff’s deputies at a scene in Rio Rico, Ariz., during a search related to the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie.Credit…Cassidy Araiza for The New York Times
Day 15: Where Things Stand
DNA Analysis: Gloves found about two miles from Nancy Guthrie’s home were sent to a lab for DNA analysis in an attempt to track down who may have owned them. The F.B.I. said Sunday that the pair of gloves resembled those worn by a man seen on video recorded by the doorbell camera at Guthrie’s home on the night of her disappearance.
The Absence of More Video: The lack of helpful video footage in Guthrie’s community may be hindered by several factors, experts say. Read more ›
Search Warrant Served: On Saturday, the sheriff’s office said no one had been arrested and no one was in custody, after a late night operation in connection with the case that took place about two miles from Guthrie’s home. Sheriff Chris Nanos said the Friday night activity was investigators executing a search warrant and “tracking down leads.” Read more ›
Who is Nancy Guthrie? The 84-year-old mother of Savannah Guthrie grew up in northern Kentucky and was a college journalist at the University of Kentucky. She and her husband Charles purchased a home in the Catalina Foothills just north of Tucson in 1975, where she has lived in for more than 50 years. Read more ›
A Timeline of Events: The disappearance of Guthrie has confounded the authorities. Read more ›
Updates on the Investigation
6 hours ago
Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs
The F.B.I. said Sunday that gloves found about two miles from Nancy Guthrie’s home carried an unknown man’s DNA. Authorities planned to enter the DNA profile into a database in an effort to identify the person. The bureau said in a statement that the gloves appeared to match a pair worn by the man who was captured on Guthrie’s doorbell camera on the night she was abducted. The F.B.I. added that most of the other gloves recovered during its searches were those of investigators who had discarded them while conducting sweeps near the home.
6 hours ago
Jack Healy
While neighbors have set out a memorial of yellow roses for Ms. Guthrie, they have also expressed their annoyance at the nuisance of the scene by putting out “No Trespassing” signs and placing traffic cones at the front of their driveways.
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6 hours ago
Jack Healy
Dozens of news media trucks are camped out on Guthrie’s street, some for so long that they’ve now brought car batteries and portable generators to keep their equipment running. Not one, but two, drones were buzzing overhead on Sunday afternoon. Live-streamers paced up and down this quiet street in the Catalina Foothills. A man showed up to pitch his surveillance software company to anyone who would listen.
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Credit…Brandon Bell/Getty Images
6 hours ago
Jack Healy
In the two weeks since Nancy Guthrie disappeared, her adobe home of 50 years has turned into the center of America’s true-crime industrial complex.
Feb. 14, 2026
Jack Healy
Reporting from Tucson, Ariz.
A neighbor recalls investigators searching the home next to him in Nancy Guthrie’s disappearance.
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F.B.I. and SWAT units raided a home in a neighborhood approximately two miles from Nancy Guthrie’s residence on Friday night.Credit…Brandon Bell/Getty Images
The investigators who swarmed an affluent desert subdivision near Tucson, Ariz., in connection with Nancy Guthrie’s disappearance on Friday night spent hours searching the home next door to David Curl, a retired lawyer who has lived in the neighborhood for 30 years.
Mr. Curl said he and his wife had been unwinding after returning home from a three-week vacation when a sheriff’s deputy knocked on their door with their next-door neighbor, an older woman who Mr. Curl says lives with her adult son.
The woman was home by herself when investigators showed up at about 6 p.m. Friday with a search warrant, Mr. Curl said in an interview on his back patio on Saturday morning. She was not allowed to be inside her home as investigators searched, Mr. Curl said, so the woman instead spent the night at Mr. Curl’s house.
Once the investigators left the neighborhood in the early hours of Saturday, Mr. Curl said he went next door with his neighbor to help her lock up her house. There, he said, he saw a copy of a federal search warrant in the living room. He said the warrant mentioned the Guthrie case.
“She had no idea what they were asking about,” Mr. Curl said of his neighbor. “She had no information about the disappearance or any idea why they were focusing on their house.”
The woman whose house was searched declined to speak on Saturday, and it remains unclear how the search is connected with Ms. Guthrie’s disappearance two weeks ago.
“She’s really distraught,” Mr. Curl said of his neighbor. She told him on Saturday afternoon that her son had been questioned and released and was now with friends.
No arrests have been made in Ms. Guthrie’s disappearance, and investigators said the flurry of activity late Friday into early Saturday at two sites not far from Ms. Guthrie’s home in the Catalina Foothills was related to tracking down leads.
Chris Nanos, the sheriff leading the investigation, has said that law enforcement officials have gotten more than 32,000 leads since Ms. Guthrie, the mother of the “Today” show host Savannah Guthrie, was taken from her home on Feb. 1.
Feb. 14, 2026
Chris Hippensteel
Investigators focus overnight on car and residence near Nancy Guthrie’s home.
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The authorities searched two locations late Friday in apparent connection with the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie. They removed a Range Rover from a Culver’s parking lot.Credit…Cassidy Araiza for The New York Times
Investigators searching for answers in the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie descended on two locations near her home overnight, as they continue to sift through the thousands of potential leads that have arrived since she vanished on Feb. 1.
Law enforcement officers first shut down a street to investigate a residence a few minutes’ drive from Ms. Guthrie’s home on Friday night near Tucson, Ariz. Later, deputies with the Pima County Sheriff’s Department and personnel from the F.B.I. swarmed a gray Range Rover at a nearby Culver’s parking lot, extensively photographing the vehicle before having it towed away.
At the request of the F.B.I., the sheriff’s department shared few details about the overnight developments related to Ms. Guthrie’s case. Her disappearance — now being investigated as a kidnapping — has captivated the country.
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The F.B.I. and Pima County Sheriff’s Department deputies processed evidence from a late-model, gray Range Rover early Saturday morning as they investigated Ms. Guthrie’s disappearance.Credit…Rebecca Noble/Reuters
No one has been arrested, nor is anyone in custody in connection with Ms. Guthrie’s abduction, a spokeswoman for the Pima County Sheriff’s Department said Saturday morning.
So far, the biggest break in the search has come in the form of footage released on Feb. 10 from Ms. Guthrie’s doorbell camera, which showed a masked man with a backpack and a holstered handgun arriving at her house just before the apparent abduction.
After several days passed without any public updates from the authorities about the case, Chris Nanos, the Arizona sheriff leading the search, shed some light in interviews on Friday on the progress his department was making.
Sheriff Nanos said that investigators had taken DNA from Ms. Guthrie’s property, which, according to a statement from his department, did not belong to anyone in close contact with her. Tests on DNA were also being run, he said, against a pair of gloves, found roughly two miles from Ms. Guthrie’s house, that were similar to the pair worn by the man who appeared on the doorbell camera footage.
The sheriff said he had “no way” of being certain, for now, whether the gloves investigators recovered were the same seen on the man in the footage. But the search would continue for however long — days, months, or years — as was necessary to get answers, he said.
Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs and Jack Healy contributed reporting.
Background on the Search
34 minutes ago
Christina Morales
Useful camera footage in Guthrie case proves elusive.
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Nancy Guthrie with her youngest child, Savannah, a co-host of “Today,” NBC’s long-running morning show.Credit…NBC, via Reuters
Cameras, so common throughout society that their presence is often hardly noticed, have been key tools for law enforcement as they work to solve crimes.
Video footage proved critical in the search for Luigi Mangione, charged with the murder of Brian Thompson, the UnitedHealthcare chief executive, outside a New York City hotel. Images released by the F.B.I. helped locate the perpetrators of the Boston Marathon bombing attack in 2013. And surveillance video also helped police identify a suspect in the fatal stabbings in 2022 of four University of Idaho students.
So it is no wonder that people have questioned why there is not more video footage to aid the authorities as they investigate the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie, the 84-year-old mother of the “Today” show anchor Savannah Guthrie, from her home in Tucson, Ariz.
“Everyone’s got this assumption that everyone’s going to have a Ring camera, and that everyone’s Ring camera will be pointed toward the street,” said Steve Garvy of the Garvy Group, a risk consultant in Phoenix. “But in these neighborhoods, it may not be as ubiquitous, and they may not be positioned in an obvious way.
“If I was law enforcement, I would be frustrated,” Mr. Garvy said.
It has been more than two weeks since Nancy Guthrie was reported missing in a case that has captivated Americans, especially those caring for aging parents. The authorities have sifted through thousands of tips, reviewed purported ransom notes, viewed thousands of videos and recovered footage from Ms. Guthrie’s doorbell camera that showed a masked individual with gloves at the porch of her home shortly before her disappearance.
Still, after fruitless searches and interviews with at least two people in the past week who were later released, there were still no known leads as of Sunday.
And although Ms. Guthrie’s neighbors have provided camera footage to authorities, the Pima County Sheriff’s Office has asked for more recordings, specifically those taken between Jan. 1 and Feb. 1.
But in this unincorporated desert community in Tucson, camera footage of use to investigators has proved to be elusive. That is largely because of local ordinances and how the neighborhood, called Catalina Foothills, was designed.
The community has deed restrictions that require each home to have one acre of property and to be set back at least 30 feet from the road, said Walter Branson, who has lived in the neighborhood since 2019.
The desert environment also means that camera views could be obscured by lush vegetation and cactuses. And a local ordinance regulates light pollution, so residents can see the stars in the night sky, Mr. Branson said. That means there are no streetlights and residents keep their outdoor lights low, hampering the ability of cameras to pick up activity once the sun goes down.
“We’d actually be surprised if someone’s doorbell picked up anything,” Mr. Branson said, adding that like at his own home, where he enters from its side, some cameras do not even point toward the street.
Unless there are neighbors of Ms. Guthrie who have high-quality infrared cameras, several experts in crime and surveillance cameras said that it is unlikely that police will find good nighttime images.
Adam Scott Wandt, a professor at the John Jay College of Criminal College, said there may be more video that is not being released to the public.
Mr. Wandt said that he believes authorities are carefully evaluating what types of images they release to the public as they review thousands of videos. There is not a lack of footage, he said, just little that is currently available to the public.
“It’s common in a kidnapping case to not release evidence that might affect the victim,” Mr. Wandt said. “It could upset a very delicate situation.”
The broad availability of cameras means that people have come to assume they can rely on them for solving crimes in the same way that people felt overly reassured by DNA evidence, said Bryanna Fox, a former F.B.I. special agent and a professor in the Department of Criminology at the University of South Florida.
Many factors could affect the acquisition of good images, she said, like camera quality, storage capacity, how color is captured at night, battery levels or if the camera is even turned on at all.
Ms. Guthrie’s own doorbell camera did not have a subscription to store her footage. And even if people do pay to store their videos, Ms. Fox said that it is costly to stockpile. Businesses nearby may have overridden their footage within two days, and most neighbors may keep their own videos for anywhere from 10 to 30 days.
“This neighborhood design, in a way, had a lack of deterrents for burglars,” Ms. Fox said.
Feb. 10, 2026
The New York Times
A timeline of Nancy Guthrie’s disappearance.
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The authorities in Pima County, Ariz., have repeatedly closed and reopened the crime scene at Nancy Guthrie’s house near Tucson since she was reported missing on Feb. 1.Credit…Rebecca Noble/Reuters
For more than two weeks, the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie, the 84-year-old mother of the “Today” show host Savannah Guthrie, has confounded the authorities. And because it involves the possible abduction of a celebrity’s relative, it has captivated much of the nation.
In the latest developments, the F.B.I. said that gloves found about two miles from Ms. Guthrie’s home had an unknown man’s DNA on them, and that it would put the DNA profile into a database in an effort to identify the person.
The F.B.I. said that the gloves appeared to match those worn by the man who was captured on Ms. Guthrie’s doorbell camera on the night she was abducted.
Black-and-white surveillance video and images from Ms. Guthrie’s doorstep showed a person wearing a ski mask, gloves and a backpack early on the morning of Feb. 1.
Here is a timeline of the major developments in the case.
9:48 p.m., Jan 31.
Nancy Guthrie Is Last Seen
Just after 5:30 p.m., Ms. Guthrie took an Uber to the nearby home of her older daughter, Annie, and her son-in-law, Tommaso Cioni. The three spent about four hours together before Mr. Cioni drove her home.
Ms. Guthrie’s garage door opened at 9:48 p.m. and closed two minutes later, according to the authorities.
Mr. Cioni watched to make sure Ms. Guthrie made it safely inside. That was the last time anyone in her family saw or heard from her.
1:47-2:28 a.m., Feb. 1
Ms. Guthrie’s Front Door Camera Is Disconnected
Ms. Guthrie’s front door camera was disconnected at 1:47 a.m. About 25 minutes later, a camera somewhere on her property detected motion, but recorded no video, because she did not have a subscription to the device’s service provider.
At 2:28 a.m., about 15 minutes after the camera was set off, Ms. Guthrie’s pacemaker lost contact with her cellphone, which investigators would later find inside the house, suggesting this may have been about the time she was taken.
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Chris Nanos, the Pima County sheriff, said that his deputies saw “something at the home that didn’t sit well,” and that it became clear that Ms. Guthrie had been forced out against her will.Credit…Jan Sonnenmair/Getty Images
Feb. 1, morning
Ms. Guthrie Is Reported Missing
When Ms. Guthrie did not arrive at a friend’s house to watch a live-streamed church service on Sunday, the friend notified Ms Guthrie’s family. Family members went to her house just before noon to check on her, discovered she was missing and called 911.
The authorities found her phone, wallet, hearing aid, daily medication and car. At her front stoop, they found an empty mount where a doorbell camera had once hung, and on the tile below they saw spatters of blood, which DNA analysis later confirmed to be Ms. Guthrie’s.
Sheriff Chris Nanos of Pima County, Ariz., told The New York Times that investigators found even more worrying signs of violence at Ms. Guthrie’s home.
“There were things at that home that were of concern,” he said. “That scene, there were things that, I thought, this doesn’t sit well.”
He declined to elaborate, but investigators spent the following days combing through the home, its garage and the surrounding scrubland.
Feb. 2
A Ransom Note Arrives
Roughly 24 hours after the sheriff’s department first posted a missing-person bulletin for Ms. Guthrie, a Tucson television station, KOLD, received a note claiming to be from her kidnapper. The station forwarded it to the authorities.
The celebrity gossip site TMZ, which received a copy the next morning, reported that the letter demanded millions of dollars in Bitcoin for the release of Ms. Guthrie.
Harvey Levin, the outlet’s founder, described the letter on a broadcast as “very well constructed.”
Feb. 3
Savannah Guthrie Withdraws From NBC’s Olympics Coverage
NBC Sports said Savannah Guthrie would not be part of the network’s coverage of the Winter Olympics in Italy. Mary Carillo took her place alongside Terry Gannon as a host of the network’s coverage of the opening ceremony on Friday.
Savannah Guthrie also has been absent from the “Today” set to be in Tucson with her family.
Hoda Kotb, her co-anchor on “Today” from 2018 until 2025, returned to the show to fill in for her former colleague.
Feb. 4
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The “Today” show host Savannah Guthrie, flanked by her siblings, Annie and Camron, said in an emotional video that she wanted to hear directly from anyone who may have taken her mother.Credit…Savannah Guthrie, via Instagram/UGC, via, via Reuters
Ms. Guthrie’s Children Plead for Her Safe Return
Ms. Guthrie’s children recorded their first emotional address to their mother’s kidnapper and posted it to Savannah Guthrie’s Instagram account. Savannah Guthrie, trying to hold back tears as she read from a paper, said her family had heard about purported ransom letters that had been sent to news organizations.
She said that they wanted to hear directly from anyone who may have taken their mother, but that they first needed proof she was alive.
“We are ready to talk,” she said, flanked by her older siblings, Annie and Camron Guthrie. “However, we live in a world where voices and images are easily manipulated. We need to know, without a doubt, that she is alive, and that you have her.”
Feb. 6
Another Note and Another Video
KOLD received another message from the supposed kidnappers. The message, which the station forwarded to the police and did not describe publicly, came from a different IP address than the ransom note, but the senders appeared to have used the same methods to mask their location and identity, the station said.
The next day, the Guthrie siblings released another video. It was 20 seconds long and cryptic.
Savannah Guthrie, speaking without a visible script, said into the camera: “We received your message, and we understand. We beg you now to return our mother to us so that we can celebrate with her. This is the only way we will have peace.”
Feb. 9
Savannah Guthrie Says Her Family Is at ‘An Hour of Desperation’
As the search entered its second week, Savannah Guthrie implored the public for help in finding her mother, saying in an Instagram video that she and her siblings believed that she was “still out there.”
“We are at an hour of desperation,” she said.
Feb. 10
Surveillance Images Show a Masked Figure
New images and videos released showed a masked, armed person at Nancy Guthrie’s doorstep on the night she was abducted, the first significant break in the investigation.
The black-and-white footage, released by the F.B.I. and the Pima County Sheriff’s Department, depicts a person wearing a ski mask, gloves, a backpack and what appears to be a holstered handgun outside Ms. Guthrie’s home, just north of Tucson.
Late in the day, the authorities detained a main for questioning in the case but released him early on Feb. 11.
Feb. 13
Officers Investigate a Residence Near Ms. Guthrie’s Home
The police blocked off a street and investigated a residence a short drive from both Nancy Guthrie’s home and the home of her older daughter and son-in-law, the Pima County Sheriff’s Department said.
Several law-enforcement vehicles were seen at the residence, including a sheriff’s department forensics team truck.
Sheriff Nanos said investigators had obtained DNA from Ms. Guthrie’s property. A department statement said the DNA did not belong to anyone in close contact with Ms. Guthrie.
Feb. 14
Investigators Focus on a Range Rover
Not long after midnight on Saturday, deputies and F.B.I. investigators converged on a Culver’s parking lot and focused on a gray Range Rover.
The location was about a five-minute drive away from the residential neighborhood they sealed off a few hours earlier, although it was unclear if the activity was related to the Guthrie case.
Investigators photographed the Range Rover inside and out and unfurled a sheet to shield it from view. A tow truck later removed the vehicle.
Feb. 15
Unknown DNA Found in Gloves
The F.B.I. said that gloves found about two miles from Ms. Guthrie’s home had an unknown man’s DNA on them, and that it would put the DNA profile into a database in an effort to identify the person.
The F.B.I. said that the gloves appeared to match those worn by the man who was captured on Ms. Guthrie’s doorbell camera on the night she was abducted.
The F.B.I. added that most of the other gloves recovered during its searches were those of investigators who had discarded them while conducting sweeps near the home.
Feb. 3, 2026
Claire Moses
Details about the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie.
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Law enforcement officers outside the home of Nancy Guthrie near Tucson, Ariz., on Feb. 2.Credit…Sejal Govindarao/Associated Press
The disappearance of Nancy Guthrie, 84, the mother of the “Today” show anchor Savannah Guthrie, has gripped the nation, with unverified reports of ransom notes, chilling doorbell camera footage and the fame of Ms. Guthrie’s daughter capturing intense interest.
But as the days have passed, little new substantive information has been made public about what the authorities are investigating as a kidnapping.
