Pictured: A photo released by the FBI of a person captured by Nancy Guthrie’s doorbell camera and Savannah Guthrie and Nancy Guthrie on the Today show set in 2015.
(Photo illustration: Yahoo News; photos: FBI via AP, Don Arnold/WireImage via Getty Images)
The desperate search for Nancy Guthrie has now entered its fourth week, with investigators hoping for a break in a baffling case that they appear no closer to solving.
“This will remain an active investigation until Nancy Guthrie is found or all leads are exhausted,” the Pima County Sheriff’s Department said in a statement on Saturday.
Authorities said they’re still waiting on results from an analysis of partial DNA recovered from the 84-year-old’s home in the Catalina Foothills north of Tucson, Ariz., which is being referenced against the FBI’s national DNA database and genealogical services. DNA from a pair of gloves found about 2 miles away turned up no matches in the FBI’s national database last week. The gloves appeared to match those worn by the suspect seen in the video captured by Guthrie’s doorbell camera on the morning that she was reported missing, according to police.
More than 20 days after Guthrie was first reported missing, hundreds of law enforcement officers from both local and federal agencies are still searching for a major breakthrough in the case. So far, no suspect has been identified.
Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos has said that all members of the Guthrie family, including Nancy Guthrie’s adult children and their spouses, have been cleared as suspects. “To suggest otherwise is not only wrong, it is cruel,” Nanos said in a statement.
Nancy Guthrie, the mother of Today show cohost Savannah Guthrie, was last seen at around 9:45 p.m. on Jan. 31, when she was dropped off at her home by family members following dinner, police said. She was reported missing around noon the next day after she did not show up at a friend’s house to watch an online church service.
Officials say they have received tens of thousands of tips since the investigation into her disappearance began. Anyone with information is encouraged to reach out to the Pima County Sheriff’s Department tip line at 520-351-4900 or the FBI tip line at 1-800-CALL-FBI.
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Mike Bebernes
Volunteer groups try to help search for evidence
Several groups of private citizens have mounted their own searches in the areas around Nancy Guthrie’s home in hopes of helping authorities locate potentially crucial evidence about her disappearance.
“We feel it’s our duty to find her,” Alex Zabel, who helped organize one of the search groups, told local TV station KOLD News 13.
One of the groups includes members of a Mexican nonprofit organization that aims to find missing people in Sonora, the Mexican state that borders Arizona. Some local homeowners have granted the group permission to search their properties, its leader, Lupita Tello, told the Arizona Republic.
The Pima County Sheriff’s Department has asked search groups to give professional law enforcement personnel plenty of space to conduct the official investigation.
One volunteer search turned up a backpack and clothes that were handed over to the authorities, but they did not appear to be related to the case.
“After reviewing the bag and its contents, it does not appear that this is a viable lead for the investigation,” the sheriff’s department told KOLD.
Mike Bebernes
Where things stand after a quiet weekend in the investigation
Despite a lack of significant progress in the case, hundreds of law enforcement personnel from several agencies are continuing to pursue every available lead to locate Nancy Guthrie. “There have been no changes to resources in this investigation,” the Pima County Sheriff’s Department wrote in a press release on Saturday.
Partial DNA samples collected from Guthrie’s home are being analyzed, though a timeline for when those results might become available is unknown and “there can be challenges” in determining the source of imperfect genetic samples, the department said.
On Saturday, authorities asked volunteer search groups made up of private citizens who had inquired about potentially helping with the investigation to please stay out of the area. “We all want to find Nancy, but this work is best left to professionals,” the sheriff’s department wrote on social media.
Mike Bebernes
Investigators not ruling out the possibility of multiple suspects
Though the investigation into Nancy Guthrie’s disappearance has centered around the person seen in images from her doorbell cam, authorities have not ruled out the possibility that other people may have also been involved, the Pima County Sheriff’s Department said on Friday.
The department also said it has collected surveillance footage from Guthrie’s neighbors, which it is currently analyzing for potential leads.
Dylan Stableford
Trump urges media to focus on ‘other subjects’ and not report on investigative methods
President Trump speaks to reporters aboard Air Force One on Feb. 19.
(ASSOCIATED PRESS)
President Trump continues to offer his opinions in the search for Nancy Guthrie.
Asked by a reporter on Air Force One on Thursday about what he thinks happened to Guthrie, Trump said, “It’s so crazy. It’s so bad.”
The president said that he “didn’t like when they were talking about they’re going after the pacemaker.” Earlier this week, the Pima County Sheriff’s Office confirmed that investigators were working with the manufacturer of Guthrie’s pacemaker in an effort to locate the device. Multiple news outlets had reported that law enforcement was using a tracking tool known as a “signal sniffer,” mounted to a helicopter, in the hopes of finding it.
“Before they even started going after it, they’re coming and reporting it,” Trump said. “If, in fact, they could do it that way, the person would say, ‘Well, I’m not gonna let that happen,’ right? So bad things would happen, and he’s not going to let that happen. I can’t imagine why they would have done that in terms of strategy.”
Trump suggested that the media “start reporting on other subjects also and see what happens.”
“It’s a very sad situation,” he added.
Dylan Stableford
Official asks public not to call 911 with opinions on case
Pima County Sheriff’s deputies at Nancy Guthrie’s home on Feb. 19.
(Joe Raedle via Getty Images)
Nearly three weeks after Nancy Guthrie’s disappearance, officials say they continue to be swamped with tips — but not many are actionable.
Cecila Ochoa, dispatch manager for the Pima County Sheriff’s Department, told NBC News that many of the calls coming into 911 are from people who want to share theories and opinions about the case.
She asked that people think twice about calling police.
“If you’re thinking about calling in a tip or a lead or if you have specific information regarding the case, I ask that you take a moment and think — is this tip viable, is it credible?” she said. “What we don’t want are the opinions and the thoughts and kind of wondering, ‘Are investigators doing a, b, c and d?’”
The sheriff’s department issued a similar plea last week.
Mike Bebernes
Hundreds of law enforcement personnel remain on the case, sheriff’s department says
“As long as leads continue to come in, investigators will continue to follow up on them,” the Pima County Sheriff’s Department wrote in a news release Thursday afternoon.
According to the department, several hundred personnel from various law enforcement agencies are continuing to investigate Nancy Guthrie’s disappearance.
On Wednesday, Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos told NBC News that the thousands of tips that are being submitted by the public are helping keep the case active.
“As long as we have the ability to chase a lead, it’s not cold,” he said.
Mike Bebernes
Sheriff’s department details how it manages thousands of calls related to Guthrie case
The Pima County Sheriff’s Department has received more than 28,000 calls through 911 and its non-emergency lines since the investigation into Nancy Guthrie’s disappearance began nearly three weeks ago.
Cecilia Ochoa, the department’s dispatch manager, described to a local news outlet how it is handling such an overwhelming flood of information from the public.
“People saying the suspect is right-handed or left-handed, or whether it’s a man or a woman. There are plenty of people calling in about the same thoughts or theories, so those are typically the types of things we just we don’t want to hear about,” she told KOLD News 13 in Tucson on Thursday.
Ochoa said she and her team have had to modify how they interact with people who call about the case, telling them that the department is “not taking any tips unless it’s a possible location or suspect information.”
The change was needed, Ochoa told KOLD, in order to ease the burden on investigators who are “having to comb through every single” tip that comes in.
Dylan Stableford
Investigators turn to ‘investigative genetic genealogy’ in search for a DNA match
After DNA recovered from a glove found about two miles from Nancy Guthrie’s home turned up no matches in the FBI’s national database, authorities are turning to genetic genealogy as the investigation into her disappearance stretches into its third week.
Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos told NBC News that investigators are analyzing partial DNA found at Guthrie’s home and are exploring “investigative genetic genealogy options” to identify possible matches.
The forensic investigative genetic genealogy method, which incorporates public genealogy websites with DNA analysis, helped authorities identify Brian Kohberger, who pleaded guilty to murdering four University of Idaho students in 2022.
The law prevents police from searching private genealogy databases such as Ancestry.com or 23andMe. Instead, investigative genetic genealogy relies on publicly available databases, such as GEDmatch.
“If I was the kidnapper, I would be extremely concerned right now,” CeCe Moore, a DNA expert, said on NBC’s Today show Thursday. “Because, using investigative genetic genealogy, he will be identified.”
Dylan Stableford
There’s no evidence Nancy Guthrie was taken across the border, reports say
ABC News reported on Wednesday that the FBI has “reached out to Mexican authorities” about Nancy Guthrie’s disappearance.
NBC News confirmed the report, saying such outreach is standard, given the proximity of the U.S.-Mexico border to Tucson, Ariz., where she was reported missing.
But law enforcement sources told both ABC News and NBC News that there’s no evidence that Guthrie was taken across the border.
Mike Bebernes
Second $100,000 reward offered by an anonymous donor
The Tucson-based nonprofit 88-Crime announced Wednesday that it had received $100,000 from an anonymous donor to be used as a reward for information leading to Nancy Guthrie’s location. The new reward is in addition to the $100,000 sum that the FBI is offering.
88-Crime is a local chapter of Crime Stoppers, a nationwide community program that allows people to anonymously report information about criminal activity without potentially putting themselves at risk of punishment. The $100,000 donation will be added to the $2,500 reward the organization had previously offered.
On Monday, Milwaukee-based attorney Michael Hupy said he would provide $100,000 in reward money to Crime Stoppers. Hupy argued that the FBI’s tip line — which requires people to submit personal information like their name, email address and phone number — could be preventing someone from sharing crucial details with law enforcement.
88-Crime has not confirmed whether Hupy is the source of its new reward money.
Mike Bebernes
Additional DNA samples from Guthrie home are being analyzed, sheriff’s department says
Investigators are analyzing “biological evidence” collected from Nancy Guthrie’s home, the Pima County Sheriff’s Department said on Wednesday. The genetic material belongs to multiple people, the department said, though it declined to say how many separate DNA profiles there are or who they might belong to.
On Tuesday, the department announced that a DNA sample gathered from a pair of gloves found roughly 2 miles from the Guthrie home did not return a match in the FBI’s national DNA database.
Dylan Stableford
Sheriff says the case has not gone ‘cold’
In his interview with NBC News, Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos expressed hope of solving the Nancy Guthrie case, more than two weeks after she was reported missing.
“As long as we have the ability to chase a lead, it’s not cold,” Nanos said. “And we have thousands of leads we’re looking at.”
He added: “We’re going to find Nancy, and we’re going to find who did this.”
Dylan Stableford
‘Today’ show studio filled with yellow flowers in support of Savannah Guthrie
Savannah Guthrie’s “Today” show colleagues wore yellow ribbons on Wednesday.
(Courtesy of NBC/Today)
As the search for Savannah Guthrie’s mother, Nancy Guthrie, continues, people have been showing their support by leaving yellow flowers outside the 84-year-old Guthrie’s home in the Catalina Foothills north of Tucson, Ariz., and attaching yellow ribbons to trees in the neighborhood.
At the suggestion of a viewer, Savannah Guthrie’s NBC colleagues filled the Today show studio with yellow roses on Wednesday and wore yellow ribbons in solidarity.
“This is our missing mom,” Today cohost Carson Daly said.
Savannah Guthrie has not been on the show since her mother went missing.
Dylan Stableford
Investigators are trying to identify the suspect’s ‘unique’ gun holster, sheriff says
The ‘armed individual’ seen on Nancy Guthrie’s doorbell camera.
(FBI)
In a new interview with NBC News, Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos said investigators are canvassing gun shops in an effort to identify the person seen in the video taken from Nancy Guthrie’s doorbell camera. In the footage, the individual appeared to have a gun in a holster on the front of his waistband.
“We know he had a gun. We know he had a holster that had some pretty unique characteristics,” Nanos said. “We can’t quite identify it yet, but that’s being worked on. So naturally, we go to our gun shops everywhere and say: ‘Have you seen this guy? Can you help us identify this weapon? Can you help us identify this holster?’”
Authorities are also working with Walmart management to “identify and isolate” the individual who purchased the backpack seen in the surveillance footage, the sheriff’s department said. The FBI had identified the backpack as a black, 25-liter “Ozark Trail Hiker Pack,” which is sold exclusively by the retailer.
Dylan Stableford
Authorities have received over 40,000 tips since Nancy Guthrie went missing
The FBI and the Pima County Sheriff’s Department have fielded over 40,000 tips since Nancy Guthrie was reported missing on Feb. 1, according to the latest figures distributed by the sheriff’s department.
Investigators said the total number of calls to 911 and emergency and administrative lines from Feb. 1-16 was 28,586, including 20,968 nonemergency line calls.
The FBI’s National Threat Operations Center has received more than 18,000 tips related to the Guthrie case over the same period, the sheriff’s office said.
Mike Bebernes
Investigators turning to genealogy, partial DNA from Guthrie home after gloves return zero matches, sheriff says
Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos told NBC News on Tuesday afternoon that the failure to find a match for DNA found on gloves discovered near Nancy Guthrie’s house is “not the end” of their attempts to use genetic material to find the person responsible for her disappearance.
“Now we start with genealogy and some of the partial DNA we have at the home,” he told the network.
He added that he believes that some of the DNA collected at the home may belong to the suspect, but that investigators won’t know for sure until it’s been cross-referenced against available DNA databases.
Dylan Stableford
Investigators are still processing evidence from last week’s search warrants, police say
In an aerial view, FBI and SWAT units execute a search warrant approximately two miles from Nancy Guthrie’s residence on Feb. 13.
(Brandon Bell via Getty Images)
The Pima County Sheriff’s Department said Tuesday that investigators are still processing evidence from two search warrants executed last week. Authorities searched a home near the edge of Nancy Guthrie’s Catalina Foothills neighborhood outside of Tucson, Ariz., on Friday night, and a residence in Rio Rico, Ariz., earlier in the week.
“The individuals who were questioned have been released, and no arrests have been made,” the sheriff’s department said. “As this investigation continues, you can expect to see similar activity.”
The department added that it “has not confirmed the number of leads investigators are actively pursuing.”
Dylan Stableford
Focus turns to Nancy Guthrie’s pacemaker and suspect’s backpack
As the search for Nancy Guthie entered its 17th day on Tuesday, the Pima County Sheriff’s Department said in a statement that it is working with the manufacturer of the 84-year-old Guthrie’s pacemaker in an effort to “locate the device.” Police had said that Guthrie’s pacemaker stopped syncing with her Apple devices at approximately 2 a.m. the morning she was reported missing.
Separately, investigators are working with Walmart management to “identify and isolate” the individual who purchased the backpack seen in the doorbell camera footage released by the FBI, the sheriff’s department said. The FBI had identified the backpack as a black, 25-liter “Ozark Trail Hiker Pack,” which is sold exclusively by the retailer.
The sheriff’s department also said that investigators are “canvassing businesses and showing the doorbell video released by the FBI to determine whether the suspect appears familiar.”
Mike Bebernes
No match found for DNA from gloves discovered near Guthrie house, sheriff’s department says
Genetic material gathered from gloves that were found roughly two miles away from Nancy Guthrie’s house did not match anything in the FBI’s DNA database, the Pima County Sheriff’s Department said Tuesday.
Other sources of DNA material are still being processed, the department said.
Mike Bebernes
Milwaukee attorney offers up $100,000 as an alternative to the FBI’s reward
Michael Hupy, an attorney and the president of the Milwaukee chapter of the nonprofit Crime Stoppers, has offered up a $100,000 reward for information leading to Nancy Guthrie’s location.
In an interview with a local news station, Hupy argued that the FBI’s system for providing tips surrounding the case — which requires people to submit personal information like their name, email address and phone number — could be preventing someone from sharing crucial details with law enforcement.
“This woman has been missing for two or three weeks. And no leads have amounted to anything,” he told Fox 6 in Milwaukee. “So if the person who knows who the perpetrator is doesn’t want his name exposed, wants a reward and has information that will lead to an arrest — Crime Stoppers is the perfect place to do it.”
Crime Stoppers is a community program that allows people to anonymously report information about criminal activity without potentially putting themselves at risk of punishment. Hupy said that the $100,000 reward would be paid out through the Tucson Crime Stoppers chapter.
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