Savannah Guthrie at Rockefeller Plaza on March 5, and Savannah Guthrie and Nancy Guthrie on the Today show set in 2015.
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The desperate search for Nancy Guthrie, the mother of Today show cohost Savannah Guthrie, is in its seventh week, with no significant breakthroughs.
The Pima County sheriff and the FBI have not publicly named a suspect or a motive for the apparent abduction. Harry Trombitas, a former special agent for the FBI, told Yahoo that authorities are likely to “continue as long as there is an investigation to conduct.”
Trombitas said that while the motive could be for ransom, it’s “appearing less and less” likely.
“There’s too much involved,” he said. “There are too many ways people can get caught.”
Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos told NBC Nightly News last week that investigators believe they know why Nancy Guthrie’s home was targeted — and didn’t rule out the possibility that her kidnapper could strike again.
Nanos added in the interview that they remain hopeful that the “mixed” DNA found at Nancy’s house will lead investigators to “somebody.”
Investigators are also analyzing additional images recovered by the FBI from security cameras at Nancy Guthrie’s home in Tucson, Ariz., according to ABC News.
The images were recovered in recent weeks from motion-activated cameras that covered the pool, backyard and side yard of the property. The images are only thumbnails, and no video has been recovered from the cameras.
The photos captured people in the yard area during an unspecified time period before the abduction, but nothing appeared suspicious, ABC News reported, citing sources briefed on the investigation. The cameras also caught police officers on camera after the kidnapping, but there were no images taken the night of Nancy Guthrie’s abduction.
The Pima County Sheriff’s Department said in a statement Friday, “At this time, we will not comment on the details or status of this analysis.”
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The family of Nancy Guthrie, 84, is offering $1 million for information leading to her “recovery.”
Anyone with information is encouraged to call 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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Former FBI special agent says it appears ‘less and less’ likely that the motive for Nancy Guthrie’s apparent abduction was ransom
An ever-growing collection of yellow flowers and notes sits at the home of Nancy Guthrie, on March 6, 2026, in Tucson, Ariz.
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The investigation into Nancy Guthrie’s disappearance is in its seventh week. The Pima County Sheriff and the FBI have not publicly identified a suspect or a motive, although Sheriff Chris Nanos told NBC Nightly News last week that investigators believe they know why Nancy Guthrie’s home was targeted.
Former FBI special agent Harry Trombitas told Yahoo that while the motive could be for ransom, it’s “appearing less and less” likely. “There’s too much involved,” Trombitas said. “There are too many ways people can get caught.”
Despite Hollywood movies depicting high-stakes kidnappings for ransom, they’re pretty uncommon in the United States and have “really decreased over the years,” he said.
While the FBI tracks kidnapping and abduction cases broadly in the U.S., there is no publicly available data broken down for ransom-specific cases.
“[The motive] could be for revenge of some type, anger, or it could be for a third purpose that we’re just not even aware of,” Trombitas explained.
Read more from Yahoo: Nancy Guthrie’s disappearance: Former FBI special agent says it appears ‘less and less’ likely that the motive for her apparent abduction was ransom
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FBI recovers additional camera images from Nancy Guthrie’s home
The residence of Nancy Guthrie, where authorities believe she was abducted over a month ago in Tucson, Ariz.
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The FBI has recovered additional images from security cameras at Nancy Guthrie’s Arizona home, according to ABC News. The cameras covered the pool, backyard and side yard of the property.
The images are thumbnails only — no video footage has been recovered. ABC News reported that the images captured people in the yard area before the abduction, but nothing appeared suspicious.
On Friday, the Pima County Sheriff’s Department said it “continues to analyze various forms of evidence in the Nancy Guthrie case, including material from laboratories as well as images and videos captured by cameras.”
“At this time, we will not comment on the details or status of this analysis,” the statement added.
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Investigators believe they know why Nancy Guthrie was targeted
Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos says investigators believe they know why Nancy Guthrie’s kidnapper targeted her home in the early hours of Feb. 1.
“We believe we know why he did this, and we believe that it was targeted,” Nanos told NBC Nightly News in an interview that aired Thursday. “We’re not 100% sure of that, so it would be silly to tell people, ‘Yeah, don’t worry about it, you’re not a target.’
“Don’t think for a minute that because it happened to the Guthrie family, you’re safe. No, keep your wits about you,” he added. “From day one, we had some strong beliefs about what happened, and those beliefs haven’t diminished.”
The desperate search for Savannah Guthrie’s mother is in its sixth week.
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Investigators looking at possible connection between damaged utility box and reported internet outage
The Pima County Sheriff’s Department confirmed to NBC that it is investigating a damaged utility box located around the corner from Nancy Guthrie’s house. It could be connected to an internet outage reported around the time she disappeared in the early morning hours on Feb. 1, potentially disrupting the availability of video evidence from nearby home surveillance cameras.
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Investigators looking into possible internet disruption near Nancy Guthrie’s home
Federal investigators are examining whether internet service disruptions in Nancy Guthrie’s Tucson, Ariz., neighborhood the night she vanished could be tied to the abduction.
Guthrie’s neighbors told NewsNation their home security camera footage from that night is missing or marked “not available,” and authorities have reportedly asked residents about unusual connectivity problems around Feb. 1.
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Savannah Guthrie visits ‘Today’ studio, tells coworkers she plans to return to the show
Savannah Guthrie visits the “Today” show on March 5.
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Savannah Guthrie met with her colleagues in New York City on Thursday morning for a tearful reunion as the search for her mother continues into its second month. Photos from the studio show Guthrie wiping away tears, hugging her coworkers and receiving a kiss on the cheek from her Today cohost Hoda Kotb.
Guthrie hasn’t appeared on the show since Jan. 30, two days before her mother, Nancy Guthrie, was reported missing.
After the visit, host Jenna Bush Hager told the Today audience that Guthrie said she planned to return to the show but doesn’t have a timeline for when that might happen.
“She said that she has the intention to return to the show. Even though it feels like the hardest thing to do, it’s also her home and where she feels so loved,” Bush Hager said. “I don’t know when she is actually returning to the show, but she was here and that felt so good to get to hug her.”
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DNA from gloves traced back to individual who is not considered a suspect
DNA analysis of genetic material pulled from a pair of black gloves found two miles from Nancy Guthrie’s home led back to a local restaurant worker who is not connected to the case, the Pima County Sheriff’s Department said on Wednesday.
In mid-February, the sheriff’s department said that DNA from the gloves did not match any entries in the FBI’s national genetic database.
The department told local media that it found a total of 16 pairs of gloves in the area around Guthrie’s house, most of which were later traced back to members of search teams.
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