Savannah Guthrie at Rockefeller Plaza on March 5, and Savannah Guthrie and Nancy Guthrie on the Today show set in 2015.
(Photo illustration: Yahoo News; photos: Charles Sykes/Invision/AP, Nathan Congleton/NBC via Getty Images)
The desperate search for Nancy Guthrie, the mother of Today show cohost Savannah Guthrie, is nearing the end of 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 last Friday, “At this time, we will not comment on the details or status of this analysis.”
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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FBI obtains Uber video of Nancy Guthrie from night before she vanished
Federal investigators have secured video from an Uber ride Nancy Guthrie took on the evening of Jan. 31, hours before she disappeared from her Tucson, Ariz., home, NewsNation reported.
The driver handed over all footage from inside the car to the FBI. Investigative reporter Dave Mack said on Crime Stories with Nancy Grace that authorities found nothing notable. “They found nothing of substance of anything of Nancy Guthrie in the vehicle, anything she said, her demeanor, nothing was mentioned,” Mack said.
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Investigators probing theory that 2nd person was already inside home when masked person was seen on doorbell camera footage
An unidentified woman takes a photo at the home of Nancy Guthrie.
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Investigators are looking closely at the security gate on Nancy Guthrie’s front door, which is nearly impossible to break through from the outside, NewsNation reported on Thursday. That’s why some law enforcement officials believe there was a second person already inside Nancy Guthrie’s home when a masked person was seen in the doorbell camera surveillance video shared by the FBI.
Investigators are looking into a theory that the masked person was waiting on the outside to help an accomplice get Guthrie out the front door.
NewsNation’s Brian Entin reports that the FBI has returned to the neighborhood to ask residents about some former neighbors who moved out shortly before Guthrie’s disappearance.
Entin spoke to a resident of the area who said a friend of hers has a house under construction, and FBI agents asked them to give the names of construction workers and contractors who have been working on the home.
Kate Murphy
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
Jack Brewster
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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