AZ Nancy Guthrie, 84, (mother of TODAY Show host Savannah Guthrie) missing - last seen in the Catalina foothills area on Jan 31, 2026

[citizen_sleuth]

Without more details it’s hard to say, but I wonder if this is possibly related to the ransom demand rather than the kidnapping? Clearly LE has some evidence implicating this person in a crime if they obtained a search warrant — curious to know what led them to this person, digital forensics? A tip? DNA?

 

[Lalalacasbah]

I didn’t say he was that guy. Just that he might work/drive in that area. NG could have gotten food delivered, Instacart, anything. These drivers often work for different services and track different incoming orders.

The mother interviewed said he works in Tucson during the week for UPS.

*ETA: sorry she actually said he works in Tucson 'all week' delivering boxes for UPS and... he works for a company. You can call the company to see if he's working" something like that. So not directly working for UPS, but pehaps delivery in general.

 

[subaw0067]

The media attention alone would be a motivator, guilty or not. I sure as heck would and I'm not involved in any crimes.

You’d think they’d take his phone first thing and he wouldn’t be able to do it once in custody. We need to remember we have no idea what, if any, involvement this POI has at this time. He has been detained, not arrested, and we need to act ethically.

 

[SUNchips]

Brian Entin live on News Nation with the mother in law of the subject who was detained.

Link please?

 

[browneyes]

Where are you watching Brian?

News Nation

 

[Friday Fan]

I wonder if detainee cosplays with a medieval shield on a certain body part???

They said it was him on the video....

Yeah, yeah...

 

[Inthedetails]

I’m so torn here - obviously not wise for her to be talking but BE has always, especially throughout this case, reported with the utmost integrity. I’m inclined to believe she was out there and speaking and BE gave her the platform she was seeking rather than him compelling her to speak. I truly think she has nothing to hide and wants to be heard.

Maybe distinction without difference - but I think BE operates with excellent ethics so I’m inclined to give him the benefit of the doubt.

I don't think it's illegal fwiw. I just find it cringy (for her, not BE).

 

[Missyrocks5]

Brian Entin interviewed the mother-in-law of the detained man. She seemed certain he does not look like the man in the video and that he did not leave in the middle of the night when this happened. But who knows. He and his wife are doing door dash to get money to get their own place she said.

 

[nightowl2728]

If you follow the road, Camino Agosto, away from the highway, it just leads up into the mountains...

 

[Athos65]

She shouldn't be talking, sorry. I'm sure she's in shock, but no need to talk. (Though I want the perp caught and convicted)

That she is being interviewed like this, while her house is being searched and her family's phones have been taken away gives me an uncomfortable feeling. The likelihood that she will be interviewed by LE soon is high, and she has just been giving statements to a reporter who SHOULD know better.

If we also factor in that she is Hispanic, lives near the border and might have a relative involved in a what is now a high-profile crime...this will cause her and her family more problems than not. Someone should have guided her away from the press, or kept the press at a distance until she had been interviewed by LE.

That's just my opinion. I know many will disagree. I want NG found, and I am praying she is safe, but in this nation you are innocent until proven guilty, and we cannot assume that a POI who has not, per the authorities involved, been charged deserves to have his name revealed in an interview rather than through official channels.

Again...opinion.

 

[Arkay]

i don't think BE should be interviewing her either. bad form. he could end up cleared by LE by the time they're done questioning him, but now people will be probing into him and his family. i'm not comfortable with that until LE formally names him as a POI.

I agree.
I heard the MIL give her son-in-law’s last name, but I don’t feel right to discuss it until he’s determined to be the actual POI.

I think since the news on NG morphed today from a drought to a tsunami, Brian and the other newscasters, the ones like him who travel on location, are falling off their feet with exhaustion. Less cautious than usual.

JMO

 

[Knox]

CNN just interviewed the mother-in-law of the person who has been detained for questioning. She has no idea who Nancy Guthrie is. She said that she told law-enforcement they could come and search her home because she has nothing to hide.

She also said he’s a delivery driver in the Tucson area.

 

[agilbe]

If the person detained is not related to the abduction, I'm worried what that could mean for NG and the real abductors. I'm feeling really uneasy.

 

[HoveringWombats]

Link please?

It's live TV, on cable. No link. But people have posted clips if you scroll up.

 

[m00c0w]

Without more details it’s hard to say, but I wonder if this is possibly related to the ransom demand rather than the kidnapping? Clearly LE has some evidence implicating this person in a crime if they obtained a search warrant — curious to know what led them to this person, digital forensics? A tip? DNA?

My guess is it's something related to at least one of the ransom notes. Doesn't make a whole lot of sense otherwise.

 

[Vaderman]

RIGHT NOW: a woman has walked up to me saying that her house is currently under investigation. She claims her son-in-law was detained by authorities.Things are changing by the minute in the search for Nancy Guthrie @abc15

https://twitter.com/x/status/2021447518966714824

Ahh, bummer. She said it's not her son-in-law.

I'm going to bed. Better luck in the morning.

 

[Warwick7]

I go to the bathroom and end up another 10 pages behind! You guys gotta slow down!!

 

[snoopy100]

I’m so torn here - obviously not wise for her to be talking but BE has always, especially throughout this case, reported with the utmost integrity. I’m inclined to believe she was out there and speaking and BE gave her the platform she was seeking rather than him compelling her to speak. I truly think she has nothing to hide and wants to be heard.

Maybe distinction without difference - but I think BE operates with excellent ethics so I’m inclined to give him the benefit of the doubt.

sorry, no. i went to school for journalism. the ethical thing to do would be to speak to her and not air it. i don't think he's being intentionally malicious, but he's been covering this case since the beginning and is probably tired. he should rest, but i don't like this at all.

not saying the guy detained isn't guilty, but we have literally no way to know what led them down this trail or what basis they're questioning him on. it's pretty irresponsible to air an interview with his family.

 

[JaimeInLA]

Your opinion? Your speculation?

Um yah that’s what “positing” means.

 

[Interested Torontonian]

The media attention alone would be a motivator, guilty or not. I sure as heck would and I'm not involved in any crimes.

Yeah - people shouldn't automatically make too much of a wiped profile. Remember, after the shooting at Brown University a couple of months back, the online geniuses decided a pro-palestine/anti-Israel student was to blame and when he wiped his profiles and Brown took down mentions of him from their uni pages, people claimed it was because we was the shooter. (Narrator: he was not the shooter).

Edited to add - there are definitely examples of situations where LE took down profiles of someone they thought was guilty. But b/c it goes both ways, I wouldn't assume it's automatically determinative.