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

[Friday Fan]

My mom had Parkinsons and for lack of a better work, she could be a real.. (She also had mental illness, memory loss and cognitive impairment) She had horrible scolosis and hobbled like the hunchback of Norte Dame. She would often start and stop and close her eyes when she walked. Yet, she could have made it through a garage in and into the dining room in about 30 secs. The garage would be the quickest part. Getting around the house took longer for her because of furniture, turns corners etc.

 

[BrownRice]

Her daughter may have ordered the Uber.

True. That was my first thought. But I’d think she’d need the phone to be with her for her watch unless she has a separate cellular plan for watch. We have purchased the Apple Watches and phones for our parents due to the falling alerts the watch has. But they need their phone for the watch to work like that.

 

[BrownRice]

I’m not sure how often people are killed in robberies gone wrong — I do know it happens — but just anecdotally there are people in my family who have been home when someone broke in. In both instances (very different circumstances, roughly 50 years apart and in different states), they both just kept calm and sat down and didn’t move while the person went through the house and then left. Same thing also happened to a friend of a friend. A resident being home obviously isn’t ideal for a burglar but if you don’t try to stop them or get in their way, you probably won’t get physically hurt since their motive is valuables not murder.

I know NG has been described as “feisty” but still given her limited mobility I really don’t think she would’ve tried to physically take down an intruder. And in any case even if she did end up being killed, I completely agree with you that her body would’ve been left. You create a world of new problems for yourself taking a body when you just wanted money or electronics or whatever.

Moo

Right. AND, if it was just a robbery, the bad guys had a couple hrs of an empty house which would have been a lot easier!

 

[aafromaa]

There is no way a family member say in passenger seat helped this frail 84 year old woman who requires a cane to walk in just 120 seconds to unbuckle seat belt, grab her belongings in the car, help walk to garage door leading into home, say good bye to love one, then bolt back to car in order to shut garage door 120 seconds after opening. Does not add up

This is what I've been pondering - I just can't imagine this interaction lasting only 2 minutes…. Snipped by me

Agreed. My brother lives on the same *street* as my elderly parents and often shuttles them back and forth from his house to theirs due to their mobility issues. He can open their garage for them….. Snipped by me

How might your thoughts on those 2 minutes change if it turned out that NG’s family had a garage door opener in their vehicle so that when they picked her up or dropped her off they could open the garage door and pull in along side her vehicle and let her get in and out within the comfort of her own garage?

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[Strangeworld]

Does this look like the camera? If so, how did they miss that?

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[Jge24]

Mauro added that residents of the area put up wildlife cameras that could have potentially picked up human movement.

Guthrie’s neighbor, Laura Gargano, said she tipped off the police to investigate the roof because of how clean it looked compared to other homes in the neighborhood.

“I did notice on an aerial shot that it looked like her roof had been recoated recently,” Gargano told CNN on Friday. “When you recoat your roof it gets dirty pretty quickly and we’ve had lot of rains the previous three weeks, so it would be normal for a roof to be a little dirty.”

Gargano suggested that detectives check on the contractors who did the roof work before Guthrie’s disappearance.

Police tow SUV from Nancy Guthrie’s home, take down wired device from roof after tip from neighbor: report

Law enforcement agents confiscated a car parked inside the garage of Nancy Guthrie’s Arizona home Friday, where they also removed a wired device from the roof after they received a tip from a…

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Gargano suggested that detectives check on the contractors who did the roof work before Guthrie’s disappearance.

What a perceptive and smart neighbor! I’m a little discouraged that the FBI did not go on the roof before. Maybe this is just being an armchair critic, but I would have thought when they did a full sweep of the house it would have included checking the roof, especially since it’s a one story / flat roof house.

 

[Strangeworld]

What a perceptive and smart neighbor! I’m a little discouraged that the FBI did not go on the roof before. Maybe this is just being an armchair critic, but I would have thought when they did a full sweep of the house it would have included checking the roof, especially since it’s a one story / flat roof house.

And it actually looks like it might have been visible from the ground, hard to say from the angle of the photo above, but very likely IMO

 

[BrownRice]

There is no way a family member say in passenger seat helped this frail 84 year old woman who requires a cane to walk in just 120 seconds to unbuckle seat belt, grab her belongings in the car, help walk to garage door leading into home, say good bye to love one, then bolt back to car in order to shut garage door 120 seconds after opening. Does not add up

It doesn’t say she is invalid. 9:48-9:50 can be close to 3 mins. Driver opens garage door, pulls in, she gets out. My mother in law is same age and uses cane. She can walk, nor far distances but gets around. Doesn’t need help out of car. If NG sees family all the time, there doesn’t need to be a long drawn out goodbye.

 

[osu]

In the last several hours, FBI agents and Pima County deputies have flooded Nancy Guthrie’s home, re-establishing crime-scene tape, restricting access, and towing a vehicle from the property under a sheriff’s escort. Federal agents were also seen at the nearby home of Nancy’s daughter, Annie Guthrie, and her husband, Tommaso Cioni. As alleged ransom communications continue to surface and are actively being reviewed by federal authorities, President Donald Trump publicly acknowledged the investigation and said significant developments had unfolded within a matter of hours.

 

[Cardgame]

And it actually looks like it might have been visible from the ground, hard to say from the angle of the photo above, but very likely IMO

Perhaps it is disguised as a lamp?

 

[Starkville]

I edited and deleted that bit because I thought I'd backspaced it out before making following post.

I didn't have a link and kinda half recall it was AB who said it when talking with BE on a broadcast.

AB has been saying the same thing consistently. I listened carefully, and what she says is that her highly-placed and unimpeachable source told her that TC was considered a prime suspect *at this time*. There’s the qualifier.

He may or may not be NOW. Since her source told her that, investigators may have new information that confirms it, or is exculpatory.

 

[Cardgame]

And it actually looks like it might have been visible from the ground, hard to say from the angle of the photo above, but very likely IMO

Agreed about the neighbour. I love it when ordinary folk make deductive leaps like this. Brilliant.

 

[Knitpicker]

Agreed about the neighbour. I love it when ordinary folk make deductive leaps like this. Brilliant.

Incredible that with a flat roof they didn’t check it sooner,

 

[Serononin]

According to this article, LE went up the roof because a neighbor noticed it looked recently redone and thought that the company which renovated it should be looked into.
Does that mean they found those cameras by chance while checking the roof? :/

I did think the white paint on the roof looked pretty fresh, but that totally slipped my mind amid all the other theories and bits of info!

 

[Sadi]

WOW. That's a thought....but wait....what about her blood on the front porch?

Could have been there already.

 

[Tortoise]

 

[Curiousraccoon]

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Does this look like the camera? If so, how did they miss that?

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Looking at the video here, it's hard to see the type of camera, but it looks like it could be Google Nest as well.

If so, then it also doesn't have a memory card in it and requires cloud storage, same story as with the front door camera.

Editing to add: A quick internet search confirms that all types of Nest cameras don't have memory cards or other such storage and only provide cloud storage (which we already know Nancy didn't have), just so that we don't go back to discussing this

 

[Sadi]

Incredible that with a flat roof they didn’t check it sooner,

Maybe the light/lamp wasn’t working and they were aware of that. But after the neighbor brought it up or DNA test came back, they went back to get the lamp as evidence? Maybe the person tried to remove it before the crime was committed.

 

[Sadi]

AB has been saying the same thing consistently. I listened carefully, and what she says is that her highly-placed and unimpeachable source told her that TC was considered a prime suspect *at this time*. There’s the qualifier.

He may or may not be NOW. Since her source told her that, investigators may have new information that confirms it, or is exculpatory.

If SIL wasn’t involved, why would they keep returning to their home? They’re looking for something specific, in my opinion. Did she know about something that she was going to report on that SIL was involved with?

 

[Sadi]

Is there a car wash at this Circle K?