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

[emigrate]

You never know.
One time on my street I saw a strange car where the occupant was calling out to a young boy, playing alone on his driveway, to come over. Kid did. I immediately walked over while taking a pic. Turned out the man was the kid's uncle.

These days you need to stay observant.....

I don't blame you one bit, I take pics constantly, maybe 20 a day, busy neighborhood with lots of weirdos. But when kids are concerned I am sure they were glad you cared.

 

[emigrate]

They caught some clown who copied the ransom note loser, but not the big ransom note loser.

I think that you think that the ransom note is a settled issue, but there are two separate senders.

Thank you for the info

 

[citizen_sleuth]

I know some people wear Apple Watches to bed to track their vitals while they sleep — I wonder if NG normally wore hers to bed or if she took it off before sleeping.

 

[carolmaria]

Actually that was corrected at the latest pressor, was only a few min if I recall correctly.View attachment 641998

Thanks for the debunk! Will delete.

 

[MassGuy]

I know some people wear Apple Watches to bed to track their vitals while they sleep — I wonder if NG normally wore hers to bed or if she took it off before sleeping.

It was supposedly found on the charger, so it appears she took it off before bed. On this night at least.

 

[Sundog]

I know some people wear Apple Watches to bed to track their vitals while they sleep — I wonder if NG normally wore hers to bed or if she took it off before sleeping.

I know a few people who wear their Apple watch to monitor their sleep and get data on that, but I also know others who don't like to sleep with their Apple watch on and don't care about the sleep data, so they charge their phones routinely at night.

 

[slowpoke]

I was curious if the watch was connected with a cellular plan?

It had to have a cellular plan if the pacemaker and app had been able to communicate with each other.

At least, that’s my understanding,
jmo

 

[gammagirl]

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Savannah Guthrie’s brother-in-law, Tommaso Cioni, was the last person who saw Nancy Guthrie before she vanished, authorities have said.'
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Tommaso Cioni. Plays in a band called Early Black.

Bandmate Dominic Evans, who is also apparently a friend of Cioni, drew attention. “I think everyone in that inner circle should be looked at and fully vetted. Including this guy, Dominic Evans. He's Tommaso Cioni's friend & bandmate."
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Arizona judicial records (specifically Pima County and Tucson Municipal Court) show cases involving
Dominic Aaron Lee Evans.
Reported charges include burglary, robbery, embezzlement, and DUI
One specific mention references a charge for burglary in Pima County, Arizona.

 

[Moonchime]

It's the crypto that moves into and out of a wallet that is traceable on the ledger (aka the blockchain) so it's the "spending" of crypto in a wallet that makes it traceable, not the existence of a wallet itself. That's true even if one uses a mixer/tumbler.
It sounds like the kidnapper wants millions of dollars worth of crypto, but it might be interesting to see how kidnapper behaves if their wallet was sent for example $20,000 - would the kidnapper leave $20,000 there forever or start moving it which provides clues for investigators. Even if they left the bitcoin untouched in the wallet for years, it's easy to set up an alert to monitor a wallet and if it ever started moving out of the wallet that would provide clues.

I admit it. I'm old and clueless about cryptocurrency. Are you saying that if the ransom were to be paid, the kidnapper wouldn't be able to use the money without being caught? If so, I'm of the mind that the ransom letters aren't real.

 

[jeff2034]

There is so much information about this case, from various sources it is hard to keep track of what is fact and what is speculation. These are a few questions I'd like answered that I haven't heard any information about yet:
Was her purse/credit cards ATM cards left at the house?
Was there evidence of burglary (stolen items) at the house?
Were her ATM/credit cards used after the event?

There is an expression : If you hear hoof beats, think horses not zebras. So perhaps this case is no different than hundreds of other similar cases with very common motives and actions and people are going down all sorts of paths simply because she is the mother of a famous person.
Here is a theory I have: The person or persons who did this simply saw an easy target (an elderly feeble woman with limited mobility, living in an expensive house, and where there were no neighbors that had a clear view of her house) so they took the opportunity to take what they wanted. And they had no idea she was the mother of a famous person. What they wanted was either: property/money, an SA (it happens even to 84 year olds) or simply for the thrill of it. If the murder did occur in the house, they did not leave the body because bodies can produce a lot of evidence (trace evidence, DNA under the fingernails, projectiles, etc.) so instead they decided to take her and dispose of her somewhere in the wilds of Arizona. I suspect, if she was murdered, that they did not commit it in the house but instead transported her somewhere and then murdered her after they got what they wanted. In many cases like this, the perps want the person to use their ATM card so they force the person to go with them so they can use the card. It could also have been someone she could recognize (a former worker at the house, a previous Uber driver, etc), so the killer had no choice but to murder her even if it was simply a botched burglary.
The ransom notes IMO are either a hoax or, if the killer is very stupid, from the killer to try to get LE to look into the kidnapping/ransom angle.

 

[Bluewing3102]

Sorry if this was mentioned earlier, but was watching Nancy Graces recent episode:

She pointed out there's two red smudges (blood) on the brick wall to the right of the front door.

Given that the blood outside was confirmed to be Nancy's this makes me believe that NG walked out and put her hand on the wall. Previously, I only noticed the blood on the ground and I was assuming that maybe she was incapacitated and carried out entirely.

JMO

 

[emigrate]

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Savannah Guthrie’s brother-in-law, Tommaso Cioni, was the last person who saw Nancy Guthrie before she vanished, authorities have said.'
___
Tommaso Cioni. Plays in a band called Early Black.

Bandmate Dominic Evans, who is also apparently a friend of Cioni, drew attention. “I think everyone in that inner circle should be looked at and fully vetted. Including this guy, Dominic Evans. He's Tommaso Cioni's friend & bandmate."
____
Arizona judicial records (specifically Pima County and Tucson Municipal Court) show cases involving
Dominic Aaron Lee Evans.
Reported charges include burglary, robbery, embezzlement, and DUI
One specific mention references a charge for burglary in Pima County, Arizona.

I missed this, who is saying his bandmate should be looked at? TIA

 

[turaj]

Post-
Savannah Guthrie’s brother-in-law, Tommaso Cioni, was the last person who saw Nancy Guthrie before she vanished, authorities have said.'
___
Tommaso Cioni. Plays in a band called Early Black.

Bandmate Dominic Evans, who is also apparently a friend of Cioni, drew attention. “I think everyone in that inner circle should be looked at and fully vetted. Including this guy, Dominic Evans. He's Tommaso Cioni's friend & bandmate."
____
Arizona judicial records (specifically Pima County and Tucson Municipal Court) show cases involving
Dominic Aaron Lee Evans.
Reported charges include burglary, robbery, embezzlement, and DUI
One specific mention references a charge for burglary in Pima County, Arizona.

that is VERY INTERESTING.

 

[BenjaminJAndersonAlly]

Has there ever been a legitimate kidnapping for ransom where the family paid and the victim was let go alive?

Also, do not forget Frank Sinatra Jr. Not sure whether someone else has already brought his case up …

Frank Sinatra Jr was kidnapped 12/08/1963 at gunpoint from a Lake Tahoe hotel room. He was 19 at the time.

The abductors asked for $240,000 which Frank Sinatra Sr. did pay w/help from the FBI (placed between two school buses) in Sepulveda (Los Angeles area).

Frank Sinatra Jr. was released unharmed (12/11/1963) and walked to a Bel Air neighborhood where he alerted a security guard. He was then safely returned to his family. (One of the kidnappers had gotten nervous and had released Frank Jr. whilst the other two kidnappers went to the drop location & collected the ransom money).

The FBI had photographed the bills prior to paying the ransom, and by 12/14/63 it is said almost all of the money was recovered, & all 3 kidnappers had been arrested.

Frank Sinatra, Jr., Kidnapping | Federal Bureau of Investigation

On December 8, 1963, a group of amateur criminals hoping to strike it rich engineered one of the most infamous kidnappings in American history.

www.fbi.gov

 

[Cebavl]

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Savannah Guthrie’s brother-in-law, Tommaso Cioni, was the last person who saw Nancy Guthrie before she vanished, authorities have said.'
___
Tommaso Cioni. Plays in a band called Early Black.

Bandmate Dominic Evans, who is also apparently a friend of Cioni, drew attention. “I think everyone in that inner circle should be looked at and fully vetted. Including this guy, Dominic Evans. He's Tommaso Cioni's friend & bandmate."
____
Arizona judicial records (specifically Pima County and Tucson Municipal Court) show cases involving
Dominic Aaron Lee Evans.
Reported charges include burglary, robbery, embezzlement, and DUI
One specific mention references a charge for burglary in Pima County, Arizona.

Can you post your sources for these charges/convictions? He’s also a longtime school teacher, so it seems like a criminal record would make it a challenge to work with students. Not questioning you, just would like to see your sources.

Wait…just realized you’re talking about SIL’s band mate.

 

[Moonchime]

The kidnappings for ransom that people are mentioning are from 40 or more years ago. Nothing recent in the US. With modern technology much easier to track people. But now we have this (if it is a kidnapping).

I can think of one kidnapping for ransom in which the person was returned alive. It happened here in Vegas in either 1993 or 1994. Casino mogul Steve Wynn's daughter was kidnapped. I just googled the incident, so I'll copy and paste. As you'll see, his daughter was returned quickly.

Yes, Steve Wynn's daughter, Kevyn Wynn, was kidnapped at gunpoint from her Las Vegas home in 1993 by two men who held her for a $1.45 million ransom, which was paid from The Mirage casino's vault, and she was found unharmed but tied up at the airport hours later, leading to the perpetrators' arrests.
Key Details of the Incident:

• Date: July 26, 1993.
• Victim: Kevyn Wynn (then 26), daughter of casino mogul Steve Wynn.
  
  
• • Abduction: Two masked men confronted her in her garage, tied her up, taped her eyes, and forced her to disrobe for lurid photos to prevent her from contacting authorities.
  • Ransom: They demanded $1.45 million in cash from The Mirage casino, which Steve Wynn paid.
  • Rescue: She was left bound in her car at McCarran Airport, where her father's security team found her unharmed.
  • Perpetrators: Ray Cuddy (ringleader) and Jacob Sherwood were arrested and convicted of kidnapping and extortion. A third accomplice, Anthony Watkins, cooperated with authorities.
    
  • Outcome: The men were convicted, with Cuddy serving significant time before his release in 2015, and Kevyn Wynn was found safe.

 

[PNW]

They always think they will get away with it. WE ALL know that practically never do.

Practically never do? The solved homicide rate in the US is around 58%. Plenty of murders go unsolved.

 

[tbgo]

If they arrested someone over the fake ransom note and they’re still acting like there’s a ransom note that is legitimate, does that mean that there was more than one note - one of them fake and one that they think is the real deal? It’s so confusing. One would think that the ransom note business was a fraud and that they’ve moved on from it. Doesn’t sound like they have.

 

[Moonchime]

This news story on previous kidnapping was recently posted. Not all of these ended well.
I posted most of the names in the story.

Nancy Guthrie's kidnapping is latest abduction case to capture America's attention

Charles Lindbergh Jr.

Frank Sinatra Jr.​

Patty Hearst​

Jaycee Dugard​

Elizabeth Smart​

Source: CBS News Affiliate KCCI News-Other Kidnappings

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Wow! I'd forgotten about Patty Hearst. That was a wild story with lots of twists and turns.

 

[BenjaminJAndersonAlly]

That could be a complete lie - if they are monitoring suspects they aren't going to broadcast it.

Absolutely. He could be.

I was a career federal employee, and it was my experience that my government agency lied to and misled the public regularly so I do not doubt that at all.