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

[Sadi]

Anything is possible
they can tell how old DNA evidence is, but I’m not sure if they can tell by a few hours or a day or 2. No idea…

I know it’s an odd question, but I’m curious and like details. I’ll do some research. There was a picture of N somewhere on here and it showed a bandage on her arm which made me wonder.

 

[SRWCF]

I think all family and others are suspects. This guy may have been the one to take her home last night. He may be the nicest guy you would ever want to meet. He does make some wild music, though... one album entitled: Life:Love::Love:Murder. The band is Early Black and they play in the Tucson area. Maybe someone with more insight into this music could add to this. Otherwise, it is reported that he taught biology.

Yep, I saw all of that. I listened to the music and LOVE IT. He's only 3 years younger than me and I was very much into the punk rock scene growing up and I still enjoy the genre.

 

[bestill]

My opinions only:

What are the chances that Nancy Guthrie is still alive? <20%

What are the chances the one responsible was a healthcare person, gardener, maid, electrician, etc? 40%

What are the chances the one responsible was a family member? 60%

What are the chances the police and FBI will eventually solve this case? 80%

When do I think a person(s) will be arrested? Within the next 10 days.

I bookmarked this so we can see how on the crypto you are!

 

[SMK777]

we need a break in the case

Absolutely. The only thing that will make things stop stagnating and move forward.

 

[SRWCF]

I know it’s an odd question, but I’m curious and like details. I’ll do some research. There was a picture of N somewhere on here and it showed a bandage on her arm which made me wonder.

Could have been a bruise from a blood draw or IV during surgery (I saw the picture, too, but can't remember the placement of the bandage).

 

[Trino]

Lots of "parts" to the disappearance of NG but not the one thing to pull it together. Extremes are she's either deceased or the entire disappearance is a hoax. Money is somehow involved - maybe. As baffled as everyone, including law enforcement.

I do think if the perp was hired help that they would have taken valuables from the house - unless the person was paid solely to abduct NG for someone else. Maybe a reason posters don't know about? Beginning to think this was not just done by one person. Just think the intruders are gone from the area, state, maybe the country.

She couldn't be abducted w/o a car so why can't LE get a hit on a vehicle? Even a vehicle on an adjacent street at that hour of the morning?

 

[justwannahelp]

But if someone knew that there wasn't a subscription why would they even bother to take it? Maybe they weren't aware that it didn't save, but still.

It is my understanding- someone correct me if I’m wrong - that the front door camera was not a nest. The front door had a recording/working camera, so was maybe a ring camera?? The cameras placed all around the property (other than front door and MAYBE back door) were nests without subscriptions/no video.

Is that right?
Ring cams recording at front and back doors
—smashed and/or taken

Nest cams everywhere else
(not main entrances)
—no subscription/no video
—not smashed, not taken

 

[acutename]

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 actually wondered if they could provide the requested crypto but lock it....

 

[merrymary]

Someone posted way earlier in the thread that Nancy had had some electrical work done at her house and that the permit had final inspection the first week of January. I guess I’m surprised there hasn’t been more discussion of that, this seems right around the time punch list work would be completed, which can cause tension sometimes. That coupled with the white van would lead me to perhaps look at any disgruntled tradesmen that had been in her home recently.

Yes, that was me. Final inspection was done on the 6th of January. I would have to believe they looked into that. Heck, Columbo would have been on that in a flash!

 

[DrGonzo]

I think all family and others are suspects. This guy may have been the one to take her home last night. He may be the nicest guy you would ever want to meet. He does make some wild music, though... one album entitled: Life:Love::Love:Murder. The band is Early Black and they play in the Tucson area. Maybe someone with more insight into this music could add to this. Otherwise, it is reported that he taught biology.

There's absolutely nothing "wild" about the band or their music, I took the time to listen to them. Not sure where this is coming from, 50 year old teacher plays bass, it's more like a hobby at this level. I know it's not, like, country music or something, but genre-wise, nowadays, drill-rap could mean we should have a closer look at him

 

[SRWCF]

She held something up with large text and a QR code in the middle. This was a few nights ago. Maybe it was a prop. Ashleigh irritates the hell out of me sometimes.

Finally, someone else who is not a fan of Ashleigh!

 

[Navillus923]

i watched Harvey Levin and he understands the stakes here and thankfully is not releasing that info on location of Apple watch. Based on his experience with lots of crazy things he seems to think this is credible.

Democrats. She really hated Trump.

She doesn't have a hateful bone in her body

 

[sds71]

Yesterday during the press conference, the FBI said they’d be putting up digital billboards for Nancy Guthrie.Can confirm while driving back to Phoenix from Tucson, my photographer & I saw a couple of them once we got into the PHX area right off the I-10 freeway

https://twitter.com/x/status/2019792440169795680

 

[ms-t]

Could have been a bruise from a blood draw or IV during surgery (I saw the picture, too, but can't remember the placement of the bandage).

I noticed the bruises and assumed that they were the result of taking blood thinners. My Mom took blood thinners and I recall she occasionally had similar bruises as a result.

 

[HoveringWombats]

It is my understanding- someone correct me if I’m wrong - that the front door camera was not a nest. The front door had a recording/working camera, so was maybe a ring camera??

The front door camera was almost surely a Nest. I am 99.9% sure. There is a clear and close-up photo of the front door area showing the locks as well as the (now empty) door camera/doorbell bracket, and it looks exactly like a Nest doorbell mounting bracket, for a battery-powered (not wired) Nest doorbell. I suppose it's possible that some other brand uses an identical bracket, or that they had somehow mounted a different brand on a Nest mounting bracket, but I think it's pretty unlikely. Occam's Razor says that it was a Nest doorbell.

 

[Sessiebo]

MOO perhaps the bargaining chip is no longer alive.

But MOO I think the ransom is a red herring and distraction.

I agree.
IMO
I think the sole purpose of taking her out of the house was to get rid of any evidence which to me means it was someone already in the database or like a fam. member who LE can compare possible traces of dna with.
Also i think it's someone that has something to lose, someone with a job and a family.
For example, a meth addict wouldn't care or even think about being caught, so getting rid of evidence is not their priority after commiting a crime.
Some thought has gone into taking her from the scene.
JMO.

 

[merrymary]

My opinions only:

What are the chances that Nancy Guthrie is still alive? <20%

What are the chances the one responsible was a healthcare person, gardener, maid, electrician, etc? 40%

What are the chances the one responsible was a family member? 60%

What are the chances the police and FBI will eventually solve this case? 80%

When do I think a person(s) will be arrested? Within the next 10 days.

I am pretty close to your percentages...I would however raise the percentage on electrician, etc and lower on family member.

 

[aafromaa]

Does anyone remember early on when the ransom note was reported on, that it was mentioned somewhere about the Thursday/Monday deadlines. But then in the last 24 hours people were responding like it was new information. I could have sworn I'd already heard that somewhere earlier. From what I recall, it was ransom to be sent by Thursday and to be received in their account by Monday. When I heard that I thought well maybe they are allowing time for the transfer - so pay by Thursday and it better be in my account by Monday.

Maybe I'm wrong, there's been so much swirling around

I thought it was originally reported as pay x amount by Thursday or the price goes up and you have until Monday to pay the higher amount or else. Seems like i heard that the day TMZ reported the ransom note but not sure about that

 

[CuriousCricket]

None of this makes sense
no robbery
questionable ransom letter to tmz days later
an elderly target with health issues
not targeted? no mention of savannah specifically
savannah has money, but not enough for this kind of drama
could have gone after that money a much easier way

So what did taking NG actually accomplish?

If the ransom was not the main objective:
1. We know it prevented SG from going to Italy. Covering the Olympics usually means feel-good stories. So, did she have something else on her schedule that might have been destructive to someone's life? The possibility of her discovering a dark secret in TC's background tugs at my mind. However, since he's been in the family for such a long time, surely SG would have already checked him out if she wanted to. Has something come up recently?

2. It also brought the son home from Vermont. How did that change his schedule? We simply don't know.

3. Did it prevent something happening in the life of Annie and TC?

4. Or was it a break-in gone bad and simply scheduled on a bright full-moon night?

What has been accomplished? How could something be big enough to risk prison for kidnapping, possibly murder?

 

[Starkville]

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I really, really want to know more about this. We have heard that NG had not attended church in person since Covid. Was NG planning on making an exception to attend this particular Sunday? Did the perp think she would keep up her normal routine of watching the service remotely? Or did the perp know ahead of time that she had made special arrangements to attend in person this particular Sunday?

Me too. This is a piece of the story that is still ambiguous. It’s a simple question: was she in the habit of attending church in person, every Sunday? I realize we the public aren’t owed an explanation, but it’s an innocuous bit of information that one would think wouldn’t jeopardize their investigation. IMO. I haven’t seen an official disclosure that gives a definitive answer.

MOO I think this is “smoke” (as in, ‘where there’s smoke there’s fire’), and I don’t know why there was no further information about this pivotal (IMO) point in the narrative. (The other point is who dropped her at home and
when) It’s a small question, but I think the answer is a big piece of the puzzle. And we don’t know it. JMO