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

[amelia65452]

Savannah has just posted a new video on Instagram. Extremely eerie.

 

[Cassie P]

Legit question. Grok, write me a ransom letter that would be untraceable of any emotion or clues for an elderly lady kidnapping and plot out my strategy to avoid detection....ever.

Yes it would be impossible to analyze the RN for personality clues, educational level, gender, etc.

 

[mikeshanty]

This is the part that makes me feel for the family.

I think any of us that have lost a parent... think... if you had the means and opportunity, how much would you pay for a chance to see and talk and touch them again?

I can't even put a dollar figure on it.

I would have hit send already I'm sure.

I don't think any of us can truly imagine being in this situation. It is very different actually to having actually lost a parent where it is completely certain you will never meet that person again and so the concept of putting a financial price on doing so is fantasy (apologies, I am atheist if this offends anybody). In this situation, NG is very possibly still alive and so I can only imagine the impossible decisions that are happening right now.

 

[birdbox]

Wow! The most important information here is that they are canvassing the area between the two houses.

I would think that there would be another copy of a newly revised will or trust, either with another family member and with an attorney.

Its tricky. My dad died and a few months before that his attorney died and the practice was closed. All the old copies of the will were in storage boxes in the dead attorneys warehouse and my sister an attorney presented a new will whereby I, the oldest daughter was cut out. I hired my own attorney they said looked like first page of will was removed and replaced but long battle ahead in court. These things with family and money get crazy REAL quick. My sister and my dad's secretary worked together to edit his will he had saved on his computer. Scanned in signed by his former attorney. I didn't have the money or heart for the court battle while grieving my dad and raising kids, so I just went my own way empty handed. So I dont put anything past anyone!!!

 

[Scooby-Doo]

I get that but this Sheriff has been wishy washy.

Personally, I think it hasn't been handled well from the beginning. But, as this is an active investigation, he has done the right thing by not discussing this. The FBI won't be responding to anything.

 

[toucan1234]

Poor Savannah…looks like she hasn’t slept in days

 

[Christineeliz88]

DBM.

In one of the videos/live streams of them searching the house one of the agents stands at the left side of the garage door and appears to enter a code at the height of where a keypad would be and the door shuts behind him. I’m assuming that is how family/NG would enter the garage when not in her vehicle with opener. I’ll try to go back and find it. Might take me a bit.
MOO

https://twitter.com/x/status/2019212731350667378

 

[mikeshanty]

Savannah has just posted a new video on Instagram. Extremely eerie.

Holy **** I just watched!!!

 

[thefragile7393]

Could it be an ARGO? similar building in the background but its missing the overhead door on the side? its on North Oracke road?

ARCO. small but significant difference.

 

[sds71]

The Guthrie family has responded to the new message “Bring her home.”

https://twitter.com/x/status/2020279077459095904

 

[cathathorse]

Just because the daughter has money...i just dont think why ANYONE should think it is her responsibility to pay it. Plus, I am confident it isn't all sitting in a bank account somewhere. Stocks, bonds real estate etc. It takes awhile to liquidate assets. ALL OF THIS is a family matter. Whatever person has a will, trust, 40 million etc is family business. This is a CRIME. NO ONE ALONE should have to shoulder this, regardless of his/her worth. I predict an exotic twist to all of it. Some terrorist group, some political fringe, something along that line. This kidnaping is a statement, not really a ransom situation. JMO.

Big banks will lend against her assets in a heartbeat, if her insurance isn't already paying. She has way more than 40 million unless she has been keeping all her earnings under her mattress for the past 20 years. It is probably mostly invested in the stock market, which is up 1000% since 2009. Her net worth could easily surpass $100 million.

 

[shonyakay]

Poor Savannah…looks like she hasn’t slept in days

She will never be the same.

 

[Vegasgrl]

In my humble opinion, “untraceable” is being overstated here. You are right that Bitcoin can obscure identity at the surface level, but real-world ransom payments still involve intermediaries and behavioural signals that can and do lead to identification. Bitcoin isn’t truly anonymous; it’s pseudonymous. Identifies aren’t visible on-chain, but wallets can often be linked to real people over time through behavioural patterns, exchange touchpoints, metadata, and post-event analysis. This is why law enforcement frequently identifies parties later, even if not immediately.

I edited to untraceable(if you want it to be). There's no reason for SG to go to those extremes. She can probably afford to pay, and being identified as sender is not a secret. Someone could always help her or reimburse her at some time. I don't know if we have a verified figure for the ransom demand?

 

[dogmom805]

dbm

 

[Sundog]

I'm not the person you're asking, but I do think it's important to understand that there's a whole range of ways to hide your origin on the internet. Even under the umbrella of "VPN" there are a lot of pretty different things that the term encompasses. Long before there was ExpressVPN and all these consumer "privacy" VPNs, VPN was used to securely connect networks together. And today, yeah, if sign up through a reputable VPN service based in a Western country, and use that to commit crimes, it's probably not going to go well for you. Another step down the line is a VPN service based in, say, Russia or India. Maybe not impossible to trace, but it's going to be a bit harder. Now, do multiple hops through multiple sketchy providers. A bit harder still. Next, maybe set up your own VPN, hopping through cloud providers (maybe in compromised accounts). Or route your traffic through compromised PCs on residential networks, or a series of rogue proxy servers.

Imagine this scenario. I park somewhere in the parking lot of a mall. I use a high-gain antenna to connect to an open wifi network that some store or restaurant in the mall is running. I proxy through Russia, India, back to a different Russian proxy, and finally exit through a compromised windows computer in some innocent person's house in Michigan. The only thing I do through that proxy is open news station tips forms (NO access to an email account or anything else), and submit a plain text tip through the form. Yeah, this takes some work to do, but you don't have to be a genius. There's a lot of information out there on these things and it's not that buried. This would be quite difficult and time-consuming to track down. And honestly you probably don't need to make it this convoluted to hide effectively.

While it's 1000% true that many people get caught while doing things that they think are untraceable, it's also true that it isn't that hard to make it pretty difficult or potentially impossible for investigators. I know it's comforting to believe that the feds can trace anyone, it's not true. They can trace a lot more than most people think, and most criminals make enough mistakes to get caught, but it's not rocket science to hide.

MOO - I know I am not verified as an expert and I don't really know exactly what the boundaries of the rules are on this, so let's just say this is my opinion and leave it at that.

Good information to know, and you explained it very well as an overview. Thank you.

 

[pirateboy]

Savannah has just posted a new video on Instagram. Extremely eerie.

You aren’t lying. My gut reaction is she was asked to say something like that by the random letter

 

[birdbox]

Very rapid developments last night...

Very quiet today...

Lull before the storm --

I believe it's coming.

JMO

Target acquired, boys.

 

[wyome]

I heard this morning there wouldn’t be another unless something big happened? MOO.

I did too. Not sure where next Thursday came from, but I'm not surprised if LE said it. They're all over the place.

 

[thefragile7393]

The Guthrie family has responded to the new message “Bring her home.”

https://twitter.com/x/status/2020279077459095904

I just worry about this. Opens up more scrutiny for the 3 of them...claiming they aren't emotional enough or too emotional or too this or too that...it's exhausting.

 

[citizen_sleuth]

SG uploaded a new plea, says “we received your message and we understand” and “we will pay”

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