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

[ssarahbg]

I’m trying to find it also.

I posted a link to the Pima County FB page a few pages back. They had a video from December.

 

[SammiSleuthing]

@BrianEntin
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Sources tell me a person is detained in the Nancy Guthrie investigation. South of Tucson.

ABC News reporting the same. Please, dear GOD, let her somehow let Nancy be safe. At the minimum, let this nightmare of not knowing end and the movement towards swift justice begin.

ABC News: Person detained for questioning in connection with Nancy Guthrie abduction: Official

TMZ: Person Of Interest Detained for Questioning in Nancy Guthrie Abduction Case

 

[CSIDreamer]

Not a coincidence.

https://twitter.com/x/status/2021412707795394705

Someone probably recognized him from the holster business. JMO

 

[shonyakay]

Is any of the activity near Paradise Valley?

 

[NavySubMom]

Per CNN, and Fox, a person had been detained

 

[dogmom805]

Detained as a ransom hoaxer or detained as an abductor?

both, sounds like.... JMO. Media says connected with the 'abduction', but it's interesting this happened so quickly after a, likely, bitcoin deposit made by LE to track veracity. So, this points to 2 possibilities. Or, someone turned someone in that resembles the perp at the door. LE quickly already had a search warrant, though, and it says they are searching.

 

[aawaterloo]

The kidnapper’s lack of mobility stood out to me. Either was wearing way too many layers or really struggles with flexibility.

JMO, agree with lack of flexibility. From my observation of many folks who are in the business where lots of bending is involved (roofing, landscaping etc.), due to overuse, they tend to have flexibility issues when get to late 30s and early 40s.

 

[clearskies1]

We broke the story ... our law enforcement sources told us the operating theory is the kidnapper is from the Tucson area and wrote the ransom note that was sent to a couple Tucson TV stations and TMZ.

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I don't see why this is such a big scoop. It was obvious it was a local crime. SG not rich enough to be a Hearst-like kidnapping.

 

[TexLil]

Wondering if detained person was identified thru tip from new images/videos or from the bitcoin activity or?

 

[NavySubMom]

both, sounds like....

Detained for questioning, they clarified “not a suspect” at this point

 

[Athos65]

Person detained for questioning in connection with Nancy Guthrie abduction: Official

 

[Moonshadow0901]

The peculiar placement of the perps gun which hides gender identification is of note.

 

[Herat]

Stops at remote town near Nogales?

Tubac is not that remote. It gets all the traffic that has crossed the Mexican border at Nogales going north, and a lot of traffic from Nevada, Utah and Arizona going south to enter Mexico at Nogales.

Nogales is the 8th busiest border crossing with 10 million crossings per year

 

[skyedaze]

Is the medivac helicopter connected to this case? If so do we know who is on it?
I'm watching the Olympics on TV...phone on Brian Entin, laptop on Websleuths lol

 

[SRWCF]

I can’t say 100% she went thru garage but the timeline shows garage opened 9:48pm & closed 9:50pm so it certainly appears she did. And it’s no trouble to open a garage door with an opener or a phone app or even a key pad and likely easier for her if no steps from garage to house than front door would be. IMO family may have even pulled their car into the garage and let her out inside which would have made a shorter walk for her than the walk from the drive to the front door landing. i do agree at some point she either came out the front door or carried out it because of the blood but not when she came home. Vid of perp released today shows no blood there at the time he was caught on the camera.

I mentioned this once before, but that metal "screen" door covering Nancy's front door has locks on it. Locks that likely require a different key than the front door lock. My husband installed that very same door on our former house. We bought it at Home Depot and liked having it on our front door because it provided more security than your average screen door. Also, we never carried the key with us as we always entered through our garage door. Always.

 

[HoveringWombats]

They don't appear to have any info we haven't already seen posted here (several times...) but FWIW CNN is now covering live on TV, if anyone (like me) was looking for that.

 

[UsernameRequired]

Person has been detained and LE has obtained a search warrant and will be searching where this individual was detained south of Tucson.

Person detained for questioning in connection with Nancy Guthrie abduction: Official

The Pima County Sheriff’s Department and the FBI have detained an individual for questioning in connection with the abduction of Nancy Guthrie, a source said.

abcnews.com

 

[Trino]

Is any of the activity near Paradise Valley?

Paradise Valley is Phoenix not Tucson.

 

[Strangeworld]

I don't see why this is such a big scoop. It was obvious it was a local crime. SG not rich enough to be a Hearst-like kidnapping.

I think its very significant, there has been so much chatter on here and in the wider community about whether the person/s who wrote the ransom notes were one and the same as the kidnapper. This is a huge piece of information!

 

[MassGuy]

Just to tap the breaks a bit. We saw this exact same thing in the Brown University case, and they wound up being wrong.

I’ll feel more confident once we figure out what led them to him.

Still very confident though.