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

[Friday Fan]

The front door has burglar bars according to Maureen exFBI O'Connell

Those are extremely common screen doors. I'm a neigbhorhood volunteer and see them all of the time. The door doesn't prevent a homeowner from opening it. There does not appear any forced entry. Yes, she could talk through the screen door, but he either accessed through the front door that was cracked open or entered the home another way.

 

[birdbox]

https://twitter.com/x/status/2021687831198867589

The FBI are probably collecting her mail until NG found due to ransom letters being sent in. Nothing much to this imo.

 

[TheDinks]

The son in laws eyes are narrow. The suspects are more round. Very different in my opinion.

VERY different, not only that, TC has a large torso. The fact that anyone is STILL suggesting the intruder caught on cam could be TC is beyond.

It clearly isn't him... but how is anyone still asking and not thinking LE would know if it was an inner circle person!

 

[Walela]

Fantastic visual description for those of us who need a visual model to comprehend distance, thank you

Dimensions of a football field....here

 

[cherryleaf]

Wondering if anyone can think of a case where hiring a private investigator helped more than it added to the confusion.
I really can't think of any off the top of my head.

Natalie Holloway

 

[vlbay]

Kidnapping though? That seems personal.

At the risk of sounding cold, why would you bother moving an 84-year old lady when it's easier to NOT move her? It just adds risk and work.

The answer to your question here is the key to this whole thing, imo. Why WOULD someone want to take her? Money/extortion of family members, sadistic cruelty, or...possibly, this person believes NG herself has something that they want, which could be some kind of delusion. This year's film Bugonia comes to mind. Two cousins kidnapped a biotech CEO because they believed she was an alien intent on destroying humanity. We can't logic our way to that kind of answer because it's not logical.

Also, because the McIsaac case was brought up earlier: he used an imitation gun to take a family of four hostage. That could be the case here.

 

[nightowl2728]

Re: the masked man's clothes - isn't it MORE risky to buy new clothes at a store where he could be seen on camera/there is possibly a credit card trail or even prints?
A lot of LE have been saying on TV that clothes are important and have helped find perps before, which I know is true, but it seems like it could so easily be impossible to trace..

Maybe the perp bought them on eBay or Poshmark, or online in general and had them mailed to a friend or family member (who didn't open the package). Maybe they've had them unopened for years in bottom of their closet (been there). Maybe they were purchased at a thrift store in another country.
I just am... doubtful the clothing speculation is super helpful

 

[LRinCA]

Exclusive | Investigators find black glove during hunt for Nancy Guthrie’s kidnappers — and The Post was there

Detectives recovered the clothing item, which resembles the pair worn by the armed perpetrator caught on video, about one and a half miles from Guthrie’s home.

nypost.com

I sure hope this is the real deal (!!!); however, one time my husband and I walked along the parkway near our house and in the space of a mile I counted 15 gloves on the side of the road, among other things. I was amazed that there were that many gloves in such a short distance.

 

[Chimera]

PHOENIX (AP) — Chris Nanos has had a long career in law enforcement, but he admits he isn’t used to the amount of scrutiny that has come with leading the investigation into the disappearance of “Today” show host Savannah Guthrie’s mother.

With the case now in its second week, Nanos has also acknowledged missteps, including that he probably should have waited longer to relinquish Nancy Guthrie’s home to her family after his detectives finished combing through it for evidence.

And critics, including a fellow Democrat, called him out for going to a University of Arizona basketball game last weekend while the victim was still missing.

Arizona sheriff finds himself under a microscope with the Nancy Guthrie case in its 2nd week

Chris Nanos has had a long career in law enforcement, but he admits he isn’t used to the amount of scrutiny that has come with leading the investigation into the disappearance of “Today” show host Savannah Guthrie’s mother.

apnews.com

Thanks for linking this, @GuyfromCanada .

Was wondering whose decision it was, to release Nancy's house so early ?
Pity, as someone had time to clean up any evidence or remove items.
Can't turn the clock back, but this seemed like a misstep.

A caveat for sheriff Nanos, though; What if the fbi advised him to do this and they placed hidden cams to observe what the family did once back inside ?
Did they 'over clean' an area or take something out ?
Etc.
Jmo.

 

[Auburnlucky7]

Odd that a glove would be found on side of road...

Not at all imo

 

[shadowsc]

https://twitter.com/x/status/2021696831298974038

Still seems vague. It's possible he did actually deliver a package to the home recently for his job. FBI probably has gotten records from all recent deliveries and drivers. They may have already been pursuing leads of anyone who has been at the home recently.

 

[gitana1]

IMO, the masked person moves in a comfortable way & doesn’t seem stressed. His backpack is somewhat full, so I believe it was not a robbery or the backpack would most likely be empty.The intent was something different here. The way the person moves makes me feel like they walked her out carefully which keeps hope alive somehow in my mind.

I agree with everything except the last sentence. The rest of it reminds me of Missy Bevers case, with the exception that the perp left the body.

 

[su5ie]

But that does not show proof of life days later. I thought that was what was being discussed. We must be talking about two different things. Also, purchasing a Polaroid camera does give the potential for evidence.

The point I'm making is if this was a kidnap for ransom ,the kidnapper would not wait 24 hours to lodge demand . They would want a payment within 24/48 hours

The longer you are with a captive , the bigger the chance of being caught .

There is a lot of preplanning and possible dry runs similar to a military recon mission

 

[TheDinks]

Those are extremely common screen doors. I'm a neigbhorhood volunteer and see them all of the time. The door doesn't prevent a homeowner from opening it. There does not appear any forced entry. Yes, she could talk through the screen door, but he either accessed through the front door that was cracked open or entered the home another way.

I was responding to the person who said she opened the door a crack and they pushed their way in. That's what the doors are there for... to stop that as well as forced entry.

When commenting on a post... I also read the comment to which they are responding... for context.

 

[milkshakedonkey]

If, as many have speculated, the person on camera was wearing multiple gloves, unsure how helpful this glove will be. Any thoughts? Also seems odd to dispose of it so relatively close to the scene. Wonder how they knew to look at roadsides. Is that typical?

 

[An Interloper]

MOO.

I would imagine the abductor, trying to prevent leaving any DNA from stray hairs, etc., wore fresh clothes to NG’s house. (However bumbling they may be in some ways, they seem to have managed not to leave DNA that got found–and some article said the ransom note bragged about that, though I don’t know if that was validated.) I was initially thinking the jacket was likely to be from Walmart since the backpack seems to be. I agree with others that the overall jacket style is pretty basic–but the zipper is not. It’s got contrasting piping on each side of the zipper rather than the zipper itself being high-contrast. I could not find any like it at Walmart online, with both the horizontal dark line across and the contrast zipper style. But I did find a soft shell that’s sold in Europe that is very similar to that style. I believe Pitch Stone is a Scandinavian brand. I do not know if it’s sold in the US. (I’m an American who moved to Scandinavia.)

Suspect from video did not have velcro on sleeve cuffs, nor a sleeve pocket. I see what is a simple elasticized strip of fabric, common to many fleece jackets.

On the matter of the piping around the zipper, it appears to me to be an effect of the IR light reflecting differently based on fabric (vs. say reflective piping). The reflector tabs on the shoulder straps are bright and scattering the rays as it reflects back. The zipper appears to glow in a more subdued way and in a way that matches the elastic cuffs, more of a luminescence from the IR reacting differently with that fabric than purely reflecting.

 

[submarine7]

Yes, but typical kidnap for ransom cases don’t wait 3 days to make a request. Someone posted a prior FBI agent that said this case doesn’t line up with a typical kidnap for ransom case. If it did they would have medicine on hand, make a clear request right away, and want the transaction done quickly. They usually send via mail a lock of hair or anything that would show confirmation that they have the person. It’s exceptionally uncommon to kidnap someone and expect someone to fund an account without any proof or confirmation. MO

She was kidnapped on Sunday and the first note arrived Monday.

 

[imstilla.grandma]

As the search for Savannah Guthrie's mom, Nancy Guthrie, continues, Paul Mauro, a FOX News contributor and former NYPD inspector, sheds insight to ET's Denny Directo. Mauro breaks down why police detained, questioned and ultimately released Carlos Palazuelos on Monday night. He also analyzes the chilling doorbell footage of the suspect arriving at Nancy's home, whom he calls 'not a professional.' Mauro explains why he suspects the man acted alone.

Nancy Guthrie (née Long) grew up in Fort Wright, Kentucky, a small Cincinnati suburb.

She attended Catholic, all-girls elementary and high schools, and went on to enroll at the University of Kentucky.

While there, she worked with the student-run newspaper, the Kentucky Kernel, as a society editor and staff member. She covered Greek life for the publication, her former editor told local Kentucky outlet WKYT.

What to know about Nancy Guthrie, the 84-year-old mom of 'Today' host Savannah Guthrie

Savannah Guthrie has described her mother as the "rock" who held her family together after her father's death when she was a teenager.

www.businessinsider.com

 

[Millhouse]

Maybe the two photos are from entirely different nights..A dry run so to speak.

The FBI shared these photos, and specifically says they are all from the morning she went missing. Unless the FBI is being intentionally misleading, it's unlikely that they are from a different night or a dry run. They specifically state "the morning of her disappearance."

https://twitter.com/x/status/2021281103454072983

 

[LarryLujack]

Not at all imo

Disagree, why would there be a glove on the side of the road? Explain to me how it would get there, specifically relating it to this case.