Federal agents and local sheriff deputies are treating the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie as a priority kidnapping case.
TUCSON, Ariz. — The disappearance of Nancy Guthrie, the 84-year-old mother of Today show co-anchor Savannah Guthrie, remains an active, top-priority federal kidnapping investigation as federal agents and sheriff’s detectives systematically comb through hundreds of gigabytes of digital surveillance records, complex DNA evidence, and thousands of public tips in a case that has gripped the country for nearly nine months.
Guthrie was last accounted for inside her home in Tucson’s affluent Catalina Foothills neighborhood on the evening of January 31, 2026. Local deputies initiated an emergency welfare check the following morning when relatives were repeatedly unable to reach her by phone. Responding officers arrived to find an unsecured entryway, visible signs of forced entry, and structural disturbances that prompted immediate forensic containment.