Nancy Guthrie Update: Note to Media Says Savannah Guthrie’s Mom Is Dead A note sent to the media said Nancy Guthrie—the mother of Savannah Guthrie—has died, according to NBC News. The news comes four months after the 84-year-old disappeared from her Arizona home.

While authorities have declared Nancy’s Arizona home a “crime scene,” they believe there isn’t “any indication that the public is in danger.”

“I don’t think there’s an active threat,” Pima County Sheriff Nanos said in a Feb. 2 press conference, though noting that “there’s a lot of work still to do.”

While Savannah has been absent from Today since her mother was reported missing Feb. 1, local authorities have been in contact with the journalist regarding her safety.

“We’ve spoken to her,” the sheriff confirmed. “She has a security team that’s been in touch with us throughout the night, but we’re not going to dismiss any angles for sure.”

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Authorities Say Nancy Guthrie May Have Been Abducted

On Feb. 2, Pima County police shared a series of updates on the timeline of Nancy’s disappearance.

“At this point, investigators believe she was taken from the home against her will, possibly in the middle of the night,” a spokesperson for the Pima County Sheriff’s Office told MS Now Feb. 2. “Detectives are looking into a possible kidnapping or abduction.”

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Savannah Guthrie Shares a Public Plea to Bring Her Mother Nancy Guthrie Home Safely

Following news that Nancy may have been abducted from her Arizona home while she slept, Savannah shared an emotional request.

“We believe in prayer,” she wrote in a Feb. 2 Instagram post. “We believe in voices raised in unison, in love, in hope. we believe in goodness. we believe in humanity. above all, we believe in Him.”

“Thank you for lifting your prayers with ours for our beloved mom, our dearest Nancy, a woman of deep conviction, a good and faithful servant,” Savannah continued. “Raise your prayers with us and believe with us that she will be lifted by them in this very moment.”

She added, “we need you.”

To conclude her plea, Savannah shared a Bible verse from Isaiah.

“‘He will keep in perfect peace those whose hearts are steadfast, trusting in the Lord,’” she wrote. “a verse of Isaiah for all time for all of us.”

Savannah continued, “Bring her home.”

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Police Find DNA Evidence at Nancy Guthrie’s Home

Pima County Sheriff Nanos confirmed that DNA evidence was found at Nancy’s home, which has been declared a crime scene.

“We took some samples that we hope will have enough of a DNA profile,” he told NBC News in a report shared on Today Feb. 3, “that will give us some identification as to what we’re looking at.”

In a press conference two days later, Nanos shared the timeline of events leading up to Nancy’s disappearance.

Roughly four hours after she returned home from visiting family, “at 1:47 a.m., the doorbell camera disconnects,” Nanos detailed at a Feb. 5 press conference.

Although the software detected a person on the doorbell camera, he said the clip was automatically overwritten because Nancy didn’t have a subscription to the service. Despite that, he emphasized they weren’t done trying to retrieve the footage.

“At 2:28 a.m., Nancy’s pacemaker app shows there was a disconnect from the phone,” the sheriff continued. “At 11:56 a.m., the family checks on Nancy and discovers her missing and at 12:03 p.m., 911 is called in to the Pima County Sheriff’s Department.”

Roughly 10 minutes later, he summed up, “Our patrol teams arrive. They see the scene and we start our response with our search-and-rescue teams, and our detectives on various units.”

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Savannah Guthrie and Siblings Speak Directly to Nancy Guthrie’s Possible Captors

On Feb. 4, Savannah, Camron and Annie read letters addressed to their mom and her possible abductors, pleading for Nancy’s safe return home.

“As a family, we are doing everything that we can. We are ready to talk,” the Today anchor said in the Instagram video. “However, we live in a world where voices and images are easily manipulated. We need to know without a doubt that she is alive and that you have her.”

“Our mom is our heart and our home,” she added. “Her health, her heart is fragile. She lives in constant pain. She is without any medicine. She needs it to survive. She needs it not to suffer.”

The next day, Camron confirmed in a separate video that the family was still “waiting for contact.”

“Whoever is out there holding our mother, we want to hear from you,” he said. “We haven’t heard anything directly. We need you to reach out, and we need a way to communicate with you so we can move forward.”

In a Feb. 5 press conference, FBI special agent Heith Janke also shared that authorities arrested California man Derrick Callella for allegedly sending fake random texts—“It was someone that was trying to profit from it. A total imposter”—and were taking a separate detailed ransom letter shared with TMZ “extremely seriously.” (Callella did not enter a plea and was released on $20,000 bond.)

However, he noted, the Guthrie family was “still waiting for communication.”

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Savanah Guthrie Shares Apparent Response to Nancy Guthrie’s Captors

On Feb. 7, the same day authorities confirmed to Today they’d conducted a search of Annie’s Arizona property as “part of the normal course” of the case, Savannah shared another Instagram video that seemed to indicate their previous request had been answered.

“We received your message and we understand,” she said in the clip while holding hands with Camron and Annie. “We beg you now to return our mother to us so that we can celebrate with her. This is the only way we will have peace.”

And if her intentions weren’t clear, Savannah added, “This is very valuable to us and we will pay.”

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Pima County Sheriff’s Department
FBI Releases Surveillance Images of Potential Subject in Disappearance of Nancy Guthrie

In a major development, authorities released surveillance photos of a potential subject in the investigation Feb. 10.

In the images—recovered from a camera on Nancy’s property—an individual wearing a ski mask and backpack is seen approaching the home, before appearing to hit the camera with their fist. Authorities previously reported the camera was broken when police arrived to the house.

“Over the last eight days, the FBI and Pima County Sheriff’s Department have been working closely with our private sector partners to continue to recover any images or video footage from Nancy Guthrie‘s home that may have been lost, corrupted, or inaccessible due to a variety of factors, including the removal of recording devices,” a statement shared with E! News alongside with the photos read. “The video was recovered from residual data located in backend systems.”

“Working with our partners,” the note continued, “law enforcement has uncovered these previously inaccessible new images showing an armed individual appearing to have tampered with the camera at Nancy Guthrie’s front door the morning of her disappearance.”
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Pima County Sheriff’s Department
Authorities Reveal New Details About Suspect in Nancy Guthrie Doorbell Video

Two days after the FBI released footage of the masked individual approached Nancy’s home, investigators released descriptive information of the suspect.

“The suspect is described as a male, approximately 5’9” – 5’10” tall, with an average build,” the FBI’s Phoenix office shared in a Feb. 12 statement to X. “In the video, he is wearing a black, 25-liter ‘Ozark Trail Hiker Pack’ backpack.”

The FBI also announced that they have increased the financial reward from $50,000 to $100,000 for “information leading to the location of Nancy Guthrie and/or the arrest and conviction of anyone involved in her disappearance.”

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All Siblings and Spouses Cleared as Possible Suspects in Nancy Guthrie Disappearance

More than two weeks after Nancy went missing, Pima County Sheriff Nanos issued a statement to clarify the potential list of subjects involved in the case.

“To be clear…the Guthrie family—to include all siblings and spouses—has been cleared as possible suspects in this case,” he shared in a Feb. 16 statement. “The family has been nothing but cooperative and gracious and are victims in this case.”

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Pima County Sheriff’s Department
Gloves Found Near Nancy Guthrie’s House Traced to Restaurant Worker

As police learned, the gloves found near Nancy’s home did not fit into the overall picture of the investigation.

Nearly three weeks after a pair of gloves with DNA were found roughly two miles from her house, Pima County Sheriff Nanos told local NBC affiliate KVOA March 2, “At that time, we believed wholeheartedly that those gloves belonged to a restaurant.”

And while amateur sleuths have floated theories that the gloves looked an awful lot like the ones worn by the masked subject in the released doorbell footage, Nanos called that hunch “speculation.” They had tracked down the gloves’ owner—a worker at the nearby eater—and determined the supposed evidence had “nothing to do with the case.”

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Human Bone Found Near Nancy Guthrie’s Home Not Linked to Case

Though authorities dug deep after a human bone was found roughly seven miles from Nancy’s home May 7, police later confirmed it was not a piece of the puzzle.

A spokesperson for the Tucson Police Department told People that the evidence was “not criminal in nature,” adding that it was a “prehistoric anthropological investigation.”

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Second Note Sent to Media Said Nancy Guthrie Died

NBC News reported June 22 that, according to three people familiar with the situation, a second note sent to the media indicated that Nancy had died.

While the first note said Nancy was safe and requested cryptocurrency in exchange for her release, the second did not contain an apology or ask for money, according to the outlet. Both letters were sent to Jessica Bobula, news director for NBC News’ Arizona affiliate KOLD.