On Mother’s Day, Savannah Guthrie posted a video montage of her 84-year-old mother Nancy to social media, renewing her public plea for information more than three months after Nancy was abducted from her Tucson, Arizona home — and has not been seen since.
“Mother, daughter, sister, Nonie — we miss you with every breath,” Guthrie wrote beneath the post. “We will never stop looking for you. We will never be at peace until we find you.” She urged anyone with information to call 1-800-CALL-FBI, emphasizing that tips can be made anonymously and that a reward remains available.
Nancy Guthrie, born January 27, 1942, was dropped off at her home in the Catalina Foothills suburb of Tucson by a relative on the night of January 31. She was reported missing around noon the following day. Investigators believe she was taken from her home around 2:30 a.m. Blood matching her DNA was found on the front porch, and her security camera had been deliberately unplugged. Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos publicly declared he believed she had been abducted, and all family members were subsequently cleared as suspects.
FBI Director Kash Patel released doorbell camera footage on February 10 showing a masked, armed man — estimated at 5’9″ to 5’10”, with an average build and black mustache, carrying a 25-liter Ozark Trail backpack — approaching Nancy’s door around the time of her disappearance.
Multiple ransom notes surfaced in the weeks that followed, including demands of $6 million in cryptocurrency sent to media outlets rather than directly to the family — a detail former FBI agents described as highly unusual. A California man was separately arrested for posing as an abductor and demanding ransom; authorities confirmed that scheme was unrelated to the actual case.
A hair sample recovered from the property was sent to a private Florida laboratory and then forwarded to the FBI for advanced forensic analysis. Pima County Sheriff Nanos said as recently as May 8 that the task force of roughly two dozen investigators — spanning county detectives, FBI agents, and US Customs and Border Protection — is “closer” to solving the case. The sheriff noted that up to five labs across the country are currently working on DNA evidence, and that separating and isolating the necessary genetic material could take up to six more months.
The combined reward for information stands at $1.2 million — $1 million pledged by the Guthrie family and $100,000 from the FBI. Savannah Guthrie, who stepped away from Today after her mother’s disappearance and missed coverage of the 2026 Winter Olympics, returned to her co-hosting duties on April 6. She has said publicly that she cannot be at peace without answers, telling a friend in a prior interview, “We still don’t know anything.”
