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    "parsed_content": "Updates on the InvestigationFeb. 10, 2026, 1:55 p.m. ET2 hours agoNicholas Bogel-BurroughsReporting from Tuscon, Ariz.Savannah Guthrie shared the new video footage from her mother\u2019s doorstep camera to her Instagram account and wrote: \u201cSomeone out there recognizes this person. We believe she is still out there. Bring her home.\u201d Feb. 10, 2026, 1:29 p.m. ET3 hours agoNicholas Bogel-BurroughsReporting from Tucson, Ariz.ImageImages captured by a doorbell security camera at Nancy Guthrie\u2019s house in Tucson, Ariz., on the morning of her disappearance.Credit...Pima County Sheriff's Department, via ReutersNew images and videos released on Tuesday showed a masked, armed person at Nancy Guthrie\u2019s doorstep on the night she was abducted, the first significant break in the search for the 84-year-old mother of the \u201cToday\u201d show host Savannah Guthrie.The black-and-white footage released by the F.B.I. and Pima County Sheriff\u2019s Department depicts a person wearing a ski mask, gloves, a backpack and what appears to be a holstered handgun outside of Ms. Guthrie\u2019s home, just north of Tucson. Investigators said the person was armed.In a video from Ms. Guthrie\u2019s doorbell camera, the person can be seen approaching Ms. Guthrie\u2019s door and trying to block the camera with a gloved hand. The person then grabs plants from beside the front stoop and \u2014 holding what appears to be a flashlight in their mouth \u2014 tries to use them to obscure the camera. The police have said the camera was disconnected shortly before the abduction on Feb. 1.The Pima County sheriff said last week that investigators were unable to retrieve any footage from Ms. Guthrie\u2019s surveillance cameras because she did not pay for a subscription that would have stored the video. But a joint statement from the sheriff\u2019s department and F.B.I. on Tuesday morning said that investigators had eventually recovered the video Tuesday morning by accessing \u201cresidual data.\u201dThe videos are the strongest pieces of evidence yet that might help identify a suspect in the abduction of Ms. Guthrie, as the search entered its 10th day.Savannah Guthrie shared the footage on Instagram and wrote that her family believes Nancy Guthrie is still alive. \u201cSomeone out there recognizes this person,\u201d she wrote. \u201cWe believe she is still out there. Bring her home.\u201dKaroline Leavitt, the White House press secretary, said that President Trump had watched the footage with \u201cdisgust\u201d and that he encouraged anyone with information to call the F.B.I. The agency has offered a $50,000 reward for Ms. Guthrie\u2019s return or for information leading to the conviction of her abductor.The police have said that Ms. Guthrie\u2019s doorbell camera was disconnected at 1:47 a.m. on the day of her abduction, and that her pacemaker disconnected from her cellphone \u2014 indicating that she was taken from the home \u2014 41 minutes later.Since Ms. Guthrie\u2019s abduction, two supposed ransom letters have been sent to news outlets, and Savannah Guthrie and her two siblings have pleaded in videos for their mother\u2019s kidnapper to return her, saying they would pay a ransom. It remains unclear if the notes sent to the news outlets were actually sent by the abductor.Nancy Guthrie is mentally sharp but has trouble moving and takes daily medication without which she could die, her family has said.In an Instagram video that was released on Monday, Savannah Guthrie asked the public to report anything strange to the authorities, whether in Tucson or far away.\u201cShe was taken,\u201d Ms. Guthrie said of her mother, \u201cand we don\u2019t know where.\u201dLuke Broadwater, Thomas Gibbons-Neff, Shawn McCreesh and Reis Thebault contributed reporting.Show moreFeb. 10, 2026, 12:23 p.m. ET4 hours agoNicholas Bogel-BurroughsReporting from Tuscon, Ariz.The Pima County Sheriff\u2019s Department has said that concern about Nancy Guthrie was initially sparked when she failed to show up to church on Feb. 1, but a spokeswoman is now clarifying that it was actually a friend\u2019s house. Guthrie and the friend had planned to watch a livestream of a church service together. When she didn\u2019t show, the friend contacted Guthrie\u2019s family members, who went to her home and called 911 when they could not find her.Feb. 9, 2026, 3:58 p.m. ETFeb. 9, 2026Reis Thebault and Nicholas Bogel-BurroughsReis Thebault reported from Tucson, Ariz.VideoSavannah Guthrie posted a new video on Instagram on Monday pleading for the public\u2019s help in finding her mother, Nancy Guthrie.The \u201cToday\u201d show anchor Savannah Guthrie on Monday implored the public to help find her mother, who has been missing for more than a week, saying in a video that she believes she \u201cis still out there.\u201d\u201cWe are at an hour of desperation,\u201d Savannah Guthrie said in her plea, which she posted on Instagram. Her 84-year-old mother, Nancy Guthrie, was abducted from her home outside Tucson, Ariz., early Feb. 1, the authorities have said. Her family last saw her a few hours before. Ms. Guthrie had dinner with her older daughter, Annie, and her son-in-law, who dropped her off at her house around 9:50 p.m. on Jan. 31, said Chris Nanos, the Pima County sheriff.Investigators later found a splatter of her blood on the front stoop and said her doorbell camera had been disconnected and removed shortly before she was apparently taken from her house. The frantic search for Ms. Guthrie has riveted the nation and frustrated the authorities, who have repeatedly combed the area around her home and have broadened their hunt beyond state lines.In her video, Savannah Guthrie said that the police have been \u201cworking tirelessly, around the clock,\u201d but that they are still unsure of her mother\u2019s location.\u201cShe was taken, and we don\u2019t know where,\u201d Savannah Guthrie said.The authorities have not identified any suspects. Savannah Guthrie did not say explicitly whether the family believed Ms. Guthrie was still alive, and investigators have said they do not know. In a video posted on Saturday, Savannah Guthrie had asked her mother\u2019s abductor to return her \u201cso that we can celebrate with her\u201d and said the family would pay the person to do so.The latest message from the Guthrie family came shortly before a deadline mentioned in a supposed ransom note sent to several news outlets after the abduction. One of those outlets, the Tucson-area TV station KGUN, said those claiming to be the captors were demanding $6 million by Monday evening.It remained unclear whether the note was in fact sent by kidnappers, and F.B.I. agents have said they were working to validate it. Officials have acknowledged that the demand could be from impostors.A statement from the F.B.I. on Monday said the agency was \u201cnot aware of any continued communication between the Guthrie family and suspected kidnappers.\u201d\u201cWe still need the public\u2019s help,\u201d the statement read. \u201cSomeone has that one piece of information that can help us bring Nancy home. We need that person to share what they know.\u201dThe Monday video signaled something of a shift in the Guthrie family\u2019s public communications. In prior statements, they have addressed the culprits, and sometimes their mother. But in the newest video, Savannah Guthrie spoke directly to the public, asking for tips \u201cno matter where you are, even if you\u2019re far from Tucson.\u201dThe F.B.I. has issued a $50,000 reward for information leading to Ms. Guthrie\u2019s safe return or to the conviction of her abductor or abductors.Savannah Guthrie said she and her siblings, Annie and Camron, were bracing for \u201canother week of this nightmare.\u201d Show moreBackground on the SearchFeb. 3, 2026, 8:50 a.m. ETFeb. 3, 2026Claire MosesImageLaw enforcement officers outside the home of Nancy Guthrie near Tucson, Ariz., on Feb. 2.Credit...Sejal Govindarao\/Associated PressThe authorities in Arizona are searching for Nancy Guthrie, 84, the mother of the \u201cToday\u201d show anchor Savannah Guthrie who has been missing since Feb. 1 and whose disappearance is being investigated as a kidnapping.Ms. Guthrie was last seen at her home near Tucson. Earlier, she had dinner at the home of her older daughter and her son-in-law, who dropped her off at her house around 9:50 p.m., said Chris Nanos, the Pima County sheriff.Sheriff Nanos confirmed that blood found on Ms. Guthrie\u2019s front porch was hers and that the doorbell camera at her home had been disconnected and removed. The authorities do not know where the device is.Here\u2019s what we know.The authorities released surveillance images of a masked suspect.ImageThis image was recovered from cameras at the home of Nancy Guthrie the morning that she was reported missing near Tucson, Ariz.Credit...Pima County Sheriff's DepartmentOn Tuesday, the Pima County Sheriff\u2019s Department released surveillance images from Nancy Guthrie\u2019s doorstep showing a person wearing a ski mask, gloves and a backpack and standing at the front door of her home early on the morning of Feb. 1. The sheriff\u2019s department said the person in the images was armed, and one of the images shows the person wearing what appears to be a holstered pistol.The F.B.I. later released video footage showing the person approaching Nancy Guthrie\u2019s doorbell camera on the night of her abduction, blocking it with a gloved hand and then appearing to try to use some leaves to obscure the camera.It was a remarkable development in the investigation, which began after Ms. Guthrie did not arrive at a friend\u2019s house to watch a live-streamed church service on Feb. 1. The friend notified Ms. Guthrie\u2019s family, who went to her home in Catalina Foothills, an unincorporated community near the Santa Catalina Mountains just north of Tucson. When they did not find her there just before noon, they called 911.The authorities brought in a search and rescue team, volunteers, dogs, drones and a helicopter.Sheriff Nanos described Ms. Guthrie\u2019s home as \u201ca crime scene,\u201d adding that \u201cwe saw some things at the home that were concerning to us,\u201d without offering more details.Ms. Guthrie has limited mobility and requires medication every 24 hours, and could die without it, he added.On Feb. 5, the authorities said that the tampering with Ms. Guthrie\u2019s doorbell camera, which was disconnected at 1:47 a.m. the night she disappeared, had deprived investigators of crucial evidence. The images that the sheriff\u2019s department released on Tuesday were previously inaccessible, but investigators were able to obtain them from \u201cresidual data,\u201d the department said in a statement.it said that, \u201cby working with our private sector partners,\u201d it had recovered \u201cpreviously inaccessible new images showing an armed individual appearing to have tampered with the camera at Nancy Guthrie\u2019s front door the morning of her disappearance.\u201dMs. Guthrie\u2019s pacemaker app showed that it was disconnected from her phone at 2:28 a.m., indicating she was no longer near the phone, which was left inside her house.Ms. Guthrie, whose youngest daughter had included her in several \u201cToday\u201d show segments, was described as 5 feet 5 inches tall with brown hair and blue eyes, and vulnerable.The authorities described her as mentally sharp and said this was not a dementia-related case.ImageMs. Guthrie was described in a missing person\u2019s notice as \u201cvulnerable.\u201dCredit...Pima County Sheriff\u2019s Department, via Associated PressThe Guthries said they will pay.On Saturday, Savannah Guthrie said in a video posted to social media that she and her siblings were willing to pay for their mother\u2019s return.\u201cWe beg you now to return our mother to us so that we can celebrate with her,\u201d Ms. Guthrie said as she sat between her older siblings, Annie and Camron. \u201cThis is the only way we will have peace. This is very valuable to us, and we will pay.\u201dOn Monday, after the search for Nancy Guthrie entered its second week, Savannah Guthrie appeared by herself in a new video in which she implored the public for help finding her mother, saying that she believed her mother was \u201cstill out there.\u201d\u201cWe are at an hour of desperation\u201d Ms. Guthrie said.The new videos were posted days after Ms. Guthrie said in another video that she and her siblings were prepared to listen to ransom demands but would first need proof that their mother was alive.\u201cWe are ready to talk,\u201d Ms. Guthrie said in a video posted on Feb. 4. \u201cHowever, 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.\u201dA statement from the F.B.I. on Monday said the agency was \u201cnot aware of any continued communication between the Guthrie family and suspected kidnappers.\u201d\u201cWe still need the public\u2019s help,\u201d the statement read. \u201cSomeone has that one piece of information that can help us bring Nancy home. We need that person to share what they know.\u201dOfficials are investigating a message.The authorities said on Friday that they were reviewing a message that was sent to the Tucson television station KOLD. The station forwarded the message to law enforcement and did not reveal its contents publicly.Local officials and the F.B.I. released statements acknowledging the message but gave no further details. It was not clear whether the message was related to a purported ransom note sent to news outlets in the days following her disappearance.The F.B.I. said agents were still working to analyze the ransom note, which demanded payment by Thursday evening.Sheriff Nanos said Thursday that it was too early to rule out anyone \u2014 including relatives \u2014 as a possible culprit.\u201cEverybody\u2019s still a suspect in our eyes,\u201d he said.Savannah Guthrie withdrew from NBC\u2019s Olympics coverage.Savannah Guthrie, 54, is best known as one of the anchors of the NBC morning show \u201cToday,\u201d a job she has held since 2012.She joined NBC News in 2007, after working in local news and as a lawyer. She worked for the network as a White House correspondent, filled in on \u201cMeet the Press\u201d and anchored the \u201cNBC Nightly News.\u201dShe was born in Australia and moved with her family to Tucson, where she grew up and attended college. She lives in New York with her husband, the communications consultant Michael Feldman, and their two children.NBC Sports said that she would not travel to Italy, where she had been expected to play a key role in the coverage of the Milan-Cortina Olympics. Mary Carillo took Ms. Guthrie\u2019s place alongside Terry Gannon as a host of the network\u2019s coverage of the opening ceremony on Friday.Neil Vigdor, Reis Thebault, Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs, John Yoon, Jonathan Wolfe and Hannah Ziegler contributed reporting.Show moreOur Previous CoverageFeb. 8, 2026, 12:43 p.m. ETFeb. 8, 2026Reis Thebault and Nicholas Bogel-BurroughsReis Thebault reported from Tucson, Ariz.Video\u2018We Will Pay\u2019: Savannah Guthrie Addresses Mother\u2019s Captor in New VideoNancy Guthrie\u2019s children shared a new video message to their mother\u2019s purported abductor on Saturday evening. In the video, posted to the \u201cToday\u201d show anchor Savannah Guthrie\u2019s Instagram account, the siblings said they were willing to pay for their mother\u2019s return.CreditCredit...Rebecca Noble\/ReutersIt was the type of Saturday evening that Nancy Guthrie treasured: dinner and game night at the home of her eldest daughter and son-in-law.They lived near each other, in the unincorporated desert communities north of Tucson, Ariz., and Ms. Guthrie arrived by Uber just after 5:30 p.m. on Jan. 31. The family spent about four hours together before Ms. Guthrie was driven home by her son-in-law, who watched to ensure she made it safely inside, the police said later.At 9:48 p.m., her garage door opened, according to a timeline from the authorities. Two minutes later, it closed. That glimpse of Ms. Guthrie heading inside was the last time anyone in her family saw or heard from her.What unfolded in the following hours is still mostly a mystery, but one flecked with several ominous details. It has been more than a week since Ms. Guthrie, the 84-year-old mother of \u201cToday\u201d show anchor Savannah Guthrie, disappeared. The case has captivated the nation. But, so far, it has confounded the authorities.Investigators have not identified a possible perpetrator, and they have spent days analyzing notes from people claiming to be the kidnappers, including one that demanded millions of dollars in Bitcoin. The authorities have closed and reopened the crime scene at the house multiple times. And they have acknowledged that they do not know where she might be or whether she is still alive.\u201cThese are facts you usually only find all together in a movie, and now you\u2019re seeing them play out in real life,\u201d said Lance Leising, a retired F.B.I. agent in Phoenix. \u201cAnd it\u2019s heart-wrenching for the family.\u201dThe search has become a sensation, fueled by Savannah Guthrie\u2019s fame and the many questions that remain. The F.B.I. is involved, and its director, Kash Patel, is receiving regular updates. President Trump has checked in with the family and discussed the case aboard Air Force One. On Friday, Mr. Trump said, \u201cWe could have some answers coming up fairly soon.\u201d He did not elaborate.The next day, Savannah Guthrie spoke directly to her mother\u2019s abductors in a video shared on social media, imploring for her return: \u201cThis is very valuable to us,\u201d she said, \u201cand we will pay.\u201dImageMs. Guthrie usually attends St. Andrew\u2019s Presbyterian Church near her home on Sundays, but when she wasn\u2019t seen there last week, her family was called.Credit...Caitlin O'Hara\/Associated PressThe First 10 HoursIt was after she returned home, according to a police account, that Nancy Guthrie\u2019s ordeal began.At 1:47 a.m., the authorities said, the camera at her front door was disconnected from her home\u2019s security system. Some 25 minutes later, a camera somewhere on the property detected motion, but recorded no video, because she did not have a subscription to the device\u2019s service provider.At 2:28 a.m., about 15 minutes after the camera was set off, Ms. Guthrie\u2019s pacemaker lost contact with her cellphone, which officers later found inside the house, suggesting that this may have been about the time she was taken.Ms. Guthrie, whom friends have described as a devoted Christian, was expected at church that Sunday morning. But when someone at St. Andrew\u2019s Presbyterian did not see her in the pews, they called her family to check in.Alerted, Ms. Guthrie\u2019s family rushed to her home, the authorities said. They found her phone, wallet, hearing aid, daily medication and car. But they did not find her. They called 911.More than nine hours had passed before anyone realized something was terribly wrong.From Search and Rescue to Crime SceneInitially, deputies from the Pima County Sheriff\u2019s Department figured the Guthrie case would be another routine search and rescue operation. They do those every day, helping out hikers who have strayed from the trail in nearby mountains or tracking down people with dementia who have wandered from home.But the officers quickly realized this was no typical case. Ms. Guthrie could not walk far without assistance, and she is mentally sharp, so they ruled out the possibility that she had ambled off on her own and become lost.And her home looked like a crime scene.At the front stoop, they found an empty mount where a doorbell camera had once hung, and on the tile below they saw spatters of blood, which DNA analysis later confirmed to be Ms. Guthrie\u2019s.But elsewhere, they noted even more worrying signs of violence, Sheriff Chris Nanos said in an interview with The New York Times earlier in the week.\u201cYou\u2019re elderly; you could be on blood thinners,\u201d Sheriff Nanos said, explaining why the blood on the stoop was not the most troubling aspect of the scene. \u201cThat wasn\u2019t it. The piece to me was, there were things at that home that were of concern. That scene, there were things that I thought, this doesn\u2019t sit well.\u201dHe declined to describe the scene further, but investigators spent the week combing through the home, its garage and the surrounding scrubland.ImageSheriff Chris Nanos of Pima County after updating members of the news media on the Guthrie case in Tucson on Thursday.Credit...Rebecca Noble\/ReutersThe police searched for Ms. Guthrie on foot \u2014 with rescue teams and trained canine units \u2014 and by air, circling her home with drones, helicopters and a plane. Neighbors from Ms. Guthrie\u2019s secluded foothill community pitched in, too, scouring their backyards for any sign of her.But because of what Sheriff Nanos saw at the house, he also called in homicide detectives from the department\u2019s criminal investigations division.\u201cWe\u2019re pretty much throwing everything at this that we can,\u201d Sheriff Nanos told reporters outside Ms. Guthrie\u2019s house on Sunday night, as helicopters hovered above him, their rotors beating the air.Officers did not find footprints or tire tracks that yielded any clues around the home, he said.At a news briefing the next morning, he issued a grim assessment: \u201cRight now, we don\u2019t see this as a search mission as much as we do a crime scene,\u201d the sheriff said.A Ransom Note ArrivesAt 6:40 p.m. on Feb. 2, roughly 24 hours after the sheriff\u2019s department first posted a missing person bulletin for Ms. Guthrie, a Tucson television station, KOLD, received a note claiming to be from her kidnapper. The station forwarded it to the authorities.The celebrity gossip site TMZ, which received a copy the next morning, reported that the letter demanded millions of dollars in Bitcoin for the release of Ms. Guthrie. Harvey Levin, the outlet\u2019s founder, described the letter on a broadcast as \u201cvery well constructed.\u201dIn an interview with CNN, Mr. Levin said the note detailed \u201cprecisely\u201d what the senders wanted done and what the consequences would be if they didn\u2019t get what they asked. There would be \u201cno negotiation and no communication,\u201d Mr. Levin said, describing the letter\u2019s contents.The ransom note did not come with proof that Ms. Guthrie was alive, Levin added, but it did begin by saying she was \u201csafe but scared.\u201dOfficials with the sheriff\u2019s department and the F.B.I. said they were taking the letter seriously and were working to validate its authenticity, but they could not be certain it came from the actual culprit.On Wednesday, after news of the note ricocheted across the country, Ms. Guthrie\u2019s eldest daughter, Annie Guthrie, and son-in-law, Tommaso Cioni, received text messages from someone claiming to be the elder Ms. Guthrie\u2019s captor.\u201cDid you get the Bitcoin,\u201d the sender asked. F.B.I. agents traced the messages to a Southern California man, who they determined had nothing to do with the kidnapping. They arrested and charged him, accusing him of trying to profit from the Guthrie family\u2019s pain.That day, Ms. Guthrie\u2019s children recorded their first emotional address to their mother\u2019s kidnapper. The situation is growing more dire every day, they said. Ms. Guthrie could die without her medication.\u201cWe are ready to talk,\u201d Savannah Guthrie said, trying to hold back tears as she sat between her older siblings, Annie and Camron Guthrie. \u201cHowever, 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.\u201dThursday morning the F.B.I. announced a $50,000 reward for information leading to Nancy Guthrie\u2019s recovery.\u201cTo anyone that may be involved: Do the right thing,\u201d Heith Janke, the special agent in charge of the F.B.I.\u2019s Phoenix office, said at a briefing. \u201cThis is an 84-year-old grandma that needs vital medication for her well-being. You still have the time to do the right thing before this becomes a much worse scenario for you. Please return Nancy home.\u201dThe ransom note listed two deadlines, Mr. Janke said, and the first was just a few hours away \u2014 5 p.m. on Thursday night.As that time approached, Mr. Guthrie recorded another short statement, and his sister Savannah posted it to her 1.5 million Instagram followers. Mr. Guthrie pleaded with his mother\u2019s kidnapper to get in touch with the family. \u201cWe need you to reach out and we need a way to communicate with you so we can move forward,\u201d he said.ImageIn a social media video released on Saturday, Savannah, Camron and Annie Guthrie said the return of their mother Nancy was the only way they would have peace.Credit...Savannah Guthrie\/Instagram, via ReutersAnother Note, Another VideoAt about 11:30 a.m. on Friday, KOLD received another message from the supposed kidnappers. The message, which the station forwarded to the police and did not describe publicly, came from a different IP address than the ransom note, but the senders appeared to have used the same methods to mask their location and identity, the station said.The F.B.I. said it was assessing the message\u2019s authenticity.Later that day, the authorities once again returned to Nancy Guthrie\u2019s home, at least the third time they had cordoned it off with crime scene tape, and on this occasion restricted access to most of her street.Reporters nearby watched as the police towed away a car and officers climbed onto Ms. Guthrie\u2019s roof and appeared to remove a camera. That evening, Mr. Trump told journalists aboard Air Force One that the investigation was going \u201cvery well.\u201d\u201cWe have some clues, I think, that are very strong,\u201d Mr. Trump said, adding that the new information \u201ccould be definitive.\u201dThe next day, the Guthrie siblings released another video. It was 20 seconds long and cryptic. Savannah Guthrie, speaking without a visible script, said into the camera: \u201cWe received your message, and we understand. 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.\u201dExperts in hostage negotiation said they could detect resignation in the statement, as if the family feared the elder Ms. Guthrie dead. But Mr. Leising, the retired F.B.I. agent, said the wording of the message was purposefully vague, a sign that investigators were not convinced the ransom note was legitimate.\u201cThe possibility that it\u2019s fraudulent, and these people don\u2019t have Nancy, is still high,\u201d Mr. Leising said.A spokeswoman for the sheriff\u2019s department declined to comment on the video and said officials had no new information to share.As the search for Ms. Guthrie turned one week old, the supposed ransom note\u2019s second deadline, sometime on Monday, loomed. It was not clear what would happen if it passed \u2014 if the note was even real, that was. Like so many other aspects of the case, the details were murky.Georgia Gee and Susan C. Beachy contributed research.Show moreFeb. 6, 2026, 3:02 p.m. ETFeb. 6, 2026Michael LevensonImageThe disappearance of Nancy Guthrie, the mother of the \u201cToday\u201d anchor Savannah Guthrie, is the latest case of its kind to capture the nation\u2019s attention, reviving fears about kidnappings.Credit...Jan Sonnenmair\/Getty ImagesThe authorities in Arizona have said they are investigating the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie, the mother of the \u201cToday\u201d show anchor Savannah Guthrie, as a possible kidnapping and are examining purported ransom notes sent to several media outlets.If she were abducted by a stranger, at age 84, that would make her case extremely unusual. Most kidnappings in the United States involve family or custody disputes, and a vast majority of the victims are children, experts say.Investigators in Ms. Guthrie\u2019s case have said they have not identified any suspects since she was last seen at her home outside Tucson, Ariz., on Saturday night. Savannah Guthrie and her siblings have released emotional videos in which they say that they are ready to talk to anyone who may have taken her, but that they first need proof she is alive.In general, kidnappings targeting older people are extremely rare and often involve a scam or financial motive, said Carrie Landau, a retired F.B.I. agent who focused on crimes against children and human trafficking investigations during her 21-year career. She recalled two cases she worked on in which adult victims were abducted and driven to A.T.M.s to withdraw money. One of the victims was also sexually assaulted, she said.Dr. Mark S. Lachs, a geriatrician at Weill Cornell Medicine, who studies elder abuse, said he was not aware of any studies about the prevalence of adult kidnappings in the United States. In general, reported abductions of older people usually turn out to be cases in which a family member or another person close to the victim has taken them and isolated them as part of some sort of dispute, he said.\u201cA stranger abduction is unusual in my experience,\u201d Dr. Lachs said.Most kidnappers also have some connection to the victim in cases of child abduction.Elizabeth Smart, for instance, was 14 when she was taken from her bedroom in Utah at knife point in 2002 and held captive for nine months. She was rescued after her sister realized that the voice she heard during the kidnapping belonged to a handyman who had worked at the Smarts\u2019 home.\u201cFor the most part, there is a knowledge of the family; there is an awareness\u201d among kidnappers, said John E. Bischoff III, vice president of the missing children division at the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.Cases in which a stranger grabs a victim on the street or takes someone from their home are \u201cexceedingly rare,\u201d and particularly challenging to investigate, Mr. Bischoff said. \u201cFor example, there is no built-in suspect pool,\u201d he said. \u201cWhere is the starting point if it is a true nonfamily abduction?\u201dMs. Guthrie\u2019s disappearance is the latest case of its kind to capture the nation\u2019s attention, reviving fears that have been stoked by the abductions of Charles A. Lindbergh\u2019s baby, Charles Augustus Jr.; Patty Hearst; J. Paul Getty III; Etan Patz; Adam Walsh; and Polly Klaas, to name a few.ImageAdam Walsh was 6 when he was abducted from a Florida mall and murdered in 1981. His father, John Walsh, later became the host of the television series \u201cAmerica\u2019s Most Wanted.\u201d Credit...Associated PressBy the mid-1980s, such cases, combined with misleading claims that as many as 50,000 children were being abducted by strangers every year, had fueled a panic that left \u201ca residue of anxiety about stranger abductions that lasted quite a while,\u201d said David Finkelhor, director of the Crimes against Children Research Center at the University of New Hampshire.The Denver Post won a Pulitzer Prize in 1986 for a series that examined the myth that most missing children had been abducted by strangers, and found that a majority were runaways or involved in custody disputes.Since then, Dr. Finkelhor said, the number of kidnappings has decreased, partly because the crime has become much more difficult to carry out in an era of surveillance cameras, license plate readers and cellphone tracking data.ImageElizabeth Smart was 14 when she was taken from her bedroom in Utah at knife point in 2002 and held captive for nine months.Credit...Jim Young\/ReutersResearch has shown that a few dozen to 100 children in the United States are kidnapped by strangers every year, compared to hundreds of thousands who are taken by family members, Dr. Finkelhor said.The National Crime Information Center logged the circumstances of 263,079 missing-person cases in 2022 and found that 95 percent had been coded as runaways, 0.9 percent as kidnapped by a noncustodial parent and 0.1 percent as kidnappings by a stranger.Mr. Bischoff said he was among those who grew up with the stereotypical image of a kidnapper being a stranger with aviator sunglasses and a van. \u201cI can\u2019t say those cases never happen because they do,\u201d he said. \u201cBut they\u2019re much rarer than the fear we were raised with.\u201dShow moreFeb. 6, 2026, 1:42 p.m. ETFeb. 6, 2026Reis Thebault and Neil VigdorImageSheriff Chris Nanos of Pima County, Ariz., has at times seemed surprised at the intense attention given to the search for Nancy Guthrie, the mother of the \u201cToday\u201d show anchor Nancy Guthrie.Credit...Rebecca Noble\/ReutersIt was Day 5 in the search for Nancy Guthrie, and the international media were packed into a small briefing room on the south side of Tucson, Ariz. Reporters had lined up early to hear Sheriff Chris Nanos of Pima County, and they were bursting with questions. Had the police made any headway? Did they have a suspect? Most of all: Was Ms. Guthrie still alive?Sheriff Nanos stepped to the lectern: \u201cI want to begin by offering our condolences,\u201d he said, pausing as the room collectively tensed.But, no, he was not breaking grim news in the case of Ms. Guthrie. A separate tragedy had occurred the night before, some 200 miles north, where an Arizona Department of Public Safety helicopter had crashed, killing two state troopers who were responding to a gunfight.The hunt for Ms. Guthrie was still stalled, turmoil was all around, and Sheriff Nanos was trying to navigate the maelstrom.On Thursday, as he addressed the growing horde of journalists for the first time in 48 hours, the pressure to find Ms. Guthrie was mounting and the story was only getting weirder. There was the impending deadline, imposed by a possibly bogus ransom note, demanding millions in Bitcoin by early that evening. The unsubstantiated reports of a person of interest. The removal, return and re-removal of crime scene tape around Ms. Guthrie\u2019s home.There was also the imminent arrival of the F.B.I. director, Kash Patel. The possibility that artificial intelligence might make any proof of life from a kidnapper difficult to trust. And, hovering over it all, the celebrity of Ms. Guthrie\u2019s daughter, Savannah Guthrie, a host of the \u201cToday\u201d show, whose association with the case has made it a national obsession.Sheriff Nanos has seemed surprised at the intense attention.\u201cI\u2019m not used to everybody hanging on my words and then trying to hold me accountable for what I say,\u201d he told reporters, somewhat sheepishly, at an earlier news conference.The sheriff is the face of an investigation that has the press and the public desperate for answers, refreshing social media feeds and flooding department inboxes with requests for information. And yet, until there\u2019s a break in the case \u2014 one that won\u2019t tip off the perpetrators if he reveals it \u2014 he can\u2019t offer much. So he rehashes and declines to elaborate, sometimes apologetically, noting the continuing nature of the search.Some wish he\u2019d just stop talking altogether.\u201cIt\u2019s important to have a reason to have a press conference, and not just have one,\u201d said Dr. Matt Heinz, a fellow Democrat who is a member of the Pima County board of supervisors. \u201cI can\u2019t watch them. I don\u2019t find them helpful, productive or reassuring.\u201dBut Thursday\u2019s briefing did yield some key clarifications.The F.B.I. said the authorities were taking seriously a ransom note sent to at least three news outlets that included facts about the crime scene and a specific timeline for its monetary demand.The initial deadline for payment was 5 p.m. on Thursday, said Heith Janke, the special agent in charge of the F.B.I.\u2019s Phoenix office. The note did not specify a time zone. Compounding the confusion, a second deadline was set for Monday. Mr. Janke declined to say what was threatened if the money were not sent in time.After consulting with the F.B.I., Ms. Guthrie\u2019s children recorded a video saying they were ready to talk with her abductors. As of Thursday evening, they had heard nothing.It was not clear whether the ransom note was genuine, but officials said at least one man had been arrested and charged with sending a different phony demand to the Guthrie family. The notoriety of the case and the digital tools that enable such fakery have added to the frenzy around the investigation.The handling of the crime scene has done the same. This week, after the police finished an initial sweep of Ms. Guthrie\u2019s house, officers removed the yellow tape that cordoned off the property. Journalists then took turns walking up to the front stoop and examining a splatter that Sheriff Nanos later confirmed to be Ms. Guthrie\u2019s blood.Private security eventually arrived to ward off trespassers. The police returned Wednesday afternoon and once again strung up crime scene tape. Officers spent a couple of hours searching the property, removed some items and left. They took the tape with them.Sheriff Nanos said on Thursday that, in hindsight, he should have instructed officers to keep the perimeter up to preserve the scene. When asked whether he was concerned about the possible contamination of evidence, he said, \u201cI\u2019ll let the courts worry about that.\u201dSheriff Nanos, whose elected position puts him over a department with about 1,500 employees, was born and raised in El Paso, Texas, where he began his career as a police officer in 1976. After about eight years working the beat in his hometown, he moved to Pima County, started as a corrections officer and steadily rose through the ranks.This week is not the sheriff\u2019s first time at the center of the news. Almost exactly 15 years ago, he was staring down a similar throng of television cameras as he answered questions about the shooting of Representative Gabrielle Giffords.More recently, he has made headlines for his handling of a series of scandals.The F.B.I. has probed his department for misuse of funds, inmates at Pima County jails have died at an alarming rate, the state attorney general\u2019s office has investigated his handling of a reported sexual assault by a deputy, and he has been accused of retaliating against his 2024 election opponent, who was a lieutenant in his department.His track record has alienated members of his own party, such as Dr. Heinz, the county supervisor, who has called on Sheriff Nanos to resign and endorsed his Republican opponent in the latest contest.But Sheriff Nanos has also won plaudits in his liberal county for refusing to aid federal immigration raids and for criticizing agents who conduct operations in masks. He thanked President Trump for committing so many federal resources to Ms. Guthrie\u2019s case, but he said in an interview that he wasn\u2019t holding his breath for a phone call from the White House.The sheriff has been working on the case constantly, triaging tips sent directly to his cellphone and carrying on a text exchange with Savannah Guthrie. \u201cThis is just going to be really devastating for her if we can\u2019t find her alive,\u201d Sheriff Nanos said.At the Thursday briefing, the biggest gathering yet, reporters peppered him with questions about the minutiae of the investigation. When asked if he should have called in regional and federal reinforcements sooner, Sheriff Nanos replied with a candor that was by then familiar.\u201cYou know, it\u2019s Monday morning quarterbacking,\u201d he said. \u201cI do it all the time, so you have the opportunity to do it for me. I\u2019ll take that hit.\u201dShow moreFeb. 4, 2026, 9:31 p.m. ETFeb. 4, 2026Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs and Reis ThebaultReis Thebault reported from Tucson, Ariz.VideoInvestigators Say Doorbell Camera Was Disconnected Before Nancy Guthrie\u2019s KidnappingMore details and a timeline were released on the kidnapping of Nancy Guthrie, the mother of the NBC anchor Savannah Guthrie.CreditCredit...Jan Sonnenmair\/Getty ImagesA doorbell camera was disconnected from Nancy Guthrie\u2019s home on the night she was kidnapped, the police said on Thursday, depriving investigators of crucial evidence as they search for the mother of the \u201cToday\u201d show anchor Savannah Guthrie.The authorities in Pima County, Ariz., said at a news conference on Thursday that they still had no suspects in the abduction of Nancy Guthrie, 84, more than four days after she was taken from her home just outside Tucson. They confirmed that blood spattered on Ms. Guthrie\u2019s front porch was hers.Savannah Guthrie and her siblings continued to plead for whoever had taken their mother to communicate with them. They have said that they are open to ransom offers but first would need proof that their mother was still alive. Heith Janke, the special agent in charge of the F.B.I.\u2019s Phoenix office, said at the news conference that agents were reviewing purported ransom notes that had been sent to several news outlets, which demanded a payment by Thursday evening. It was not clear if they were genuine.Later on Thursday, Nancy Guthrie\u2019s son, Camron, said in a video on social media that the family had not yet heard from the kidnapper or kidnappers directly. \u201cWhoever is out there holding our mother, we want to hear from you,\u201d he said. \u201cWe need you to reach out and we need a way to communicate with you so we can move forward.\u201d\u201cBut first,\u201d he added, \u201cwe have to know that you have our mom.\u201dChris Nanos, the Pima County sheriff, has told The New York Times that Ms. Guthrie had dinner at the home of her older daughter, Annie, and son-in-law, Tommaso Cioni, and that Mr. Cioni took her home around 9:50 p.m. on Saturday.At Thursday\u2019s news conference, he said that a doorbell camera at Ms. Guthrie\u2019s home had been disconnected at 1:47 a.m. Sunday and removed, adding that the authorities do not know where the device is.At 2:12 a.m., a camera on Ms. Guthrie\u2019s property detected motion, but no video was recorded, the sheriff said. Then, at 2:28 a.m., Ms. Guthrie\u2019s pacemaker disconnected from her cellphone, which was later found at the house, suggesting that she may have been taken around that time. She was reported missing by her family around noon on Sunday after she missed church.Sheriff Nanos said Thursday that it was too early to rule out anyone \u2014 even a relative \u2014 as a possible culprit.\u201cEverybody\u2019s still a suspect in our eyes,\u201d he said.Ms. Guthrie is mentally sharp but has trouble moving around and needs daily medication, her family has said. Mr. Janke asked her captor to let her go.\u201cDo the right thing,\u201d he said, adding, \u201cThis is an 84-year-old grandma that needs vital medication for her well-being.\u201dImageA sign outside Nancy Guthrie\u2019s home on Tuesday.Credit...Jan Sonnenmair\/Getty ImagesIn the video released by the Guthrie family on Wednesday night, Savannah tried to hold back tears as she sat between her older siblings, Annie and Camron, and read from a paper. She said that her family had heard about the purported ransom letters and said that they wanted to hear directly from whoever had abducted her.\u201cWe are ready to talk,\u201d Savannah Guthrie said in the video. \u201cHowever, 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.\u201dThrough tears, Ms. Guthrie emphasized that the situation was growing more dire.President Trump spoke with Ms. Guthrie by phone on Wednesday, and he said on social media after her video was posted that he had directed all federal law enforcement to be at the disposal of her and the local police.\u201cThe prayers of our Nation are with her and her family,\u201d Mr. Trump wrote. \u201cGOD BLESS AND PROTECT NANCY!\u201dAnnie Guthrie said in the video on Wednesday night that the three siblings were \u201cnormal human people\u201d who need their mother.\u201cMama, Mama, if you\u2019re listening, we need you to come home,\u201d she said. \u201cWe miss you.\u201dAt least three news outlets \u2014 the celebrity news website TMZ and the local TV stations KGUN and KOLD \u2014 said they had received what appeared to be ransom notes and had forwarded them to the authorities.TMZ said the note its newsroom received had demanded millions of dollars in Bitcoin and included a description of damage to Nancy Guthrie\u2019s house that presumably occurred during her abduction. It was unclear whether the description was accurate.Mr. Janke, the F.B.I. agent, said Thursday that the note had mentioned details about an Apple Watch and a floodlight and had given an initial payment deadline of 5 p.m. Thursday. He declined to share more.While F.B.I. agents were still analyzing the purported ransom notes sent to the news outlets, federal prosecutors charged a California man in his 40s with sending a hoax text to Annie Guthrie and Mr. Cioni. An F.B.I. agent wrote in an affidavit that, when confronted, the man told agents he wanted to see whether the family would respond. He was charged with making a ransom demand and using a phone to harass or threaten.ImageSavannah Guthrie sometimes featured her mother, Nancy, on television.Credit...Don Arnold\/WireImage, via Getty ImagesNancy Guthrie, a retired communications professional, has been a stalwart volunteer and was often seen around her Tucson community, those who know her said. She lives in a quiet, wealthy part of the Catalina Foothills, just north of Tucson, but not in a gated community \u2014 rather, homes are separated by large lots, cactuses and desert scrub.At a vigil on Wednesday evening inside a church just down the road from Ms. Guthrie\u2019s house, scores of residents lit candles and prayed for her safe return.Laura Gargano, who lives behind her, said she has seen neighbors installing security systems in the days since the disappearance.Ms. Gargano said she met Ms. Guthrie a few times and visited her at her house about a year ago. On Wednesday evening, she lit a candle for her neighbor and stood in the back of the chapel.\u201cI hope her family is able to find moments of peace and hope,\u201d Ms. Gargano said. \u201cI hope they get some comfort from knowing that so many people are thinking of them and caring about their family.\u201dNancy Stanley, a longtime family friend, said neighbors felt helpless about the search. Ms. Stanley worked with Savannah Guthrie for several years at a local television station, KVOA, and knows her and her mother to be people of faith.Now, she said, \u201cthe family\u2019s in this limbo, this horrible hell.\u201dSusan C. Beachy contributed research.Show moreFeb. 4, 2026, 9:42 a.m. ETFeb. 4, 2026Reis ThebaultReporting from Tucson, Ariz.ImageNancy Guthrie\u2019s home became a focus for the fascination of neighbors and the nation alike.Credit...Jan Sonnenmair\/Getty ImagesIt began with the type of call the Pima County Sheriff\u2019s Department fields every day: An 84-year-old woman gone from her home, a family in panic.But when the deputies arrived at the low-slung brick house in a quiet desert neighborhood north of Tucson, Ariz., on Sunday, they quickly realized that this was no routine missing persons case.There was the red splatter on the doorstep and damage, inside and out, that indicated an abduction. Then there was the identity of the lost woman, Nancy Guthrie, mother of \u201cToday\u201d show host Savannah Guthrie, one of the most-watched morning television anchors in America.Before long, news of the investigation was everywhere. It flooded social media feeds and ricocheted around group chats. Reporters from across the country descended on Tucson, a city of about 500,000 that is home to the University of Arizona and 70 miles from the Mexican border. Citizen detectives bombarded the sheriff\u2019s office with tips and theories, and President Trump on Wednesday called Savannah Guthrie with words of support.As the search slogged through its fourth day, much remained murky. The few details that emerged seemed ripped from a Hollywood script or a history book. The possible kidnapping of a celebrity\u2019s loved one \u2014 and the fixation that followed \u2014 conjured memories of the Lindbergh baby and Patty Hearst, crimes of a bygone era.But Ms. Guthrie\u2019s case has come with modern twists: Her abandoned cellphone and in-home security cameras, the drones that overflew the cactuses and palo verde trees of her subdivision hunting for clues. The supposed ransom note, first reported by the celebrity news site TMZ, demanding millions of dollars in Bitcoin. Local officials say they have a copy, and the F.B.I. is investigating. ImageSavannah Guthrie, here with her mother in 2015, is one of the Arizona city\u2019s most recognizable exports.Credit...Don Arnold\/WireImage, via Getty ImagesThe intense interest the case has yielded many new leads, but it has complicated the investigation as well.\u201cThis is really, for me, pretty new, all the media attention,\u201d Chris Nanos, the Pima County sheriff, told a phalanx of reporters at a Wednesday news briefing. He said he was receiving so many media inquiries that it had become a distraction. \u201cIt\u2019s just too tough, and it\u2019s not fair to the case,\u201d he added.Later that day, in an interview with The New York Times, Sheriff Nanos said that the spotlight has made this case unlike any other he has handled, but he has told his deputies to concentrate on their urgent work.\u201cThe reality is, it\u2019s another crime,\u201d he said. \u201cWe need to focus on the mission. We want to find Nancy, first and foremost. And we want to find her alive.\u201dAuthorities have said every hour is crucial. If Ms. Guthrie does not take her daily medication, they warned, the consequences could be fatal. The episode has shaken Tucson, where Ms. Guthrie moved with her family when her daughter Savannah was a baby. After her husband died in the 1980s, Ms. Guthrie raised her three teenagers there alone. Savannah Guthrie stayed close, attending college in Tucson and working there early in her career. The star anchor is a hometown hero, one of the city\u2019s most recognizable exports, who was poised to play a key role in NBC\u2019s coverage of the Olympics, whose opening ceremony is Friday. Since Nancy Guthrie\u2019s disappearance, her daughter has taken an absence from \u201cToday,\u201d and she has pulled out of the Winter Games. A church planned to hold a candlelight vigil for the family on Wednesday evening. \u201cShe\u2019s part of our community,\u201d Sheriff Nanos said. \u201cShe hasn\u2019t lived here for years, but boy, everybody watches that \u2018Today\u2019 show.\u201dOne of those longtime viewers, Connie Cohn, had not known that she lived next door to Savannah\u2019s sister and Ms. Guthrie\u2019s older daughter, Annie Guthrie. On Wednesday, as police officers and journalists canvassed the street near her house in north Tucson, Ms. Cohn peered out her window and wondered what the commotion was about.She called her husband, who took a guess: \u201cMaybe it has to do with Savannah Guthrie\u2019s mom,\u201d he told her.ImageChris Nanos, the Pima County sheriff, said that the national spotlight has made this case unlike any other he has handled.Credit...Jan Sonnenmair\/Getty ImagesMs. Cohn had been tracking developments in the search obsessively, refreshing news and social media. She grew up in Tucson, too, and followed Savannah Guthrie\u2019s career.\u201cI feel like I know her,\u201d she said.She was saddened to learn that the home next door was one of the last places Ms. Guthrie had been seen.On Saturday evening, Ms. Guthrie had dinner there with Annie Guthrie and her husband, Sheriff Nanos said. About 9:45 p.m., Ms. Guthrie\u2019s son-in-law dropped her off at her home a few miles away and made sure she made it inside safely, the sheriff said.When Ms. Guthrie did not show up for church Sunday morning, someone there contacted her family, who went to the house to check on her. Ms. Guthrie\u2019s wallet, cellphone and car were still there, authorities said, but she was missing.Police ruled out the idea that she might have mistakenly wandered outside and gotten lost: She has a medical condition that limits her mobility and \u201cis of sound mind,\u201d Sheriff Nanos said. When his deputies arrived, they saw \u201csomething at the home that didn\u2019t sit well,\u201d he added, and it became clear that she had been forced out against her will.Authorities have been in close contact with relatives, who have all cooperated with the investigation, Sheriff Nanos said. The sheriff said it was too soon to say whether the abduction was random or targeted, but he called the case extraordinary.\u201cWe don\u2019t see those kinds of monsters here,\u201d he said.On Ms. Guthrie\u2019s block, an affluent area where the homes have large lots and views of the Catalina Mountains, neighbors have shared security camera footage with police and have even helped search for Ms. Guthrie in the foothills themselves. Police have not said whether the footage has turned up new evidence.ImageReporters from across the country descended. Group chats exploded. Credit...Jan Sonnenmair\/Getty ImagesThe scene on Tuesday blended the ominous and the everyday. After the police finished their work at Ms. Guthrie\u2019s home, dried red liquid remained visible on the front doorstep. An Arizona Republic reporter watched an Amazon delivery driver drop off a package at the stoop. It was addressed to Ms. Guthrie.Jorge Gomez, a recent retiree who has lived in the area for about 10 years, said the news was unnerving. \u201cWe are heartbroken,\u201d he said. \u201cI can\u2019t believe what the family\u2019s going through.\u201dMr. Gomez\u2019s own house has an alarm system and outdoor cameras, but since Ms. Guthrie was taken, he has been double-checking that they work every night. He has found himself on edge in a neighborhood that has always been tranquil.That serenity is what drew many of his older neighbors to live there, including Ms. Guthrie. In a November \u201cToday\u201d segment, filmed in Tucson, she said the family decided to settle in the city in part because of its natural beauty.\u201cThe air, the quality of life,\u201d she said, smiling at her daughter. \u201cIt\u2019s laid back and gentle.\u201dLourdes Medrano contributed reporting from Tucson. Show more",
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