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    "parsed_content": "Officers Seal Off Street Near Nancy Guthrie\u2019s HomePublished Feb. 13, 2026Updated Feb. 14, 2026, 9:02 a.m. ETShare full articleImageA blockade at the scene where the police were conducting an operation linked to the Nancy Guthrie case in Tucson, Ariz., on Friday.Credit...Cassidy Araiza for The New York TimesDay 13: Where Things StandOfficers Block a Street: Late Friday, law enforcement officers came to a neighborhood about two miles from Nancy Guthrie\u2019s home and closed off a street. The police operation is related to the investigation into her abduction on Feb. 1, a Pima County Sheriff\u2019s Department spokeswoman said.Sheriff Discusses the Case: Chris Nanos, the Arizona sheriff leading the search for Nancy Guthrie, described investigators\u2019 disappointment when learning a person they detained this week was not involved. But in an interview with The Times, he said DNA had been discovered on Ms. Guthrie\u2019s property and sent for testing and expressed confidence that Ms. Guthrie would be found. Read more \u203aFlood of Tips: The release of security video showing a masked man on Nancy Guthrie\u2019s porch early on Feb. 1, the morning she disappeared, has opened a floodgate of possible leads to law enforcement. More than 4,000 calls were made to the Pima County Sheriff\u2019s Department in the 24 hours after the images were made public this week. Read more \u203aUpdates on the InvestigationFeb. 14, 2026, 3:03 a.m. ETFeb. 14, 2026Dan WatsonA tow truck has removed the Range Rover that became the subject of intense investigative scrutiny.FBI agents and local sheriff deputies are leaving the scene now that the SUV has been hauled away.Feb. 14, 2026, 2:56 a.m. ETFeb. 14, 2026Jack HealyInvestigators are photographing something inside the Range Rover\u2019s trunk and have unfurled a sheet to shield it from view. It remains unclear whether this activity is connected to the Guthrie case.ImageCredit...Cassidy Araiza for The New York TimesFeb. 14, 2026, 1:58 a.m. ETFeb. 14, 2026Jack HealyLocal deputies and F.B.I. investigators have converged on a second scene in the parking lot of a Culver\u2019s about a five-minute drive away from the residential neighborhood they have sealed off. They are focusing on a gray Range Rover, which they have been photographing and shining a flashlight into.It is unclear if this is related to the Guthrie case.ImageCredit...Ty Oneil\/Associated PressFeb. 14, 2026, 1:54 a.m. ETFeb. 14, 2026Nicholas Bogel-BurroughsPolice are investigating a residence on the edge of the Catalina Foothills neighborhood, a short drive from both Nancy Guthrie\u2019s home and the home of her older daughter and son-in-law, the Pima County Sheriff\u2019s Department said in a statement. The department said that, at the request of the F.B.I., it was not releasing any more details.Feb. 13, 2026, 11:55 p.m. ETFeb. 13, 2026Nicholas Bogel-BurroughsThe Pima County Sheriff\u2019s Department said in a social-media post that there would be no press briefing tonight, but that it would release a written statement.Feb. 13, 2026, 11:54 p.m. ETFeb. 13, 2026Jack HealyA long line of law-enforcement and civilian vehicles just passed through the roadblock toward the scene, including a sheriff\u2019s department forensics team truck.ImageCredit...Brandon Bell\/Getty ImagesLoad 10 more postsBackground on the SearchFeb. 10, 2026, 5:31 p.m. ETFeb. 10, 2026The New York TimesA timeline of Nancy Guthrie\u2019s disappearance.ImageThe authorities in Pima County, Ariz., have repeatedly closed and reopened the crime scene at Nancy Guthrie\u2019s house near Tucson since she was reported missing on Feb. 1.Credit...Rebecca Noble\/ReutersFor more than a week, the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie, the 84-year-old mother of the \u201cToday\u201d show host Savannah Guthrie, has confounded the authorities. And because it involves the possible abduction of a celebrity\u2019s relative, it has captivated much of the nation.Investigators have spent days analyzing notes from people claiming to be the kidnappers, including one that demanded millions of dollars in Bitcoin. In the latest development, the authorities on Feb. 10 released black-and-white surveillance video and images from Ms. Guthrie\u2019s doorstep.The video was taken by a doorbell camera. They show a person wearing a ski mask, gloves and a backpack early on the morning of Feb. 1.Here is a timeline of the major developments in the case.9:48 p.m., Jan 31.Nancy Guthrie Is Last SeenJust after 5:30 p.m., Ms. Guthrie took an Uber to the nearby home of her older daughter, Annie, and her son-in-law, Tommaso Cioni. The three spent about four hours together, eating dinner and playing games, before Mr. Cioni drove her home.Ms. Guthrie\u2019s garage door opened at 9:48 p.m. and closed two minutes later, according to the authorities. Mr. Cioni watched to make sure Ms. Guthrie made it safely inside. That was the last time anyone in her family saw or heard from her.1:47-2:28 a.m., Feb. 1Ms. Guthrie\u2019s Front Door Camera Is DisconnectedMs. Guthrie\u2019s front door camera was disconnected at 1:47 a.m. About 25 minutes later, a camera somewhere on her 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 investigators would later find inside the house, suggesting this may have been about the time she was taken.ImageChris Nanos, the Pima County sheriff, said that his deputies saw \u201csomething at the home that didn\u2019t sit well,\u201d and that it became clear that Ms. Guthrie had been forced out against her will.Credit...Jan Sonnenmair\/Getty ImagesFeb. 1, morningMs. Guthrie Is Reported MissingWhen Ms. Guthrie did not arrive at a friend\u2019s house to watch a live-streamed church service on Sunday, the friend notified Ms Guthrie\u2019s family. Family members went to her house just before noon to check on her, discovered she was missing and called 911.The authorities found her phone, wallet, hearing aid, daily medication and car. At her 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.Sheriff Chris Nanos of Pima County, Ariz., told The New York Times that investigators found even more worrying signs of violence at Ms. Guthrie\u2019s home. \u201cThere were things at that home that were of concern,\u201d he said. \u201cThat scene, there were things that, I thought, this doesn\u2019t sit well.\u201dHe declined to elaborate, but investigators spent the following days combing through the home, its garage and the surrounding scrubland.Feb. 2A Ransom Note ArrivesRoughly 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.\u201dFeb. 3Savannah Guthrie Withdraws From NBC\u2019s Olympics CoverageAs investigators acknowledged that they had few answers about who may have kidnapped Nancy Guthrie, NBC Sports said Savannah Guthrie would not be part of the network\u2019s coverage of the Winter Olympics in Italy. Mary Carillo took her place alongside Terry Gannon as a host of the network\u2019s coverage of the opening ceremony on Friday.Savannah Guthrie also has been absent from the \u201cToday\u201d set to be in Tucson with her family. Hoda Kotb, her co-anchor on \u201cToday\u201d from 2018 until 2025, returned to the show to fill in for her former colleague.Feb. 4ImageThe \u201cToday\u201d show host Savannah Guthrie, flanked by her siblings, Annie and Camron, said in an emotional video that she wanted to hear directly from anyone who may have taken her mother.Credit...Savannah Guthrie, via Instagram\/UGC, via, via ReutersMs. Guthrie\u2019s Children Plead for Her Safe ReturnMs. Guthrie\u2019s children recorded their first emotional address to their mother\u2019s kidnapper and posted it to Savannah Guthrie\u2019s Instagram account. Savannah Guthrie, trying to hold back tears as she read from a paper, said her family had heard about purported ransom letters that had been sent to news organizations.She said that they wanted to hear directly from anyone who may have taken their mother, but that they first needed proof she was alive.\u201cWe are ready to talk,\u201d she said, flanked by 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.\u201dFeb. 6Another Note and Another VideoKOLD 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 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.\u201dFeb. 9Savannah Guthrie Says Her Family Is at \u2018An Hour of Desperation\u2019As the search entered its second week, Savannah Guthrie implored the public for help in finding her mother, saying in an Instagram video that she and her siblings believed that she was \u201cstill out there.\u201d\u201cWe are at an hour of desperation,\u201d she said.Feb. 10Surveillance Images Show a Masked FigureNew 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 investigation.The black-and-white footage, released by the F.B.I. and the Pima County Sheriff\u2019s Department, depicts a person wearing a ski mask, gloves, a backpack and what appears to be a holstered handgun outside Ms. Guthrie\u2019s home, just north of Tucson. Investigators said the person was armed.Late in the day, the authorities detained a main for questioning in the case but released him early on Feb. 11. In an interview, the man said he had not heard about Ms. Guthrie\u2019s disappearance but hoped that she would be found safe. \u201cI hope they get the suspect, because I\u2019m not it,\u201d he said, speaking on the doorstep of a home in Rio Rico, Ariz., about an hour\u2019s drive south of TucsonFeb. 13Officers Investigate a Residence Near Ms. Guthrie\u2019s HomePolice blocked off a street and investigated a residence a short drive from both Nancy Guthrie\u2019s home and the home of her older daughter and son-in-law, the Pima County Sheriff\u2019s Department said in a statement. Several law-enforcement vehicles were seen at the residence, including a sheriff\u2019s department forensics team truck. The department said that, at the request of the F.B.I., it was not releasing any more details.Earlier in the day, Chris Nanos, the Arizona sheriff leading the search for Nancy Guthrie, said investigators had obtained DNA from Ms. Guthrie\u2019s property. A department statement said the DNA did not belong to anyone in close contact with Ms. Guthrie.Mr. Nanos said a lab was also running DNA tests on gloves that investigators found about two miles from Ms. Guthrie\u2019s house.Feb. 14Investigators Focus on a Range RoverNot long after midnight on Saturday, local deputies and F.B.I. investigators converged on a Culver\u2019s parking lot and focused on a gray Range Rover. The location was about a five-minute drive away from the residential neighborhood they sealed off a few hours earlier, although it was unclear if the activity was related to the Guthrie case.Investigators photographed the Range Rover inside and out and unfurled a sheet to shield it from view. A tow truck later removed the vehicle.Show moreFeb. 10, 2026, 7:04 p.m. ETFeb. 10, 2026Jacey FortinHere\u2019s why the Guthrie doorbell footage took more than a week to retrieve.ImageImages provided by the F.B.I. show surveillance footage taken at the home of Nancy Guthrie on a Nest camera.Credit...F.B.I. via Associated PressDoorbell camera footage of a masked man at Nancy Guthrie\u2019s front door was made public on Tuesday, 10 days after her family last saw her.The video \u2014 silent, grainy and in black-and-white \u2014 shows a person approaching Ms. Guthrie\u2019s doorstep on the night she was abducted. The person wears a ski mask, gloves, a backpack and what appears to be a holstered handgun.The authorities have known since last week that the camera was disconnected at 1:47 a.m. on Feb. 1. But in a statement on Tuesday, the F.B.I. and the Pima County, Ariz., Sheriff\u2019s Department said that the footage had been uncovered only \u201cas of this morning,\u201d and that the images had been \u201cpreviously inaccessible.\u201dIt was unclear why the footage took more than a week to retrieve. The Pima County Sheriff\u2019s Department referred questions to the F.B.I., which declined to offer more information.The video does offer a clue. It is stamped in the upper right corner with a name: Nest, a home electronics brand that is part of Google.An internet-enabled Nest doorbell, which sells for about $150, can record video and alert homeowners to sounds and movements on their doorsteps. Owners can pay a monthly subscription to get premium features, like long-term video history.If Ms. Guthrie had had a paid subscription to a premium package, the authorities might have had access to footage stored on her account, said Adam Wandt, an associate professor and the deputy chair for technology at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City.But Ms. Guthrie did not pay for a subscription that would have stored the video, according to Chris Nanos, the Pima County Sheriff. So while she may have been able to access real-time video, historical footage would probably be stored only on a server somewhere in one of Google\u2019s vast data centers.It is unclear whether investigators used a warrant to obtain the footage. They may not have been required to, because the kidnapping of Ms. Guthrie, who is the mother of \u201cToday\u201d show host Savannah Guthrie, might be considered an exigent circumstance \u2014 a legal exception to the warrant requirement under the Fourth Amendment.Google did not immediately respond to questions about the footage, but Mr. Wandt speculated that finding the data could have taken days.First, investigators would have had to request the data from Google.\u201cSometimes those requests are clear and simple,\u201d Mr. Wandt said. \u201cHowever, they often are not, and they might take more than one back-and-forth. And then the company might need a day or two, or three, to figure out how to get that data.\u201dShow moreFeb. 6, 2026, 3:02 p.m. ETFeb. 6, 2026Michael LevensonKidnappings by strangers in the United States are exceedingly rare.ImageThe 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. 3, 2026, 8:50 a.m. ETFeb. 3, 2026Claire MosesDetails about the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie.ImageLaw 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. Her disappearance, which has gripped the nation, is being investigated as a kidnapping.Ms. Guthrie was last seen at her home near Tucson on Jan. 31. That evening, 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.A masked person arrived at her home in the early hours of Feb. 1, around the same time a doorbell camera was removed, according to doorbell camera footage released by the authorities.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 DepartmentThis week, the authorities released surveillance footage from Ms. Guthrie\u2019s doorstep showing a person standing at her front door, wearing a ski mask, gloves and a backpack on the morning of Feb. 1.The person, who was armed, is believed to be a man between 5-foot-9 and 5-foot-10, the F.B.I. said.The video footage showed the person approaching Ms. 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.Ms. Guthrie\u2019s doorbell camera was disconnected at 1:47 a.m. on Feb. 1.A timeline, but few clues.The investigation into Ms. Guthrie\u2019s disappearance began after she failed to 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. Early in the investigation, Sheriff Nanos described Ms. Guthrie\u2019s home as \u201ca crime scene.\u201dMs. Guthrie has limited mobility and requires medication every 24 hours, but is mentally sharp, according to the authorities.Ms. Guthrie\u2019s pacemaker app showed that it had been disconnected from her phone at 2:28 a.m. on the night of her disappearance, indicating she was no longer near the phone, which was left inside her house.Ms. Guthrie, whose daughter Savannah had included her in several \u201cToday\u201d show segments, was described as 5 feet 5 inches with brown hair and blue eyes.ImageMs. Guthrie was described in a missing person\u2019s notice as \u201cvulnerable.\u201dCredit...Pima County Sheriff\u2019s Department, via Associated PressThere are still no known leads.Investigators have found several items, including gloves, while scouring the foothills around Ms. Guthrie\u2019s home, the Pima County Sheriff\u2019s Department said. The masked person in the doorbell camera footage was wearing gloves.Several gloves have been found in the community so far, the department said, but none closer than roughly two miles away from Nancy Guthrie\u2019s home.On Friday, a sheriff\u2019s department spokeswoman said that investigators had found DNA on Nancy Guthrie\u2019s property that was neither hers nor that of anyone in \u201cclose contact with her.\u201d The police did not say where the DNA was found but were trying to figure out to whom it belongs.Later that day, police were investigating a house on the edge of the Catalina Foothills neighborhood, a short drive from both Nancy Guthrie\u2019s home and the home of her older daughter and son-in-law, the sheriff\u2019s department said.The authorities briefly detained a man this week, but released him after questioning.The Guthries said they would pay a ransom.Savannah Guthrie and her siblings have released a series of videos pleading with whoever is involved in her mother\u2019s disappearance to reach out to them. They said they would listen to ransom demands.They have also said that they 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 Savannah Guthrie said in one of the videos. \u201cThis is the only way we will have peace. This is very valuable to us, and we will pay.\u201dIn the first video that Savannah Guthrie and her siblings posted, she said that they were willing to listen to ransom demands if they received proof that their mother was alive.The F.B.I. said this week that it was \u201cnot aware of any continued communication between the Guthrie family and suspected kidnappers.\u201dOfficials are investigating a message.The authorities said last week that they were reviewing a message sent to a Tucson television station, but they did not confirm whether it was related to a purported ransom note sent to several news outlets in the days after Ms. Guthrie\u2019s disappearance, which demanded millions of dollars in Bitcoin.A deadline mentioned in a ransom note passed last week, and it remains unclear whether the person who sent that ransom demand is connected to Nancy Guthrie\u2019s abduction.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 did not go to Italy for the Milan-Cortina Olympics, where she had been expected to play a key role in NBC\u2019s coverage of the Games.Savannah Guthrie grew up and attended college in Tucson, Ariz. She lives in New York with her husband, the communications consultant Michael Feldman, and their two children.Neil Vigdor, Reis Thebault, Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs, John Yoon, Jonathan Wolfe and Hannah Ziegler contributed reporting.Show moreOur Previous CoverageFeb. 11, 2026, 11:17 a.m. ETFeb. 11, 2026Laura ChungDigital currencies like Bitcoin are hard to track and often used by extortionists.ImageA Bitcoin wallet listed in a note claiming to be from Nancy Guthrie\u2019s kidnapper received a small payment, according to a Tucson, Ariz., television station.Credit...Justin Sullivan\/Getty ImagesA Bitcoin wallet listed in a note claiming to be from Nancy Guthrie\u2019s kidnapper has received a small payment, according to a Tucson, Ariz., television station, thrusting cryptocurrency into the center of a case that has gripped the nation.The episode highlights why digital currencies have become a common tool in ransom demands, and how difficult they can be to trace.Several news outlets received a supposed ransom note last week demanding payment to a Bitcoin wallet. One of them, KGUN, a Tucson television station, said on Tuesday night that the wallet had received a payment for less than $300. It remains unclear whether the person who sent the note is actually connected to Ms. Guthrie\u2019s abduction.Since Bitcoin emerged in 2009, it has become a common payment method in extortion schemes, including ransomware attacks and kidnappings, because it allows transactions to be conducted outside the traditional financial system.Unlike bank transfers, Bitcoin transactions do not require names or physical locations. They rely instead on a string of characters known as a Bitcoin address.\u201cThe other alternative option that you have if you\u2019re a kidnapper, for example, or you\u2019re engaged in some other form of ransom demands, is you ask for a briefcase brimming with cash to be dropped off somewhere,\u201d said Anton Moiseienko, an associate professor of law at Australian National University.\u201cBut that requires physical contact. Someone needs to leave cash. Someone needs to pick it up. Bitcoin can operate across countries, geographies, continents and so on,\u201d he said.Tracing a cryptocurrency transfer presents two main challenges: identifying who owns the account and where the money ultimately goes, said Dennis Desmond, a cyber-intelligence lecturer at Australia\u2019s University of the Sunshine Coast and a former F.B.I. special agent.He likened the challenge to searching for a needle in a stack of needles.\u201cIf the funds are immediately transferred to other wallets, aggregated, consolidated, and then again shipped out to other wallets, or hundreds of wallets in different countries, it\u2019s very difficult to recover those funds,\u201d said Mr. Desmond.Still, cryptocurrency transfers are not as difficult to trace as criminals may assume. Each transaction is recorded on a publicly viewable ledger known as a blockchain.The authorities, often working with specialized cryptocurrency-tracking companies, can monitor transactions from a particular wallet and determine whether the money is moved to other wallets or digital exchanges, Mr. Desmond said.From there, the authorities may be able to gather identifying details, such as associated IP addresses, when a wallet was created and how frequently it has been used.For example, in 2021, federal officials recovered most of the Bitcoin ransom paid by Colonial Pipeline after a ransomware attack shut down the company\u2019s computer systems, prompting fuel shortages and a spike in gasoline prices. The authorities did not disclose how they retrieved the funds.Show moreFeb. 6, 2026, 1:42 p.m. ETFeb. 6, 2026Reis Thebault and Neil VigdorThe sheriff at the center of a chaotic search. ImageSheriff 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 Savannah 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, 9:42 a.m. ETFeb. 4, 2026Reis ThebaultReporting from Tucson, Ariz.The mysterious disappearance has a nation fixated on a desert subdivision. 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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