Nancy Guthrie vanished without a trace. The 84-year-old mother of Today host Savannah Guthrie was last seen on the evening of January 31, 2026, after family dropped her at her Catalina Foothills home outside Tucson. By the next day she was gone. Blood on the front porch matched her DNA. Her doorbell camera had been disabled around 1:47 a.m. Investigators say she was taken against her will.
For weeks, online rumor turned toward her own family. On February 16, Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos ended that speculation. Every sibling and spouse—including son-in-law Tommaso Cioni—had been cleared. They were victims, he said, not suspects, and had cooperated fully. “To suggest otherwise is not only wrong, it is cruel.”
The core mystery remains. Recovered Nest footage shows a masked figure in gloves and a backpack, apparently armed, covering the camera on the night she disappeared. A glove found about two miles away appeared to match those in the video; DNA was tested. The desert search widened. The FBI raised its reward to $100,000. Later the family added a $1 million offer. Ransom notes surfaced; one claimed she had died and been “buried in nature.” None of it has brought her home.
For Savannah and her family, every hour is still fear, faith, and waiting for the call that could change everything. Anyone with information is asked to contact the FBI at 1-800-CALL-FBI.
