Overview
- Nancy Guthrie, 84, was reported missing from her Tucson home on Feb. 1 and investigators say the case remains active with the Pima County Sheriff’s Department working closely with the FBI.
- TMZ says it received and authenticated a new email from a previously involved sender who claims a hidden phone contains video, photos, names and addresses and that the outlet has forwarded the communication to the FBI.
- Officials and former agents have suggested investigators are narrowing leads on the masked person seen on Guthrie’s doorbell footage, but no arrest has been announced and forensic testing including DNA sent to the FBI lab in Quantico is ongoing.
- Two ransom-style notes were sent to a Tucson TV station soon after the disappearance — one demanding bitcoin and a later one saying Guthrie had died — and a veteran profiler has publicly questioned the notes’ authenticity while the family says some notes are credible.
- Savannah Guthrie has made public pleas for tips, the family and the FBI have offered rewards, and investigators are following digital leads such as blockchain tracing of a bitcoin address while urging anyone with information to contact authorities.