{"id":479499,"date":"2026-02-14T12:42:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T12:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/479499\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T12:42:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T12:42:08","slug":"police-operation-related-to-nancy-guthrie-mother-of-tv-host-savannah-guthrie-underway-in-tucson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/479499\/","title":{"rendered":"Police operation related to Nancy Guthrie, mother of TV host Savannah Guthrie, underway in Tucson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">A police operation is taking place about 4 kilometres away from Nancy Guthrie&#8217;s home in Tucson, Arizona, and a local sheriff&#8217;s department spokesperson has confirmed it is related to the woman&#8217;s disappearance.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Nancy Guthrie, the mother of US morning show host Savannah Guthrie, has been missing for two weeks and is believed to have been abducted from her Arizona home.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Police said they were looking for an individual captured on the 84-year-old&#8217;s doorbell camera the night of her disappearance.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The police operation came hours after it was reported by several US media outlets that investigators found DNA on Nancy Guthrie&#8217;s property that did not belong to her or anyone in close contact with her.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">What started as a missing persons case soon turned into an FBI suspected kidnapping investigation that has captured the interest of the US and online sleuths who have flooded the internet with conspiracy theories.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\"><a class=\"Link_link__5eL5m ScreenReaderOnly_srLinkHint__OysWz Link_showVisited__C1Fea Link_showFocus__ALyv2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2026-02-08\/savannah-guthrie-video-says-will-pay-ransom-for-kidnapped-mother\/106318892\" data-component=\"Link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Savannah Guthrie and her siblings have made several pleas via social media videos<\/a> directly addressing the suspected kidnapper, saying they were prepared to pay a ransom for their mother&#8217;s return.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">A major development earlier in the week was the release of a video that showed a masked individual tampering with a door camera.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The images show the man wearing a ski mask, gloves, a backpack and what appears to be a gun in a holster, approaching the front door of the 84-year-old&#8217;s home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">At one point in the video, the person appears to try to block the camera with foliage gathered nearby, then appears to damage it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The individual&#8217;s head is down as he approaches the door, suggesting an awareness of the camera&#8217;s location, a law enforcement official said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A police operation is taking place about 4 kilometres away from Nancy Guthrie&#8217;s home in Tucson, Arizona, and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":472110,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[64,63,134,7810,16872,234656,138048,427],"class_list":["post-479499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-fbi","tag-missing-person","tag-nancy-guthrie","tag-savannah-guthrie","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=479499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479499\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/472110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}