{"id":276828,"date":"2026-02-10T11:49:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T11:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/276828\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T11:49:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T11:49:09","slug":"timeline-of-key-developments-in-the-search-for-nancy-guthrie-as-it-enters-10th-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/276828\/","title":{"rendered":"Timeline of key developments in the search for Nancy Guthrie as it enters 10th day"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n The search for missing 84-year-old Nancy Guthrie, mother of \u201cToday\u201d show host Savannah Guthrie<\/a>, has stretched into a second, anguished week, with mounting pressure on investigators and a family grappling with uncertainty.\n <\/p>\n

\n Guthrie was last seen on January 31, before she was apparently kidnapped<\/a>, disappearing from her secluded home in Arizona\u2019s Catalina Foothills without her phone or critical medications.\n <\/p>\n

\n The long days since she vanished have been marked by disturbing twists: purported ransom notes demanding millions of dollars, an intensive investigation and emotional video pleas from Guthrie\u2019s children publicly begging for the return of their mother.\n <\/p>\n

\n Here is a timeline of key events in the case:\n <\/p>\n

\n Nancy Guthrie joins her family for dinner and game night Saturday evening, Ubering to her older daughter Annie\u2019s nearby home around 5:32 p.m. Hours later, family members drop her back home. Guthrie\u2019s garage door opens at approximately 9:48 p.m. and closes at 9:50 p.m.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cIt is that time we assume that Nancy\u2019s home and probably going to bed,\u201d Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos said at news conference a few days after her disappearance.\n <\/p>\n

\"Pima<\/p>\n

\n Guthrie\u2019s doorbell camera is disconnected at 1:47 a.m. and about 25 minutes later, surveillance camera software detects movement. At 2:28 a.m., data from Guthrie\u2019s pacemaker app shows the device was disconnected from her phone.\n <\/p>\n

\n More than nine hours later, at 11:56 a.m., the family realizes she\u2019s missing when checking on her at home after she is uncharacteristically absent from church. Relatives call 911 at 12:03 p.m. to report her missing, and Pima County Sheriff\u2019s Department patrols arrive by 12:15 p.m.\n <\/p>\n

\n Investigators scour the scene, finding blood<\/a> on the front porch which is later confirmed to be Guthrie\u2019s.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cThere\u2019s still more items that have been submitted. We just haven\u2019t got them back yet,\u201d the sheriff would later say on February 5. \u201cIn the meantime, we\u2019re not just sitting on our haunches waiting. We do have a number of leads coming in.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n On the third day of the search for Guthrie, several media outlets, including TMZ and CNN affiliate KOLD, receive purported ransom letters demanding millions of dollars in bitcoin for her return. One note<\/a> includes a first deadline of 5 p.m. Thursday, February 5, and a second deadline for Monday, February 9.\n <\/p>\n

\n In an emotional video<\/a> posted to Instagram on Wednesday evening, Savannah Guthrie \u2013 flanked by her siblings Annie and Camron \u2013 pleads for her mother to come home four days after her disappearance. \u201cWe need to know without a doubt that she\u2019s alive and that you have her,\u201d Guthrie said in response to the reports of ransom notes. \u201cWe want to hear from you and we are ready to listen. Please reach out to us.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n Law enforcement activity suddenly increases Wednesday early evening as detectives perform a \u201cfollow-up\u201d<\/a> at Guthrie\u2019s home, the sheriff\u2019s office says. Fresh crime scene tape wraps around the length of the house \u2014 and is taken down within a matter of hours.\n <\/p>\n

\n Camron Guthrie issues another plea<\/a> in a video posted on social media at 5 p.m. local time as the first deadline given in the purported ransom note passes.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cWhoever is out there holding our mother, we want to hear from you,\u201d he says. \u201cWe haven\u2019t heard anything directly. We need you to reach out and we need a way to communicate with you so we can move forward.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n The FBI, now jointly working the case with the Pima County Sheriff\u2019s Department, announces a $50,000 reward<\/a> for information leading to the recovery of Guthrie \u201cand or the arrest and conviction of anyone involved in her disappearance.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n CNN affiliate KOLD receives a new purported ransom note on Day 6 of the search. The news station said<\/a> it forwarded the message, along with the IP address from which the note originated, to law enforcement. The new note includes sensitive information but no deadline, according to an anchor at the news outlet<\/a>.\n <\/p>\n

\n Later that evening, gloved investigators are seen<\/a> buzzing over Nancy Guthrie\u2019s property, placing evidence markers and climbing onto the flat, stark white roof of her home. Agents peer into bushes and scour the ground as a car which appeared to be Guthrie\u2019s is towed away<\/a>.\n <\/p>\n

\n On the one-week mark of Guthrie\u2019s disappearance, her three children say to her possible captor in a new social media video: \u201cWe will pay<\/a>.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cWe received your message, and we understand,\u201d Savannah Guthrie says in the new video. \u201cWe 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. This is very valuable to us, and we will pay.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\"Guthrie's<\/p>\n

\n Hours after the new video of the siblings, law enforcement officials are seen at Annie Guthrie\u2019s home<\/a>. They leave shortly after 10:30 p.m. with a bag and one deputy sheriff is seen wearing blue latex gloves.\n <\/p>\n

\n Just before 11 a.m., investigators return to Nancy Guthrie\u2019s home and are seen examining the septic tank near her property. Video shows<\/a> investigators moving around a long stick in the tank, at times repeatedly jabbing it, and using a flashlight to peer inside.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cDetectives and agents continue to conduct follow-up at multiple locations,\u201d the Pima County Sheriff\u2019s Department said.\n <\/p>\n

\n CNN affiliate KGUN, which also received the first ransom note sent to some media stations, reports<\/a> new details from the note: The purported abductor demanded $6 million and threatened Guthrie\u2019s life if the 5 p.m. Monday, February 9, deadline isn\u2019t met.\n <\/p>\n

\n Around 1:30 p.m., hours from the second deadline in the letter, Savannah Guthrie posts another video to social media<\/a>, this time appealing to the public instead of her mom\u2019s alleged captor, asking for assistance.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cWe are at an hour of desperation, and we need your help,\u201d the \u201cToday\u201d show host says, telling people to report anything \u201cstrange\u201d to law enforcement.\n <\/p>\n

\n The second deadline in the purported ransom note passes at 5 p.m.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The search for missing 84-year-old Nancy Guthrie, mother of \u201cToday\u201d show host Savannah Guthrie, has stretched into a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":276829,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[156,111,139,69,437],"class_list":["post-276828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276828\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}