\n A more recent disappearance in the area has drawn national attention<\/a>: that of Nancy Guthrie, the 84-year-old mother of \u201cToday\u201d anchor Savannah Guthrie.\n <\/p>\n \n Nancy Guthrie vanished from her affluent neighborhood in the Catalina Foothills<\/a> on February 1<\/a>, and nearly a month after she disappeared, officials have yet to find the missing woman or charge someone in connection to her apparent kidnapping.\n <\/p>\n \n President Donald Trump posted on Truth Social he was \u201cdeploying all resources\u201d to find her, and the Pima County Sheriff said he had \u201cover 400 cops out here working every minute of the day\u201d on the case. Her family on Tuesday announced they are offering up to $1 million for information leading to her recovery, and Savannah Guthrie also announced a $500,000 donation to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children<\/a>, saying she hopes the attention given to her family will extend to others still in limbo.\n <\/p>\n \n As the search for Nancy Guthrie stretches into its fourth week, families like Jimmy\u2019s have been waiting years for any new information about their loved ones.\n <\/p>\n A \u2018mama\u2019s boy\u2019 who loved church and playing outdoors<\/p>\n \n On that summer day in Tucson, Tacho and her mother were heading to Douglas, Arizona, to meet her then-boyfriend\u2019s family, she said. Jimmy didn\u2019t want to go.\n <\/p>\n \n \u201cHe was at that age. It was summer, he wanted to be out there playing and doing what boys do, and so he stayed behind,\u201d she said.\n <\/p>\n \n Tacho remembers her brother as a \u201cmama\u2019s boy\u201d who loved going to church, playing outside and was usually sporting red sweatpants \u2014 his favorite color.\n <\/p>\n \n \u201cThe worst thing is to drive out and watch him just wave at us,\u201d Tacho said.\n <\/p>\n \n They left him with a family friend they had known since they moved to Tucson in 1987, Tacho said, and their two-day trip stretched into three after the car broke down.\n <\/p>\n \n When they finally got back into town, that\u2019s when \u201cthe nightmare begins,\u201d Tacho said.\n <\/p>\n \n Jimmy\u2019s mother filed a police report immediately when she found out her son was missing, but Tacho said the case wasn\u2019t taken seriously right away. She recalled police thought Jimmy was just a runaway, but she said her family knew that wasn\u2019t true. It took several weeks for her brother to be recognized as a missing person, she said.\n <\/p>\n \n \u201cIt\u2019s been brought up during the initial investigation and subsequent theories, and that was that Jimmy walked away of his own free will and just was a runaway. That\u2019s absolutely not what happened in this case. He didn\u2019t leave his family of his own free will. He had no money to provide for himself, no transportation,\u201d Tucson Police Department Detective David Miller told CNN affiliate KOLD<\/a> last year.\n <\/p>\n \n There are several stories about what happened the night of June 11 and the next morning, Tacho said, which has left her family with more questions than answers.\n <\/p>\n \n The family friend watching Jimmy let him and another child go to her relative\u2019s house to fix a fence, Tacho said. The other child told police that Jimmy was playing video games when he went to bed and heard noises during the night, but didn\u2019t think anything of it, according to Tacho. The adult at the house said Jimmy left in the morning to go eat breakfast at a nearby school, she said, which was not unusual for her and her siblings to do.\n <\/p>\n \n Now, nearly 35 years later, Tacho is still pushing for answers. She still calls the police department and has hosted vigils and events to bring attention to her brother\u2019s case, she said.\n <\/p>\n \n \u201cI worked at the job my mom worked at and hope that one day Jimmy would walk in there,\u201d Tacho said. \u201cI\u2019ve come to accept \u2026 I\u2019m not going to find him alive, but we need to find him.\u201d\n <\/p>\n \n When her mother died a few years ago, she \u201cleft not knowing\u201d what happened to Jimmy. \u201cI don\u2019t want to leave this world not knowing,\u201d Tacho said.\n <\/p>\n \n She said she still lives in Tucson, just in case Jimmy ever comes back.\n <\/p>\n \n It\u2019s a heavy burden the family of Karen Grajeda, who was 7 years old when she disappeared from her apartment complex in Tucson in 1996, is bearing too: The balancing of hope and trying to grieve.\n <\/p>\n \n \u201cI still hang our Christmas picture every year,\u201d her younger sister, Alejandra, wrote in a message to Karen posted by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children<\/a>. \u201cMy daughter is named after you. If you\u2019re out there, if you\u2019re alive, we\u2019re here. Your whole family loves you and if you can come home, please do. We\u2019ll always be waiting for you.\u201d\n <\/p>\n \n Karen was last seen playing outside her home on January 11, 1996, according to CNN affiliate KOLD<\/a>.\n <\/p>\n \n The FBI and Tucson Police Department began searching for her right away, and family and community members joined the effort, but after months with few leads, there is still no trace of what happened, the NCMEC said. The organization works with law enforcement and other officials to find missing children, including publishing age-progression images.\n <\/p>\n \n \u201cShe was just an innocent child. That\u2019s the memory I have of her, an innocent child who was always smiling. As her father, that\u2019s the image I hold onto,\u201d Karen\u2019s father, Andres, told the organization.\n <\/p>\n \n Karen\u2019s case is \u201cin long-term missing person status,\u201d the Tucson Police Department told CNN, and law enforcement continues to investigate the case as a non-family abduction and asks people to come forward with information, according to NCMEC.\n <\/p>\n \n \u201cThere\u2019s nothing more innocent than a child, and they\u2019re the most vulnerable people that had everything in front of them to be happy about, and it was all taken away from them, from their families,\u201d Miller, the Tucson detective, told KOLD<\/a> of the case in 2023. \u201cAnybody who has kids probably feels the same way and that level of trust, I think, in a community when something like that happens, it diminishes it.\u201d\n <\/p>\n \n Nearly 30,000 children were reported missing in 2024, according to NCMEC<\/a>.\n <\/p>\n \n Adults in the 20-39 age group are also at risk for abductions and kidnappings in the United States, according to data from the FBI<\/a>. From February 2025 to February 2026, 53% of all abductions were of people in that age range. Nearly half of all abductions happened between current or former romantic partners, the data shows.\n <\/p>\n \n Marlana McElvaine\u2019s family believes she\u2019s no longer alive but is still asking the public to come forward to help them lay her to rest.\n <\/p>\n \n The 28-year-old and mother of two was in a relationship where she experienced domestic abuse when she went missing in 2010, her sister told CNN affiliate KGUN<\/a>. Her boyfriend, whom she was living with at the time of her disappearance, is in prison on unrelated charges, KOLD reported<\/a>.\n <\/p>\n \n \u201cIt\u2019s a matter of someone coming forward and being brave and giving information. We ask that if it was their sister, their daughter, their child\u2019s mother, that they put themselves in our shoes,\u201d Janean McElvaine, her sister, told KOLD in 2023.\n <\/p>\n \n Marlana McElvaine\u2019s car was found abandoned, with her keys and work badge still inside, the station reported.\n <\/p>\n \n \u201cYou have no closure and there\u2019s just this void in our hearts. We go on, we do the things we have to do, but we have no answers and we\u2019re just hoping that someday \u2026 we can give her the proper goodbye that she deserves,\u201d her mother Dian McElvaine told KOLD.\n <\/p>\n \n Dian McElvaine said in 2023 the family was working on getting a death declaration to help with the grieving process. Tucson police told KOLD at the time that once it is signed, the case will change from a missing person case to homicide.\n <\/p>\n \n Tucson police told CNN that the case is still currently classified \u201cin long-term missing person status.\u201d\n <\/p>\n![\"Pima](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/gettyimages-2261863096.jpg\")
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