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“Today” show host Savannah Guthrie has shared another message to the neighbors of her missing mother, Nancy Guthrie, asking for their “renewed attention” to her case—as the search for the 84-year-old stretched into its eighth week.
Savannah, 54, took to Instagram on March 22—which marked the 50th day that her mother has been missing—to issue a plea to those who live in Nancy’s Arizona community to double down in their efforts to assist the investigation.
Nancy was first reported missing from her Tucson-area home on Feb. 1 after failing to show up to a friend’s house, where she had been due to watch a livestreamed church service.
Residents of Nancy’s community in the Catalina Foothills have since been asked to hand over any and all security camera footage that might have been recorded on the night of Jan. 31, as well as any pertinent clips taken in the days leading up to and the days following the grandmother’s disappearance.
However, Savannah urged locals in her Instagram message to report any detail, no matter how small, that might help investigators in their search for her mother.
“We are deeply grateful for the outpouring from neighbors, friends and the people of Tucson. We are all family now,” she wrote. “We continue to believe it is Tucsonans, and the greater southern Arizona community, that hold the key to finding resolution in this case.”
Savannah highlighted a new date of interest in her mother’s case, urging Tucson residents to bring forward any key memories from Jan. 31, Feb. 1, and Jan. 11, although she did not reveal the significance of this third day.
Anyone with any information about Nancy Guthrie’s case should call 1-800-CALL-FBI, 520-351-4900, 88-CRIME, or visit https://tips.fbi.gov/.
“It’s possible a member of this community has information that they do not even realize is significant,” she continued. “We hope people search their memories, especially around the key timelines of Jan. 31 and the early morning hours of Feb.1, as well as the late evening of Jan. 11.
“We desperately ask this community for renewed attention to our mom’s case—please consult camera footage, journal notes, text messages, observations or conversations that in retrospect may hold significance. No detail is too small. It may be the key.”
Savannah, who shared the message on behalf of herself, her siblings, Annie Guthrie and Cameron Guthrie, and their significant others, admitted that her family currently feels like they are in a state of limbo, unable to properly grieve their mother until she is returned to them.
“We miss our mom with every breath and we cannot be in peace until she is home,” she wrote. “We cannot grieve; we can only ache and wonder. Our focus is solely on finding her and bringing her home.
“We want to celebrate her beautiful and courageous life. But we cannot do that until she is brought to a final place of rest.
“Thank you for continuing to pray without ceasing.”
Savannah’s message comes around two weeks after one of Nancy’s neighbors spoke out about a “strange” man she had seen in the area surrounding the 84-year-old’s home not long before her disappearance.
Aldine Meister opened up to NewsNation correspondent Brian Entin about the suspicious sighting earlier this month, explaining that she immediately noticed something off about the man she saw, revealing he was unlike anyone else that can normally be seen strolling through their quiet community.
When asked by Entin whether she had seen anything “strange in the neighborhood” before Nancy’s disappearance, Meister responded: “I did two weeks before,” although the date she then referenced was actually three weeks prior to the 84-year-old’s apparent abduction.
She went on to reveal that she had spotted a “strange guy with his hat down really low” while she was looking out of her bathroom window around Jan. 11—exactly three weeks before Nancy is believed to have been taken from her home.
“I have a picture window in my bathroom, and I see all the people walking by in the mornings,” she noted. “He was kind of hunched over, not in, you know, walking or hiking gear. He was dressed in a kind of street clothing. So I thought that was weird, because that’s not normal.”
Explaining that she is used to seeing strangers out for hikes or runs, Meister said that the man stood out even more because he appeared to linger near Nancy’s home for longer than she feels would be normal.
“I couldn’t make out his face, although his hat was way down,” she said. “And he was walking down the road. And I always see people, and I think, ‘Oh, that’s my friend, Nara, or that’s this person or that person.’ And I saw him, and I was like, ‘Oh, that guy doesn’t fit.’
“He was in kind of street clothes, not shoes that you’d walk in, and he had a baseball hat really low, and he was kind of hunched over, and he was kind of looking around, and he just didn’t fit.
“And he wasn’t going terribly quickly, like a normal person that’s getting exercise, he’s kind of going slowly. And when he walked by this street, he really took a long look at [Nancy’s home]. I noticed that.
“It freaked me out, and I’m not one of those people to be super freaked out by that. But I was like, that’s weird.”
Meister revealed that the sighting was so out of the ordinary that she “said something” to her husband and her mother, although she did not alert the authorities to the incident until after Nancy had been reported missing.
After she informed the FBI about the man, she said that they went to her house to discuss it with her—although it’s unclear whether the person has since been identified by the authorities.
What is the full timeline of Nancy Guthrie’s disappearance?
Nanos noted during a media briefing on Feb. 5 that, while times are approximate, his team has pieced together several pieces of evidence that indicate Nancy’s movements—and the timeline of her apparent abduction.
Nancy was reported missing at around 12 p.m. local time on Feb. 1, around 14 hours after she was dropped off at the property following a family dinner. When she failed to turn up at her usual church gathering on Sunday, her friends alerted her family, who found her home was empty.
SATURDAY, JAN. 31
5:32 p.m. Nancy travels to Annie’s house in an Uber for “dinner and playing games with the family.”
9:48 p.m. A garage door at Nancy’s house opens when she was dropped off at the property by her daughter.
9:50 p.m. The garage door closes, indicating that Nancy was inside the home.
SUNDAY, FEB. 1
1:47 a.m. Nancy’s doorbell security camera is disconnected.
2:12 a.m. Movement is detected on a security camera at the home. No footage of this is currently available.
2:28 a.m. Nancy’s pacemaker app indicates that the device has been disconnected from her phone.
11:00 a.m. Nancy fails to arrive at the home of a friend, where she had been due to watch a church service livestream.
11:56 a.m. Nancy’s family travels to her home to check on her and finds the property empty.
12:03 p.m. The family calls 911 to report Nancy missing.
12:14 p.m. Police officers arrive at Nancy’s home.
