Investigators search second home in Nancy Guthrie kidnapping case
Authorities executed a search warrant at a Tucson home Friday night in connection with the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie, who investigators say was abducted from her nearby home 13 days ago.
Law enforcement sources told The Times that the SWAT team gathered at a house about two miles from Guthrie’s home in Arizona and took two men out from inside.
A man and a woman obeyed orders to leave the house. News Nation reported.
It’s unclear what role humans may have played in Guthrie’s disappearance, which has baffled investigators for nearly two weeks.
Investigators got the first major breakthrough in the case Tuesday with the release of footage showing an armed man wearing a ski mask, gloves and a backpack approach the front door of Guthrie’s home and tamper with her Nest camera at 1:47 a.m. the night she was abducted.
“Today” welcomes Savannah Guthrie with her mother Nancy in 2023.
(Nathan Congleton/NBC via Getty Images)
Later Tuesday, authorities detained a man in connection with the investigation at a traffic stop in Rio Rico, a semi-rural community about 12 miles north of the U.S.-Mexico border. Deputies and FBI forensic experts and agents searched his family’s home throughout the night but were unable to locate Guthrie. The man was released hours later and denied any involvement in her disappearance. The Times is not naming him because he has not been arrested or charged with a crime.
Nancy Guthrie, the 84-year-old mother of “Today” host Savannah Guthrie, was found missing on Feb. 1 after she failed to show up at a friend’s house to watch a church service. He was taken from his home without heart medication, and it’s unclear how long he could have survived without it.
A day after Guthrie’s disappearance, news outlets obtained the same ransom notes that investigators considered legitimate. Days later, a note was sent directly to the Guthrie family, purporting to be from a man living in Hawthorne who authorities said was a fraud.
Another ransom note was sent to a television station in Arizona last week.
Sources told The Times that authorities have no evidence that Guthrie was the person who wrote the ransom notes. But they also said the Feb. 2 note seemed credible because it contained nonpublic details about a specific piece of damaged property and the placement of an accessory in the home.
On Friday, TMZ said it received a letter from someone claiming to know the identity of Guthrie’s kidnapper and demanding a $100,000 FBI reward in Bitcoin. The website’s founder, Harvey Levin, told CNN that the person wrote that he did not trust the FBI, so they sent the communication through TMZ.
“Be prepared to go international, manhunt for the real person who can give you all the answers,” the letter reads, according to Levin.
Authorities have released limited details about other evidence in the case.
A woman walks her dog past a Pima County sheriff’s vehicle parked in front of Nancy Guthrie’s home on Tuesday, Feb. 10, 2026, in Tucson, Ariz.
(Ty ONeil / Associated Press)
But the Pima County Sheriff’s Department said Friday that investigators found several gloves that were being tested, including some found about two miles from Guthrie’s home.
Authorities also found DNA evidence in his home that did not belong to Guthrie or his family members. Investigators are trying to determine who the DNA belongs to, according to the sheriff’s department.
