Search for Nancy Guthrie now seeks nearby security videos from the month
before she vanished
[February 13, 2026]
By TY ONEIL
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Investigators in Arizona want residents near Nancy
Guthrie 's home to share surveillance camera footage of suspicious cars
or people they may have noticed in the month before she disappeared.
The alert went across a 2-mile (3.2-kilometer) radius in neighborhoods
close to where the mother of “Today” show host Savannah Guthrie went
missing 12 days ago, the Pima County Sheriff's Department said Thursday.
It asked for video of “anything neighbors deem out of the ordinary or
important to our investigation” since the beginning of January.
Federal and local officers have been going door-to-door in Tucson
neighborhoods around 84-year-old Nancy Guthrie's house while also
looking for clues around her other daughter's nearby home, which she had
visited just hours before disappearing.
Investigators have recovered and are analyzing several pieces of
evidence, including a pair of gloves, the sheriff's department said.
Authorities on Thursday briefly put up a tent in front of Nancy
Guthrie’s entryway where her blood was discovered in the early days of
the investigation, and where a doorbell camera captured images of a
masked person the night she went missing. The FBI released descriptors
of that person Thursday, whom it now calls a suspect, in a post on X.
The post describes the suspect as a 5-foot-9-inch or 5-foot-10-inch male
with an average build, and included photos from multiple angles of a
black, 25-liter “Ozark Trail Hiker Pack” backpack, which the agency said
is the brand and model the suspect was wearing.
“We hope this updated description will help concentrate the public tips
we are receiving,” the FBI said, noting the thousands of tips it has
gotten since Nancy Guthrie’s disappearance.
FBI Phoenix also announced it has hiked its reward to $100,000 for
information on Guthrie's disappearance.
Authorities have said Guthrie was taken against her will. She’s been
missing since Feb. 1, and authorities say she takes several medications
and there’s concern she could die without them.
While much of the nation remains engrossed by the mysterious
disappearance, Savannah Guthrie on Thursday shared on Instagram a
vintage home video of her mom with two children sharing pink flowers,
writing "we will never give up on her. thank you for your prayers and
hope.”
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A small vigil grows near Nancy Guthrie's house, Wednesday, Feb. 11,
2026 in Tucson, Ariz. (AP Photo/Ty ONeil)
On Wednesday, FBI agents carrying water bottles to beat the desert
heat walked among rocks and vegetation at Nancy Guthrie’s home. They
also fanned out across a nearby neighborhood, knocking on doors and
searching through cactuses, brush and boulders.
“They were just asking some general questions wondering if there was
anything, any information we could shed on the Nancy Guthrie issue.
Wanted to look around the property and after that, cameras and
such," Ann Adams, a neighbor of Nancy Guthrie's oldest daughter,
Annie Guthrie, told The Associated Press on Wednesday.
“They did ask specifically for the 31st of January and the morning
of the first of February and then they wanted to know if we saw
anything suspicious on cameras since then," Adams said.
Several hundred detectives and agents are now assigned to the
investigation, which is expanding in the area, the Pima County
Sheriff’s Department said.
Two investigators emerged from daughter Annie Guthrie’s home
Wednesday with a paper grocery sack and a white trash bag. One,
still wearing blue protective gloves, also took a stack of mail from
the roadside mailbox.
Adams, the neighbor, said she was out walking her dog earlier this
week when, "it started to get really busy and then I heard about
them searching, looked down the street, I saw them slowly moving
this way.”
Savannah Guthrie and her two siblings have indicated a willingness
to pay a ransom. But it's not known whether ransom notes demanding
money with deadlines that have already passed were authentic.
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Associated Press writers Sejal Govindarao in Phoenix, John Seewer in
Toledo, Ohio, and Ed White in Detroit contributed to this report.
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