Homicide detectives brought in after Savannah Guthrie’s mother Nancy goes missing, officials say
Savannah Guthrie once credited her entire career to her mother’s parenting, in a loving, on-air tribute
Homicide investigators have joined the desperate search forToday show host Savannah Guthrie’s mother after she disappeared on Saturday night.
Nancy Guthrie, 84, vanished between 9:30 pm and 9:45 pm at her home in the Catalina Foothills, just outside of Tucson, Arizona.
Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos has confirmed that foul play is not being ruled out and that drones, aircraft and dog teams, loaned from Customs and Border Protection forces, are being deployed.
He told reporters at a press conference that “concerning evidence” had been found, which prompted homicide investigators to be drafted in.
“This one stood out because of what was described to us at the scene and what we found and located just in looking at the scene,” he said, although he did not elaborate on what officers had uncovered.
“We hope we find her safe and sound, but we are very concerned,” he added.
The sheriff’s office has said that the missing woman is being treated as a “vulnerable adult” due to her age, but that she is not known to have any “cognitive issues.”
Guthrie’s family has issued a statement: “We can confirm this is a missing persons case, and the family is working closely with local law enforcement.” Guthrie has an older sister, Annie, and brother, Camron, a pilot with the Air National Guard.
Nancy Guthrie is described as being 5 feet five inches tall, weighing 150 pounds, with brown hair and blue eyes, according to the Pima County Sheriff’s Office. Anybody with any information is asked to call the sheriff’s office on 520-351-4900.
Guthrie has featured on episodes of the Today show in the past. Just this past November, she appeared with her daughter during a segment promoting tourism in Tucson.
In 2013, Guthrie appeared to tell the show’s audience how to make a bed properly.
“When I was in my 30s, I really wished to be married and to be a mom, and things just did not happen that fast for me,” Savannah once told viewers.
“And my mom’s confidence that I would be a mom — even as the years ticked by and ticked by and ticked by — meant so much to me.
“She said, ‘Of course you’ll be a mom, and you’re going to be a wonderful mom,” Savannah continued. “And for her to have that confidence and faith was so meaningful to me.
“It got me through some really hard times.”
Savannah Guthrie has a daughter, Vale, and a son, Charley, with her husband, Michael Feldman, whom she married in 2014.
The anchor spoke about her mother again on the program in 2022, when she credited her illustrious career to her mother’s parenting.
“She loves us, her family, fiercely, and her selflessness and sacrifice for us, her steadfastness and her unmovable confidence is the reason any of us grew up to do anything,” Savannah said on her mother’s 80th birthday.
Savannah has earlier disclosed that her father, Charles, died when the NBC star was a senior in high school.
She told her co-host Jenna Bush Hager in 2022, “My father died when I was entering my senior year in high school. I then lived at home all through college.”
“We didn't have money to afford the dorm. And that was thing one, but the other was that my sister and I really felt like we should stick with my mom and not leave her alone.”
“But when I moved to Butte, Montana, this was it. And it was really hard for me to leave her.”
“And that's when she said, 'If you can't leave me, then I didn't do my job right, Savannah.' She just gave me permission to go, you know?”
Following her father’s death, Savannah told The Hollywood Reporter that her mother took a job at the University of Arizona in order to secure tuition-free education for her children.
The former White House correspondent was born in Victoria, Australia, where the family lived because her father worked for an Arizona-based mining company. In 2015, Savannah and her mother traveled to Sydney for a Today show segment.
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