Nancy Guthrie is 'likely dead' and the search for her has effectively become a recovery mission rather than a rescue, according to a former senior US police officer who has analysed the case nearly a month after the 84-year-old vanished from her Arizona home.
The assessment comes from someone who has spent a career working missing-person and abduction cases, and cuts against the public language of hope that has surrounded the disappearance of Today show co-anchor Savannah Guthrie's mother. What is new here is not another theory from social media, but a stark timeline and a likely search radius, set out on the record. What remains unknown is everything investigators and the family care about most: where Nancy Guthrie is, who took her, and whether any hard evidence supports the scenarios now being discussed publicly.
