Four months have passed since Nancy Guthrie, the 84-year-old mother of NBC's 'Today' anchor Savannah Guthrie, was reported missing from her Tucson, Arizona home on 1 February 2026 — and still, no suspect has been named. The case has taken a sharper edge in recent days after FBI Director Kash Patel went public with fresh criticism of the local authorities handling it, revealing new details about the scale of federal involvement and the friction that has accompanied it.
Speaking in an exclusive interview with NewsNation's Katie Pavlich, Patel said the FBI had been present from the outset, offering assistance in the search for the missing mother of the NBC anchor. But he was unambiguous about what he said happened next. 'We showed up immediately and offered our assistance. We were not let in for four days. And that's their choice,' Patel told NewsNation.
