Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos has dismissed online speculation that a masked figure seen near Nancy Guthrie's Tucson home conducted a 'trial run' on 11 January, three weeks before the 84-year-old grandmother vanished from her Catalina Foothills residence in the early hours of 1 February 2026.
Guthrie—mother of NBC's Today show anchor Savannah Guthrie—was last seen when her son-in-law dropped her off after a family dinner on 31 January. She failed to turn up for an online church service the next morning, prompting a missing person report; signs of a struggle inside her house soon pointed investigators towards abduction. A Nest camera captured grainy footage at 1:47am on 1 February of a balaclava-clad intruder in gloves and backpack, fiddling with the lens before retreating—images later publicised by authorities and shared by Savannah herself on Instagram, where she pleaded, 'Someone out there recognises this person'.
