Phoenix police said on Saturday they were investigating the death of an unidentified woman found near a canal in Phoenix, Arizona, as questions quickly turned to whether the case had any connection to Nancy Guthrie, the missing 84-year-old mother of Today co-anchor Savannah Guthrie. Authorities were called to the area of 27th Place and Grand Canal Trail at about 7:40 a.m. local time, where officers found an unresponsive adult woman on the canal bank who was pronounced dead at the scene.
The news came after weeks of public appeals and mounting scrutiny around Nancy's disappearance from her home near Tucson on Feb. 1. According to the TV Insider, Pima County authorities had not been advised that the Phoenix death investigation was tied to Guthrie's case, a point carried by Fox News Digital reporter Michael Ruiz in a post on X that day.
