Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos says he realised 'something was wrong' with the disappearance of 84‑year‑old Nancy Guthrie in Tucson, Arizona, on 1 February when an officer at the scene texted him that the house 'doesn't look right... we're calling homicide,' a chilling message that helped turn a routine check into a full‑scale abduction inquiry.
Nancy Guthrie, the mother of Today show anchor Savannah Guthrie, was reported missing from her Tucson home in the early hours of 1 February. Deputies first responded to a welfare call, but within hours the case escalated. By about 2 p.m. that day, Sheriff Nanos had been briefed and the investigation was already moving beyond the usual parameters of a missing‑person search.
