Investigators are analyzing a new clue as they continue their desperate search for Today cohost Savannah Guthrie’s mom, Nancy Guthrie.
Surveillance footage from a Circle K in Arizona captured a “vehicle of interest,” according to NBC News, and has been turned over to authorities.
As Us Weekly previously reported, Nancy, 84 was last seen on January 31, just before 10 p.m., after having dinner at her daughter Anne and her husband Tommaso Cioni’s house. Tommaso allegedly dropped his mother-in-law off at her Catalina Foothills home at 9:48 p.m, roughly a 15 minute drive from the gas station where the vehicle of interest was later seen.
Nancy was reported missing on Sunday, February 1, after the elderly woman failed to show up to a church event and police immediately began their investigation into the case.
“Something unusual at that house occurred that made us go, ‘Wow, something’s wrong here. Something doesn’t fit,’” Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos exclusively told Us on Monday. “We’re gonna pull all the stops and go at all angles. We really do hope it’s a search-and-rescue mission and we find her and she’s safe and sound. But it would be unjust if we didn’t look at what’s in front of us and go, ‘We need to act.’”
Nanos continued, “This is an 84-year-old lady who is safe in her own home asleep, and she is taken. And that should never happen.”
On Wednesday, February 4, the Guthrie family released a video pleading with Nancy’s potential abductor or abductors to let the siblings know she was alive.
“We are ready to talk. However, we live in a world where voices and images are easily manipulated,” Savannah said in the video, flanked by her brother and sister. “We need to know without a doubt that she is alive and that you have her. We want to hear from you and we are ready to listen. Please, reach out to us.”
The federal government has also gotten involved in the wake of Nancy’s shocking disappearance. That same day, President Donald Trump said he’d spoken personally with Savannah and “let her know that I am directing ALL Federal Law Enforcement to be at the family’s, and Local Law Enforcement’s, complete disposal, IMMEDIATELY,” in a post shared to Truth Social on February 4.
Two days later, Trump, 79, revealed authorities had discovered “clues” connected to the investigation that he believed were “very strong.”
“I think we could have some answers coming up fairly soon,” he added while speaking with the press on Air Force One. “I’m not talking about a search, I’m talking about a solution. We have some things that will maybe come out reasonably soon from [the] DOJ or FBI or whoever that could be — could be definitive … A lot of things have happened in regard to that horrible situation in the last couple of hours.”
On Saturday, February 7, the Pima County Sheriff’s Office confirmed in a statement that there are still no suspects connected to the case. Additionally, they did not clarify whether the vehicle of interest has been officially linked to Nancy’s disappearance, noting that it is “standard practice to seek any video available from nearby residences or businesses.”
