Increased reward in Nancy Guthrie case puts 'psychological pressure' on suspect's inner circle: Ret. FBI agent

A retired FBI cause says the Guthrie family's caller $1 cardinal reward connection puts "psychological pressure" connected immoderate imaginable accomplices to travel guardant with information.

In an Instagram video connected Tuesday morning, Savannah Guthrie announced a household reward of up to $1 cardinal for the betterment of Nancy Guthrie, her mother. The household is besides making a $500,000 donation to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, she said.

"I'm coming connected to accidental it is time 24 since our ma was taken successful the acheronian of nighttime from her bed. And each hr and infinitesimal and 2nd and each agelong nighttime has been agony since then," Guthrie said. "We inactive believe, we inactive judge successful a miracle. We inactive judge that she tin travel home. Hope begets hope. As my sister says, we are blowing connected the embers of hope."

Savannah Guthrie acknowledged successful the Tuesday video that her parent whitethorn nary longer beryllium alive.

FBI agents canvass homes adjacent Nancy Guthrie's location successful Tucson, Friday, Feb. 6, 2026. Guthrie was past seen connected Saturday nighttime arsenic an probe into her disappearance continues. (L) A representation of Nancy Guthrie and Savannah Guthrie shown successful a photograph provided by NBC.  (Kat Ramirez for Fox News Digital; Courtesy of NBC)

"We besides cognize she whitethorn beryllium lost," Savannah Guthrie said. "She whitethorn already beryllium gone. She whitethorn person already gone location to the Lord that she lives, and is dancing successful heaven, with her ma and her dada and with her beloved member Pierce — and with our daddy."

Sources with cognition of the family's reasoning told Fox News Digital that the Guthries initially brought up the thought of an accrued reward funded by the family, but were advised by instrumentality enforcement to clasp disconnected arsenic "doing truthful earlier mightiness overwhelm the infrastructure acceptable up to tract leads, tens of thousands of which person been coming successful organically." 

Retired FBI Agent Jason Pack told Fox News Digital the caller reward by the Guthries has the imaginable to marque a monolithic interaction connected the investigation. 

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A subordinate of the Pima County sheriffs bureau remains extracurricular of Nancy Guthrie's home, Monday, Feb. 9, 2026 successful Tucson, Ariz. (Ty ONeil/AP Photo)

"It applies intelligence unit connected immoderate accomplices. Ransom schemes involving aggregate radical are inherently unstable. The much clip passes, the much the fiscal disparity betwixt holding retired and collecting $1 cardinal starts eating astatine the weakest link," helium said. "The connection is: your partners are not going to support you. We will. It preserves motivation offramps."

Pack added that the accrued reward could pit suspects' household interior ellipse against each other, perchance starring to a interruption successful the case.

"The $1 cardinal announcement is besides a nonstop marketplace disruption. The FBI has a $100,000 reward. 88-Crime is astatine $102,500. By introducing a backstage household reward astatine $1 million, the Guthries conscionable changed the calculus for anyone sitting connected information: a operator who saw something, an accomplice having 2nd thoughts, a household subordinate of the fishy weighing loyalty against a cardinal dollars. That is simply a fig that tin fracture transgression conspiracies," Pack said.

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Photos released connected Feb. 10, 2025, amusement a "subject" connected Nancy Guthrie's property.  (Provided by FBI)

"A million-dollar announcement generates a caller quality rhythm and sends radical backmost to their phones scrolling done memories of thing antithetic they saw successful the Catalina Foothills successful January," helium added.

Investigators haven't yet publically identified a idiosyncratic of involvement oregon fishy successful Nancy Guthrie's abduction. Since releasing doorbell video of a masked idiosyncratic astatine Nancy Guthrie's doorway earlier she was believed to person been taken, investigators person been trying to place covering that the idiosyncratic was wearing, arsenic good arsenic different items.

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An undated photograph of Nancy Guthrie and Savannah Guthrie provided by NBC successful repsonse to the disappearance of the 84 year-old parent of the Today Show host. (Courtesy of NBC)

Sources told Fox News Digital that 1 of the Nest doorbell cameras released by the FBI was taken connected a antithetic time than the others.

Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos pushed back, saying reporting connected the dates of the images are "speculation."

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