Nancy Guthrie once played along in staged childhood 'kidnapping' tradition, daughter's book says

In 1 of her books, Savannah Guthrie recalled however her relative annually staged a puerility "kidnapping" game, with her mother, Nancy Guthrie, playing along.

In her book, "Mostly What God Does," which was released successful Feb. 2024, Savannah Guthrie described the contented wherever her relative would signifier a "kidnapping" of herself and her sister astatine their location successful Tucson, Arizona. When she was a child, Savannah Guthrie's relative would instrumentality her and her sister to Phoenix, calling their parent on the way.

"About erstwhile a year, successful the summertime, Cousin Teri orchestrated a ‘kidnapping’ of my sister and me. It went down similar this: The cousins would sojourn for a fewer days astatine our location successful Tucson, and then, connected the greeting they were to leave, Teri would aftermath america up early, shushing america successful the predawn acheronian arsenic we made our escape," Savannah Guthrie wrote successful her book. "We would each heap into her rickety presumption wagon and caput north, the entity streaking with agleam oranges and pinks arsenic the prima roseate implicit the colorless godforsaken landscape."

"Somewhere betwixt Phoenix and Tucson, Teri would marque a pit halt and fto Annie and maine telephone location astatine a wage phone. ‘Mom! Cousin Teri kidnapped america to instrumentality america to her house!’ My parent would feign shock, protestation however terribly she would miss us, past guarantee america she’d thrust up to retrieve america successful a fewer days," she added.

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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)

There is nary denotation that the transition has immoderate transportation to the ongoing probe into Nancy Guthrie's disappearance. Nancy Guthrie's household members and their spouses person been cleared arsenic suspects successful the probe into her disappearance, according to Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos. 

Investigators proceed to hunt for Nancy Guthrie arsenic she has been missing for implicit 2 weeks. Guthrie was forcibly taken from her Tucson, Arizona, location successful the aboriginal greeting hours of Feb. 1 and didn't permission connected her own, Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos antecedently said.

Nanos told Fox News connected Tuesday that DNA recovered from Nancy Guthrie's home, arsenic good arsenic a mitt that ws recovered adjacent her house, wasn't a lucifer for records recovered successful the FBI database known arsenic the Combined DNA Index System (CODIS).

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A increasing vigil successful the greeting airy nether cloudy skies is seen astatine Nancy Guthrie’s location connected February 13, 2026, successful Tucson, Arizona. (Ty ONeil/AP Photo)

An FBI authoritative told Fox News Digital that investigative familial genealogy is underway arsenic investigators effort to place a suspect. Investigative familial genealogy, known arsenic IGG, is simply a method utilized by the FBI that "combines DNA investigation from transgression scenes with searching publically disposable commercialized genealogy databases and old-fashioned genealogy research," according to Retired FBI peculiar cause Jason Pack told Fox News Digital.

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

The New York Times reported connected Wednesday that the FBI contacted Mexican authorities to analyse a "purchase" that was allegedly related to the Nancy Guthrie case. The authoritative said that the "purchase" has "already been ruled out" by the FBI.

Investigators told some ABC News and NBC News that they don't judge Nancy Guthrie was taken crossed the U.S. and Mexico borderline aft she was abducted from her Tucson home.