Sheriff warns Nancy Guthrie suspect could 'absolutely' strike again, hints at motive

Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos says the fishy down Nancy Guthrie's disappearance could "absolutely" onslaught again, informing of a continuing nationalist information menace 40 days aft she vanished and offering fewer caller details astir a imaginable motive.

"Criminal minds are transgression minds," helium told NBC, wherever Guthrie's girl Savannah Guthrie co-hosts the "Today" show.

Nanos said helium has an thought of the motive down Guthrie's kidnapping but declined to stock it publicly.

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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 judge that it was targeted, but we can't — we're not 100% definite of that," helium said. "And truthful it would beryllium silly to archer people, 'Yea don't interest astir it. You're not his target.' No, you could be."

The 84-year-old parent and grandma lived unsocial successful the Catalina Foothills, a affluent enclave successful bluish Tucson, Arizona.

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She vanished nether suspicious circumstances connected the greeting of Feb. 1 and has not been seen since.

Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos speaks astatine a quality conference, Tuesday, Feb. 3, 2026, successful Tucson, Ariz., to supply updates successful the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie, the parent of "Today" amusement big Savannah Guthrie. (Sejal Govindarao/AP Photo)

"When the sheriff says investigators judge they cognize the motive but won’t stock it, there’s an investigative reason," said Jason Pack, a retired FBI supervisory cause and the CEO of Media Rep Global Strategies. "This is it: You don’t manus the fishy a roadmap of what you know."

However, the proposition that the perpetrator could onslaught again complicates things, helium told Fox News Digital.

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"Once you enactment that retired there, each idiosyncratic watching wants to cognize who’s astatine hazard and what they ought to bash astir it," Pack said. "If you can’t reply those questions, you astir apt shouldn’t pb with that statement."

Answers person been successful abbreviated proviso passim the ordeal.

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Guthrie's beforehand doorbell camera is missing, but her telephone and Apple ticker were near behind. Authorities person truthful acold been incapable to retrieve immoderate video from her different location information cameras.

Investigators said antecedently that her pacemaker past synced via Bluetooth astir 2:30 a.m. the nighttime she went missing.

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And though the FBI and Google were capable to retrieve immoderate footage from her beforehand doorway showing a masked antheral with a gun, helium has not been identified.

A mixed DNA illustration sent to a backstage Florida laboratory alternatively than the FBI has besides not yet been unraveled, according to the report.

Savannah Guthrie visits the Today amusement astatine Rockefeller Plaza successful New York connected Thursday, March 5, 2026. (Charles Sykes/Invision/AP)

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Federal instrumentality enforcement sources antecedently told Fox News Digital it provided lone a partial illustration that was insufficient for the FBI's CODIS database of known offenders arsenic good arsenic investigative familial genealogy techniques.

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Separately, Nanos confirmed that investigators are looking into immoderate benignant of powerfulness oregon net outage the greeting of Nancy's abduction, but helium said it was not connected to a inferior container astir the country from the location showing signs of having been tampered with.

Pima County Sheriff’s deputies talk extracurricular of Nancy Guthrie's location successful the Catalina Foothills aft the disappearance of Guthrie, the 84-year-old parent of U.S. writer and tv big Savannah Guthrie, who went missing from her location successful Tucson, Arizona, U.S. February 12, 2026.  (Rebecca Noble/Reuters)

Authorities said past week they had looked into the container and ruled it out.

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He did not instantly respond to a petition for remark from Fox News Digital.

There's a combined reward of implicit $1.2 cardinal for info that cracks the case.

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The household is asking anyone with accusation to dial 1-800-CALL-FBI.