On the night of Wednesday, a suspect was arrested and taken into custody in connection with the abduction of Nancy Guthrie.
This is reported by CNN, Fox News and Reuters, without citing named sources. According to CNN, the person has not been charged.
– Is there anyone out there who knows this person? We think he is still out there. Take her home, is one of daughter Savannah Guthrie’s messages about the disappearance of her mother on Instagram.
The American journalist and TV presenter Savannah Guthrie together with her family speak in a video message and say that they are willing to pay for the release of their elderly mother, Nancy Guthrie.
Photo: Savannah Guthrie via Instagram / Reuters / NTB
Savannah Guthrie is a well-known host of the Today television program on NBC.
Her mother, Nancy Guthrie (84), was reported missing from her home in Tucson, Arizona on February 1 after she did not show up for virtual church services. She was last seen the night before, after having dinner at another daughter’s home, according to the sheriff’s office.
Savannah Guthrie hosts the daily current affairs program Today on NBC.
Photo: AP
The family and the police quickly concluded that Nancy Guthrie did not leave home of her own free will. She needs medication and has difficulty walking.
Video image
A masked person with a possible gun holster was caught on camera outside Nancy Guthrie’s front door the night she disappeared, according to the photo released by the FBI on Tuesday.
– Today, the police have uncovered these previously unavailable new photos that show an armed person who apparently tampered with the surveillance camera at Nancy Guthrie’s front door on the night she disappeared, FBI director Kash Patel says on X.
The recording shows a person with a flashlight in his mouth trying to cover the camera with part of a slab that was torn up from Guthrie’s garden. There is no picture showing what has happened to Nancy Guthrie, or whether she is still alive.
DNA samples of blood found on her terrace show that it belonged to the elderly woman, the authorities say.
According to the FBI, the masked person tried to tamper with the video camera, so that the images that have now been made public were recovered by investigators from a back-up system, writes the AP news agency.
Since the disappearance, police and journalists have gathered outside Nancy Guthrie’s home. Here from 10 February 2026.
Photo: BRANDON BELL / AFP / NTB
50,000 dollars in bounty
The FBI states that they are offering a reward of up to 50,000 dollars, about 474,000 Norwegian kroner, for information that can lead to the identification of Nancy Guthrie, or the arrest of the perpetrator, write the FBI on X.
The daughter shared the surveillance image on social media on Tuesday, and she has also said that she is willing to pay to get her mother back.
– We ask you to give us our mother back. We will pay, she says.
Trump engaged
The incident has received a lot of attention in the United States. US President Donald Trump has also seen the ticket. Karoline Leavitt, who meets the press on behalf of Det kvite hus, says so. She says that Trump encourages anyone who may have information about the disappearance to contact the FBI.
– I have ordered all federal police authorities to sit down for consultation, writes the president on Truth Social.
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Published
11.02.2026, kl. 04.32
Updated
11.02.2026, kl. 06.28
date:2026-02-11 05:28:00
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