Nancy Guthrie Case Deep Dive: Every Twist After 3 Explosive Weeks | Nancy Guthrie Missing Update

Drop Dead Serious With Ashleigh Banfield

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🗓️ 21 February 2026

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Three weeks into the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie, the 84-year-old mother of Today show co-host Savannah Guthrie, the investigation in Tucson’s Catalina Foothills has grown more intense and more complex. What began as a missing persons case on February 1 quickly shifted into a criminal investigation after her purse, phone, wallet, and vehicle were found inside her home and blood was discovered near the front entrance. In this episode of Drop Dead Serious, Ashleigh Banfield walks through the full timeline of the Nancy Guthrie mystery, including the Nest doorbell footage of a masked suspect with an Ozark Trail backpack, the unknown male DNA recovered from gloves found near the property, and the controversy surrounding evidence sent to a private Florida lab. We also examine the escalating ransom demands that led to a federal arrest, the FBI’s use of BlueFly signal detection technology to search for Nancy’s pacemaker, and the ongoing questions about motive, suspects, and whether this was a targeted kidnapping. With more than 20,000 tips reviewed and over $200,000 in reward money offered, this Nancy Guthrie missing update breaks down every major twist and where the case stands right now. If you have information, contact: 1-800-CALL-FBI

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0:00.0	Hey, everybody. It is Friday, February 20th. It's been a long, long three weeks. In the Nancy Guthrie case, we are
0:13.6	basically about to enter the fourth week of Nancy Guthrie being missing. And I don't feel
0:20.8	like the investigators are any further ahead.
0:24.1	Listen, there's a lot we don't know. Granted. I want to just let you know. I know you guys all have
0:29.2	questions and I hear so many of your comments and questions as well. I'm going to have a member
0:34.0	event this Sunday at 6 p.m. Eastern, it's February 22nd. and I'm going to answer a ton of your questions. We can have a conversation like we did last time, but I'm also going to answer a lot of the questions about the Nancy Guthrie case, because you got a lot and we've got answers, and then I'll let you know when we don't have answers as well because that's also the case. Also, a quick
0:54.9	housekeeping, just don't forget, subscribe. It really does me a solid. I appreciate you so much
0:59.4	when you do that and it makes a huge difference. I know it's little for you, but it's huge for me.
1:03.3	So thank you very much in advance. Let's talk about where we are. We're three weeks in.
1:09.4	And if you go back to the beginning, like we did for this episode, suddenly you start to see things in a different light.
1:18.0	And so we thought tonight would be a really great opportunity in this episode to just get you back up to speed on everything that has transpired.
1:27.4	Things that became huge that suddenly went away,
1:30.2	things that suddenly got people excited that they were going to have some resolution and
1:33.3	then went away, and things that were said that suddenly don't make sense anymore.
1:36.7	So I want to take you from start to finish.
1:39.2	Let's start on February 1st.
1:41.1	That's basically day one.
1:42.8	That's when the 911 call came in. Family members were
1:46.2	alerted that Nancy Guthrie did not show up for her group event for church. Now this is, this was
1:53.7	sort of misreported and then clarified, but clarified in strange ways that maybe not everybody
1:59.0	heard. Nancy hasn't attended church, according to reports, since COVID, actual church.
2:04.6	Instead, she and a group of friends gather, and they watch a live stream of the church service together on Sundays.
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