Nancy Guthrie Mystery: 8 Disturbing Theories About Her Disappearance
Drop Dead Serious With Ashleigh Banfield
Drop Dead Serious With Ashleigh Banfield
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🗓️ 6 March 2026
⏱️ 88 minutes
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Summary
The disappearance of Nancy Guthrie, the 84-year-old mother of Today show co-host Savannah Guthrie, has now reached Day 33, and the mystery surrounding what happened inside her Catalina Foothills home continues to deepen as investigators search for answers and the public races to understand the growing list of possibilities.
In this episode of Drop Dead Serious, Ashleigh Banfield is joined by an extraordinary panel of experts including Spencer Coursen, former U.S. Army Ranger and Special Deputy U.S. Marshal; Jim Clemente, retired FBI Supervisory Special Agent and former New York State prosecutor; Tracy Walder, former CIA officer and FBI Special Agent; Matt Murphy, former senior homicide prosecutor in the Orange County, California District Attorney’s Office and author of The Book of Murder; Maureen O’Connell, retired FBI Special Agent; Dr. Casey Jordan, criminologist, behavioral analyst, and lawyer; Douglas McGregor, geographic profiler and forensic intelligence analyst with Iris Investigative Strategies; and Paul Holes, the legendary former cold case investigator from the Contra Costa County Sheriff’s Office known for helping solve the Golden State Killer case. .
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone. I'm Ashley Banfield and this is Drop Dead Serious. It is Thursday, March the 5th, which means it is day 33 in the Nancy Guthrie investigation. And let me tell you, if there is one question that I get asked all the time when I'm out and about, |
| 0:23.2 | it's, what do you think happened? And I know it's a big question for you. It's a big question |
| 0:27.6 | for all of us. So today, I actually put together all of the top experts that I know in the business |
| 0:34.7 | of investigations, homicide detectives, criminal investigators, FBI profilers, |
| 0:40.3 | you name it. And I asked them what they think based on the information they know, and it is |
| 0:44.4 | a cornucopia of different concepts of what might have happened to Nancy Guthrie. What might |
| 0:49.0 | have happened in that house who might have done this, what kind of person, and how they |
| 0:52.5 | might have actually executed this crime. |
| 0:54.6 | It's fascinating to hear them all. And let me tell you, Spencer Corson, I've got Jim Clementi, |
| 1:00.6 | I've got Tracy Walder, I've got Casey Jordan, Morin O'Connell, Douglas McGregor, Paul Holes, |
| 1:06.1 | all the good ones. So you're in for a treat. Do me a huge favor. I appreciate you being here. Can you hit |
| 1:12.4 | subscribe? It really does me a huge solid. And I thank you if you already have. And I thank you |
| 1:16.9 | if you've become a member as well. You're a special part of this group, this little group that |
| 1:20.9 | we've gotten together. And thank you so much for your support. So let me just start with what |
| 1:27.0 | happened today before I get into all |
| 1:29.3 | of these incredible experts and their theories of what might have happened to Nancy Guthrie. |
| 1:33.8 | For starters, Savannah went back to New York. And she paid a visit to the Today Show Studios today. |
| 1:39.3 | She didn't go on air. I wouldn't expect that for a while. but she did visit with her colleagues in the studio. |
| 1:46.6 | And actually TMZ was outside the windows and they got like images of Savannah, you know, |
| 1:52.2 | giving Hoda a big hug and her colleagues there. And it was very emotional. And you can see |
| 1:56.6 | Savannah's in, you know, casual attire. She was not planning to be seen publicly, you know, on |
| 2:02.2 | camera or otherwise. And so it was just those who were standing outside the window who, |
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