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Crimes of the Centuries

S6: The Disappearance of Nancy Guthrie: Future Crimes of the Centuries?

Crimes of the Centuries

Amber Hunt and Audioboom

History, Documentary, Society & Culture, True Crime

4.74K Ratings

🗓️ 30 April 2026

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

On the night of January 31st, 2026, 84-year-old Nancy Guthrie was dropped off at her home in the Catalina Foothills outside Tucson, Arizona. By morning, the mother of one of America's most famous TV news personalities had vanished. Nearly three months later, she's still missing. In this bonus episode, Crimes of the Centuries steps outside its usual format to ask some questions about how this investigation has been handled — questions that deserve answers whether or not we ever get them.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Some crimes are so heartbreaking or shocking that they change laws, change society, or even

0:13.0

earn the label, Crime of the Century.

0:16.0

But the stories that made headlines in decades past aren't necessarily remembered today.

0:22.5

I'm Amber Hunt, a journalist, an author, and in each episode of this show,

0:27.0

I'll examine a case that's maybe lesser known today, but was huge when it happened.

0:33.8

This is Crimes of the Centuries.

0:50.3

Thank you. This is Crimes at the Centuries. The Catalina foothills sit north of Tucson, where the desert starts climbing toward the Santa Catalina

0:56.6

mountains, and the houses get bigger and quieter and farther apart. The neighborhood is all tans

1:02.9

and reds, the colors of the desert itself, broken up by spots of green from the trees and cacti

1:08.9

that somehow thrive in the arid heat. It's the kind of

1:12.3

place that feels removed from the city, even though the city is right there. The houses don't

1:18.4

announce themselves from the roadway. You have to know where you're going. Nancy Guthrie's house is

1:24.5

like that. You can't really see it from the street. On the evening of January 31st, 2026, a family member dropped Nancy off at home.

1:34.0

It was a normal night.

1:35.4

She had spent time with family, and now she was back.

1:38.0

She went inside.

1:39.2

The family drove away.

1:42.1

Sometime in the small hours of February 1st, Nancy's doorbell camera was disconnected. At

1:49.1

212 in the morning, its software detected motion, minutes before her pacemaker stopped sinking

1:55.1

with her Apple devices. There was no active subscription to save the doorbell footage. It should have been gone.

2:02.0

But it wasn't, not entirely.

2:04.6

More than a week later, investigators would pull imagery from residual data buried in

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