Savannah Guthrie Quintuples Reward for Information Leading to Her Mom | Crime Alert 6AM 02.25.26
Crime Stories with Nancy Grace
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🗓️ 25 February 2026
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Summary
Nancy Guthrie is missing for the twenty-fifth day as her family announces a $1 million reward for information that leads to her recovery.
Kouri Richins returns to court after jurors watch body-camera video and hear detailed testimony about her actions in the moments after her husband was found unresponsive.
The stepbrother of Anna Kepner is now the main suspect months after the Titusville teen was found dead during a family cruise.
A three-year-old Arizona girl is found safe after a statewide Amber Alert led police to a Phoenix gas station and the arrest of a houseguest.
Drew Nelson reports.
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| 0:00.0 | Crime alert, hourly update. Breaking Crime News now. I'm Drew Nelson. Nancy Guthrie remains missing |
| 0:06.1 | for the 25th day as her family announces a $1 million reward for information that leads to her recovery. |
| 0:13.1 | The 84-year-old mother of NBC Today co-anchor Savannah Guthrie vanished from her home in the Catalina |
| 0:18.8 | foothills outside Tucson February 1st. Investigators believe she was taken from her home in the Catalina foothills outside Tucson, February 1st. |
| 0:22.0 | Investigators believe she was taken from her bed in the middle of the night. |
| 0:25.6 | Savannah Guthrie released a video Tuesday, announcing the expanded reward. |
| 0:29.8 | The offer is in addition to a $100,000 FBI reward and a matching Tucson Crime Stoppers reward. |
| 0:36.5 | The family is also donating half a million dollars |
| 0:39.1 | to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. Savannah Guthrie speaking directly to the public |
| 0:44.9 | says someone knows something that can bring her home, but she says her mom might already be reunited |
| 0:51.1 | with her daddy in heaven. We also know that she may be lost. She may already be gone. |
| 0:57.6 | She may have already gone home to the Lord that she loves. But we need to know where she is. |
| 1:03.2 | For that reason, we are offering a family reward of up to $1 million for any information that leads us to her recovery. |
| 1:13.4 | At least one ransom note demanding millions of dollars in cryptocurrency turned out to be fake |
| 1:18.6 | and a California man has been charged. CNN reports a group of Mexican volunteer searchers |
| 1:24.7 | known as Las Madres Buscadores de Sonora, the searching mothers of Sonora, have traveled to Arizona to help. |
| 1:32.8 | Some handing out flyers while others are searching near the border town of Nogales. |
| 1:37.4 | Mexican authorities say there is no evidence Guthrie is in Mexico. |
| 1:41.6 | Investigators on both sides of the border have been alerted to the search |
| 1:44.9 | as part of routine procedure, but investigators have pushed back on growing volunteer search |
| 1:50.1 | efforts around the Catalina foothills. The Pima County Sheriff's Department asked civilians not to |
| 1:55.5 | conduct independent searches, warning that uncoordinated activity could disturb evidence and interfere with the investigation. |
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