Searching For Body with Specific Coordinates in the Desert | Nancy Guthrie Missing

Drop Dead Serious With Ashleigh Banfield

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4.6 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 3 March 2026

⏱️ 77 minutes

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It is Day 30 in the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie, the 84-year-old mother of Today show co-host Savannah Guthrie, and investigators have now searched a specific set of cell tower coordinates in the Arizona desert looking for a body. In this episode of Drop Dead Serious, Ashleigh Banfield is joined by Dr. Tracy Sargent. Dr. Tracy Sargent has a PhD in Psychology with an emphasis in criminal justice. She specializes in missing person cases, behavioral analysis, criminal profiling, and victimology. She is a forensic criminologist, crime scene analyst, law enforcement officer, canine handler, and public safety trainer. Dr. Sargent explains what “high probability areas” mean in a real search, why search teams start at ground zero and work outward, and what it can indicate when law enforcement narrows its focus to a specific location in remote desert terrain.

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0:00.0	Hey everyone. I'm Ashley Banfield and this is Drop Dead Serious. It is Monday, March the 2nd,
0:12.0	which officially makes this day 30 in the Nancy Guthrie case. And I know I didn't drop an episode yesterday or on Saturday.
0:20.0	I'll be honest with you, there were very few developments over the weekend. I didn't drop an episode yesterday or on Saturday.
0:24.6	I'll be honest with you, there were very few developments over the weekend.
0:28.6	It was also an attack on Iran, and I think the countries,
0:34.1	their attention just seemed to go elsewhere for a hot minute,
0:37.4	but I know that you're still here, and I did gather a lot of information,
0:41.1	which I'm going to give you right now. Thank you for watching. Don't forget to hit subscribe, please. It does me a big solid. If you're new, hi. Thanks for being here. It's good
0:46.3	to meet you. So let's just dive right in. I've got some big news that's extremely, well, it's sad, but I suppose not unexpected.
0:59.7	I talked to one of my law enforcement sources who's associated with the Nancy Guthrie investigation,
1:07.0	and I learned from that law enforcement source that the Pima County Sheriff's Department
1:12.6	enlisted one of their partner agencies and gave them the signal sniffer to take to a neighboring
1:23.0	county and look for a body. This is several days ago that this apparently happened and that
1:31.1	neighboring agency did take that signal sniffer and did go out into the desert to a specific
1:38.3	location. I'll get to what kind of specific location and what they used to find the location
1:43.6	in a minute. But they did do that.
1:46.5	And obviously, they did not find Nancy at this place. But it is sad to hear that this was one of
1:55.2	the directives, please go to this specific location in the desert in a a neighboring county, and look for a body.
2:02.6	So there was some intelligence that investigators came across that led them to go on that mission.
2:09.6	And what's really interesting about the timing of it was that it was just one day after news broke that the Pima authorities were using the signal
2:21.7	sniffer in Pima County.
2:23.3	And I think you might remember when Brian Enton was reporting and he said there's this helicopter
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