Shortcut: The Nancy Guthrie Case with Nancy Grace and Ann Burgess - ATC International
Australian True Crime
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4.5 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 31 May 2026
⏱️ 13 minutes
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The disappearance of 84-year-old Nancy Guthrie, mother of Today host Savannah Guthrie, has become one of America's most closely watched missing persons cases.
US media superstar Nancy Grace joins the show to discuss the case, before Dr. Ann Burgess, one of the pioneering behavioural science experts whose work helped inspire the profiling work seen in Mindhunter, offers her expert analysis of the investigation.
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Host: Meshel Laurie
Guests: Nancy Grace and Ann Burgess
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| 0:00.0 | This is Australian True Crime International with Michelle Lorry. |
| 0:07.8 | On this episode, we're looking into the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie on the night of January 31st, 26. |
| 0:14.6 | We're now over 100 days into this investigation. |
| 0:17.7 | We have an 84-year-old woman taken violently from her home in Tucson, Arizona, |
| 0:22.9 | in the middle of the night, and the offender caught on camera. We have a million-dollar award |
| 0:28.0 | and intense media attention due in part to the fact that the victim's daughter is a very |
| 0:33.3 | famous journalist, Savannah Guthrie, co-host of America's Today Show. And yet, according to law |
| 0:38.9 | enforcement, we have no suspects. It hasn't played out like a normal abduction from the very |
| 0:44.2 | beginning. The ransom demands are now believed by many to have all been hoaxes. We'll talk to two |
| 0:49.9 | high-profile experts today to find out what they're thinking about the case. Dr. Anne Burgess |
| 0:55.6 | was part of the team that invented profiling in the basement of the FBI headquarters in Quantico. |
| 1:01.5 | You've probably seen the series Mind Hunter, which is based on that experience. But first, |
| 1:06.3 | we go to Firebrand Media Personality and former prosecutor Nancy Grace, who is keeping the pressure |
| 1:12.4 | on law enforcement in the matter. This is Australian True Crime. We acknowledge the traditional |
| 1:18.5 | owners of the land on which this podcast is created, the Warrangwai Waurang people of the Koolin |
| 1:24.2 | Nation. And a warning, this episode of the podcast contains graphic descriptions of violence. |
| 1:32.6 | How planned was this kidnapping, do you think? |
| 1:35.9 | I have said that Ms. Guthrie's kidnapping was a planned attack. |
| 1:40.5 | Well, that's very obvious. |
| 1:42.6 | Number one, she was singled out. There were plenty of people in that |
| 1:48.1 | neighborhood that could have been kidnapped. Why her? Most likely because she has what people |
| 1:54.2 | perceive to be a wealthy daughter. She lived alone. Easy target, elderly. They sent she's alone. She's vulnerable. She may have money. Pick her. But not only that, video surveillance has emerged of the porch guy who was fiddling and removing her door cam the night she was kidnapped. |
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