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The FOX True Crime Podcast

The Nancy Guthrie Case: FBI Expert Analyzes the Mystery in Tucson

The FOX True Crime Podcast

Fox News

True Crime

4.7826 Ratings

🗓️ 17 February 2026

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

The disappearance of 84-year-old Nancy Guthrie, the beloved mother of TODAY show host Savannah Guthrie, has gripped the nation after she vanished from her Tucson home. With a tampered doorbell camera, life-saving medication left behind, and drops of blood found on her porch, investigators are in a high-stakes race against time. Former FBI Agent Eddie Freyer joins Chanley Painter to analyze the evidence, discussing the high-tech hunt for Nancy’s pacemaker signal and the validity of mysterious Bitcoin ransom demands.  Follow Emily on Instagram: @realemilycompagnoIf you have a story or topic we should feature on the FOX True Crime Podcast, send us an email at: truecrimepodcast@fox.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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The disappearance that has gripped the nation.

0:40.8

84-year-old Nancy Guthrie is a mother of three and to the millions who watched the Today Show,

0:43.2

the beloved mother of Savannah Guthrie.

0:49.6

Nancy is also a woman whose faith led her to religiously attend church every Sunday. So when she missed Sunday service on February 1st, her family knew something was wrong.

0:58.2

But on the night of January 31st, at 2 a.m., the piece of Tucson's Catalina Foothills was shattered.

1:04.9

A nest doorbell camera tampered with a pacemaker signal that suddenly went dark, life-saving heart medication left

1:13.4

untouched, and drops of blood on the front porch. For three weeks, the nation has watched a family

1:22.2

plead for their mother's return, but behind the public pleas lurks a mysterious identity seen on camera,

1:30.1

a man in a black ski mask carrying a backpack and a holstered handgun.

1:37.8

As it stands, he is a man without a face, but he may have left behind a fingerprint.

1:44.7

Two miles away from the scene, investigators recovered a glove.

1:48.2

A possible match to the one scene clutching Nancy's door,

1:52.8

containing a DNA profile that could finally unmask the predator.

1:57.8

I'm Chandley Painter, and this is the Fox True Crime podcast. In a search for Nancy Guthrie's heartbeat, cops are flying over the Tucson Desert with a high-tech Bluetooth signal detector, hoping to connect to her pacemaker.

2:42.2

But as the search in the sky continues, four anonymous emails to TMZ, all leading back to the same Bitcoin account, a cinder who claims they saw Nancy

2:54.1

south of the border with her captors. With thousands of tips pouring in and the reward surging

2:59.7

to $100,000, the pressure is at a tipping point. So what comes next in the search for Nancy Guthrie?

3:09.1

Former FBI agent,

3:16.4

Eddie Fryer, joins me to break down the case. Eddie, thank you for joining us. I first want to start with your thoughts in this investigation. We're approaching, we've been here two

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