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The Abduction of Nancy Guthrie | Vanished from Tucson
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- Feb 17, 2026
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- 5545
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Summary
Jinkies! When an 84-year-old woman vanishes from the same home she's lived in for half a century, and the only witness is a doorbell camera that someone deliberately disconnected -- the gang knows something deeply wrong has happened. In this special combined episode, Shane brings the mystery of Nancy Guthrie's disappearance to Josh and Kim for a full deep-dive investigation and unmasking. On the night of January 31, 2026, Nancy was dropped off at her Catalina Foothills home outside Tucson, Arizona, by her son-in-law after a family dinner. By 1:47 AM, her Google Nest doorbell camera had been disconnected. By 2:28 AM, her pacemaker monitoring app lost its connection to her phone. By morning, she was gone. Nancy Guthrie is the mother of NBC Today Show co-anchor Savannah Guthrie, a beloved community figure who spent 17 years at the University of Arizona creating programs that brought music to hospital patients and introduced high school students to medicine. She raised three remarkable children largely on her own after her husband Charles, a mining engineer, died of a heart attack in Mexico in 1988. At 84, Nancy lives alone with limited mobility, chronic pain, a pacemaker, and daily medication described as potentially fatal if missed. Surveillance footage -- recovered by the FBI from Google's backend systems despite Nancy having no cloud subscription -- shows a masked figure on her front porch wearing doubled vinyl gloves sealed at the wrists, a ski mask, and a holstered handgun, carrying a flashlight in his mouth and an Ozark Trail Hiker Pack on his back. Blood confirmed as Nancy's DNA was found on the front porch in droplet patterns consistent with bleeding from the nose, mouth, or face. The trail leads into one of the most watched missing persons cases in the country, w…