Nancy Guthrie Update: Former FBI Profiler Raises Chilling Possibility About Abductor

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What To Know

  • Nancy Guthrie, mother of Today co-anchor Savannah Guthrie, remains missing more than nine months after her abduction in Tucson, Arizona.
  • Former FBI profiler Jim Clemente suggested the abductor may have interacted with the family and urged them to review past communications and retrace Nancy’s activities.
  • Investigators have released images of a masked suspect and alleged ransom notes, but no suspect has been named.

Today co-anchor Savannah Guthrie‘s mother, Nancy Guthrie, remains missing more than nine months after her Tucson, Arizona, abduction — and a former FBI profiler raised a chilling possibility about her abductor.

In the November 5 episode of Fox News’ Crime & Justice With Donna Rotunno podcast, host Donna Rotunno spoke with retired FBI profiler Jim Clemente about the 84-year-old’s case.

“If you were advising the Guthrie family, and you were working on this case, what would you offer in terms of ways to move forward here at this point, and what could be done that maybe hasn’t been done at this point?” she asked.

To that, Clemente shared, “I think it’s important for Savannah and her siblings to really look at every communication they’ve had from whatever source, whether it’s social media, email, telephone, in-person contact. Because somewhere in that mix, this person has likely interacted with one or more of them, including Nancy.”

He then pointed out, “And it could have been somebody who came to work on Nancy’s home. It could have been somebody who delivered something there, who drove her in a rideshare car. It could have been somebody who she ran into at a grocery store.”

Clemente continued, “And so I think it’s important for the Guthrie family, all those members, to go through all of Nancy’s things, to also go back in time, and over the last five or even 10 years, looking at anybody that they were in contact with and also try to sort of retrace their mother’s steps so that they can find any other place, any location that she may have been where she may have interacted with somebody. Because all that is where leads come from. And someone — someone out there, knows what’s going on or what happened.”

On January 31, Nancy was last seen at her Catalina Foothills home, with her family reporting her missing on February 1. Investigators have since published photos of a masked suspect on her front porch and alleged ransom notes. As of writing, no suspect has been named in the case, despite Savannah offering a $1 million reward.




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