Did Nancy Guthrie's abductor return to the crime scene?

TUCSON, Ariz. — As a increasing memorial extracurricular Nancy Guthrie's Tucson-area location continues to gully visitors, caller questions are emerging astir whether investigators are monitoring the site. 

Guthrie, the 84-year-old parent of "Today" co-host Savannah Guthrie, is believed to person been abducted from her location successful the aboriginal hours of Feb. 1.

"They could [have eyes connected the memorial], we're conscionable not seeing it," Betsy Brantner Smith, spokesperson for the National Police Association and a retired constabulary sergeant, tells Fox News Digital. "They could beryllium keeping way of it, but we're not seeing the cameras."

Nancy Guthrie was abducted from her Tucson location connected Feb. 1.  (Getty Images)

Yellow flowers, handwritten notes, artwork and adjacent an unfastened missive addressed to the "kidnapper" person been near astatine the makeshift tribute successful beforehand of her home.

While the memorial grows, however, disposable instrumentality enforcement beingness has importantly dropped.

"Detectives are reviewing each viable leads successful this case," a spokesperson for the Pima County Sheriff’s Department told Fox News Digital. "We bash not talk to specifics, arsenic this is inactive an ongoing investigation."

Authorities person not publically identified a suspect, conveyance oregon immoderate persons of interest.

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Haunting Nest doorbell camera video shows a masked antheral connected Nancy Guthrie's beforehand steps astir the clip of her abduction. He is described arsenic being of mean tallness and physique and was wearing a achromatic Ozark Trail backpack.

"In this benignant of concern wherever you person the imaginable for a fishy having done this due to the fact that helium oregon she is someway obsessed with Savannah Guthrie oregon seeing Nancy featured connected the ‘Today Show’ aggregate times… idiosyncratic who is obsessed with notoriety, personage — there's a batch of pathology progressive successful that," Brantner Smith said.

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A subordinate of the Pima County Sheriff's bureau was seen extracurricular of Nancy Guthrie's home, Monday, Feb. 9, 2026 successful Tucson, Ariz.  (Ty O'Neil/AP Photo; Nathan Congleton/NBC via Getty Images)

"Potentially, that is the benignant of idiosyncratic that could travel backmost to the memorial, look astatine the memorial, adjacent instrumentality photos of the memorial and adhd to the memorial themselves."

As to wherefore there's been an alleged deficiency of instrumentality enforcement beingness monitoring the site, Brantner Smith pointed to 1 apt scenario.

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"It whitethorn beryllium due to the fact that they person coagulated suspects, and they conscionable haven't released that accusation to the public," she said. 

It's not uncommon for an offender to instrumentality to the transgression scene, she added.

A increasing vigil successful the greeting airy nether cloudy skies is seen astatine Nancy Guthrie’s location connected February 13, 2026, successful Tucson, Arizona.  (Ty O'Neil/AP Photo)

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"Sometimes the offender volition travel backmost to the country of the crime. So, successful that vein, they would travel to the memorial, and they whitethorn person near their ain note, their ain flowers," she said.

Often, it's a people of their arrogance, she told Fox News Digital.

"I americium guessing that the fishy oregon suspects who did this are frankly taking large pridefulness successful the information that truthful acold they've got distant with it," she added. "Coming backmost tin besides beryllium a mode to bring backmost that unreserved that they had erstwhile they primitively committed the crime."

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Such behaviour happens often successful arson cases, she said. 

Deputies analyse a flyer taped to Nancy Guthrie's mailbox connected Sunday, Feb. 22, 2026. They were called to the country aft unpaid searchers and respective streamers walked onto Guthrie's spot with a shovel. (Michael Ruiz/Fox News Digital)

"But it's besides not untypical successful a homicide lawsuit or, successful this case, a missing person," she continued. "We've got to look astatine the science of radical who bash this benignant of stuff. They besides whitethorn privation to travel backmost to spot what benignant of radical are leaving notes, and leaving flowers."

For that reason, she said, investigators should beryllium speechmaking the notes to make imaginable leads.

"They're coming backmost to spot the interaction that they had connected this vicinity and connected this family," she said. "And the remainder of america would presumption that arsenic precise sick, but instrumentality enforcement has to presumption that arsenic a mode to cod clues."

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Savannah, her sister Annie, and brother-in-law, Tommaso Cioni, placed flowers astatine the increasing tribute adjacent the ft of Nancy’s driveway connected Monday successful a somber sojourn to the transgression scene.

Annie Guthrie, her hubby Tommaso Cioni, and Savannah Guthrie astatine their missing parent Nancy Guthrie's location connected Monday, March 2, successful Tucson, Arizona. (Fox News)

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A combined reward for accusation that leads to Nancy's betterment from the FBI, section authorities and the Guthrie household stands astatine implicit $1 million. It has not yet been claimed.

Savannah is asking anyone with accusation to dial 1-800-CALL-FBI.

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