Sheriff shrugs off missteps in Nancy Guthrie case, calls for captor to ‘let her go’ as family pleads for help

As the hunt for Nancy Guthrie nears 2 months, the sheriff starring the probe is delivering a blunt connection to whoever whitethorn beryllium liable portion her household pleads for renewed attraction to the case.

In a caller interrogation with News 4 Tucson, Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos defended his department’s handling of the probe and insisted helium has nary regrets astir decisions made aboriginal on, adjacent arsenic the lawsuit remains unsolved.

"Look, I person nary regrets astir my squad and their efforts," Nanos said. "I don’t regret we fto the transgression country spell excessively soon oregon immoderate of that."

Guthrie, 84, the parent of "Today" co-host Savannah Guthrie, disappeared the nighttime of Jan. 31 aft returning location from meal with household and was reported missing Feb. 1 aft she failed to amusement up for church.

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A root acquainted tells Fox News Digital that 2 photos of the fishy successful the Nancy Guthrie doorbell video were taken connected antithetic days. (FBI )

Authorities person released doorbell camera images showing a masked fishy extracurricular her Catalina Foothills location the nighttime she vanished. Investigators accidental they proceed to trust heavy connected integer evidence, including cellphone data, surveillance video and different forensic analysis, but person not announced immoderate arrests.

When asked what helium would accidental to the idiosyncratic oregon radical down Guthrie’s disappearance, Nanos issued a nonstop appeal.

"Just springiness her up. Let her go," helium said. "Take her to a clinic, a hospital. Drop her off. Just fto her go."

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As investigators proceed their work, Guthrie’s household is urging the nationalist to instrumentality a caller look astatine thing that could assistance interruption the case.

"We desperately inquire this assemblage for renewed attraction to our mom’s case," the household wrote successful an Instagram station shared implicit the weekend. "Please consult camera footage, diary notes, substance messages, observations, oregon conversations that successful retrospect whitethorn clasp significance."

"No item is excessively small. It whitethorn beryllium the key."

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The FBI released caller surveillance footage of the fishy successful the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie connected February 1, 2026. (X/ @FBIDirectorPatel)

The household pointed to respective captious timelines, including the evening of Jan. 31, the aboriginal greeting hours of Feb. 1 and the precocious evening of Jan. 11, suggesting antecedently released video of a masked antheral astatine Guthrie’s doorstep weeks earlier her disappearance could beryllium significant.

"We proceed to judge it is Tucsonans, and the greater Southern Arizona community, that clasp the cardinal to uncovering solution successful this case," the connection said. "Someone knows something. It’s imaginable a subordinate of this assemblage has accusation that they bash not adjacent recognize is significant."

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A Ring camera representation taken from video shows a conveyance driving southbound connected Camino Real astatine 2:36 a.m. connected Feb. 1, the greeting Nancy Guthrie is believed to person been abducted from a location adjacent successful the Catalina Foothills of Tucson, Arizona. (Courtesy of Elias and Danielle Stratigouleas)

"Someone knows something," the household wrote. "It’s imaginable a subordinate of this assemblage has accusation that they bash not adjacent recognize is significant."

News 4 Tucson's peculiar besides highlighted the heavy toll Guthrie’s disappearance has taken connected Tucson, wherever colleagues, neighbors and strangers alike person rallied astir her household with vigils, tips, flowers and handwritten messages of hope.

Former colleagues described Guthrie arsenic a quiescent but almighty unit successful confederate Arizona, idiosyncratic whose enactment near a lasting people connected nationalist health, acquisition and journalism. Jacqueline Sharkey, a erstwhile University of Arizona prof who worked with Guthrie for decades, remembered her arsenic "this quiescent person who was truthful effectual without ever moving astatine it," according to the outlet.

Others recalled Guthrie’s relation successful helping prevention the poison accusation halfway astatine the University of Arizona, gathering much than 20,000 signatures earlier the net epoch to support the programme live — enactment that 1 workfellow said went connected to payment thousands of Arizonans.

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Savannah Guthrie hugs Dylan Dreyer during a sojourn to the Today amusement astatine Rockefeller Plaza successful New York connected Thursday, March 5, 2026. (Charles Sykes/Invision/AP)

Dave Cuillier, who worked with Guthrie connected the journalism school’s advisory council, called her "a immense champion of journalism and the University of Arizona" and said "she had a quiescent power," according to News 4 Tucson.

The peculiar besides showed however enactment for Guthrie has dispersed good beyond her neighborhood.

One infinitesimal highlighted Melanie, who began making yellowish ribbons of anticipation to support attraction connected the lawsuit — thing she and a person had antecedently done for different missing women, including Laci Peterson and Natalee Holloway. This time, compelled by Guthrie’s story, she began making them again and sending them to Tucson.

The ribbons are present being worn by employees astatine El Charro, the Tucson edifice wherever Guthrie had luncheon with her daughters conscionable months earlier her disappearance.

Ray Flores, president of Flores Concepts, said the lawsuit deed hard aft unit realized "it wasn’t conscionable a elemental mislaid idiosyncratic issue." Though helium said helium did not cognize Nancy personally, helium recalled seeing the closeness betwixt Guthrie and her daughters during that sojourn and said the symptom has been felt crossed the city.

"You could archer they were a precise loving family," Flores said, according to News 4 Tucson. "Whenever you person that benignant of symptom hit, it affects you due to the fact that you tin consciousness it successful your ain assemblage and your ain heart."

El Charro workers person embraced the ribbon run arsenic a mode to support consciousness live arsenic the weeks resistance on.

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"We’re inactive supporting them, and we’re inactive reasoning astir them each azygous day," 1 worker said.

Beyond the ribbons and tributes, the peculiar showed however Guthrie’s disappearance has near a lasting people connected her ain neighborhood.

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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)

At the aforesaid time, neighbors successful the Catalina Foothills person softly organized their ain efforts — gathering surveillance footage, cross-referencing video from adjacent homes and passing perchance utile worldly connected to instrumentality enforcement.

One neighbour told the presumption the group’s extremity is simple: to assistance investigators by being "targeted and useful."

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Residents accidental they are besides checking successful much often, taking other information measures and adjacent considering reviving a vicinity watch.

The peculiar described the lawsuit arsenic "a assemblage agreed with 1 plea" — bring her home.

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That enactment has lone deepened arsenic the probe has stretched on. Outside Guthrie’s home, a increasing shrine of flowers, candles and handwritten notes has go a awesome of the community’s heartbreak and resolve. Savannah Guthrie and household members returned to the tract earlier this month, visibly affectional arsenic they took successful the tributes near behind.

In their latest message, the household made wide that their absorption remains singular.

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"We miss our ma with each breath, and we cannot beryllium successful bid until she is home," they wrote. "We cannot grieve. We tin lone ache and wonder."

A reward of much than $1 cardinal is being offered for accusation starring to Guthrie’s recovery.

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Anyone with accusation is urged to interaction the FBI astatine 1-800-CALL-FBI oregon taxable a extremity done instrumentality enforcement.

Fox News Digital's Eric Mack contributed to this report. 

Stepheny Price covers crime, including missing persons, homicides and migrant crime. Send communicative tips to [email protected].