Nancy Guthrie Kidnapping Case: Surveillance Photos of Potential Suspect Released by FBI

The FBI has put out four surveillance photos of a potential suspect in the Tucson, Arizona, kidnapping of Nancy Guthrie, the 84-year-old mom of Today show co-anchor Savannah Guthrie.

The photos depict a person in a jacket, ski mask and gloves and wearing a backpack. A firearm appears to be on the person’s waist. In a few of the pictures, the individual appears to be tampering with Nancy Guthrie’s Nest surveillance cameras.

FBI director Kash Patel personally first put out the images via social media.

Photos and video from Guthrie’s doorbell and security cameras were previously thought to be lost forever — Nancy did not have a subscription plan, so any captured content was not saved on a server as it otherwise would have been. “Residual data located in backend systems” uncovered the images, Patel said.

Patel specifically mentioned that a “video” was recovered, but the FBI has not released that yet to the public.

“Over the last eight days, the FBI and Pima County Sheriff’s Department have been working closely with our private sector partners to continue to recover any images or video footage from Nancy Guthrie’s home that may have been lost, corrupted, or inaccessible due to a variety of factors – including the removal of recording devices,” Patel wrote on X. “The video was recovered from residual data located in backend systems. Working with our partners – as of this morning, law enforcement has uncovered these previously inaccessible new images showing an armed individual appearing to have tampered with the camera at Nancy Guthrie’s front door the morning of her disappearance.”

Today is day 10 of the investigation, a collaboration of the Pima County Sheriff’s Office and the FBI. The FBI said on Monday that it had not identified a suspect or a person of interest, and that it is “not aware of any continued communication between the Guthrie family and suspected kidnappers.”

“For more than a week, FBI agents, analysts and professional staff have worked around the clock to reunite Nancy Guthrie with her family,” FBI Phoenix spokesperson Connor Hagan said in a statement obtained by multiple media outlets including People and the Associated Press. “Additional personnel from FBI field offices across the nation continue to deploy to Tucson. We are currently operating a 24-hour command post that includes crisis management experts, analytic support and investigative teams. But we still need the public’s help.”

Savannah Guthrie released a new video to her Instagram account on Monday afternoon asking for the public’s help in the search for her mother, saying the family was “at an hour of desperation” amid “this nightmare.”

“She was taken and we don’t know where, and we need your help,” Guthrie said in the video. “No matter where you are, even if you’re far from Tucson, if you see anything, you hear anything, if there’s anything at all that seems strange to you, that you report to law enforcement.”

Nancy Guthrie was reported missing on Sunday, Feb. 1 in what authorities believe was an abduction. The family was first alerted when Guthrie did not attend a virtual church service. She was last seen by family members on Saturday night, Jan. 31.

The FBI has offered a $50,000 reward for information and has posted digital billboards in Arizona as well as nearby states New Mexico, Texas and California.