March 22, 2026
NEW: Guthrie Family Releases Heartbreaking Statement, Desperate To Find Nancy
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RSS Feed The Guthrie children have released another plea to the public, saying they cannot grieve, they “can only ache and wonder.” Meantime the embattled sheriff overseeing the case spent nearly an hour with local reporters insisting that the case to find missing 84 year old Nancy Guthrie is “not even close” to a cold case yet.
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00:00:11
Speaker 1: Hey there, everybody.
00:00:12
Speaker 2: It is Sunday, March twenty second, and we have a new statement from the Guthrie family.
00:00:19
Speaker 1: They are desperate for help from the public from.
00:00:22
Speaker 2: The police, saying that they cannot grieve, They simply cannot do anything until they get some answers about where their missing mom is. And my goodness, I cannot believe that we are now closed arounding two months and we still don't know what happened to eighty four year old Nancy Guthrie. And with that, everyone, thank you for joining us on this episode of Amy and TJ. This is a statement that just breaks your heart.
00:00:52
Speaker 3: Frankly, they're essentially saying, hey, don't forget about us, and we get that. This is what so many families across the country deal with when they have somebody missing in their family. They don't get attention. They are screaming for attention on day one, day two, day three, week one, week two. And now it's gotten to a point where one of the biggest stories in the country has now faded from the headlines because there hasn't been a development that's true.
00:01:19
Speaker 2: And so look, they have strategically the family, the siblings been putting out statements making videos trying to just reignite the focus and the attention that they have certainly lost. But my goodness, they had it. This story gripped the nation for at least a solid two weeks.
00:01:39
Speaker 3: There were developments. There just haven't been in a while. Oh there were stuff, fair enough, there was high profile and whatnot, But there were developments, there were movements. Was it week two?
00:01:49
Speaker 1: Yeah?
00:01:50
Speaker 3: It three tops, But last time there was a significant update or movement on this case is the last one I can remember. It's been a while.
00:01:58
Speaker 2: It's been a long time, and so you forget, well we forget because they're living this every day and wondering what's next. And you know, it's one thing to grieve someone. It's one thing to have the worst case scenario be made known to you that your loved one has been killed, your loved one is no longer here.
00:02:20
Speaker 1: But at least you can move on, at least there is closure, at.
00:02:23
Speaker 2: Least there is preparation and just formalities to go through. There's a reason why we have wakes and funerals because there's a need to.
00:02:35
Speaker 1: Put a closure on trauma.
00:02:38
Speaker 2: And for the Guthrie family, they don't have that at all, and so many. I mean, I've always thought about this as we've covered stories throughout our career. The worst possible situation is the not knowing, and that's exactly where they are right now.
00:02:53
Speaker 3: And this is different from not having a body to bury. This is different from even losing someone Frankly on nine to eleven and never remains were never found, or someone losing someone on the battlefield and remains were never found. The kind of a thing you knew what happened to that person, even if you don't have the remains to bury and to have a place to go visit to mourn. This is a situation. They don't even know what happened to her. Even if she is we could still hope that she's not. But even if she has passed on, they still have no idea who took her, why where she went, if she suffered. Frankly, they don't even know for sure if she's passed.
00:03:38
Speaker 2: Right, and all of those the whys and the whats are just so puzzling because there is no logical answer.
00:03:46
Speaker 1: I think that's the other reason why.
00:03:48
Speaker 2: Yes, of course, Savannah Guthrie is the co host of The Today Show, and that raised it to a whole other level, but just on a human level, just as a family, like an eighty four year old woman goes missing, there's a mass man with a gun on the porch, and why like that? I think is one of the main reasons why folks were so invested in this. Because everyone either has a mother or a loved one and you don't consider them at risk for violent crimes. It's not something that's on most of our radars. And so the puzzling part of this was just the whole concept of who would do this and for what purpose if it wasn't for money, if it wasn't for ransom, It's really hard to understand, and that, obviously, I'm sure contributes to the police's conundrum in terms of not having a mode of not having an obvious suspect someone to try to track down.
00:04:41
Speaker 1: They don't have any of that as far as we know, and they.
00:04:43
Speaker 3: Haven't given us any significant updates about the case in a while. But we have heard from the Savannah guth Three family. I should say this, the Guthrie family, her her two siblings have put out statements sporadically here and there probably at least up to five six that we've seen throughout in the last major one was a couple of weeks ago when they offered a one million dollar reward. Now, if you offer somebody a million dollars, no questions asked, and still you can't get a significant update that it again raises questions about what in God's name happened to this lady. But we did hear from the Guthrie family putting out another statement and making it clear, Yes, we're trying to keep this in the headlines. Please don't forget about her. But this is a statement that's come out now as we sit here. As we speak, it is seven weeks ago today. That's Nancy Guthrie went missing seven weeks ago today. So this is the message we've gotten from her family now this weekend, for I guess really just renewed interest and attention they're asking for for the case.
00:05:38
Speaker 2: Yes, So here is what the Guthrie family has said today. We are deeply grateful for the outpouring from neighbors, friends, and the people of Tucson. We are all family.
00:05:47
Speaker 3: Now.
00:05:48
Speaker 2: We continue to believe it is Tusonians and the greater Southern Arizona community that hold the key to finding resolution in this case someone knows something. It's possible a member of this community has information that they do not even realize is significant. We hope people search their memories, especially around the key timelines of January thirty first and the early morning hours of February first, as well as the late evening of January eleventh. We desperately ask this community for renewed attention to our mom's case. Please consult camera footage, journal notes, text messages, observations or conversations that in retrospect may hold significance. No detail is too small, it may be the key. We miss our mom with every breath, and we cannot be in peace until she is home. We cannot grieve, We can only ache and wonder. Our focus is solely on finding her and bringing her home. We want to celebrate her beautiful and courageous life, but we cannot do that until she is brought to a final place of rest. Thank you for continuing to pray without ceasing. They signed it the Guthrie family, but they also said the names of the couples. I thought instead of just having the three siblings, they said Cameron and Christine, Annie and Tamaso, Savannah and Michael. I thought, Look, we have seen in the last several statements from Savannah, this acknowledgement that they understand that it's probably more likely than not that their mother is no longer alive. And this certainly felt like that as well in this statement that they are wanting, basically begging to be able to give their mom a funeral.
00:07:39
Speaker 1: That is what that message sounded.
00:07:41
Speaker 3: Like to me. Everybody, everybody wants a final resting place. You want, you have to have that, and again, if it's not recoverable, if you're in a situation I think about war, I think about again nine to eleven, as morbid as that is, if you're not able to recover. Still, to this day, they have been identifying remains of people who died at the nine to eleven attacks. You think about those families. When you know someone is lost, you certainly still want to be able to give them a final resting place robes. But they're not even there, They're not even close to that. They have zero clue it happened to this woman. That's a different type of torment you have to deal with the rest of your life. Everybody who's listening to our voices, robe just lost somebody before and that's painful, that hurts, that's awful, and you have to find a way to move on in life with that person gone. I don't know how you move on with having zero clue, no clue of what happened to me.
00:08:38
Speaker 2: Yeah, think about all the people who've lost loved ones, not even to a violent crime, but want autopsies, right, We always want answers. We want to know how someone died, why they died, what we could have done to prevent it, how we could make sure it doesn't happen to us. It's just a human experience to want to know the why, and they don't have any of that. And yet, despite all of that mystery and all of that desperate search for answers, the sheriff, we should probably say, the embattled sheriff now who has led this investigation into the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie, actually sat down with local reporters over the last couple of days giving our long interviews. And so we will tell you what Sheriff Nanos had to say about where this investigation stands when we come back and welcome back everyone to this episode of Amy and TJ, where we are discussing the latest newest statement from the Guthrie family essentially as we've seen in other statements, begging, imploring, asking the folks in Tucson and in the greater Southwest Arizona area to just continue to think, look back, check out your videos. Actually they even said, look at your journals, look at any conversations you may have had. Something you didn't think was significant. May actually be the break in the case that this family has been waiting for.
00:10:10
Speaker 1: That is where they are.
00:10:11
Speaker 2: Which sounds very sad and not like it's gotten really any advancement in terms of knowledge about where they are, what happened, what police have found. And look, when you take a look at all of these interviews. The sheriff there did several of them, and even though he said they're not even close to having this be a cold case, it kind of sounds like that's where it's headed. Unfortunately, because there just wasn't any big new development.
00:10:39
Speaker 1: We haven't had a press conference for.
00:10:45
Speaker 2: Well, oh, I mean nott a press conference, but even an update within like yeah, and yes, what do we have?
00:10:49
Speaker 1: How many press conferences did he actually even give? And that's it?
00:10:53
Speaker 2: And he has certainly been the topic of a lot of finger pointing, and there are just some other issues with his position that he's dealing with outside of the Guthrie investigation. But he said a few things. It didn't sound super hopeful. He said, we have some DNA that we think is still workable. He said that there are labs around the country and forensic examiners that are still going through what he called thousands of hours of video footage that he says they still have to soar through. So, yes, it may be seven weeks since she went missing, but certainly all of that security footage from neighbors, from businesses around the area, that's a painstaking process to go through.
00:11:37
Speaker 1: All of that.
00:11:37
Speaker 2: And maybe, as we all want answers, and certainly the Guthrie family wants answers as soon as possible, sometimes it just takes a lot longer than we wanted to.
00:11:46
Speaker 3: But ro Yes, we've covered countless trials. We watch a lot of hell, we watch a lot of actual trials in the courtroom, we see everybody sees the true crime dramas and all stuff and true crime stories. All this stuff is out there, Robes. All the attention of the country was on this one case, and seven weeks later we're in the exact same spot of having no clue where this woman is.
00:12:16
Speaker 2: It's hard to imagine that that masked man we saw on that porch. I am still in shock that no one recognized him or his demeanor, his eyes, his what he was wearing, his backpack, just we even saw him walking back and forth, like that's shocking to me that no one with a million dollars dangling without having to actually even at that point, we don't even have to have an arrest. That money, according to the Guthrie family, is simply to know where their beloved mom is, where where she is located. They just want to bring her back alive or dead, no questions asked, and still no one's talking.
00:12:59
Speaker 1: That is shocking.
00:13:00
Speaker 3: Well, time can tell. Maybe things will change over time. It's usually time. It's difficult with things like this. We assume somebody knows somebody. I thought about the dB Cooper story, these big mysteries we've had, like, how is it possible that so many people are trying to solve this particular case or crime, and these mysteries go on forever. Sometimes it's this is new, it's seven weeks. Arrows, I don't know, we shouldn't be thinking that. But we know it is possible that crimes go unsolved, even high profile ones, because we've seen the Netflix documentaries. Cases not being solved just seems unfathomable that could happen.
00:13:39
Speaker 1: And yet it has.
00:13:40
Speaker 2: And look, we hear the sheriff saying that a breakthrough could happen at any time. He says, a real breakthrough. And that is true because as they're hunting down these leads and they're going through the surveillance video, it's a needle in a haystack, and so maybe they find that needle today, tomorrow, a week from now. But this is interesting because he did acknowledge the sheriff did acknowledge that while initially they had hundreds of people obviously searching for her, including the FBI, they had all hands on deck. President Trump even was saying, whatever the Guthrie family needs, whatever the investigation needs, we're here for it. But he did acknowledge that now that team has been consolidated to about a team of twenty investigators, that's a big difference, as a far cry from what they originally had on the case. But he did say, look, if something happens, if there's some development, if we find something.
00:14:31
Speaker 1: Of course, we'll be able.
00:14:32
Speaker 2: To add more resources to this team, but you know that does say a lot. They're now down to less than two dozen folks who are solely working on this case. But yes, I mean, unfortunately, as awful as it sounds, crime does go on, life does go on. They can't have a devoted team solely to just looking at what happened to Nancy Guthrie. They have obviously plenty of other things that are going on as we speak that they can't logistically financially stay at the level they were at looking for Nancy Guthrie. And so that's where we are right now, and that is certainly where you can see and hear the desperation in the Guthrie family with their latest statement begging people to just keep searching their brains, searching their memories, searching their video surveillance, and just whatever they can do think of to say, to call into this tip line. Maybe someone will have an answer that we've all been looking for for the past seven weeks. We'll continue, of course, to follow the story, keep you updated. If anything major develops, of course, will be on it right away. We always appreciate you listening to us I made Roback alongside TJ. Holmes.
00:15:44
Speaker 1: We'll talk to you soon.
Speaker 1: Hey there, everybody.
00:00:12
Speaker 2: It is Sunday, March twenty second, and we have a new statement from the Guthrie family.
00:00:19
Speaker 1: They are desperate for help from the public from.
00:00:22
Speaker 2: The police, saying that they cannot grieve, They simply cannot do anything until they get some answers about where their missing mom is. And my goodness, I cannot believe that we are now closed arounding two months and we still don't know what happened to eighty four year old Nancy Guthrie. And with that, everyone, thank you for joining us on this episode of Amy and TJ. This is a statement that just breaks your heart.
00:00:52
Speaker 3: Frankly, they're essentially saying, hey, don't forget about us, and we get that. This is what so many families across the country deal with when they have somebody missing in their family. They don't get attention. They are screaming for attention on day one, day two, day three, week one, week two. And now it's gotten to a point where one of the biggest stories in the country has now faded from the headlines because there hasn't been a development that's true.
00:01:19
Speaker 2: And so look, they have strategically the family, the siblings been putting out statements making videos trying to just reignite the focus and the attention that they have certainly lost. But my goodness, they had it. This story gripped the nation for at least a solid two weeks.
00:01:39
Speaker 3: There were developments. There just haven't been in a while. Oh there were stuff, fair enough, there was high profile and whatnot, But there were developments, there were movements. Was it week two?
00:01:49
Speaker 1: Yeah?
00:01:50
Speaker 3: It three tops, But last time there was a significant update or movement on this case is the last one I can remember. It's been a while.
00:01:58
Speaker 2: It's been a long time, and so you forget, well we forget because they're living this every day and wondering what's next. And you know, it's one thing to grieve someone. It's one thing to have the worst case scenario be made known to you that your loved one has been killed, your loved one is no longer here.
00:02:20
Speaker 1: But at least you can move on, at least there is closure, at.
00:02:23
Speaker 2: Least there is preparation and just formalities to go through. There's a reason why we have wakes and funerals because there's a need to.
00:02:35
Speaker 1: Put a closure on trauma.
00:02:38
Speaker 2: And for the Guthrie family, they don't have that at all, and so many. I mean, I've always thought about this as we've covered stories throughout our career. The worst possible situation is the not knowing, and that's exactly where they are right now.
00:02:53
Speaker 3: And this is different from not having a body to bury. This is different from even losing someone Frankly on nine to eleven and never remains were never found, or someone losing someone on the battlefield and remains were never found. The kind of a thing you knew what happened to that person, even if you don't have the remains to bury and to have a place to go visit to mourn. This is a situation. They don't even know what happened to her. Even if she is we could still hope that she's not. But even if she has passed on, they still have no idea who took her, why where she went, if she suffered. Frankly, they don't even know for sure if she's passed.
00:03:38
Speaker 2: Right, and all of those the whys and the whats are just so puzzling because there is no logical answer.
00:03:46
Speaker 1: I think that's the other reason why.
00:03:48
Speaker 2: Yes, of course, Savannah Guthrie is the co host of The Today Show, and that raised it to a whole other level, but just on a human level, just as a family, like an eighty four year old woman goes missing, there's a mass man with a gun on the porch, and why like that? I think is one of the main reasons why folks were so invested in this. Because everyone either has a mother or a loved one and you don't consider them at risk for violent crimes. It's not something that's on most of our radars. And so the puzzling part of this was just the whole concept of who would do this and for what purpose if it wasn't for money, if it wasn't for ransom, It's really hard to understand, and that, obviously, I'm sure contributes to the police's conundrum in terms of not having a mode of not having an obvious suspect someone to try to track down.
00:04:41
Speaker 1: They don't have any of that as far as we know, and they.
00:04:43
Speaker 3: Haven't given us any significant updates about the case in a while. But we have heard from the Savannah guth Three family. I should say this, the Guthrie family, her her two siblings have put out statements sporadically here and there probably at least up to five six that we've seen throughout in the last major one was a couple of weeks ago when they offered a one million dollar reward. Now, if you offer somebody a million dollars, no questions asked, and still you can't get a significant update that it again raises questions about what in God's name happened to this lady. But we did hear from the Guthrie family putting out another statement and making it clear, Yes, we're trying to keep this in the headlines. Please don't forget about her. But this is a statement that's come out now as we sit here. As we speak, it is seven weeks ago today. That's Nancy Guthrie went missing seven weeks ago today. So this is the message we've gotten from her family now this weekend, for I guess really just renewed interest and attention they're asking for for the case.
00:05:38
Speaker 2: Yes, So here is what the Guthrie family has said today. We are deeply grateful for the outpouring from neighbors, friends, and the people of Tucson. We are all family.
00:05:47
Speaker 3: Now.
00:05:48
Speaker 2: We continue to believe it is Tusonians and the greater Southern Arizona community that hold the key to finding resolution in this case someone knows something. It's possible a member of this community has information that they do not even realize is significant. We hope people search their memories, especially around the key timelines of January thirty first and the early morning hours of February first, as well as the late evening of January eleventh. We desperately ask this community for renewed attention to our mom's case. Please consult camera footage, journal notes, text messages, observations or conversations that in retrospect may hold significance. No detail is too small, it may be the key. We miss our mom with every breath, and we cannot be in peace until she is home. We cannot grieve, We can only ache and wonder. Our focus is solely on finding her and bringing her home. We want to celebrate her beautiful and courageous life, but we cannot do that until she is brought to a final place of rest. Thank you for continuing to pray without ceasing. They signed it the Guthrie family, but they also said the names of the couples. I thought instead of just having the three siblings, they said Cameron and Christine, Annie and Tamaso, Savannah and Michael. I thought, Look, we have seen in the last several statements from Savannah, this acknowledgement that they understand that it's probably more likely than not that their mother is no longer alive. And this certainly felt like that as well in this statement that they are wanting, basically begging to be able to give their mom a funeral.
00:07:39
Speaker 1: That is what that message sounded.
00:07:41
Speaker 3: Like to me. Everybody, everybody wants a final resting place. You want, you have to have that, and again, if it's not recoverable, if you're in a situation I think about war, I think about again nine to eleven, as morbid as that is, if you're not able to recover. Still, to this day, they have been identifying remains of people who died at the nine to eleven attacks. You think about those families. When you know someone is lost, you certainly still want to be able to give them a final resting place robes. But they're not even there, They're not even close to that. They have zero clue it happened to this woman. That's a different type of torment you have to deal with the rest of your life. Everybody who's listening to our voices, robe just lost somebody before and that's painful, that hurts, that's awful, and you have to find a way to move on in life with that person gone. I don't know how you move on with having zero clue, no clue of what happened to me.
00:08:38
Speaker 2: Yeah, think about all the people who've lost loved ones, not even to a violent crime, but want autopsies, right, We always want answers. We want to know how someone died, why they died, what we could have done to prevent it, how we could make sure it doesn't happen to us. It's just a human experience to want to know the why, and they don't have any of that. And yet, despite all of that mystery and all of that desperate search for answers, the sheriff, we should probably say, the embattled sheriff now who has led this investigation into the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie, actually sat down with local reporters over the last couple of days giving our long interviews. And so we will tell you what Sheriff Nanos had to say about where this investigation stands when we come back and welcome back everyone to this episode of Amy and TJ, where we are discussing the latest newest statement from the Guthrie family essentially as we've seen in other statements, begging, imploring, asking the folks in Tucson and in the greater Southwest Arizona area to just continue to think, look back, check out your videos. Actually they even said, look at your journals, look at any conversations you may have had. Something you didn't think was significant. May actually be the break in the case that this family has been waiting for.
00:10:10
Speaker 1: That is where they are.
00:10:11
Speaker 2: Which sounds very sad and not like it's gotten really any advancement in terms of knowledge about where they are, what happened, what police have found. And look, when you take a look at all of these interviews. The sheriff there did several of them, and even though he said they're not even close to having this be a cold case, it kind of sounds like that's where it's headed. Unfortunately, because there just wasn't any big new development.
00:10:39
Speaker 1: We haven't had a press conference for.
00:10:45
Speaker 2: Well, oh, I mean nott a press conference, but even an update within like yeah, and yes, what do we have?
00:10:49
Speaker 1: How many press conferences did he actually even give? And that's it?
00:10:53
Speaker 2: And he has certainly been the topic of a lot of finger pointing, and there are just some other issues with his position that he's dealing with outside of the Guthrie investigation. But he said a few things. It didn't sound super hopeful. He said, we have some DNA that we think is still workable. He said that there are labs around the country and forensic examiners that are still going through what he called thousands of hours of video footage that he says they still have to soar through. So, yes, it may be seven weeks since she went missing, but certainly all of that security footage from neighbors, from businesses around the area, that's a painstaking process to go through.
00:11:37
Speaker 1: All of that.
00:11:37
Speaker 2: And maybe, as we all want answers, and certainly the Guthrie family wants answers as soon as possible, sometimes it just takes a lot longer than we wanted to.
00:11:46
Speaker 3: But ro Yes, we've covered countless trials. We watch a lot of hell, we watch a lot of actual trials in the courtroom, we see everybody sees the true crime dramas and all stuff and true crime stories. All this stuff is out there, Robes. All the attention of the country was on this one case, and seven weeks later we're in the exact same spot of having no clue where this woman is.
00:12:16
Speaker 2: It's hard to imagine that that masked man we saw on that porch. I am still in shock that no one recognized him or his demeanor, his eyes, his what he was wearing, his backpack, just we even saw him walking back and forth, like that's shocking to me that no one with a million dollars dangling without having to actually even at that point, we don't even have to have an arrest. That money, according to the Guthrie family, is simply to know where their beloved mom is, where where she is located. They just want to bring her back alive or dead, no questions asked, and still no one's talking.
00:12:59
Speaker 1: That is shocking.
00:13:00
Speaker 3: Well, time can tell. Maybe things will change over time. It's usually time. It's difficult with things like this. We assume somebody knows somebody. I thought about the dB Cooper story, these big mysteries we've had, like, how is it possible that so many people are trying to solve this particular case or crime, and these mysteries go on forever. Sometimes it's this is new, it's seven weeks. Arrows, I don't know, we shouldn't be thinking that. But we know it is possible that crimes go unsolved, even high profile ones, because we've seen the Netflix documentaries. Cases not being solved just seems unfathomable that could happen.
00:13:39
Speaker 1: And yet it has.
00:13:40
Speaker 2: And look, we hear the sheriff saying that a breakthrough could happen at any time. He says, a real breakthrough. And that is true because as they're hunting down these leads and they're going through the surveillance video, it's a needle in a haystack, and so maybe they find that needle today, tomorrow, a week from now. But this is interesting because he did acknowledge the sheriff did acknowledge that while initially they had hundreds of people obviously searching for her, including the FBI, they had all hands on deck. President Trump even was saying, whatever the Guthrie family needs, whatever the investigation needs, we're here for it. But he did acknowledge that now that team has been consolidated to about a team of twenty investigators, that's a big difference, as a far cry from what they originally had on the case. But he did say, look, if something happens, if there's some development, if we find something.
00:14:31
Speaker 1: Of course, we'll be able.
00:14:32
Speaker 2: To add more resources to this team, but you know that does say a lot. They're now down to less than two dozen folks who are solely working on this case. But yes, I mean, unfortunately, as awful as it sounds, crime does go on, life does go on. They can't have a devoted team solely to just looking at what happened to Nancy Guthrie. They have obviously plenty of other things that are going on as we speak that they can't logistically financially stay at the level they were at looking for Nancy Guthrie. And so that's where we are right now, and that is certainly where you can see and hear the desperation in the Guthrie family with their latest statement begging people to just keep searching their brains, searching their memories, searching their video surveillance, and just whatever they can do think of to say, to call into this tip line. Maybe someone will have an answer that we've all been looking for for the past seven weeks. We'll continue, of course, to follow the story, keep you updated. If anything major develops, of course, will be on it right away. We always appreciate you listening to us I made Roback alongside TJ. Holmes.
00:15:44
Speaker 1: We'll talk to you soon.