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The FBI is investigating the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie, an 84 year old grandmother who was last seen at her residence in the Catalina Foothills Neighborhood of Tucson, Arizona on the evening of January 31, 2026. She is considered to be a vulnerable adult who has difficulty walking, has a pacemaker and needs daily medication for her heart condition. The FBI is offering a reward of up to $50,000 for information leading to the recovery of Nancy Guthrie and or the arrest and conviction of anyone involved in her disappearance. If you have any information concerning this case, please contact the FBI at 1-800- call FBI. That's 1-800-225-5324 or you can submit a tip online at tips FBI.gov this is true crime Garage. Welcome to True Crime Garage wherever you are, whatever you are doing. Thanks for listening. I am your host Nick and we are going to Arizona for this one where the France search for 81 year old Nancy Guthrie continues. The story began with an urgency that felt like a clock ticking somewhere out of sight. We have worked feverishly through the night to bring you this report today with a lot of information coming from many different outlets, some of it clear and concise and some of it left open to interpretation. So bear with us as we do our very best to deliver to you the news and updates in this ongoing story and investigation. Officials confirm several ransom notes. One of the ransom notes sent to media included a 5pm deadline which expired yesterday, which was Thursday, February 5, though no one could say which time zone the sender was referring to. But it is assumed that the abductor or abductors were meaning the 5:00pm Mountain Standard Time. More concrete was another grim detail. Blood found on Nancy Guthrie's porch has been confirmed as hers. The Pima County Sheriff has tried to instill hope in this case, saying he believes Nancy Guthrie is still alive. Quote, we believe Nancy is still out there. We want her home. The sheriff's department, the FBI and a network of agencies are working nonstop on this case, the message repeated and reinforced through the official voice that sought to calm panic while projecting relentless effort on behalf of law enforcement. The hope is simple, and its simplicity made it feel all the more urgent. Bring Nancy home and then get to the truth. Bring Nancy home and get to the truth. On the ground in Tucson, reporter Jonathan Hunt offered up a a sobering update, saying the most important questions remain untouched. Where is Nancy Guthrie? Who is controlling her right now? Without answers to those, we turn to the details, the kind that stitch together a timeline. We know that Nancy had dinner Saturday night with family members believed to be her daughter Annie and Annie's husband Tomasso. Then the pivotal window of time, 41 minutes, beginning at 1:47am Sunday morning. So at 1:47am Nancy's doorbell camera was disconnected. Around 2:12am Another camera indicated and detected something. A person perhaps, but no one can say whether any visible video exists. From that moment, it was as if the cameras were aware but silent. Then, at 2:28am a telling disruption occurred. Nancy Guthrie's pacemaker disconnected from her Apple watch and her iPhone. This break in the chain, technological and medical, suggesting separation from these devices and the point at which she was likely taken from her home. 2:28am but the largest question remained unanswered. Who took her? The sheriff's words were deliberate and carefully withheld from speculation. They were saying, at this time, no suspect has been identified, no person of interest named. The sheriff's department emphasized that they were working at their best to develop leads. But no one should be considered a prime suspect, and no one would be officially ruled out. The sheriff's remarks at the press conference. Cautious. That's how I would describe them, as cautious. Better to hold the possibility of someone's involvement than to prematurely absolve them and later discover an overlooked connection. So nobody ruled out no suspects named. Earlier in the week, officials said the crime scene at Nancy's home had been released. The investigative work there was done and complete. But that turned out to be a temporary conclusion because less than a day later, the home became a point of focus again. Deputies returned, this time with reinforcements. Border patrol agents with K9 units alongside FBI personnel, they carried out more items from the home, one of which appeared to be a computer terminal or monitor wrapped neatly in brown paper. This item was placed into a Law enforcement vehicle and driven away. So many wondering had something shifted in the investigation, something new or an insight that possibly led investigators to want to come back to the scene of the abduction, Nancy's home, and look again further, this time more detailed, looking harder at the crime scene. We also have the ransom notes. So the caveat here, listeners, is these ransom notes are not fully authenticated. And as you will later hear with some more information we have, there's some problems with these ransom notes, these ransom letters, but of course, you have to take this very seriously. At the same time, the FBI agent in charge spoke directly to those who might be holding Nancy captive. The appeal was human, pleading and practical, stating simply that Nancy Guthrie is an 84 year old grandmother who needs vulnerable, vital medication. The window for doing the right thing, they added, still exist. The FBI agent saying there is still a chance to return Nancy home to prevent things from getting worse. If she were to pass because she's denied medication, that she needs vital medication and she's in the control of these abductors, that's murder. Your charges go from kidnapping and extortion to murder. Now, neither the FBI nor the sheriff would discuss what was threatened in the ransom letters, the ransom notes, or what was promised if the deadlines were missed. But the key word there is deadlines. There are deadlines in these ransom letters. So what do we have in this case? Everybody's watching. What do we have? We have uncertainty. No one knows, not even Nancy's famous daughter, Savannah. In a video plea to the abductors and to her mother, Savannah says, mom, please come home if you can. The phrase if you can is a complicated one, because some are even wondering, is this a kidnapping or a hoax? Without proof of life, there is a line that the family says they will not cross. Without proof of life, there is a line that the family, Nancy's family says they will not cross, saying no money will be wired to a bitcoin account without knowing 100% that Nancy Guthrie is alive and will be returned. So some very good questions here. It would appear that this is about money. But if this is about money, we know that the abductors have chose to communicate not through the family, not through law enforcement to seek this money, but through the media, through national media and through local media there in Tucson and around Tucson, Arizona. So if it's about money, why involve the media? Why turn it into this big spectacle? Do they want everyone's eyes on this? To me, I think that the publicity feels a bit intentional. How could it not? It feels intentional. Aimed at creating national attention, something a kidnapper typically, normally would avoid unless there is some strategy behind it. And if that is the case, what is that strategy? Again, we have the blood trail, house to driveway, then stopping. We can surmise that this implies a struggle and resistance before the abduction and departure by a vehicle. So we might go in circles here a bit, but we want to give to you everything that we have on this case. Again, a lot of information coming in fast and furious here, and we're doing our best to sift through it and give it to you in the most concise manner possible. So first, the timeline. All right, we will go through this completely and then as a follow up, we can go through this in greater detail before we wrap up here and go back to collecting more information as this story progresses and hopefully as this leads to the capture of the person or persons involved and the safe return of Nancy Guthrie. The timeline starts with January 31, 2026. At 5:32pm Nancy traveled to a family member's home. This is a local visit. At 9:48pm family members or a family member dropped Nancy off at home and her garage door was opened. Two minutes later, at 9:50pm her garage door is closed. It closes now to the small hours of February 1, 2026, in the early early morning. We have 1:47am this is when everything starts to get very scary. 1:47am her doorbell camera disconnects. And of course, given the result, we know this is intentional. 2:12am software Security software detects a person on camera. Now, we need to be clear here. There is no video available for this. They, as far as we are being told, law enforcement and the family does not have video of this person. Just simply an alert, an alarm, saying that a camera has picked something up, something in motion. We believe a person. Okay, so what's going on here? They have no video available. There was no subscription at the time, no current subscription for this security software that was active. 2:28am Nancy Guthrie has a pacemaker. Her pacemaker app shows that it's disconnected from her other devices. Okay, so she has devices, smart devices, her phone and Apple watch, monitoring and keeping in contact with this pacemaker. The pacemaker app shows a disconnect at this time, 2:28am from her other devices. 11:56am her family goes to check on her. And again, we'll get more into these details as we go through the information. The devil's in the details, some say. And some say God is in the details as well. 12:03pm 911 is called. A 911 call goes to PCSD. That's the Pima County Sheriff's Department. This is alerting them that something is wrong and that Nancy is missing. She's not at her home where they expected her to be. 12:15pm Patrol and Sheriff's department personnel, deputies are on the scene. They're at Nancy's home. So the disconnection of the camera or cameras would suggest professionalism, precision. And then the movements prior of our victim, of our missing person, Nancy Guthrie, she goes to a family member's home. She's returned just before 10pm Garage door open. Garage door closes. You have to wonder what was going on in the home, if anything during that time that she was gone. Perhaps a person or persons, maybe they were inside before Nancy was dropped off just before 10pm on that Saturday night. Now, as we said, there was a second look at the home, at the crime scene by FBI and deputies. While this may be standard protocol, the FBI conducting their own sweep, or it could be something else, maybe prompted by some type of new discovery triggering them to return to the scene. Agents also went to the sister's house, Savannah's sister's home. So Savannah's sister has been met with some media scrutiny, Internet scrutiny directed at the sister and particularly her husband. It looks like electronics have been taken for data downloads and digital evidence both at Nancy's home and the sister slash daughter's home. And there's been some confusion that has stemmed from mixed statements coming out from law enforcement. In this case, we have forced entry that was mentioned and then retracted and then information withheld. So changing details about whether there was forced entry or not forced entry into the home, changing details about who dropped Nancy off first. That person was mentioned by name at one point. So it went from being she was dropped off by someone to family, dropped her off to a specific person in the family, dropped her off to. Now back to just saying that family or a family member was the one to return Nancy to her home on Saturday evening. Not just confusion here, but there's also a level of scrutiny against the sheriff's department, many citing the absence of a patrol car. So it's believed that nobody was guarding the scene for days. So once they left initially and before they came back, nobody was locking down the crime scene. So you have reporters that were able to approach the house. And we know that there's evidence outside of the home, outside of those four walls. We have the blood spatter on the front porch. Could leaving this scene unsecured and not Locked down. Could this potentially compromise the crime scene, the site of the abduction, some even calling the sheriff's department's work. Amateurish, of course. Very strange too is the multiple deadlines that we get in these ransom letters, ransom notes. To me that also feels a bit amateurish. Multiple deadlines. So we still have the deadline looming on Monday, this coming Monday at 5pm Now, a kidnapping for ransom involving someone with medical needs. I would say that there's reason to believe that this person knew in advance that the victim has medical needs, has medication that they need. She's not extremely mobile either. So I think this could very well suggest more than one person is likely involved. If that is the case, this would be an opening for the investigation to find weaknesses through communications between co conspirators. Find those communications, find those, those communications, often digital. Leave a footprint, leave a, for a lack of better term paper trail, a breadcrumb trail. These would be extreme vulnerabilities to this operation. And to avoid going undetected. Just a lot of questions and concerns looming within the details on this ongoing story and investigation. The cameras that went dark, the blood confirmed as Nancy's the pacemaker. Disconnecting these points form a skeleton of facts. Law enforcement's returning to the house. Then the removal of electronics. We also have the appeals to the potential kidnappers. The silence from the media and from law enforcement about the threats in the ransom note. The investigation is unfolding under intense pressure, pressure to bring Nancy home and now media pressure as well. The family's pleas have echoed alongside with caution and yet as this case drags on, hope is holding on steady that Nancy Guthrie is still alive somewhere and there is still a chance to bring her home safely. More after this quick beer break.