A source close to the ongoing Nancy Guthrie investigation has claimed that the missing 84-year-old’s Arizona home showed “no signs of an assault” in the wake of her disappearance—alleging that some of the rooms inside the property were in “immaculate” condition after she went missing.
Days after Nancy’s daughter, “Today” show host Savannah Guthrie, spoke out about the telltale signs investigators had spotted at her mother’s property after she was reported missing, an insider has shared new details about the condition of the dwelling with NewsNation correspondent Brian Entin.
“This new information sort of makes sense with the big picture of what we know,” Entin—who has been on the ground near Tucson since Nancy disappeared on Feb. 1—said today.
“A source very close to the investigation now [confirms] to us that there were no signs of an assault inside Nancy Guthrie’s home, that most of the rooms were described as ‘immaculate,’ so the house was very, very clean.”
Entin added that this description matches the details that Savannah, 54, shared during a recent interview with Hoda Kotb, in which she revealed that the home’s state gave no immediately indications as to what had happened to her mother.
“[It] makes sense when you go back to what Savannah said, which is that when her sister and brother-in-law showed up, they weren’t sure what happened, she had basically just vanished at one point, they had even thought that maybe an ambulance had taken her away,” Entin went on.
“That’s because there was, according to this source, nothing in the house that appeared out of the ordinary.”
Speaking about the scene at Nancy’s property in her recent NBC interview, Savannah said that the back doors to the home were “propped open,” which led her and her siblings to believe that their mother had perhaps suffered “some kind of medical episode in the night” that required paramedics to access the dwelling through that entrance.
However, they quickly realized that something more sinister may have occurred—when it was noted that Nancy’s personal effects, including her purse and her phone, were still at the home. Detectives then discovered that there was blood on the doorstep of the property, while the doorbell camera had been “yanked off” the frame of the front entrance.
“The doors were propped open, and there was blood on the front doorstep. And the camera had been yanked off. And so we were saying, ‘This is not OK. Something is very wrong here.’”
Addressing Savannah’s description of the “propped open” back doors, Entin pointed out that authorities have still not been able to ascertain whether the person or persons involved in Nancy’s disappearance entered or exited her home via that entrance.
Thus far, investigators have made very little headway in identifying any suspects or persons of interest in the case, which is now approaching its third month.
Nancy was first reported missing on Feb. 1 after she failed to show up to a friend’s home, where she had been due to watch a livestreamed church service.
In her first on-air interview since her mother’s disappearance, Savannah candidly revealed her fears that Nancy was targeted because of her own fame, telling Hoda that it was her brother, Cameron, who first suggested their mom had been taken by someone who wanted to hold her for ransom.
“Even on the phone when I called him, he knew,” she said. “He said, ‘I think she’s been kidnapped for ransom.’ And I said, ‘What? Well, why? What?’
“It sounds so, like, how dumb could I be? But I just—I didn’t wanna believe. I just said, ‘Do you think because of me?’ And he said, ‘I’m sorry, sweetie, but yeah, maybe.’ But I knew that.”
Breaking down in tears, Savannah issued a heartbreaking apology to her mother for any part her career may have played in her abduction, saying: “I’d just say, ‘I’m so sorry, Mommy. I’m so sorry.’ I’m sorry to my sister and my brother and my kids and my nephew and Tommy, my brother-in-law.
“If it is me, I’m so sorry. I’m so sorry.”
What is the full timeline of Nancy Guthrie’s disappearance?
Nanos noted during a media briefing on Feb. 5 that, while times are approximate, his team has pieced together several pieces of evidence that indicate Nancy’s movements—and the timeline of her apparent abduction.
Nancy was reported missing at around 12 p.m. local time on Feb. 1, around 14 hours after she was dropped off at the property following a family dinner. When she failed to turn up at her usual church gathering on Sunday, her friends alerted her family, who found her home was empty.
SATURDAY, JAN. 31
5:32 p.m. Nancy travels to Annie’s house in an Uber for “dinner and playing games with the family.”
9:48 p.m. A garage door at Nancy’s house opens when she was dropped off at the property by her daughter.
9:50 p.m. The garage door closes, indicating that Nancy was inside the home.
SUNDAY, FEB. 1
1:47 a.m. Nancy’s doorbell security camera is disconnected.
2:12 a.m. Movement is detected on a security camera at the home. No footage of this is currently available.
2:28 a.m. Nancy’s pacemaker app indicates that the device has been disconnected from her phone.
11:00 a.m. Nancy fails to arrive at the home of a friend, where she had been due to watch a church service livestream.
11:56 a.m. Nancy’s family travels to her home to check on her and finds the property empty.
12:03 p.m. The family calls 911 to report Nancy missing.
