The search for 84-year-old Nancy Guthrie continued this week as authorities in Tucson, Arizona said they were investigating all possible information and had not publicly named any suspects in the case.
A Pima County Sheriff’s Office deputy pulls into the driveway of Nancy Guthrie’s home. (Reuters)Nancy, the mother of Today Show anchor Savannah Guthrie, was reported missing after disappearing from her home in late January.
Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos said investigators are taking a broad look at the case, noting that “everyone is still a suspect” as detectives work to determine what happened.
He added that law enforcement was reviewing anyone who may have had contact with Nancy before her disappearance and confirmed that the Guthrie family had been “very cooperative” during the investigation, Fox News reported.
Who is Charles Guthrie?Nancy’s husband Charles Guthrie died of a sudden heart attack in 1988, when Savannah was 16, leaving Nancy to raise their three children, People reports.
Few details are publicly available about his professional career beyond being a mining engineer: a role that took his family overseas before eventually settling in Arizona.
According to Page Six, he and Nancy were married for many years before his sudden death. Nancy was widowed at the age of 46 when Charles died. Savannah, their youngest daughter, was a senior in high school at the time.
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Speaking on Hoda Kotb’s Making Space podcast in 2024, Savannah described the loss as “amazing” and life-changing. She remembered her father as “an amazing, magnetic, delightful, charismatic, incredibly loving, warm, kind, tolerant personality”.
They have three childrenCharles and Nancy Guthrie had three children, all of whom have been mentioned in recent reports amid the investigation into Nancy’s disappearance.
Annie Guthrie, the eldest, is a poet and jeweler who previously served as director of marketing at the University of Arizona Poetry Center. He is the author of The Good Dark, a poetry collection published in 2015.
Annie lives in Tucson with her husband, Tommaso Cioni, an AP biology teacher who has worked at Basis Oro Valley for more than 15 years, Fox News reported.
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The youngest is Savannah Guthrie, a longtime journalist and co-anchor of NBC’s Today. He began his career in local television before becoming NBC’s White House correspondent and later the network’s chief morning anchor.
Savannah is married to Michael Feldman, a former Democratic political aide turned business consultant, and they have two children.
Charles Cameron Guthrie, the only son, is a retired US Air Force colonel who flew F-16 fighter jets. Savannah has publicly praised her brother’s 26-year military career, calling him the “pride of our family” in a 2018 Instagram post.
